[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Legodude77]

Ok, people have told me that if you change motherboards all you have to do is call in for them to get windows running again with the OEM version.

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[KoopaScooper]

Ok, people have told me that if you change motherboards all you have to do is call in for them to get windows running again with the OEM version.

Correct.

[TheChaosCarrier]

I never had to do anything like that when i changed my motherboard.
It just started up in Windows and detected new hardware. :o

[Ipquarx]

a 1tb SSD

for UNDER $600?!

FFFFFF I MUST HAVE

[Legodude77]

How much could I get if I sold my Phenom II X4 970, ASRock 880GM-LE, 4gb DDR3 Memory, and Sapphire 7750 HD?

[devildogelite]

How much could I get if I sold my Phenom II X4 970, ASRock 880GM-LE, 4gb DDR3 Memory, and Sapphire 7750 HD?

Look around your local craigslist for computer going prices. I mean it's not really worth much to anyone that knows anything about computers. It will probably be way better than whatever crappy computers other people are trying to pawn off as "SUPER GAMING RIGS!"

[Steve5452]

Laptop fan died long ago. This is the fan that cools the processor and pushes it out the side of my laptop. It kept overheating in ten minutes so I slipped in a HDD with XUbuntu on it and it can last for about an hour and a half before overheating.
When I can find a small enough screwdriver to open this thing, what should I do?

[Momentum]

replace the fan

[beachbum111111]

Got my GPU working. I had to update the BIOS on the motherboard

[lcyGamma]

Laptop fan died long ago. This is the fan that cools the processor and pushes it out the side of my laptop. It kept overheating in ten minutes so I slipped in a HDD with XUbuntu on it and it can last for about an hour and a half before overheating.
When I can find a small enough screwdriver to open this thing, what should I do?

If you can't replace the fan, get a big pedestal fan and aim it at your laptop, preferably in the side where the fan should be and downwards over the keyboard (so air can get in both through the keyboard and through the fan exhausts path).

It really works. :3

[Mr.jacksaunt]

What's the best linux that can fit on a 2gb flash drive? I'm going to delete the AMD drivers on the school netbooks so the intel graphics card works.

[KoopaScooper]

uh
most distros will fit on a 2gb drive as a liveUSB environment
it's pure preference

[Tokthree]

My new graphics card has scrolling horizontal bar shadow issues, I've ruled out it being a problem with the card since it only happens in certain applications, it's perfectly fine in most and there's no troubles when I'm just looking at my desktop, browsing the internet or watching videos so I just need some more help figuring out if its the cable from my monitor, the VGA-DVI adapter or the drivers for the HD 7870.

Anyone have any personal experience with such a problem and managed to fix it?

Still need help, whenever I try to search for a solution all I get is shopping sites and some dead tech threads that never got a solution

[lcyGamma]

Sorry to post the obvious but you've done a driver update right?

AMD/ATI stuff has been plagued with bad software for a while but they seem to be picking up the slack, make sure you use drivers that are new and don't depend on the ones that came with it.

[Tokthree]

I was using the latest direct from AMD and I installed the latest direct from XFX more recently just to see if they had custom drivers like my ASUS 6770 did.
I mean, it's not really an issue, I can only notice it on dark colors so I can deal with it until the next driver update to see if that fixes it, just wanted to know if anyone had a more immediate solution