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Hello everyone. I have an HP pavilion laptop that came with windows 8 and I upgraded to windows 8.1. The hard drive failed. I have a puppy linux 528 disk that I use to check and recover files and after testing shows only the boot partition failed. all other partitions are fine. Can I download...

Hey all., This is my first PC build and do not know about OEM. Could anyone please tell me which version i need to install on a new build with a new hard drive? I'm hoping to install the same way as an upgrade?, or is that possible? Do I need to go and download to usb from microsoft or can I...

Awesome. I appreciate the insight. But will I be able to install a 290x (or better) 4gb and overclock that as well with the same psu?

Thanks for the insight but already have the mobo, cpu, gpu and memory, just need to confirm compatability. I will be upgrading in the future to at least an 8350 with hydro cooling and an r9 290x. I have thought about an intel build but have been using and working with amd since I started using...

This is the build that is planned. AMD fx6300http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113286 Gigabyte 970a ud3phttp://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5194#ov xfx double d r9 270xhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150686 Corsair Vengeance...