Recent content by awesomes8wc3

They all support that CPU. I would strongly recommend anything by Gigabyte. I like MSI as well. I've had a mixed bag experience with ASUS and ASrock. Buy whichever one fits your budget/needs, but this is how I would pick a board. Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P looks OK but that audio chipset will...

Yes. Windows 8 is quite good when it comes to this kind of thing. Would still recommend a reinstall, but if you want to carry over your install it should work fine. What board are you coming from and going to?

Hi guys, I installed Win8.1update1pro64 on my main rig to try it out and it was all fine and dandy but when I tried to use my floppy drive it wasn't showing in Explorer like it was in Win7pro64sp1. And before anyone asks, "WHY DO YOU USE A FLOPPY DRIVE???", I work on older computers with no...

Well judging by what you said in your PM, you have a computer with UEFI and Windows 8 and windows isn't loading. Generally when this happens I just boot into my windows install media and try and start an automatic recovery. Usually fixes this kind of problem. Either that or reformat. It's kind...