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    Hangs on Welcome Screen for 30+ seconds

    My boot into windows 7 has always been great, sub 20 seconds from hitting the power button with my 960 Evo M.2, but recently it has been hanging on the Welcome loading screen for more than 30 seconds. This is a consistent thing now, I downloaded a program to look at the amount of time everything...
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    No Keyboard and Mouse in Windows 7 Installation

    I am aware that Windows 7 install doesn't natively support USB 3.0, but unfortunately my PC has only USB 3.0 and 3.1. I followed this guide to put the necessary drivers into boot and install wim files which worked, and I used it multiple times successfully with my PC. That is, until recently I...
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    a TON of questions about my new PC Build

    I made this post on Reddit but got a lot of annoying, unconstructive criticism and no actual answers to my question, so I hope you guys can help. I've been using a prebuilt i7-870 pc with a 750 ti slapped in it for many years now and have finally saved up enough money for a proper build/monitor...
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    New Monitor worked fine at first, now it's finicky and doesn't work properly

    Just got a new U3415W from Dell in today, super excited, I set it up and it worked great. I even clocked it to 80Hz no problem. That is until I tried starting Overwatch and when I put it in fullscreen, the screen started flickering grey and I restarted my computer and it was working fine again...
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    6800k or 6700k

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    6800k or 6700k

    I'm currently looking at both chips on Microcenter and they have some really good prices right now. You can get a 6800k + meh motherboard for $490 or a 6700k + awesome motherboard for $430. I'm debating between those two options deeply currently, I would like to mostly play video games, but also...
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    Safe to cut 4-pin fan cable?

    I've been talking to a friend over skype who has a prebuilt PC with an extremely loud side panel fan above the graphics card. The temperature change (if any) is not worth the obnoxious noise, so I tried to help him get it unplugged, but checking every fan header on the motherboard was empty, so...
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    CPU Cooler for this socket

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    CPU Cooler for this socket

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    CPU Cooler for this socket

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    CPU Cooler for this socket

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    CPU Cooler for this socket

    http://www.it-pifa.com/English/Photo/MotherBoard-HP/Socket-INTEL/Q67-8200EliteCMT/DSCN5820.jpg I bought this HP motherboard off of ebay without realizing it was non-standard in almost every way. It doesn't even use a 20/24pin connector! Besides that, I've found workarounds for each issue until...
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    AIO Oriented Sideways OK?

    So I was thinking of getting the new H320 x2 Prestige to cool my graphics card and cpu, but I only recently realized that my case only supports 360mm radiators in the front, and not the top. In almost every picture I've seen, it's been in the top of the case, Linus from LTT as well said that it...