Recent content by chrisbphoenix

You don't need a license key to download or intsall Windows 10 on any system. You only need a key to activate the installation once it's installed. (and you don't necessarily have to activate, as others here have confirmed.) You can grab the media creation tool directly from Microsoft here...

This Dave guy has a point about I/O performance aiding with system responsiveness and overall performance. Editing high bitrate footage and scrubbing through the timeline may benefit from higher disk performance. However, you are only testing the final render time here, which wouldn't be...

You've got a couple of problems going on here. Let me summarize, and try to answer them in turn. 1. Copy programs from one Windows installation to another. 2. Access permissions on 'System' folders from the secondary drives containing your z800 Windows installation. 1. There is no reliable way...

Welcome to the forum! You can mix and match audio inputs and outputs. I assume you want to use the x12s for output. (listen to them) And you want to use the Yeti for input. (talk to it) Right-click the speaker icon in your taskbar. (Near the clock) Then click Recording Devices. Select the...

MERGED QUESTION Question from Louis Helyes : "Do i need a USB sound card??"

Usually, chips only underclock when they're running too hot. You're monitoring the temperature, but if it's underclocking, the temps will be brought back into reasonable values so it might be misleading. Cleaning out the exhaust vents with some compressed air might help. Also, if you're not...

Ahh, one last hurrah for the ol' Core 2 Quad eh? Ok, this system is getting pretty old, so I really wouldn't recommend anything too fancy. The rest of the system will hold modern cards back. On that note, something like an AMD Radeon R7 250 (GDDR5) is a good choice for what you're after. You...

You should be fine. Express differentiates old school PCI devices from the higher performance devices of today. It looks like more of a typo on the listing for the GPU. The 1060 uses a PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Cheers, Chris

If you need another video about VRAM here's a decent one for reference: Linus rambles about VRAM Display resolution and anti-aliasing settings are some of the most important factors you need to consider when selecting the VRAM config on a GPU. If you have any intention of moving up to, or...