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    How to use the motherboard video out with dedicated graphics cards

    Hi, I have a custom PC with 4 Nvidia Quadro graphics cards, and I want to know how I can use the onboard (motherboard) graphics output as well. When I plug a monitor into it right now it does not work at all. Any ideas?
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    What should I put in my case to replace the unused tray for a floppy drive (or ssd)

    It is a lian li case. I would like to leave the blank covers in except that they are very loose and even a small tap knocks them into the body of the PC
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    What should I put in my case to replace the unused tray for a floppy drive (or ssd)

    I just bought a case. I really like it except that it has a bunch of slots for CD Rom drives or floppy disk drives or something. Since I am not using those, but they were made to come out, just a light tap will push the tray cover back into the computer. What should I put there to permanently...
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    Sleep or Shutdown

    I use my PC about 3 hours a day, straight, each night. Should I turn my computer off and on each time or just put it to sleep? I am not worried about electricity consumption, only the health of my processor/SSD/Machine in general. As a related note, my computer tends to "sleep hot" in that...
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    Computer Fans / Hard Drive Will Not Stop Running During Sleep

    When I put my computer to sleep, the screen goes off and everything looks like it is sleeping, but the computer tower itself does not change. The fans (either from the processor or the Graphics card) are still on and I'm pretty sure my hard drive is active too. Any advice?
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    Windows 8.1 WIFI Solution?

    Hello, I just finished building my PC but I did not add a network card. Does anyone have any suggestions on a USB WIFI device that works on windows 8.1? I really don't want to have to take apart my computer to add the card. Or, is there a very, very, compelling reason to do that, and if so...
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    Using integrated and external video cards

    Thank you! My only follow up is wondering if you think I can get away with using a monitor plugged into the video card of my motherboard with this program (TouchDesigner) that requires an nVidia card. My dedicated GPU is an nVidia, I am just wondering if I can plug my "render" monitor into the...
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    Using integrated and external video cards

    Hi, I use a video program that has been hardware optimized to use a certain Nvidia graphics cards (which I have). I want to have dual monitors for my program and I am wondering if I can plug a monitor into the integrated (non nvidia) graphics card as my rendering window, and have that work? Any...