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Hi all. I have a new MSI GTX 1060 6GB Armor OCV1 card I bought from Amazon. This card has two fans. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. As far as I can tell both fans should always spin at the same speed, and they should be spinning at 40% anytime the OS is running. When I turn the system...

If you boot from recovery media (hold down option during poweron) does Disk Utility show the drive present? If so, run Disk First Aid on it. Did you install it very recently or has it been working for a while? Is this the first time you ever shut the system down since it was installed?

I am slowly buying components for a new system build. I'm planning to use the Samsung 950Pro M.2 SSD when it's all done. Unfortunately, my current computer's hard drive has been acting up recently so I'm going to need to replace that before my new system is ready. I figured it didn't make sense...

What about Intel's new I3-6300 processors? http://ark.intel.com/products/90731/Intel-Core-i3-6300-Processor-4M-Cache-3_80-GHz They have a recommended box retail of $147, seems competitive to the Haswell i3 pricewise with much better specs. Are they just not tested yet, or not for sale yet? I do...

So the FCC is compiling a list of numbers? Good for them. How is this going to help anything, given that most caller ID is spoofed or blocked? Or is locking down caller ID part of their plan? Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of doing _SOMETHING_ about this, as it's extremely annoying and...

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to buy Windows properly? It's really the only confusing part of this whole build. The rest of it is looking pretty solid. How do you buy a 'retail copy' of Windows 8.1 or 10? Here's my latest parts list. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GLHnhM Non-OC motherboard...

I went and updated my parts list. I can save a few on the power supply, and based on everything I've read I shouldn't need a CPU cooler besides stock since I'm not going OC. I also changed to 4x4GB RAM for full dual channel performance (supposedly? Using all RAM slots better than half the RAM...

I have an additional question - on Windows 8.1, can I buy an "OEM" license? It's very confusing, there are about 18 different versions of Windows 8.1 I can choose from on their site. Some of them are "OEM", some are not. What makes for an OEM purchase on a DIY machine? The motherboard...

Thanks for the feedback. I haven't looked into CPU coolers yet, wasn't sure if I would need one with that i5. I figured I could watch temps on it and decide later about adding a cooler. The OEM fins and fan wouldn't be good enough? Because of the smaller case? I figured extra CPU cooling would...