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Can you install with no internet connection and no MS account?

So you develop something big and popular and then must give it pretty much for free to greedy companies like Apple so they can sell their iPhones which cost a fortune and make even more cash? While Qualcomm is struggling to make any profits at all and just finished it's financial year with a...

It should, indeed. But it doesn't boot as it's incorrectly thinks that the sound card is a SLI graphics card...

The board has been fully tested and has no issues. It was a brand new board with the corrupted bios, which is apparently pretty common for the Intel boards. I like the idea of 2 gigabit ports and good fan controls. Also the USB3 at the back is a fake -) they work via the HUB and windows 7...

I've got this board for free with the corrupt bios chip and replaced it myself. So I can't complain. I was to buy a board it would've been Asus for sure. The bios has been updated already. There are some setting in the bios in regards to each slot and all the USB ports can be blocked for...

Asus 1060 6gb OC edition blocks 2 slots below and Noctua 14 cooler blocks the PCI-1X above. Asus Xonar Phoebus is the sound card. Every half decent Asus mobo supports 1x for the 16X 3rd slot. In fact any motherboard should. I don't know how to setup the bios to support it. I do know that on this...

My current solution to this problem is to put the graphics card to the 2nd slot and the sound card above it - it works fine this way, but I'm limiting my graphics card to 8X for no reason and have an empty 3rd slot which I'm sure could've been used for the sound card without any problem at all.

Oh yeah, definitely, tried both. Doesn't work in a 2nd slot - the same error and the sound card is perfectly fine and does indeed work in a 1x slot and on the other motherboards. I fix the PC's for a living, so I have plenty of them around -)

I have a 1x PCI-E sound card and I want to put in in the lowest (SLOT 1), 16x slot, which is for the 3rd graphics card (4x). When I had Asus board I used it for the sound card in 1x mode without any problems at all, I had such option in BIOS. Now after the upgrade it wouldn't boot giving me the...

Is PUBG any good in SLI mode?

I play csgo every day, I used to have i5-2500K, running 5Ghz, with GTX 1060 6Gb, I never had any issues at all in CSGO - around 300 FPS (which is a limit). My advice to you as a CSGo player and the IT guy who's been dealing with the PC's for the last 20 years: 1) Get a decent graphics card - for...

Hi, I had 660 SLI for about a year, upgraded to 1060 6Gb OC Edition and yes, the difference is noticeable. But only in games where you need more video RAM, for example PUBG benefits from 6gb even if you play at FULL HD resolution. X-com 2 was better, as SLI with that game gave me slight issues...

"2.5-inch SSDs run on the Serial ATA interface, which was designed for hard drives (and launched way back in 2000)" I remember that in 2004/2005 I could still buy a new laptop with an IDE hard drive, and SATA drives were pretty new at the time and had a higher price tag than IDE. But either...

I always test all my PC builds for 3 days before selling them, a proper stress test for the whole lot, not just RAM. Thank you everyone. By the way the ECC server RAM 32Gb sticks about half price compared to 2x16Gb sticks for desktops. So it looks to me that what is happening with the RAM...

Thank you guys. The QVL is often has to be updated, so I agree it's a lottery, I asked for advice as this is a new build for me and indeed there are a lot of complaints about the TR4 RAM compatibility. The KIT I'm on about is supported by the motherboard, but the one I want to get is for the...