Recent content by kawininjazx

Probably close to 100ms ping on dsl

Did you install the latest driver directly from NVIDIA's website?

Whichever one has the best warranty, get that. I hate the surface products, they are really expensive and if something happens to them they are basically trash. I just had to rip apart a guys $3K surface book that quit to get his ssd out, no way to not damage the display opening it.

A general answer For CPU- always intel For GPU I find both are good, Nvidia drivers are usually more solid. You would really need to compare what you want for the money. I chose an RX 480 over a GTX 1060 because the extra cost was't worth the little performance gain.

I find the UEFI to be a huge pain, especially if your PC doesnt boot, then it locks the drive down when you try to use recovery media. I use legacy boot, I have no issues, still boots up in seconds and when it stops booting you can actually fix windows.

The CPU you picked is a great choice, I'd go with it.

You can't upgrade a laptops video card. There are some exceptions but its not common. You could possibly run an external graphics card but you will have to check the cost.

Some BIOS don't properly set the speed. Do a BIOS update first, then check the officially supported speed the the motherboard will take. You could try to manually set it to 3000mhz is the board can do it. Worst case, it won't boot and you can reset the bios jumper on the board and try a...

I had an i7 920 running at 3.4Ghz pretty easily, just make sure your memory speeds come out right. That should give you a nice, free boost.

You didn't make the real admin account, because that is hidden and disabled, you just made an administrator level account. When you login as your new user, you can delete the old account and it will ask you if you want to delete the files or not. I believe it will move the files to the new...

I have no idea why you have that single stick of DDR3-1333 in there, why have 3 mechanical drives and no SSD, save the money and get windows 10 home. I would highly recommend you switch to an i5 setup, it will only cost you about $70 more, but you can save $40 by going with 10 home.

Here is some advice, if you think your hard drive is bad or have a good reason to know it is, replace it. Always keep your data backed up.

If you reinstall the same version of windows 10 that was on there, you don't need a key, just click "skip this step" when it asks you for a key, then once its online it should self activate, you don't have a 10 key.

Ideally you want a decent 400-500w PSU if you are running a video card