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As long as no file reads/writes were in progress, you should be fine.

There should be a little button battery somewhere on the motherboard, pull that out (while the PC is off) and leave it out for a couple of minutes which will allow the capacitors to discharge, then but the battery back in.

Here's one motherboard that you can overclock on. Unfortunately they're isn't a lot of options when it comes to LGA 1155 motherboards. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293R

It's pretty much that simple, yeah. Just make sure you have a copy of your Windows key, because windows may consider a new motherboard a new computer, so your windows may be deactivated which means you will have to reactivate it.

I purchased my computer from CyberPower PC about a year and a half ago, and I just upgraded my motherboard. Windows 8.1 is now telling me that my product key is being used on another device. Does anyone have a solution?

I recently got a new case (Corsair Carbide 500r) and I put my build into it today. When I first powered it on I got a message that told me "there is an overcurrent on the USB device, shutting down in 15 seconds to avoid damage to the mainboard." As soon as I saw this I turned my computer off and...

Sometimes your ping will be fine, even though your connection is bad. It could also be hardware limitations, or unwanted programs running in the background hogging memory.

The performance is so similar. So I would go with whichever one is currently cheaper. Unless you're strongly opposed to team red or team green

Give shadowplay a try for sure, it has much less impact than any software I know, but if that doesn't work you may want to look into an external capture cardm such as the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable...