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I pulled the trigger on the lenovo with the 900p screen. Thanks for the help guys!

Yeah I was quite firm on the $700, until I looked at the lenovo... i5 -> i7 is about a 67% increase (Passmark) 730->750 is about a 54% increase (Passmark) 750gb -> 1tb 6gb -> 8gb ram All for $100... Throw in another $50 to go from a 1366x768 -> 1600x900 And the form factor is much...

1. What is your budget? $700 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 14" - 15.6" 3. What screen resolution do you want? Framerate is more important, so 768? 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable 5. How much battery life do you need? I have a...

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Got it running! No data lost, dual boot with grub is working! I had to run grub install with these parameters: sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda Got my info from here. @skittle: Thanks for the quick responses.

I guess I wasn't clear on the update. So I will try to clarify. I boot my pc and it goes directly to windows. The Win 7 repair disc effectively killed grub, So my question is can I boot a live cd and setup the grub to boot both? or will the same problem I originally had happen again?

Update: I was able fix the sda2 (recover the table?) with ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs. But the 100mb boot partition still said unknown. So I then downloaded the win 7 recovery disc, ran fixmbr, fixboot, and rebuildbcd. Then did the startup repair and it booted to Win7, now I am on my win7 as I type...

So I broke my cardinal rule... Don't screw with anything important without making sure your backup is secure. My HDD started with 4 partitions: sda1 - 100mb Win7 Boot sda2 - 215gb Win7 sda3 - 215gb NTFS Storage sda4 - 500gb NTFS Storage I then installed took the 4th partition and broke it up...

This build has totally changed to a 3570k z77. So I may make a new thread for it if I still need any help. Thanks recon and azeem for your time and help!

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Ok, well thanks so much for your help. Can't wait to get this thing running.

Ok I am nearly sold on it. My only concern now is the small size. The ram I have chosen I some 8gb gskill sniper 2133. The sticks have heat spreaders on them that stick up about half an inch over the stick itself. Do you think that will become problematic with a hyper 212+ and 7850's CFX...

@ o1die : Just to clarify you are saying not to get it, unless it is atleast $15 cheaper? Well the Open Box ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 is $57 less than new. But you still recommend against it? @ Nikorr : What are the pros/cons of these: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3...

So I am building a second rig for my office and need a MoBo to go with my 2500k. I had narrowed it down to a few Asus and Asrock boards, and decided to go with the Asrock based on cost. But then i found this: OPEN BOX: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3...

Oh and the 6870 just dropped $10 bucks so the build is now at $757.