Recent content by vortex19609

I took the plunge and activated the drives. All the data was fine, thank God. I'll leave this here to say "thank you" to those who responded to my message, all is well. Thanks for your time.

I'm trying to diagnose a laptop that crashed, possibly due to malware or virus, and want to view the installed hard drives from the Windows environment. I created a bootable windows 10 flash drive, which surprisingly works great. Unfortunately, I can't see the installed drives when in windows...

Well, from first hand experience, I can say it works... I upgraded my video card to a gtx 780 and I can play AC4 just fine now. So a new card does work in an old pc. Good to know. :)

Thanks all for your advice, I guess I have something to chew on now.

Since I've already picked out what I plan to buy, I might as well post it for review :) Any advice is much appreciated. GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z5S LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150 84W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics...

You are really going to need a better graphics card for any recent games. That card was released in 2005, and is sadly quite outdated. You're also going to need a 64-bit CPU and Windows 7 or 8 professional edition.

I'd like some advice... it's time to upgrade and I can only afford either a cpu/motherboard combo or a graphics card. I have a core 2 duo 6600 based system now, and a GTX 295 video card. I've actually been pretty impressed that the GTX 295 has handled most of what I've thrown at it until...