The Member's Systems Discussion Thread

[Turb0Yoda]

Seems to be good, but I have not seen a Zotac Mobo until today.
So:
-Disable Fastboot and whatnot and enable Legacy
-Wait for reboot, turn off system
-Install GPU
-Install pre-downloaded drivers
-Play CS:GO

I just ignore the Intel Drivers, or should I disable them? Whatever work I've done, it is always on a clean install xD

I'l foray into the BiOS tomorrow and see what else I need to change..

 

[tiny voices]

Seems to be good, but I have not seen a Zotac Mobo until today.
So:
-Disable Fastboot and whatnot and enable Legacy
-Wait for reboot, turn off system
-Install GPU
-Install pre-downloaded drivers
-Play CS:GO

I just ignore the Intel Drivers, or should I disable them? Whatever work I've done, it is always on a clean install xD

I'l foray into the BiOS tomorrow and see what else I need to change..

Looks good. Just ignore the intel drivers.

 

[tiny voices]

Looks like that uses the laptop RAM, not the desktop stuff

I thought that looked kind of odd for a desktop motherboard, guess it's back to the drawing board. I definitely don't want to pay $300 for the Asus Z77 motherboards that I saw on eBay.

Just got back from seeing Mission:Impossible Rogue Nation. Awesome flick.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6BM35M6949
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6BM35M7141

There ya go!

Not sure I want to get a motherboard that doesn't have a backplate or accessories included.

I did find this Zotac board on Ava Direct - worth taking a closer look?

http://www.avadirect.com/Z77ITX-A-E-LGA1155-Intel-Z77-DDR3-2133-O-C-16GB-2-PCIe-x16-SATA-6-Gb-s-RAID-5-4-6-Gb-s-2-USB-3-0-4-mini-DP-HDMI-HDA-WiFi-GbLAN-2/Product/6953768

That looks like a great board.

 

[Bossyfins]

Anyone else know of a good place to buy a cheap z68/z77 matx board. Preferably ROG ;o

 

[tiny voices]

Wait for one to come up used on HWswap. That really is it.

 

[Bossyfins]

I almost scored a Maximus IV gene but google wallet is dumb.

 

[Mirakledba]

Tiny - today my mom went to walmart...I was the driver both ways...are you proud of me?!?! 😛

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I am.
My mom said she was going to get me lessons but then said to wait until you get 2100+ on the SAT... 🙁

 

[Bossyfins]

YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS~!~!~!~!

The seller made a paypal and got it verified so I can buy my 4 things!

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Wait, for what? The z77 mobo?

 

[Mirakledba]

2100 on the SAT? Your mom needs to know that SAT scores mean NOTHING AT ALL!

 

[Turb0Yoda]

UC school s it does.

 

[Mirakledba]

I know but its not EVERYTHING. If they see you did well in Highschool and took AP classes and did well in those, the SAT score can be average and you will get accepted. Sure, my goal is a UC school and I will study for the SAT seriously, but im more focused on grades in HS now

 

[g-unit1111]

Anyone else have problems with iTunes after upgrading to Windows 10? I just did and now it's saying that my PC isn't authorized to play iTunes movies when it did fine before.

 

[Mirakledba]

Did not upgrade yet..Gunit, what is this 5 game losing streak!??!?!? Crazy...Anyway, good luck with the itunes issues... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7152006 says somewhere here that apple hasnt released the drivers yet.

Night.

 

[g-unit1111]

Did not upgrade yet..Gunit, what is this 5 game losing streak!??!?!? Crazy...Anyway, good luck with the itunes issues... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7152006 says somewhere here that apple hasnt released the drivers yet.

Night.

It's six games now!

I'm going to tomorrow night's game, hopefully it's a win.

Huh that's interesting about that, I wound up deauthorizing my tablet for now so I can authorize that other PC. Argh this is maddening.

 

[tiny voices]

I know but its not EVERYTHING. If they see you did well in Highschool and took AP classes and did well in those, the SAT score can be average and you will get accepted. Sure, my goal is a UC school and I will study for the SAT seriously, but im more focused on grades in HS now

Ehh I disagree. Colleges care ALOT about the SAT scores. I know people with great grades and crummy SATs that didn't get into schools that people with WAY worse GPAs but much better SATs did. SATs matter ALOT.

 

[Mirakledba]

Gunit - Im going to tomorrows game 😀 as in the 4th of august...field level seats!

Tiny - I remember you telling me they dont matter .-.

 

[Pcbuilder123]

^From what I see, they matter A LOT. Overall balance is very important but having a crazy out of the ordinary sat score often times could really get you into some places you might not have expected to be before.

What Tiny said was the SAT system was stupid and broken, not that it was unimportant

 

[Mirakledba]

PCbuilder -Thats what tiny said! Ok...well, I will still study hard for it.

 

[Bossyfins]

Pfft, when I take the SAT, it'll be the new one.

 

[Mirakledba]

Me too?

 

[Bossyfins]

Wait, for what? The z77 mobo?

Maximus Gene IV mobo, 2500k, 8 gigs of ram, an a Lian LI A04b

 

[Onus]

Before I added the GTX750Ti to Scrooge, the Win7 WEI gave the graphics a miserable 1.0. With the 750Ti, it's 7.something.
Its benchmark scores are not impressive at all, but subjectively what little I've done has felt ok. I haven't run very much on it yet besides the benchmarks; I loaded GW1 on it and ran -image to load all the areas, but haven't played it yet at all. I need to find my Office 2010 DVD to load that. The power numbers aren't quite as low as I was expecting, but they are a lot lower than Minion's. A certain portion of that has to be due to the GTX750Ti. It has two drives, a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO and a 2TB Seagate SSHD that is formatted but otherwise empty.
One anomaly so far is that the machine won't boot if a USB stick is installed (either on a native or ASMedia port). I've not really dug into why, except that the USB device is NOT selected as a boot device.
None of my systems have prompted me to upgrade to Windows 10 yet.

 

[Mirakledba]

I keep getting the "Hes dead, jim!" Errors on chrome on my phone and PC!! HELPPP