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I'd like to replace my 290 with one of these... I'm jumping off the AMD bandwagon. That thing gets so hot!

Yes I would still reseat your memory. You never know Cheers.

If this is your first build, I would not recommend water cooling. Only if you plan on OC'ing your CPU should you get an AIO cooler. I would highly recommend buying an after market air cooler, something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099 for your lower - mid range and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103057 for mid - upper performence for water cooling. I bought the latter of the two when I first went from OEM heat sink to after market, and boy what a difference did it make, haha. Think it over, I highly recommend air coolers for your first build. Good luck! Cheers.

Sounds like you've tried a bunch of different things, so I'll spare you the endless hours of troubleshooting. You need to buy a PATA / SATA to USB adapter. It'll hook on to your HDD and get power from the wall and it will also have a USB cable you can plug into your computer. Because USB is hot swap-able, you can plug it in once you get everything booted up the right way. Let me know how it goes. Cheers.

You need to wipe each partition so you have a clean drive then create a new partition.

That sfc tells me exactly what I was thinking; corrupt OS. You may be able to run a repair from your Windows installation disk. Pop it into your machine and see if you can do a repair before reinstalling Windows. It's definitely worth a shot. And by the way, I appreciate it I work as a technical support specialist so this is what I do for a living haha. Love it!

That is very strange. If you have a second PC, you could try downloading the installation packages to a USB drive then running them on your main machine. Wooth has a point, probably has to do with your actual internet connection. However, if it was your internet connection then twitch wouldn't load on any other computer in your house... open twitch on another machine and see if it gives you the same thing Cheers.

You are very welcome! Cheers!

You may be able to move them to an external, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You would be better off copying them anyways, may as well see if they do work. About creating a new partition, when you go to reinstall Windows, you will want to do a clean install. Once you get to all the drive options, delete every partition you see until you have one 933 GB (1 TB) empty partition. I would create a 60 GB partition to install windows on (name is OS) and create a second partition with all the left over space (call it games or data, D:). This will insure you are starting completely clean, and you keep your games and programs on a complete separate part of the disk than your OS is on. I actually have a completely different drive that I keep my OS on, have a dedicated 90 GB SSD for OS, than a 240 GB raid 0 (2 x kingston 3k ssds) for main game storage and a 750 GB HDD for everything else. This way you limit any possible conflicts between your games and OS data.

Some games allow you to specify the install location if you were to reinstall Windows (Diablo III for example). However I'm not sure about other games, reinstalling Windows will screw all that up. I hardly ever install programs to my C drive for exactly this instance. After you reinstall, you should create a new partition on your drive, or install all your games on a 2nd drive in your system (if you have one). But installing them on a separate partition should save you the time of re-downloading after a reinstall. Good luck, and Cheers.

Open a command prompt and type in 'sfc /scannow' and see if it comes back with anything. Also, try chkdsk C: and reboot. Thanks for the correction, chkdsk /f /r C:

I have the exact same keyboard, and I too have that same issue. It doesn't bother me much because I use a headset. Sounds like you are getting some EMI (Electro-magnetic Interference). Try and set your cabling in such a way that none of your speaker cables are touching or are near your keyboard cable. Try to isolate your speaker cables from everything else, I bet that will help a little. Let me know, thanks! Cheers.

I would start with the easy stuff, RAM. Reseat your RAM and see if anything changes. If that doesn't do anything, swap your DIMMs around and move them until something different happens or nothing at all. Try all possible combinations. Cheers.

I'm actually working on Chromeboxes for the school district I work for. Good timing on your part. Cheers.

Hmm, interesting. Give your PC a reboot and try again. Maybe run Windows update as well just in case.