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Beauty - thanks for all the replies. I guess I'll have to make the big decision between size/performance. I'll take a look at those Ultrabooks while I'm at it!

Hey guys, Might be a bit of a wild stab in the dark, but does anyone know of any 14" laptops that have a 1070 or better under the hood? Used for gaming but requiring space/weight saving. I know full well I can get some in 15.6" but am looking at something a little smaller. Not totally sold on the 1060 as a performer either... TIA

What's your location and budget? The chip/set you're looking at is already out of date at this point, so it might be worth going to either X99 or the new Skylake Z170 chip/sets.

Unfortunately even if you could find a motherboard with the right specs and whatnot, it wouldn't physically fit into the laptop body. The motherboard is bound to be designed differently to fit in another model laptop. Basically, when you buy a laptop expect it to stay that way until it dies, with the exception of RAM and SSD upgrades.

It's unlikely to be the PSU causing this fault, probably more so the OC on the RAM. Have you tried running it at 1600MHz (stock Haswell speeds) to make sure there are no other issues with the system?

I heard Prime95 ups the voltage deliberately, which would cause your increase in heat. Perhaps try another stress test like Intel XTU?

No problem, glad it was an easy fix!

Have a look at the drive in Disk Management, see if it has been allocated a drive letter or not. If it hasn't, allocate a new drive letter and it should pop up again.

I've finished my plan with the Note 3 - opted to just keep this and continue on with my plan without a phone upgrade. There's really nothing substantially better than my phone at the moment, and this one is working a treat still. Being in Australia I don't have access to Android 5 yet, but when that comes I'm sure it will be enough of a change to keep me occupied for another year. I just think they dropped the ball a bit with the Note 5; the S6 is pretty good (minus the lack of features as mentioned above) but the Note should have far surpassed it. It hasn't, so I'm sure that will hurt Samsung with sales.

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If your friend has used his activation key then you will need to purchase another one, but otherwise the physical disk that Win10 is installed from is able to be used on any PC - it will just require an activation code.

Certainly supports up to 120Hz (I run that at the moment), I can imagine the 144Hz monitor will support it too. Also, to clarify: What SVP does is interpolates the standard 24fps (or whatever the original video frame rate is) to the highest refresh rate your monitor can handle, in my case it's 120Hz and in most other people's case it's 60Hz. It does so by blurring frames 1 > 2 into 1>1>1>2>2 (for 120Hz, for 144Hz it would be 1>1>1>2>2>2). This gives the illusion that the video is playing smoother because it is eliminating the obvious jumping between frames. Bit of a hijack but I am an avid user of SVP and I think it's brilliant - definitely give it a good go. But to answer your question - I'm an advocate of higher refresh rates, so 144Hz gets my vote. General use does feel snappier and smoother, and you can notice a massive difference with the cursor.

I'm a bit late to the party, but I managed to squeeze a bit more performance out of the budget: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor ($373.95 @ shopRBC) Motherboard: Asus Z97-E ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($124.99 @ NCIX) Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($134.99 @ NCIX) Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ Amazon Canada) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($89.98 @ DirectCanada) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($399.99 @ NCIX) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($399.99 @ NCIX) Case: Cooler Master N400 ATX Mid Tower Case ($62.18 @ DirectCanada) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ NCIX) Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm QuickFire XT Wired Slim Keyboard ($109.99 @ Amazon Canada) Mouse: Logitech G402 Wired Optical Mouse ($48.98 @ DirectCanada) Headphones: Logitech G430 7.1 Channel Headset ($59.98 @ DirectCanada) Total: $1995.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-30 19:28 EDT-0400

You can pick up a package a lot cheaper than that. Look at the Aurora/Mustang pledges for a starter. You can always trade them in for 'store credit' to purchase a bigger ship if you wish.