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JordLindsay

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About JordLindsay

  • Birthday Aug 16, 1995

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Worcestershire
  • Occupation
    Student

System

  • CPU
    i7 4770K
  • Motherboard
    Asus Z87-PRO
  • RAM
    2 x 8GB HyperX Predator
  • GPU
    2 x GTX770 4GB
  • Case
    Fractal Design R4
  • Storage
    128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 1TB WD Black
  • PSU
    Corsair RM850
  • Display(s)
    Asus MX299q, Asus MX239H, Optoma HD200X
  • Cooling
    Corsair H105, Plus fans ...
  • Keyboard
    Corsair K40
  • Mouse
    SteelSeries Sensei
  • Sound
    Audio Engine D1 DAC
  • Operating System
    Windows 8.1

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  1. Basic question really, I am about to buy two gtx1080's to run in sli. i game on a 4K 60hz panel, and mainly play story focused games with a controller in the living room. So not any high frame rate first person shooters. but I'm obsessed with game visuals mainly why I play them. Q) anything below going to cause a bottleneck with two gtx1080's currently : 2x GTX 770 sli 2 x 8GB hyper x predator ram 128gb ssd and 1gb hdd watercooled 4770k i7 Asus sabertooth mark 1 MOBO Rm850 gold corsair power supply
  2. UPDATE: activating the motherboard in win 8.1 was the simplist thing in the world using the phone activation tool. I can confirm that when you upgrade to win 10 your hardware is linked to your OLD Product key therefore you can clean install as much as you want unless you encounter a significant hardware change. Then you must activate it using your product key, on the original OS that the product key came from, and re-upgrade to Win 10.
  3. No luck for me, creating a bootable 8.1 iso now will try activate on that os then upgrade see if that works
  4. I agree mine doesn't end t6y either but it still shows as invalid on new mobo
  5. Just got off the phone with them and the only solution is to buy a new key, or try downgrading activating and upgrading but they cant say if that will work. Like you lot are saying this is awful for pc builders. It should just work like their office 365 service where you can remove and add devices whenever you want and simply have a device limit. very strange set up.
  6. Yes i used a third party to to see my product key before the new mobo, and your correct its new, but it does not work now ive changed the mobo
  7. Just thought id share this chat with Microsoft, so it turns out you have to install your old windows to do a clean install and upgrade it back to 10 each time you clean install windows if you upgraded to 10 in the first place. (see below) Just an FYI thread but this seems a bit ridiculous to me. Hi, thanks for visiting Answer Desk! I'm Terrence Y. 11:10 Ive had to replace the motherboard in my computer, this has lead to win10 believing it is a new device. I want assistance in reactivating my new motherboard and removing the old one as a device. 11:10 May I know what was your old operating system before. 11:10 win 10 11:10 I mean before you upgraded to windows 10. 11:11 both the old and new mobo were running windows 10? 11:11 motherboard* 11:11 I upgraded from 8.1 pro but this was before I replaced the motherboard 11:12 I see. Let me just check my tools here in my end on what we can do on it. Because this might be a different one, specially windows 10 is a new operating system. And you've just upgrade from windows 8.1 to windows 10 which means you don't have a product key for windows 10. 11:13 that's the problem on my old motherboard it was activated instantly, you can see it in my devices on my Microsoft account 11:15 Let me just check information on this because the phone activation wont really work on this specially the online activation because your product key is only for windows 8.1 pro 11:16 yeh the phone activation is what ive used in the past 11:17 Ive just check my resources, we cannot used the phone activation because the product that was installed on the computer is for windows 8.1, which means for us to activate the system again, we need to go back to windows 8.1 then activate it their then upgrade to windows 10 back. 11:23 your kidding me ​
  8. I'm assuming you mean Microsoft account (I neither have or use Hotmail/outlook), so how will it know its the same pc if it has a new motherboard?
  9. Im running windows 10 pro, tomorrow i plan to install a new mobo (only component to change) does this affect my activated windows? like will it think its a different pc. if so can I reactivate it using Microsoft's phone up tool?
  10. What are the main differences between say a asus z97 sabertooth and a asus z97-k for example, why do motherboards have mid / high ends in general. Whats the noticable advantage.
  11. purely on a brand point of view not that specific card. Having owned two Palit gtx770 in SLI for over a year I would have to say they are still as quiet and reliable as ever, I actually bought them for the design that matches the gold on older asus motherboards rather than the price. Would recommend Palit to anyone. IMO id be wary of people judging Palit without ever owning their products.
  12. I was capable of working out the direction of air flow for the second set haha, but thanks anyway I was just wondering if it would be worth it or not.
  13. Static pressure fans are currently pushing air through my rad into a case. What would happen if I had fans on the other side of the Rad IN ADDITION to the ones pushing. So two sets of fans on each side of a Rad. (2x120mm > 240mm rad > 2x120mm). Would this cause any noticeable gains.
  14. I already have static pressure fans on the front of the rad, so having fans on both front and rear of a rad would create no noticeable gains? I understand what you mean about the pressure but surely you wouldn't use the top of the case as an intake (with heat rising and all) so what would you have their? or would it be more bifacial just to block it off at the top?
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