Mattch23

Fair enough aha, prices here are pretty shitty at the moment

I'm looking at around £495.42 ($660.94) for the 6700k / Mobo / RAM at the moment, if I went down the X99 route It'd be £659.45 ($879.77), almost £200 more expensive, would it be worth spending that extra amount?

Hmm, I haven't looked at anything x99 wise to be totally honest. I guess I kinda defaulted to the 6700k as it's the "big thing". The limiting factor for myself would be the cost really, are the X99's in the realm of being "affordable" (sub say £200 on mobo's?)

Cool thanks! Will have a look Was just thinking that, I want to upgrade my main rig from a 3770k so I might end up recycling that into the Plex server and putting a 6700k into my main.

Heyo again! Planning on upgrading my main rig from a 3770k to a 6700k in the near future, I was just wondering what motherboards are the ones that are being recommended at the moment. It'd definitely need 4 Sata slots at minimum (if It had 5/6 that'd be perfect but if not I'll just use a pci-e card) as well as being an ATX board with 4x Ram Slots. My GPU (980ti) is a 3 slot card however I did start looking at potentially using the Asus Z170-A or maybe the MSI Z170A "Gaming Pro Carbon" but thought i'd throw it out there to get an opinion before dropping money into it. Thanks!

The 6700k was my original choice. I haven't played about the the pre-transcoding system in Plex at all to be completely honest, is it just a case of telling it to transcode X Y Z and then it'll automatically use the best one for whatever device is playing it? (I.e. Will it know to use a Mobile format for the iOS app, or will I need to manually select it?)

Then yeah shouldn't have a problem if you do need to use a bay seeing as you're not using them

PC part picker has a compatibility checker. Yes it'll all work together but as PCPP says: The NZXT Source 220 ATX Mid Tower Case supports video cards up to 330mm long, but video cards over 230mm may block drive bays. Since the MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GB Video Card is 254mm long, some drive bays may not be usable.

So, I'm still leaning more towards the 4790k build at the moment. May drop down the RAM from 16 to 8 at the start as I probably won't use it for much else (although I may in the future)

Can check its serial at http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/wc/public/home

I wouldn't of thought it would make a difference if you've already tried disk. It could likely be that the hard drive has failed enough that Windows won't boot, but not enough for it to be undetectable. Is the laptop still under warranty?

Sounds like the OS is corrupt, you'll need to use a Win 8 / 8.1 (whatever OS it is) disk or USB to run a repair / recovery

I'd say that the drive is still being detected fine if its booting up onto the recovery screen of Windows. If you could tell us that entire error code that it showed it may point to what the issue is

Have ye definitely got the right version for the processor that's installed (x32/x86 etc?)

Whatever one he has, usually it'll be listed under something like "Hard Drives / HDD or SATA" the name is usually something really long a silly like WD-*random here*