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So I am upgrading my motherboard and cpu and was going to use my h55 cooler with my new system. However I don't have the little adhesive strips that came with the cooler as they were ripped up trying to get them off my old motherboard. Would it be ok to just install the cooler again without the adhesive strips on the backplate?

Before getting into monitor options I want to tell you that double monitors for gaming is not a good idea. (If you want to use both at the same time. If you just use one at a time then there's no problem) The way the screen scales it puts the center view rite at the edges of the monitors. Not a good experience but for productivity (Such as video editing) dual monitors is great. Triple monitors are great for gaming if you want to do that later on. Although I'd use three of the same monitor.

I'd go with this build but get a WD hard drive over the Seagate

Speeding into my first build and forgetting motherboard standoffs. So I took the computer to a shop to be looked at and lost 50$ because I forgot (Didn't know about) standoffs :blink:

For flight simulators your going to want to have a quad core processor. And personally I'd go with the 750ti instead of the 740 although the 740 has 4 gigs a memory which is helpful in flight sims. Either one should be good though.

Mixing RAM kits like this is tricky. It might work it might not. Best chance is finding a new kit all together to say you some headache and money if mixing them doesn't work. Most likely mixing them wont work. Since the Cas Latency isn't to far off and they are running at the same speed (1600MHz) it might work but its a safer bet to buy a new kit altogether. Personally I'd buy a new kit (If I needed the more memory for something other than a poorly designed and optimized game) The current 8 Gigs you have should be just fine for any other games. Plus that game is so poorly optimized and designed its not even safe bet that with 12 or more gigs it would run ok. Your likely just to run into the same problems.

Yes. Once you reinstall your OS all the old drivers will be gone so once you boot into your OS you can install all the needed drivers.

Swapping CPU's and motherboards or just one of them would require you to do a reinstall of the OS and get the drivers for the new board. Drivers for the motherboards can be found on Gigabyte's or ASUS's websites. After you switch the components you will have to do a reinstall of the OS and install the motherboard drivers from there on your good to go. Here's were you can search for your drivers: http://www.gigabyte.us/support-downloads/support-downloads.aspx http://www.asus.com/us/support/

Your right. Good Idea

Yea if you actually reformatted the whole drive there would be nothing left on the drive. If you partially formatted a partition then you corrupted your windows instillation. Try reinstalling some of the programs that aren't working and you can try running an Antivirus but honestly it doesn't sound like that would help. Your still be better off reinstalling windows 7 or if you still have the product key you could upgrade to windows 10. Make sure to back up all of your data that is important to you.

For school the ipad would work fine for those needs but trying to code on an ipad and only an ipad will not be fun. It's really cumbersome to use an ipad to code all the time you will have a much better experience with the desktop you already have. Depending on how much your desktop is worth you could sell that and get a laptop if your looking for something mobile that could also double as a computer for your school work as well. Either way its entirely up to you and what you need.

So I'm looking at getting a different computer for doing my school work on. This year I've been using the Microsoft Surface RT and it's been working just fine for most of the things I need it for. Lately I've been getting annoyed with the fact i cant download and run applications and I'm extremely limited on out of school uses due to this fact. Plus I've been thinking of getting a new laptop for awhile and I saw this as a good time to ask around and see some options. What I'm looking for is a $400 or less laptop where I can do my school work on and be able to use it as an everyday computer (Non gaming already have a rig for that ). Any suggestions?