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I ordered this on 2/2/21 and this was my latest email. I think it's gone up by a few dollars since I ordered it, but nothing substantial. If I ever get it, I'll either resell, or mine on it. Ended up buying one from amazon for $1399 about a month ago

It's been happening for about 2 months now. I don't think i've changed my hardware in that time, but I do have 5 internal drives and 1 external, not related to the os, but maybe an influence. I've tried error correcting the drive, but that failed. I tried an error correction before windows boot and that crashes and goes into windows boot I have 2 NVME drives, 1 with windows on it. I also have 4 internal drives connected and 1 external drive connected. I've tried error correcting the drive, but that failed. I tried an error correction before windows boot and that crashes and goes into windows boot. Is there a way to see what drive is broken? I know for a fact the hdd's are super old. I've had 1 die already. bought a bunch of used 3tb drives on the cheap, so not to worried about them if one's dying again

I've taken basically everything I don't need, off the startup list, and I have a fast modern nvme ssd. Cpu is ryzen 9 3900x, so that shouldn't be an issue. I can't think of anything causing boot times to be so high. It sits on the windows loading screen for about 2 minutes before fully loading. If anyone could give some advice that would be great. If you need any information let me know

Is my drive dead or is something else wrong? What should i do about this? Also, i'd like to set up a nas soon and would like to know if there's an easy way to move these drives to it. Would i need to copy everything onto something else in order to move the drives to a new computer?

Is this a common problem and think windows update's supposed to fix eventually, or do you think i could keep looking for a setting or something online?

I'm not sure if this is the right place or not, but my CPU has been stuck at 99% for the past few days. I've tried restarting, shutting down, force shutdown, restore points and uninstalling antivirus and reinstalling it. I've looked everywhere and can't find a fix. I have a ryzen 9 3900x and I've turned pretty much every program in the startups off. Task manager will show 99% CPU usage in processes, but none of the programs are actually using any CPU. It will randomly pick a program and give it a ridiculously high CPU usage which it never used before as well. I'll include a few pictures. I've seen chrome using 85% CPU usage in this case, and bluestacks uses 95% The Users tab shows a better view. There's only 1 user on this computer and it's mine. usage is jumping around from 13%-80% while the only programs open is chrome, discord, msi dragon center and snipping tool. The Details tab shows System idle process is the only thing really, so i'm guessing the performance tab is just showing system idle as it's own process or something. Please let me know if i should include more information or if you have any advice!

I have been looking in the $300 USD range, and was a little bit confused by some of the benchmarks. Is it true that a newer card is not always better? I was finding benchmarks comparing the gtx 970 with the gtx titan and gtx 780ti and upcoming gtx 1060. On the AMD side, I saw the r9 390 and rx 480. Aside from the titan, which is out of my price range, what is the most 'future resistant' graphics card. would it be better to shoot for something older like the 780ti or r9 390? or something newer like the 970 or 1060. Also, is the rx 480 even in the same league? There is an 8gb model I saw. Thanks