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Thanks for all the information I really appreciate it, I think I'm finally ready to move forward on this build!

How does a 680 compare to a 1050 Ti? My current computer is a laptop with an i7 4700HQ and a gtx 780M and I have it wired up to one monitor and I use the laptop screen as an extra monitor and it seems to do fine, but I haven't tried gaming on it while displaying both monitors at once Can a 1050 Ti do 1080p high settings on a single monitor? Because I only really need the second monitor for productivity, I could just unplug it while I'm gaming if the card can't handle both at once.

I am building a PC with the intention of upgrading the graphics card to a 1080 Ti next year sometime due to insufficient funds ( Can't afford the card, or the monitor that would make it worth getting). I need to know if a 1050 Ti will be powerful enough to game on high settings at 1080p while using a second monitor for browsing etc. The rest of the build is plenty to accommodate a 1080 Ti, so the only bottleneck I'm worried about for now is if the cheaper graphics card will hold up until I can afford the 1080 Ti Will the 1050 Ti be enough to do what I want for now or should I go for a 1060 6GB or something?

@samwitwicky4599 It seemed pretty reasonable to me considering the laptop is almost 3 years old and they probably don't make that motherboard anymore since they don't make the G750 series anymore, and it's for a $2500 retail laptop so it was probably already a pretty high end motherboard to begin with. If I could just throw any compatible motherboard in there I would but that's not really how it works for laptops.

@samwitwicky4599 I never intended on buying another gaming laptop. I'm switching to a desktop as my daily driver soon enough and the kind of laptop I want is something thin and light so I can carry it around to take notes in classes. I don't expect to be able to game on it. A 1060 laptop is still 1500 dollars or more, I plan on using that money for my desktop rig.

@djdwosk97 I investigated repairing it myself but I couldn't find a mobo for any less than the repair shop anyway, and labor was only 35 dollars. I have never actually worked on computer hardware outside replacing RAM or hard drives in my laptops, so repairing a laptop as my first real repair job didn't seem like a very good idea to me. People have told me for years that laptops are much harder to work on than desktops. I can't comment on how true that is but I didn't want to take the risk of getting in over my head. Maybe in the future after I've built my own rig and have some hands on experience I might be willing to try my hand at laptop repair.

Thanks for the advice everyone, I've decided to go ahead and get it repaired, hopefully it will last a while without any more problems.

@Imglidinhere It was less about me finding a literal replacement for my current one and more about finding something I felt had similar power and features in order to make a value comparison(which I apparently didn't find anyway, lol). If I buy another laptop it will most likely not be a gaming laptop, even if that means I can only do light gaming until spring.

@djdwosk97 Thanks for the clarification on the GPUs. The repair shop said they include a 6 month warranty on the motherboard replacement, so I am safe at least till I build my rig if I do that. I am planning on buying some kind of laptop for college soon as well, regardless of getting this one repaired, so I guess I could just buy that earlier and use it in the meantime. Although I wasn't planning on buying one with a dedicated GPU so I wouldn't be able to play games on it very well. My main concern is that this laptop will continue being a money pit. @kris2340k Thanks for the suggestion, however this was actually the first thing I tried. I bought a replacement power adapter from Asus and then returned it when it didn't fix the problem. I had the repair shop look at the motherboard when they replaced my palmrest and they said there was water damage on the motherboard and that it would probably stop charging eventually. If I decide not to repair it then I will probably try to sell it.

I have an Asus G750JH-DB71 that I bought in January of 2014 for $2250. In spring of 2016 I spilled soda on it (first time in my life, having used laptops regularly for over 10 years). Long story short, I had to replace the palmrest for about 250 dollars. Since then it has been having problems staying connected when plugged in. This happened for several months but it always kept a charge. When it would cut out the battery would be there to keep it running. But 2 days ago it stopped charging completely. The local computer repair place who replaced the palmrest has told me they are as sure as they can be that replacing the motherboard will fix the problem but it will cost about $450. As far as I can find, a reasonably similar current model (the Asus GL752VW-DH74) is about $1200. Although I'm not really sure if these 2 laptops are actually equivalent since comparing GPUs across generations can get a little complicated. I just tried to find one with a SSD boot drive and a 4GB video card. I am planning on building my own desktop rig in the spring and I would rather not buy a new gaming laptop in the meantime. Although I would still like to have a working laptop so that I can still game when not at my desk. So basically should I put $450 into my $2250 laptop that I have already put $250 into so that it will hopefully last another couple of years. Or should I cut my losses and just buy a new one?

Logitech M510 wireless mouse $15 Sony in-ear headphones Broken keyboard on my desktop replacement laptop. (currently using a cheap usb keyboard) Send help please.

Thanks for the quick response. Now I have a new problem. I tried it and it won't let me extend the C drive to include the F drive (which is now unallocated) because there is the 350 MB recovery partition in the way. Is there a way around that?

I have an Asus G750JH-DB71 which I have owned now for over 2 years. These are the specs in case it is relevant, or just for fun: https://www.amazon.com/G750JH-17-Inch-Gaming-Laptop-VERSION/dp/B00EZ8BJNK Here is a reference screenshot for the next part because I feel I might be explaining it badly (things can get confusing when you're talking about physical and virtual drives or just don't know the proper terms): My laptop has two 128 GB SSDs configured in RAID 0 as a boot drive with my OS installed on it. Asus did it, I don't know much of anything about RAID 0 besides the very basics of how it works. The laptop also has a 1 TB HDD for storage. When I got the laptop the HDD was split into 2 volumes of 465 GB each which I combined into one volume (D Drive in the reference picture). I was okay with doing this at the time because both volumes were empty and I knew it was one physical drive anyway. I never really payed attention to how the Raid 0 disk was set up because it was split into several volumes including a recovery partition and I didn't want to mess anything up. I only use it for the OS and basic programs and never though I'd need the space anyway. However, there has always been a 122 GB drive that was completely unused (F Drive on the reference picture). It says 100% available but in the properties it says 145 MB used. I don't really know why it says that, but there's definitely no files in it. Now 2 years later I have 4 GB left on the main drive (C Drive on the reference picture) and noticed the 120 GB drive is part of the same partition as the one my OS is on but it isn't next to it on the disk management interface. My question is this (AKA TL;DR): Can I delete the empty 120 GB volume and extend the main drive (the 95.05 GB one) to include it without risking my OS or any of the programs there? It isn't worth the risk to me if there is any; however, if I can easily double the storage space on the full drive instead of moving or deleting the data then I'd rather do that. If this is safe to do, do I need to do it in a different way than (what I assume is) the standard way? (deleting the unused volume and then extending the boot volume to include the now unallocated space)