anangrysamaritan

Hey Guys, still relatively new to building, but I have a few questions for upgrading my Girlfriend's personal rig. First the specs of the new build are: CPU: i5-4690 3.5 GHz (from Old PC) mobo: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX RAM: PNY Anarchy 16GB (2 x 8) DDR3 - 1866 GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 3GB PSU: EVGA 430W Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 PCI-Express x1 Her old daily driver was an HP 550-150qe Pre-build PC. What I plan to do is harvest only the CPU (an Intel i5-4690) and main storage device (some OEM Hardrive) and keeping the data saved on the OEM hardrive onto the New Build, the new Motherboard. The old hardrive already has Windows 10, her work documents, and applications saved on the old hardrive. What I need is a refresher and answer to these questions: How do I put all her OLD data on the new PC without switching hardrives. Do I need a new copy of Windows 10 or can I keep the previous copy of Windows 10? Is or are there a video(s) that illustrates this scenario or similar? If so please share below. Any assistance is welcome!

CPU - i5 4690 The PSU is completely new from EVGA; 80+ Silver 430W

Hey guys, I've been trying to upgrade my gf's PC so that she and I can play some games together. The problem is, her PC doesn't seem to be cooperating. I'm trying to introduce a Zotac GTX 1060 3Gb mini into a prebuilt HP model 550-150qe. I have a 430W powering the system, however after installing the appropriate drivers normal operation is plagued with stuttering issues. Tried Overwatch, wouldn't even open... Help me

I realize it's been a month since the last comment, but is anyone still working on how to troubleshoot this. I have a similar problem trying to get audio to run through iTunes whilst watching a movie on iTunes. Games, internet browser, pretty much everything else recognizes the 840's as the PC speakers except iTunes.

So, after months of preparation and waiting for back-to-school deals, I built a custom PC in August 10 using these parts: Core i7 6700K CPU (@4.64 GHZ) ASUS Z170-A Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB RAM (2 x 8GB sticks) ASUS ROG STRIX GTX Geforce 1070 (non-OC edition) Graphics Card Corsair RM650x PSU Samsung 850 EVO 250GB Storage Corsair H110i GT CPU Cooler For full details: http://pcpartpicker.com/b/8h4CmG Recent additions: 3 x Noctua NF-A14 iPPC PWM fans (2 on the radiatior, 1 as Exhaust) I do plan to expand memory and storage, but before I do something weird started happening after I finished overclocking my CPU and GPU about a week after I overclocked things, which are both stable if Realbench, Cinebench, and Valley Unigine benchmarks are to be believed. What started happening is that after the computer falls asleep (I set it to 30 minutes of inactivity), and I try to wake the computer up, the DRAM_LED on my motherboard lights up. Instead of pressing the MemOK button, I shut the entire system down by holding the power button down. I turn on the system shortly afterward, and I get the "ASUS Anti-Surge Protection was triggered due to unstable power supply..." blah blah blah. And it also tells me that the Overclock failed. I reran my overclock tests and stress tested for 3 hours on the CPU. All tests passed. I still keep getting the trip messages every time I allow the computer to fall asleep. So, I restart the computer, no message. I though that was odd, so I shut down the computer, waited till the computer actually shuts off, cut power, waited a couple seconds. Reintroduced power, and powered on the PC, and this time I still get the ASUS anti-surge message, but no "Overclock failed!" I've ran the computer this way now for almost two weeks and I have not experienced any unexpected restarts, shut offs, data loss, etc. while performing stressful tasks (benchmarks and/or playing games: Overwatch and Witcher 3). I will invest in a new surge protector within the week as I found out that the one I borrowed from my dad was well over 10 years old and used heavily. SO, after all that I have two questions: Should I turn off the ASUS anti-surge protection software in the UEFI BIOS? Or get my hands on a new PSU (either by rma'ing my RM650x or just buying a new psu)?

Hey guys! I'm a noob, help me. To the best of my ability, I found these parts to be compatible. However, I still want second opinions from people who are experienced Custom PC Builders. Really any input is a help and let me know what you guys think! http://pcpartpicker.com/list/x29jyf