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Sorry mate. Just non-US things I guess Touch: HP Spectre X360 15T-BI100 Non-Touch: HP ENVY 17T-AE100

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The Age Old Question. I have never had a touchscreen laptop, but due to my old laptop dying and me being sent a check to replace the unit I now have the option. I would like to keep this as objective as possible as I know questions based on preference are normally quite futile. So I wish to give some info on my use case. I am an Engineering student. I have a desktop PC and we are provided workstations while in computationally intensive classes. I enjoy doing some video editing and image manipulation on the side and plan to do so on both my desktop and this laptop. I dislike track pads so I almost exclusively use a mouse. However, in most cases the areas in classrooms do not have room for a mouse, so I return to pen and paper. With a little googling I have come across complaints of the following Less battery life Poorer screen quality Heavier whatever else you know that I don't Have these issues been fixed? Now to a specific case. Two laptops have identical specs except for 4 things. Obviously one is Touch and the other is not. The non-touch has an NVMe SSD and the touch has an unspecified connection. They both have a card I have never heard of, an NVIDIA Geforce MX150, but the non-touch has 4GB of video RAM while the touch has 2GB; I am unsure if this is important in my use case as I am used to having an overkill graphics card for what I do. Finally, the non-touch has a 512 GB drive and the touch has a 360 GB drive. Both are 4k 8th Gen Intel i7s with the same dedicated video card, though I have never heard of it. Is the NVMe, size, and video memory a good reason to ignore the touch-screen, or is the touch-screen inherently flawed? I appreciate any thoughts you could bring to this. (Touch) HP Spectre X360 15T-BI100 (Non-Touch) HP ENVY 17T-AE100

This and above left me at a black screen. Same as before. If you need more info on what happened let me know, but the "nomodeset" method just leaves me at a black screen before I uncrypt my drive. I updated with an error message.

Hopefully I'm not being as dumb as I was with my BIOS question but here we go. System specs CPU: R5 1600 AB350 Gaming K4 (Most updated BIOS, just updated) OS: Linux Mint 18.3 (Kernal: 4.10.0-38-generic) So here's the issue other people have had. I have a GTX 1070 and as the screen shots show the drivers that are availible to me for Linux don't work. Either I have to start the system in recovery mode which removes the purpose of this powerful graphics card (I can't even play 1080p video) or it just ignores it when it starts. I have found threads here, here, here, and here but none of them have found solutions I could use. Solutions I have tried: nomodeset in the Grub(?) pre boot options, I think that is what it is when you open bash before boot. When it rebooted, it simply removed the line when I went back to check. Going to Nvidia's website to get known stable drivers. It said the character encoding wasn't working. Burning my old graphics card as a sacrifice to the GPU gods. One lightly scorched GPU. I'm new to Linux but to my knowledge this shouldn't be happening. The video ports on my motherboard don't work due to the specs apparently requiring an A-series CPU to run. Either that or all three were somehow DOA as this is an entirely new Board, RAM, and CPU. Either way, trying to reinstall Linux without the use of my graphics card's ports would be hard. I did my research and I'm willing to try things again if there is more specific results. UPDATE: Trying the no mode set method results in the message "Failed to start NVidia Persistence Daemon" quite often. This is something I have not seen in other people's issues. UPDATE 2: I have also tried getting drivers directly from NVidia here, but I get the error when I near the end of the file. Picture below.

Welp. I gave up too soon. Generally they have less information on the splash screen but I guess I just needed some more searching. Sorry for wasting your time friend.

I'm back. So I updated my computer to an ASRock AB350 K4 with an R5 1600 and have been trying to update my bios. The only issue is that when I go to the download page here, I see the photo I uploaded. Generally I would assume P3.30 is a BIOS version, but I have no clue why I would have to daisy chain my upgrades and where is it? Add all of this fun to the amount of fun I'm having trying to find a stable driver for my GTX 1070 on MintLinux and it makes me want to give up. You helped me last time guys. Work your magic.

By speed do you mean Frequency or Latency? That's all I need, Thanks Guys!

@shadowbyteThanks! R5 1600 seems to be the thing I'm looking for, just a little nervous as I've never been away from Intel. Graphics cards don't care about CPU right? I'm 99% sure they don't care but I literally can't afford to mess up. Do you use an M.2 or SATA SSD?

What I have: Case: Obsidian 650D (Biiiiig Case) Monitor: Generic 1080p Monitor (Samsung S24C650) HDDs: More than I can carry Graphics Card: GTX 1070 Founders (My Crown Jewel; College student/Beggar) Power Supply: Big enough to power two computers If I'm missing something I will append it to the list when someone brings it up. What needs updating: CPU Motherboard RAM This spoiler: VVV : is merely some context, the desire to do video editing being a key factor in what I am looking to buy What I need to consider: The CPU: In the middle end ~$200~ is it better to go with AMD or Intel Does video editing, encoding, and rendering benefit from more cores and if so how does that compare to having a higher clockspeed Is AMD or Intel better at getting me a CPU that aides render and editing times for ~$200?! The Motherboard: Obviously the main concern is who to go with which is determined by CPU but also how do I ensure compatibility? I've heard good things about M.2 SSD's so I would like to try one in the future And RAM: 16-32GB It should probably work Its RAM what do you want from me? Tl;dr of this post: I need a new CPU/Motherboard Pair and I don't know whether AMD or Intel would be better for price around $200 that also has benefits for video editing.