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Do not buy HP. Ever. That is all the advice I have here.

I don't know much about AMD producst, especially not in laptop form, but I would think this would provide a better gaming experience than the intel 520 that the other laptop had. Also, I prefer Lenovo over HP anyway.

Is the monitor plugged into the 1080 or your mobo? Did you plug PCIe power into the gpu? Did you set your bios to use PCIe graphics instead of iGPU?

TB3 uses the USB-C connector. There is a techquickie video which describes all the different protocols using type c.

I have fiber at my house. Fiber comes into an optical node, regular Ethernet cable comes out into the modem. You wont be getting 10 gigabit (gigabyte/sec approx.), youll be getting gigabit which is about 112 MB/sec.

that thing has no GPU so gaming will be crappy on it. Also, its an HP. Stay the hell away from consumer HP laptops.

Hostname is definitely the easiest option, but sometimes for whatever reason hostnames may have trouble resolving and IP becomes the only way. Ideally though, yes, accessing via hostname is best.

That setup should work in theory but is totally unnecessary. Do one or the other. If you decide to set static on the NAS, make sure that the IP you assign is is part of the reserved list on your router (ie, it is not part of the dynamic IP range that it will assign to other, dynamic clients)

The stacked fans will make far more noise than a single one. They will cause turbulence for each other, all in all, terrible idea without a rad sandwiched between them At the end of the day, it does look pretty cool though.

Totally agreed, but the temp on my g1 gaming 1070 hasn't gone above 65C under full load while running at 2060 MHz so I'm totally happy with that!

Well given that the only GPU that can compete with the 1080 is the TitanXP, those are pretty much your only options if you wanna go balls to the wall. As far as which variant of 1080 to get, go for whatever looks the nicest to you and/or fits your budget. Given the look of the build and your comments, I assume the budget isn't too big a concern here. The different 1080's will all perform similarly to each other, with the only difference being clock speeds. The advertised clock speeds mean nothing anymore as (almost) every card will overclock itself past its advertised speed anyway with GPU boost (given thermal and power conditions allow). I am a huge fan of the Gigabyte G1 Gaming variant cards due to their massive coolers, and the GALAX HOF cards are seriously badass as well. I'm sure others will recommend ones from different vendors as well. EDIT: just noticed you have the gigabyte g1 mobo, it would pair nicely with the g1 gaming 1080...just sayin.

Leave the NAS as dynamic, and set the NAS to reserved on your router, with the IP that you want to give it. Only set the NAS to static if you want to hard-code the IP in the NAS itself. This can cause problems though if the router wants to assign some other device that same IP.

No, don't plug both monitors into the motherboard. Only the VGA one. Also, your gpu is the 390 in your sig? There is a BIOS setting on most boards allowing you to set the primary display adapter (iGPU or PCIe) play with those settings. Trial and error is your only real option here without getting a DP to VGA adapter. In the end thougn, you may have to get one of those adapters anyway if your board doesn't let you use both.

Have you tried plugging in both monitors yet? Some boards allow for both onboard and discrete GPU's to be used simultaneously for output, some don't. Give it a shot, you cant break anything by trying.

Yes. Whenever you are doing any work with re-partitioning, there is always a risk of losing all your data. The only recommendation I have then is to either buy another hard drive, or to live with 2 partitions on this one.

It should in theory automatically turn on. What cable are you using to connect the monitor to your pc?

It may require a BIOS update but it will definitely support it

Now I would assume that it would be OK to do this, simply because the panel would most likely use the exact same connector to the mobo (some form of embedded DP) in order for them to not have to stock 2 different mainboards for the same model laptop. Definitely do some more research though before buying!

Ah, in that case you may have to use something like Acronis to do this. At this point, however, my personal mantra comes in above else: When in doubt, re-format. When re-installing windows, it will ask where to install, click on advanced drive options and delete all partitions. This is, of course, if you are able to re-install. If not, use acronis true image (30 free trial) http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/

There are tons of partitioning tools, but whatever you do, please, PLEASE back up any data you need from either partition before doing this!!! My understanding: you would like to merge C and D? The easiest way would be to delete D (after backing up anything you need), then delete the 450 MB partition, and then you should be able to extend the C partition https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771473(v=ws.11).aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 for reference if you need.

I don't think anything above stereo works through Xbox streaming to pc but I could be wrong on that. Either way, "7.1" headphones are a bunch of malarkey, and a set of stereo headphones will give you all of the directionality that you need.

How do you know that the mobo is detecting anything if you cannot get ANY picture. Also, testing with only the onboard graphics is definitely your best bet after testing with all other unnecessary things unplugged as @Jamiec1130 recommended.

I find 24 inch to be the bare minimum in size. 27 inch 1440p is the sweet spot for me without having to use UI scaling. To each their own. I would recommend going into a store that would have some on display to see if that works for you.

There may not be a 4 pin but an 8 pin CPU power connector. Usually if a PSU only has an 8-pin CPU power connector, it can be split apart so that you have just a 4 pin. even if it doens split apart, you should be able to plug the 8-pin into your motherboards 4 pin header.

Ohh using old parts can be great. Makes me think back to the video linus put out last year where he took old server hardware and had an 8 thread 16GB RAM machine from the mid 2000's and gamed on it. For like under $300. If you can find the right parts for the right price, giv'er! You will always run into SOME issues going this route, but you can build a seriously BA pc for dirt cheap. New hardware is nice and all, but you cant afford it sometimes.