OhNoesItsDobby

So I recently built a new PC, intending to transfer my existing Windows 10 licence over to it from my old PC. However I realised when I came to activate it that I had just clicked through the defaults on the bootable USB and installed Home rather than Pro, and my digital licence is for Pro. I've attached a screenshot of the screen I get to when trying to activate Windows, and as you can see it detects that I have a valid install of Windows on my old machine but as the editions don't match it won't let me do anything with it. How do I upgrade my installation to just the Windows 10 Pro OS without a product key, so that I can then activate it using the valid digital licence linked to my Microsoft account? Obviously I intend to remove the licence from the old machine before selling it on. I've tried using a bootable USB again to do it but when I select the 'upgrade and keep files' option instead of 'custom install' it tells me "This option isn't available on a machine with Windows already installed". Similarly, running the setup.exe from said bootable USB while at the desktop didn't work either, it just defaults to wanting to reinstall Home with no option to change it. I've also tried entering a generic Windows 10 Pro key on the 'Change product key' option but it keeps giving me errors. The only option that I haven't tried is doing a completely clean install via bootable USB and selecting Pro to install this time, but I'd really like to avoid doing that if possible in order to keep my files. Any help on this would be massively appreciated, I literally just need to change my installed edition to Pro so that I can then activate it with the digital licence I already own.

Hmm, I'm not planning on having any super hot parts as I mentioned, so I don't especially need high-end airflow as you put it. If you're talking about adequate airflow then it seems like I should be okay for what I have planned at least. If I were to build this system right now using parts available today I'm looking at the Ryzen 3600/2070 super kind of ballpark. In either case I'll be replacing the stock fans with 2x 140mm at the front and 1x 120mm as an exhaust anyway. I won't be using any water cooling but I may pick up an aftermarket air cooler for the CPU, haven't quite decided yet.

I'm going to be replacing my ageing gaming PC later this year once Ampere GPUs and Ryzen 4000 desktop have both hit, and I'm starting now to look at what kind of case I'd like to get for it. I'm very much a fan of compact builds and so have been looking at mATX cases, and 2 cases in particular that appeal to me a lot are the Corsair Crystal 280x and the Thermaltake Level 20 VT. Both are dual-chamber cube cases that look very smart and clean IMO, but after reading reviews for them both some reviewers (but not all, interestingly) have noted that temperatures inside these 2 cases are just slightly worse than similar cases. Obviously they both have a small gap between the glass panels and the metal frame to allow better ventilation, but is the potential thermal hit anything I should be especially concerned about? My research and general PC knowledge tells me that an extra couple of degrees is virtually harmless but I'd be interested to get some more input about the topic, particularly if anyone here owns one of these cases or a similar case with tempered glass panels. Did you notice that stuff was running slightly hotter than expected? Or not? I should mention that I won't be doing any CPU overclocking, and if the details we have about Ampere are accurate it looks like Nvidia's next slew of GPUs will be quite power-efficient and therefore cool too, so I shouldn't have any parts that run particularly hot anyway. Thanks!

My PC keeps spontaneously turning itself on during the day at completely random times. I'll shut it down at night before I go to sleep, and it's still off when I wake up (as it should be), but some days when I come home from work for example, I find the machine has turned on for some unknown reason at some unknown time in the day, and is just sitting idly at my lock screen. It never seems to do it overnight, only during the day. I have absolutely no explanation for it, but it obviously shouldn't be doing it and I'd rather it not. For the time being I'm just turning it off at the wall whenever I leave the house for the day, but does anyone have any kind of explanation as to why it might be doing this? Is there some setting somewhere that might be 'waking' the machine in response to a certain thing happening, even though it's not sleeping and has been fully shut down? If anyone has any explanations for this seemingly harmless but really curious problem, any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I didn't say the pound recovered fully, I said that on the day of the vote, it lost value, then regained much of that lost value immediately after. Again, NOTHING else has changed over here retail price-wise. And ok, price gouging by board partners/retailers/etc is still price gouging that fucks us mere mortal consumers over, and it doesn't make charging us 150% of the advertised retail price because someone somewhere in the supply chain feels like it acceptable by any stretch.

The GTX 1070's MSRP is $379, which equals about £290. It's being sold over here for £400+. Even on the day of the Brexit vote the pound had already regained half of its lost value by midday. The "devaluing of the pound" is a bullshit excuse for selling the brand new cards at 150% of their value, literally no other retail prices have changed here at all. This has nothing to do with the pound's value, it's price gouging by Nvidia. I've seen people on here post about how in the US as well the prices are about $100 more than advertised, it isn't just us.

I feel you bro, my internet at home hits 850KB/S on Steam at the absolute most. And that's if I'm the only one home so that nobody else is using the internet.

No, that's not fair at all. The UK is a political union made up of 4 countries, with Scotland being 1 of them, and as such it can act independently of the UK as it pleases to an extent. When Scotland had its independence referendum recently they did so under the pretense that the UK was still part of the EU. Scotland voted unanimously to remain in the EU yesterday, and now the UK is going to leave it against their collective will. Their situation has completely changed, it's only natural they'd want some control over what happens to them.

Awesome, that's exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks.

So recently I upgraded from WIndows 7 to 10, somewhat-reluctantly considering it won't be free to do so for much longer. There's an awful lot of crap building up on both my storage drives, and it's been a while since I've done a full Windows reinstall, so I'm looking to do so. Having upgraded from 7 to 10, will my Windows licence key have stayed the same? Or will I now have a new key?

I want to say it's thermal throttling too. Although, I just played Witcher 3 for a couple of hours myself on my R9 290, and MSI Afterburner tells me it hit 93C at one point and it was running just fine the whole time. That's the very reason I want to swap it out for a GTX 1070 very soon though, my 290 has performed fantastically ever since I got it, but I can't bear the heat any longer. My PC blasts out heat even though the game runs at 60FPS with everything on high-medium. It sounds cliche, but have you made sure all your drivers are up to date?

Goddamn that is a gorgeously tidy setup. Also +1 for Esdeath

8/10 For an extra £20 you could've had an i5 instead of that AMD furnace, it would run moderately faster and a lot cooler. That 850 Evo is a fantastic SSD, but if you have a 2TB HDD then you definitely don't need a 250GB SSD, could've got a 120GB one for less, without affecting performance. DDR3 RAM is so cheap now you could easily throw in another 8GB. Lastly I'm curious, how is that 770 holding up for running current games, since most current-gen cards have 4GB+ of memory? My specs: CPU - i5 4690 3.4GHz using stock cooler Mobo - MSI H97M-G43 mATX RAM - 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro Red 1600MHz GPU - MSI R9 290 4GB Case - Corsair Air 240 (Going to change this for an Obsidian 450D at christmas most likely) Storage - Samsung 850 Evo 120GB SSD, WD Green 2TB HDD PSU - SeaSonic S12G Gold 650W Monitors - BenQ RL2455HM 24" 1080p 60Hz, LG Flatron M2262D 22" 1080p 60Hz Keyboard - Corsair K70 with Cherry MX Red switches Mouse - Razer Deathadder 2013 edition OS - Windows 7 Pro 64 bit Sound - Corsair Vengeance 1300 headphones

Unfortunately loads of fandoms have that problem. Big, popular shows like Fairy Tail and Attack On Titan suffer from it the most I think, people just massively overhype them. I mean in this case if you "just liked" Madoka and that's it then great, you do you, everyone has different tastes. Personally I absolutely loved it hence I'm here raving about it right now.

I've had fairly bad acne for around 7-8 years now as well. It sounds deceptively simple but honestly the best remedies are a good diet and plenty of water. If it's still bad after that, like mine was, go to your doctor and they can prescribe you antibiotics for it. I'm currently on a prescribed course of Lymecycline for it myself, been taking it for about 2 months now and I've noticed a big decrease in my acne. It's not completely gone but the improvement is very noticeable.