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Tried reseating gpus and starting without them, no luck...

Hi Linus Tech community, I am currently building a system, the specs are: 4790k Maximus VII Hero HX1000i Vengeance LP 16gb Corsair 450d GTX780 SLI Noctua NH-D15 I had everything working and it was entering BIOS. I then tried starting it to install windows and it would just begin to boot for about half a second then stop and do this repeatedly. The Q-code 13 would be the last one to show before it restarted. I have tried reinstalling the CPU, Ram (including trying individual DIMMs) resetting the CMOS and still having the same issue. 13 is the code for pre-memory CPU initialization. I changed nothing on the inside of the system between when it worked before and when it stopped working and the time i got it to enter the BIOS the CPU temp was 30c which is pretty normal if you ask me. If anyone knows any possible solutions please post. Thanks!

Hi, sorry these answers werent really what i was looking for, i was really just wondering if windows had their own solution. Thanks anyway everyone!

Hi, where can i get the installer from to put on a usb and what do i put when it asks for a key?

Hi Linus Tech community. I'm just wondering if there's a legitimate way to activate windows 8.1 without a key. I'm still waiting on the OS to be sent to me and i was wondering if there was a way to use windows until it arrives in a few days time. Thanks!

Thanks for the answer, I appreciate that you're actually talking from personal experience!

I thought I pressed quote and then realised after posting it that I didn't. You pretty much answered my question perfectly so thanks again. Most of the answers were either price oriented or pretty much say that the higher chance of failure can only result in it being the worse solution and that there is no way any positive aspect can outweigh the unreliability of RAID 0 SSD's so I decided to try and get a solid answer with more if's and but's. Thanks!

This answers my question, thanks! I was aware of the pro's and con's but nowhere I looked really weighed them out against each other which just seemed like people were lazy or biased. Edit: So for the average gamer who doesn't store important/hard to recover files on their drive, judging by your experience you might as well go with a single drive!

So does it really just come down to how you're using them?

Hey Linus Tech community, I have done some research into the pros and cons of SSD's in RAID 0 versus a single SSD. most of what I found were from older forums back when SSD's probably weren't quite as reliable as they are today and most of the time people would say 1 SSD is best, but on the newer forums the answers were more 50/50. I'm wondering what the best solution is for a rig where only programs which can be easily recovered are installed on the main drive (Windows & Games mostly) is. The drives I have in mind are the Intel 730 SSD's where there is a lot of talk about them being excellent drives for RAID 0. For example Linus using them in the Ultimate 4k Gaming Build Guide back in June. Would 2x 240GB drives or 1x 480GB drive be a better solution for a rig where no important or unrecoverable files are stored. Also, will this affect game load times or is there a certain stage where other hardware or the game itself will prevent it from loading any faster. Can someone please answer this from personal experience with both RAID 0 SSD's Vs 1 single SSD and give justification as to why Linus used them in his build guide as it wasn't very clear to me why he decided to go with the RAID 0 solution (his justification seemed to be that people wanted to know how to set up SSD's in RAID 0 - not because it is a better storage solution). I am mostly asking out of curiosity as I am quite happy with my own storage solution. As mentioned earlier if someone who knows what they are talking about and/or has experience with this topic could answer rather than just giving the theoretical one sided answer it would be much appreciated. On a lot of forums people will mostly say yes or no and wont give good reasoning/ the pros and cons of each. Thanks, and I apologise for how long this post is!

Hey everyone, did someone manage to successfully fit the NH-D15 in a corsair 450d?

And i don't mean to be difficult but why would i need mantle or Dx12?

I put it in the wrong category the first time, I'm trying to get rid of the other one.

Here is a Screenshot of the launcher.