Windows 7 Home Premium is the most reasonable choice and if you want to be able to legally install it on another PC, then you want the retail version (not OEM).
Thanks for your input guys, I bought a new heatsink and plugged that in and it works fine but now I have another problem. Whenever I start up my computer it will turn on for a few seconds and then go dead. All the fans spin and the lights come on but it'll die after probably 10 seconds. It dies before the monitor even comes on. Again, I have no idea what to do from here, so any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Do you hear a beep before the PC shuts down? Do you have an alternate PSU you could try? Make sure there isn't anything that could be causing shorts in your PC (ie, make sure you didn't knock something loose while installing your new heatsink).
Make sure all the headers that manage things like the power switch and reset switch are oriented the correct way. Though this issue is much more likely to be connected to an endless reset loop. Make sure the CPU power connector (between 4 and 8 pins, goes from the PSU to your motherboard, looks somewhat like a PCI-express power connector but not quite) is properly connected - this is likely your issue.
I got this computer all put together last night[went with 2700k instead of 2600k since I later found out the 2600k was sold out] and am now having problems with it. I messed around with it for a few hours updating stuff last night and then played a few games for about an hour and a half today. I eventually checked out this program called EasyTune 6 that came with the motherboard. It's a program that lets you overclock. Instead of manually changing things you can just click on different overclock levels. I clicked the lowest one, the computer restarted like it was supposed to and then would no longer make it past the boot screen before restarting again, even if I tried to get into the bios. I contacted Gigabyte and they eventually told me I have a bad motherboard. I reset the bios by removing the battery and did a cmos clear by shorting the 2 jumpers. After that I couldn't even get it to boot up at all, it would just start up for maybe a half second then restart over and over. I removed my ram to try and get an error beep from post, which I believe would also have happened with a bad cpu, but it's not even making it that far. I highly doubt the cpu went bad since I never even made it to windows or ran any programs.
I hate gigabyte's tuning utility, you have a K chip just overclock it by changing the multiplier in the bios. If Gigabyte says your board is 'bad' they should provide an RMA service for you. I would reccomend mentioning overclocking as little as possible.
I assume you're familiar with "proper" overclocking techniques, but would there be any interest to anyone else if I made an overclocking thread/post just detailing some procedures, gotchas, tips, etc? I figure most of the people interested already frequent tech sites enough, but you never know, there might be some people here who'd love to experiment.
I know a little about it, I would need to follow some type of guide to not fry my shit though. A thread on it would be cool.
I just bought a new graphics card that needs a 6 pin PCI. Problem is, my only one that came with the power supply is hooked to the motherboard. Since I'm PC hardware illiterate, and noticed that I have many cables, including a ATX 2/24 running to the mobo: Does the 6 pin only power the onboard graphics, and therefore I can safely pull it and use it for the graphics card? Or do I need to disconnect my backup HD and get a 4-6 pin adapter?
The PCIe power cable is similar but fundamentally different (and I'm fairly sure is also keyed differently) than the 4 or 6 pin CPU power plug that you're referring to. Your computer without that cable hooked to your board will power up and all the fans will spin, but nothing will actually happen because that power gives juice to the CPU. There are 4 pin molex (old style hard drive / do anything power connector) to PCIe 4/6/8 pin adapters out there, but if your PSU is so limited in terms of cables, I'd be concerned about it's ability to power a discrete graphics card to begin with. Read the side of your PSU - The wattage is important, but so is the amperage on the 12v rail - post both of those numbers up here for us, as well as the name of the graphics card, so we can better advise if this is a "I need an adapter" scenario or a "I need a new power supply" scenario. (the rest of your system specs would not hurt either)
The +12v rail is 18A. This is my current PSU. I have an Intel 0RY007 motherboard with an Embedded G33/G31 Express Chipset Running Vista Home Premium 64x Prcoessor is Intel Core2 E7200 @2.53 GhZ 5 GB Ram This is the card I bought.
5 gb of ram? Weird. That site suggests you have both a PCI express power adapter a 4pin CPU and an 8pin cpu adaper. Would you mind taking a quick picture of the inside of your system so I can get a better figure of what's plugged where? Other than that just take a look around for the 6pin, might be loose somewhere near your hard drive(s) or optical drive.
Is a 120Hz monitor worth buying? It's my understanding that you'll only notice a difference from a 60Hz if your video card[or cards] can pump out more than 60fps. I have a 23" samsung right now but it has 2 dead pixels and I'm wanting to buy something new. I do plan on going SLI with my current pile of parts that isn't working once the card I have drops in price.
I have a question about something that's not terribly ethical, which I understand already and don't need the rundown, this is for something that isn't actually important. Is it possible to back date e-mails? Like potentially say that an e-mail was sent at this time and this date from this computer, after the fact? Obviously, this isn't going to hold up after any sort of cursory investigation, and I'm not sure you can dupe the receiving server's timeclock, but I'm wondering if it, or something close to it, can be done. I know I've gotten weird e-mails with timestamps that were completely wrong, which prompted this question.
Does anyone know a way I can connect a 4G dongle to a PS3 (they are not compatible with any wifi routers available at the moment) My house cant receive landline ADSL but it is in a 4g reception zone, its fucked but it’s the way it is. Thanks in advance.
Over the last few months I've gotten more serious in my torrenting. I belong to a few sites and have gotten quite good at dealing with various types of content. I can rip, encode, etc. all types of music for uploading. I can remove drm from books and can easily upload that. I've been dealing with software for years so that's not a problem and that stuff is usually just downloaded one place and seeded with other sites torrent files to help build ratio. I'm at a total loss in regards to movies and the various types of files. I'm just now starting to download and deal with movies. I joined passthepopcorn and have managed to create a great buffer and want to start downloading more things for myself and family. I have no problem just downloading content and transferring to my media server. My WD TV Live Plus plays all formats imaginable. My problem is that I want to burn some disks to dvd. I'm a mac user and am not sure how to go about this. There are a few tutorials out there but I figured I'd ask here. What's the easiest way to burn a movie to be playable in a regular set top dvd player? I also want to burn seasons of some tv shows. Is there a way to get avi files of movies to have chapters? I'm going to keep searching the web and there are a few tutorials on the passthepopcorn site and I might hit up their IRC channel as well. I just know there is a lot of brain trust here and advice and input from here steers me better than most places, so I'm going here first. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.