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Too late just left the store am I going to be able to download Windows's 7 or 8 and find a key or am I gonna have to buy it??? How do I get it to boot from bios do I need a USB drive ?

splash screen when it turns on will tell you what button to hit to get bios.
i think @Liquid has Windows keys for sale if i'm not mistaken.

:aicmon:

Gonna probably order my parts pretty soon and get off this laptop.
Looking at this build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2F6zX

Are they legit? @Liquid can I just load the ISO file to my USB drive and then boot from bios? How big a drive do I need?

I'm who sells legit keys on here. If you'd like to save money on MS keys just PM me. Yes, the ISO can be loaded onto a USB drive and installed from there. I provide links to those as well.
 

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Well I Went and got all the parts and began building my first build last night brehs. I had way less money then I thought so I couldn't really make the system I was hoping. I gotta say the experience was painful but once I finally booted and saw the BIOS pop up on my tv I was :blessed:. I made some rookie mistakes and need a little help figuring out some shyt. First thing I accidentally got 1 stick of 8g ram instead of 2x4 and my motherboard has 2 slots. Is this going to substantially ruin the performance of my pc? Also I am on a MAC computer and my PC has no optical drive so I need to create a bootable USB drive, i have the iso file but my disk manager won't open up so I can't use that to make it; does anyone know how I can install this file on the USB drive. If all else fails I will just go buy one but I don't even know where I can buy one from. :sadcam:

As far as the build went I just watched a couple of youtube videos and tried to follow along, some problems I ran into:
-Thought I broke my CPU when I installed it in the motherboard because how hard that tension arm was to lock back in place - spent the rest of the build thinking :beli:shyts pointless already broke the most important part

-Ram was about as simple as it gets but I managed to fukk that up by only getting one stick

-Getting the motherboard to go through the I/O plate was damn near impossible I ended up bending the fukk outta all these metal tabs:pachaha:

- The hardest part about this for me was cable/management and cable connection I was not really sure I was hooking the right parts up to the right cable and kept getting nervous I was forcing shyt and bending the connections :huhldup:

After I got all that shyt installed in the case I Tried to turn it on and nothing happened :why:

I was fukking furious I started at 8pm and it was 12 and I felt like I just wasted all that money on nothing :snoop::pacspit: I said fukk it and took it all apart and put the whole thing back together again and around 1:15 am hit the power button saw them fans start to spin and never felt better in my life :ooh::win: (turned out I was connecting the power switch to the wrong two pins)

anyway shyt was quite the experience; now I got it stuck on this damn BIOS screen and need to get windows installed and ill be :obama:
 

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Think I might have to upgrade my CPU and video card this year. Metal Gear Solid Revengeance was a little choppy during that first boss fight. If a current gen game is giving me problems, those next gen games will definitely be worse.

Got a i5-3470K and a GTX 670.
 

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Think I might have to upgrade my CPU and video card this year. Metal Gear Solid Revengeance was a little choppy during that first boss fight. If a current gen game is giving me problems, those next gen games will definitely be worse.

Got a i5-3470K and a GTX 670.
:whoa: Nah MGR:R or your setup must be the issue. If you were getting choppy battles than something was up. I got a FX4100 and a HD 7870 and that first boss fight was smooth.
 

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:whoa: Nah MGR:R or your setup must be the issue. If you were getting choppy battles than something was up. I got a FX4100 and a HD 7870 and that first boss fight was smooth.

The game itself was smooth, but Raiden's movements were choppy as fukk. Starting to think it's the game. :patrice:

Only happened during that first battle though. I have the game set to the max settings btw.
 

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Think I might have to upgrade my CPU and video card this year. Metal Gear Solid Revengeance was a little choppy during that first boss fight. If a current gen game is giving me problems, those next gen games will definitely be worse.

Got a i5-3470K and a GTX 670.

you are running a 670 and having problems with the game? seems unlikely to me
 

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Think I might have to upgrade my CPU and video card this year. Metal Gear Solid Revengeance was a little choppy during that first boss fight. If a current gen game is giving me problems, those next gen games will definitely be worse.

Got a i5-3470K and a GTX 670.

it's probably the game or the settings. when I watched Total Biscuit's "WTF is..." he mentioned he had to turn something down, and I think he has two titans

edit: I just checked, and he set both those "zan..." settings to medium
 
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Well I Went and got all the parts and began building my first build last night brehs. I had way less money then I thought so I couldn't really make the system I was hoping. I gotta say the experience was painful but once I finally booted and saw the BIOS pop up on my tv I was :blessed:. I made some rookie mistakes and need a little help figuring out some shyt. First thing I accidentally got 1 stick of 8g ram instead of 2x4 and my motherboard has 2 slots. Is this going to substantially ruin the performance of my pc? Also I am on a MAC computer and my PC has no optical drive so I need to create a bootable USB drive, i have the iso file but my disk manager won't open up so I can't use that to make it; does anyone know how I can install this file on the USB drive. If all else fails I will just go buy one but I don't even know where I can buy one from. :sadcam:

As far as the build went I just watched a couple of youtube videos and tried to follow along, some problems I ran into:
-Thought I broke my CPU when I installed it in the motherboard because how hard that tension arm was to lock back in place - spent the rest of the build thinking :beli:shyts pointless already broke the most important part

-Ram was about as simple as it gets but I managed to fukk that up by only getting one stick

-Getting the motherboard to go through the I/O plate was damn near impossible I ended up bending the fukk outta all these metal tabs:pachaha:

- The hardest part about this for me was cable/management and cable connection I was not really sure I was hooking the right parts up to the right cable and kept getting nervous I was forcing shyt and bending the connections :huhldup:

After I got all that shyt installed in the case I Tried to turn it on and nothing happened :why:

I was fukking furious I started at 8pm and it was 12 and I felt like I just wasted all that money on nothing :snoop::pacspit: I said fukk it and took it all apart and put the whole thing back together again and around 1:15 am hit the power button saw them fans start to spin and never felt better in my life :ooh::win: (turned out I was connecting the power switch to the wrong two pins)

anyway shyt was quite the experience; now I got it stuck on this damn BIOS screen and need to get windows installed and ill be :obama:


congrats man...don't worry about the one 8gig stick vs 2 4gig sticks, just make sure you have it in the slot that your motherboard says you should if you are only using one (it should say in the manual).

i actually bent a pin on my old rig when i put in the cpu...i bent it back and it still worked but i was pissed when i did that.

as for forcing plugs into sockets...yeah that can be a bytch, it's usually a tight fit.
i always have trouble with the hard drive connections for some reason.

keep us updated.
 
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