So get a display port -> HDMI adapter. Or slap in the cheapest card with HDMI that you can find, I like my 210 Silent since it's all passive cooling (no fan).

What do you use for audio?

double post

I've got the HDMI from the video card going to the receiver, then the receiver to the TV. There was a bit of fiddling with the settings on my receiver so that the PC knew it could output 5.1 but it wasn't too bad.

Ah, gotcha. My receiver does not have HDMI. Alright, I think I can figure this out. Thanks everyone!

The Intel Compute stick sux. It's underpowered. Intel NUC's are great.

Are you running surround sound or just stereo?

Just stereo.

Waiting patiently for EVGA to approve my step up.

980TI -> 1080

Only need to pay shipping.. which is an insane $47 USD + whatever cost for me to ship it to them.

Either way, under $100 for about 30% boost in performance is nice.

Maybe I'll resell the BNIB 1080 and just buy a R9 480. Should be good enough for the games I play.

Could wait a few days and see how the 1060 plays out too before making any decisions.

The RX 480 looks like it's on a similar performance level to the GTX 970 and Radeon R390 plus there is apparently an issue with it drawing too much power through the PCI-E connection, which apparently can damage the motherboard.

AMD is supposed to release a driver this week to address the issue. No word on whether that will affect performance or not.

Also, Nvidia is launching the GTX 1060 this month.

Looking to pick up a basic laptop for general use, but I want to install an SSD in there since there is no way I am still going to use a traditional HDD as the boot drive if I can avoid it. How difficult is it nowadays to swap parts on a laptop nowadays?

I've always been a desktop guy, and always built my own PCs. But I have rarely ever opened up a laptop to fiddle with it. The only time I fiddled with something like that was a few years ago when I opened up an Atom netbook to extract the HDD out of it. Space was so tight and the stupid cable was so fragile that I tore the cable right off the HDD / plug.

Changing out a hard drive in a laptop is pretty easy. Most laptops have the SATA plug and power plug as one unit, and changing the hard drive is just plug and play. If you built your own desktops before, then you won't have a problem with this.

If gtx 1060 comes out and rx 480 drops to $275 CAD, it will be considered a steal, prices too high right now to justify

^same waiting for a price drop on the 480

tried out the VR demo at the microsoft store at metro yesterday and was pretty cool. but at the price of $1.1k

mini screw driver to the cover compartment under the laptop,take it out the cage...unbolt the disk drive and put in the ssd.....Done....easy peasy.

i've swapped out my HDD for an SSD before in my laptop. the HDD was thicker than the SSD, but luckily the SSD came with a spacer that helped prop it up. you can also, find a laptop with a CD drive, and swap out the CD drive for a SSD

If your laptop is a ultrathin/ultaportable, it might have its hard drive soldered onto the mortherboard or a M.2 SSD. Basic laptops will most likely have old mechanical hard drives though, so you should be fine.

I would check which type of hard drive it has first before buying a new one.

Here's one I've never seen before, I pieces together a basic tower for my brother using some spare hardware, but it freezes after being left alone for a few minutes but is totally fine if you move the mouse every few minutes or do something. Following this: Computer occassionaly freezes after being idle for a while. - Microsoft Community I tried running a check disk but it froze up on stage 4 of that as well. Suggestions?

update: I ran a memtest and it finished with no errors.

try turning off all the power saving options and see if it happens.

Try the memtest for like 24 hours, or actually swapping out ram. Also, turning on the fault thing that actually blue screens and throws an error code.

Last time I had this issue, it would blue screen and it was the RAM. But this was back in 2004 on windows 98. :lol

Did you do a fresh Windows install? Did you updated all of the hardware drivers?

NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060: Starting at $249, Available July 19th

GTX 1060 price start at $250 USD with performance aim to be on par with GTX 980..

:sweetjesus:

nice card...the last time nvidia gave us that kinda value was probably 5 years ago with the 560Ti
this is why I hope AMD will always stay competitive...and not leave the market

decided to buy a used GTX 970 from april 2016 for $260.00 shipped

rx 480 disappointed me with the high pricing and not so worth it FPS.... $100 less and I can get something similar used :/