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Mackem

United Kingdom470 Posts

May 07 2014 16:47 GMT

#5701

Nevermind

St_Michael

United States73 Posts

May 07 2014 17:46 GMT

#5702

I think I will just go ahead and get windows 8. I've heard a lot of people complain about it, but I am new to windows anyway - all my computers have been osx. Hopefully it wont feel too demeaning after I get used to it (lol). I am going to make the last couple changes people have recommended and post a final build soon.

Zess

Adun Toridas!9144 Posts

May 07 2014 17:48 GMT

#5703

On May 08 2014 02:46 yokcounty wrote:
I think I will just go ahead and get windows 8. I've heard a lot of people complain about it, but I am new to windows anyway - all my computers have been osx. Hopefully it wont feel too demeaning after I get used to it (lol). I am going to make the last couple changes people have recommended and post a final build soon.

Pick up launchy http://www.launchy.net/ and you'll forget all about Metro and the terrible metro start menu

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

May 07 2014 17:50 GMT

#5704

You'll quickly learn that Windows is a piece of shit.

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

May 07 2014 17:53 GMT

#5705

On May 08 2014 02:50 skyR wrote:
You'll quickly learn that Windows is a piece of shit.

your hate for windows never ceases to amuse me :p

what's a good OS for you anyway?

Craton

United States17303 Posts

May 07 2014 17:56 GMT

#5706

If you can avoid Metro, you won't notice too much of a difference. Metro is the main change and generally very poor for PC UX. It's designed for mobile and works pretty well for that purpose (think tablets). Some of the other changes are minor and positive improvements that don't really change the way you use it, just performs better.

felisconcolori

United States6169 Posts

May 07 2014 19:02 GMT

#5707

On May 08 2014 02:53 Incognoto wrote:

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your hate for windows never ceases to amuse me :p

what's a good OS for you anyway?

I'm betting Debian. Such vitriol towards Windows may often be found in two places - militant Linux fans that compile their own kernals, and Windows users.

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I'm not dissing Linux users, or even Debian users, I should point out. Then again, he could be running a Pwnie Express distro.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

May 07 2014 19:23 GMT

#5708

On May 08 2014 02:53 Incognoto wrote:

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your hate for windows never ceases to amuse me :p

what's a good OS for you anyway?

I only use Android, OS X, and Windows. The thought of going Linux or Hackintosh for next build have crossed my mind more than once. Any OS that works without causing me tons of headaches is a good OS so the former two. Windows just does not work, hmm let's see.

Transfer system crashes when dealing with large sizes (it still sucks in Windows 8 btw) so I had to replace it with TeraCopy.

Some pictures are corrupted on photo viewer when they're clearly not because they display perfectly fine on OS X and Android so I had to replace photo viewer with Picasa.

All my music files have an image and all the thumbnails show up perfectly fine on iTunes and Android but some just refuse to work on Windows for gods know why.

One Drive basically sucks. It uploads slow as shit, there's no option to set speed of uploads, and it uploads multiple files at the same time (I'd be okay with this if the upload speed wasn't shit). Skype also sucks.

This new dumbass feature: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-tms/multi-monitor-mouse-bug-after-update-to-windows-81/a4eb4cc9-def1-4e80-b823-83460339afb8 It also comes back upon reboot despite changing the registry values, I need to sign out and sign back in for the fix to take effect.

My audio crashes randomly and it does it often as well.

Foreign languages have in the past (Vista, 7) not displayed properly at random times though this seems to have been fixed with Windows 8.

I can forgive Windows for not displaying languages or thumbnails properly but core features like the transfer system and photo viewer should actually work and not be broken.

WindWolf

Sweden11767 Posts

May 07 2014 19:45 GMT

#5709

On May 08 2014 04:23 skyR wrote:
Foreign languages have in the past (Vista, 7) not displayed properly at random times though this seems to have been fixed with Windows 8.

From my experience with 7, the Swedish langue has worked out fine for me. For me, windows has only behaved that way one or twice. It's more of individual programs than windows for me

Blazinghand

United States25562 Posts

May 07 2014 20:36 GMT

#5710

I use Linux on some of my machines (like my Thinkpad X200) but unfortunately I can't really get away from windows for my main computer. Although a lot of software runs fine with WINE, and all my word-processing, music, browsing etc needs are met by Linux, I can't be bothered to put in the effort to get games to run well on it. I think with a lot of modern Linux distros (eOS comes to mind) things basically work out of the box and you have all the tools you need for basic functionality.

So, for my little laptops that won't be playing games, and even my work computer which doesn't need windows software, I use Linux. On my Macbook I have OS X, which is great. My main machine runs Win7 and I'm considering upgrading to Win8 since I've heard it's less resource-intensive and more effecient. The main thing that draws me towards instaling linux on it is nerd cred, but also so that playing video games is so much trouble I just don't bother and be productive instead.

If you want to play most video games (and chances are, you probably do) or run Photoshop natively, you'll want to stick to OS X or windows.

rei

United States3594 Posts

May 07 2014 22:59 GMT

#5711

ok I finished building my computer a few months back, everything was running fine, except there are times when I pull on my keyboard or mouse wire and my computer power just turns off, and it doesn't come back till i unplug my keyboard and mouse from the usb3 holes. Why is this happening? tried to search this on google, can't find anything.

Blazinghand

United States25562 Posts

May 07 2014 23:05 GMT

#5712

On May 08 2014 07:59 rei wrote:
ok I finished building my computer a few months back, everything was running fine, except there are times when I pull on my keyboard or mouse wire and my computer power just turns off, and it doesn't come back till i unplug my keyboard and mouse from the usb3 holes. Why is this happening? tried to search this on google, can't find anything.

so what happens is your computer turns off when you pull on, but not remove, your keyboard and mouse from the usb ports.

The power button at this point does not work; It won't turn back on unless you completely remove them, then pushing the power button works. At this point, you plug them back and and things work again

Does this accurately describe the problem?

rei

United States3594 Posts

May 08 2014 00:07 GMT

#5713

the power button doesn't work yes, and once i unplug the wires i then turn off the power button on the power supply on the back and then turn that back on see if i hear a tick sound. usually it takes a few tries for it to have electricity again and at that point the power button works again. and i can plug my mouse and keyboard back. But it won't turn on if i don't remove my mouse and keyboard from the usb3 ports. I think I had been putting the keyboard and mouse on the wrong port, instead of the usb3 port i should have plug them into the designated mouse and keyboard ports.

Ropid

Germany3557 Posts

May 08 2014 00:10 GMT

#5714

Those designated ports should just be to make sure the keyboard and mouse work in the BIOS menus. At least that's how I understood it.

Your problem is strange.

Can you say what your board is?

rei

United States3594 Posts

May 08 2014 00:15 GMT

#5715

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Ropid

Germany3557 Posts

May 08 2014 00:25 GMT

#5716

If you use Windows 8 or 8.1, the USB 3.0 driver is from Microsoft. For Windows 7, perhaps try the USB driver version 3.0.0.19 on this page here: http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/30530-latest-overclocking-programs-system-info-benchmarking-stability-tools.html

It seems it's newer than the driver on the Gigabyte website.

If you plug mouse and keyboard into those two black USB 2.0 ports next to the PS/2 connector, those two are the ones intended for mouse/keyboard. Those will avoid the drivers mentioned completely and use the Microsoft USB 2.0 driver on both Windows 7 and 8.

Your problem is still strange. You should try to install those other USB 3.0 drivers as the problem might not just be with mouse and keyboard and could also happen with other USB devices at some point.

If you look on the Gigabyte website for a different BIOS for your board, that's this page: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4518#bios

What's interesting is that the version F7 mentions something about USB. Perhaps there was some bug about that in the original BIOS put on the board in the factory? You might want to check what BIOS version your board has. I don't know where you find that info, but when restarting and going into the BIOS, it should be mentioned somewhere.

Blazinghand

United States25562 Posts

May 08 2014 00:30 GMT

#5717

Yes, that is a strange problem. Is it possible the cables for your mouse and keyboard are getting tangled with your PSU cable and unplugging it?

rei

United States3594 Posts

May 08 2014 00:35 GMT

#5718

not tangled, when this first happened, i immediately check for tangled wires, but it wasn't not until the 2nd time when this happened did i realized it was a problem with the ports

Emerson_H

United States460 Posts

May 08 2014 01:30 GMT

#5719

Anyone know if this would be a good buy for a ~$1500 gaming build? I'll be running a single 1080p monitor. I was planning to get the 780 but this seems like a much better value for the performance.