£1850 Budget for Gaming Rig, Monitor snd Rift Bundle.

[orbitalwalsh]

Once you've selected boot from USB, it'll launch windows installer, there you select what drive to install windows to

Pay close attention to drive size !

 

[Plec]

I have about 30 of them in the loft along with miles and miles of other assorted redundant cable.

I may be about after 12 so will look out for your posts if orbital is busy - but he's usually looking for an excuse to shy away from work

 

[orbitalwalsh]

We talking cable coming at 10pm-12am or tomorrow morning ?
I'm in a meeting then * calm palm* 11:30am not tonight... Don't pay me enough for that hahaha

 

[leeince]

No worries lads, thanks again!! Amazon fellas getting jumped the moment he turns up

Ive even decided to give myself tomorrow off to finish up the cable management and set up the rift and have a play!!

 

[leeince]

I'm going to download the drivers now for my wireless card, any others I should do now or can the others wait?

 

[Plec]

I'm going to download the drivers now for my wireless card, any others I should do now or can the others wait?

Chipset from AMD and Nvidia drivers, and the drivers you need for your motherboard - from the site so up to date.

Remember to check the BIOS version as soon as you're in there.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Should be high bios version , but I believe Gigabyte and others started to roll updates to protect against those hacks

 

[leeince]

Chipset from AMD and Nvidia drivers, and the drivers you need for your motherboard - from the site so up to date.

Remember to check the BIOS version as soon as you're in there.

Drivers are a mine field, I've got a load downloading, once I have them in a folder I will take a screen shot so you can see what I've downloaded and hopefully what's right and what's wrong.

So far I have really enjoyed the process, I just hope what ive done so far is right!

I've put the VR panel in, for tidiness I've only connected the HDMI for now, I've already got 2 x USB 3.0 on the front and I didn't want to pull the 2 x usb leads through the machine and have them coming out the back and going in to ports

So on the front I've got:

1 x HDMI
2 X USB3.0

And on the back:

4 x USB 3.0
2 X usb 3.1 (what is 3.1?)
3 x HDMI (1 motherboard 2 x GPU ) What would I use the one on the MB for?
4 X Display Port
1 X VGA
1 X DVI

I think I'm good with all that!

I hope the BIOS is up to date, I wouldn't know what to do if its not? I am downloading F10 now but god knows what to do with it?

Cheers again lads, you've been brilliant!

 

[leeince]

Should be high bios version , but I believe Gigabyte and others started to roll updates to protect against those hacks

I hope so mate, one less thing to have to muck about with.

 

[Plec]

I hope the BIOS is up to date, I wouldn't know what to do if its not? I am downloading F10 now but god knows what to do with it

I can talk you through Q-Flash if required (it's not that scary) - but hopefully it's F8 or above.

 

[leeince]

These are the downloads, the top two look similar, what one would I use?

Are any of them wrong?

 

[leeince]

I can talk you through Q-Flash if required (it's not that scary) - but hopefully it's F8 or above.

Hopefully, Amazon order is still being prepared!!

 

[Plec]

The first drivers - approx 68Mb.

 

[leeince]

I know i shouldnt but i got a bit bored, i tieded the cables up a bit and put the sides back on.

I think i might make up a shroud of some sort to hide the cables at the bottom. I take it theres no way of removing the power cables im not using from the PSU.

Really happy with though lads, fingers crossed the rest goes smoothly

 

[leeince]

We have a cable!!!

 

[leeince]

Im in the bios!!! Where do i find the version?

Edit: Version is F8

 

[Plec]

We have a cable!!!

How?

 

[leeince]

How?

Amazon primenow 2 hour delivery service!

 

[leeince]

Ive only gor 2 boot options, how do I add usb as a third?

 

[Plec]

Edit: Version is F8

Great - check temps