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MoridinUK

MoridinUK

MoridinUK

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I was building a little workhorse pc for my parents.

I put this together:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £328.47
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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But, I forgot that they want to run two monitors. The main board has two visual out puts a dvi and a vga and I'm happy to run the two monitors out of these, but is it possible? If not is there an inexpensive desktop pc (my mum does word mostly and little surfing/iplayer) graphics card I can be advised on?

Also my dvi cable will not fit in the port. The wider flat plug is ok, but my cable has 4 pins, two above and two below the flat wide pin, but the port does not have this, any ideas on what I need to adapt my cable?

Thanks for any help/advice.
 
Yeah its got some gfx core in it,

Are you saying you think your DVI-I connector wont fit in the DVI-D port?
 
No it wont, the cable has the four pins two above two below the wide flat one and the port has them blocked up...

Does the mainboard use the cpus gfxcores or do I need to set it to?
 
The board will work/give a display out of the box, the BIOS will have the option for the integrated graphics set to Auto (enabled) by default.
 
Its the cpu anyway that has the core, the board just passes the signal to the ports at the back.

Integrated graphics = the integrated graphics of the CPU.
 
I personally would drop the hard drive and add in an SSD instead. It will keep the system feeling much more responsive for many years :)
 
yeah I'm regreting not putting the ssd in. I have a 128 hanging about, but that can fill up in win 10 on it. I can put the document librarys on the second drive, but this also means a reinstall.
 
A reinstall that wont take long with the SSD :D I didn't realise you had already purchased the components.

I have just upgraded to win10 on a new SSD, and I have only used 50GB so far, and thats with most of my main large apps like office 2010 and Photoshop.
 
MoridinUK said:
yeah I'm regreting not putting the ssd in. I have a 128 hanging about, but that can fill up in win 10 on it. I can put the document librarys on the second drive, but this also means a reinstall.
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A SSD makes such a huge difference (even a 120GB one) that you're hamstringing any new build by not using one. Reinstalls don't take too long with Win10. Also, there's cloning software which can help copy an existing install (Samsung magician for example).
 
I did the reinstall and my gosh such a difference, it seems more profound on win 10 than win 7! I need to do another soon as well, to replace the 64 gb ssd win 7 is sat on on this pc... sigh...

Thanks for the advice all!
 
Actually, I installed win7 pro, got it all updated and then upgraded to win 10. Nothing else installed yet, bar chrome and hardware drivers.

Should I do another reinstall of straight win 10? and if I do, how do I activate that?
 
MoridinUK said:
Actually, I installed win7 pro, got it all updated and then upgraded to win 10. Nothing else installed yet, bar chrome and hardware drivers.

Should I do another reinstall of straight win 10? and if I do, how do I activate that?
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General concensus is that a clean install is best. I think once you've done a full install of Win 10 you can do a clean install (on the same hardware) and it will keep the licensing / activation.

That said ....

I've been running Win 10 Pro upgraded from Win 7 Pro (Retail) without any issues and I essentially rebuilt a brand new PC in the process, so it should have been driver hell (but actually wasn't).

If it seems to be working ok as an upgrade version perhaps leave it be.
 
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