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Recently got a hand-me-down HP Z600 dual Xeon machine running Win 7 Pro. I need to update it to Win10. Does Win 10 Pro support Xeon, or do I have to get Win 10 Pro for Workstations? If so, how do I get that version of 10? Microsoft website is confusing me about this specific question, as well...

This is probably going to sound paranoid, but the last time I changed out one Nvidia card for another in the same system (X58 mobo, GTX 670 --> GTX 770), I inadvertently fried my motherboard (though the GPU cards were none the worse for wear, oddly, and worked in other systems fine.) Prior to...

Last week I finally got my new Asus STRIX GTX 970. After creating a new restore point, I installed the latest Nvidia driver (344.60), shut down my PC, and replaced my Gigabyte GTX 770 with the new 970. Windows 7 is installed on an SSD so I am used to booting up in less than a minute. Upon...

I am tasked with replacing a HDD boot drive with an SSD, and the client (er, my new brother-in-law) doesn't want to reinstall Windows 7 and all his apps. The wrinkle is that his 1TB HDD is separated into two partitions -- 200GB for C: (with only 70GB used) and the rest is the D: partition...

My roommate has had a pair of 22" 1680x1050 monitors for a few years and wants to get a third for Eyefinity or NV Surround (has not decided on a new GPU yet, and is waiting to see which one would be the best match for his config). Thing is, better quality 1920x1080 monitors are cheaper right...

My 3TB WD30EZRX has been working fine for the last few weeks I've owned it. I've been using it to backup files from older, smaller disks so I can consolidate and not have to keep 6 HDDs in my tower anymore. Yesterday I used PerfectDisk 11 Pro to defrag all my drives (like I do every month or...

I have a few hundred music CDs and I listen to them all the time. I used a Panasonic 200-disc changer for nearly 10 years, and it worked great, but as I bought more music over the years it ended up holding less than half of my CDs. (I used a single-disc player for the others as needed.) So I...

I want to connect my PC to a stereo receiver that is strictly analog. I tried this initially with my mobo's onboard analog line-out, but it sounded horrible through my stereo system: too much noise and distortion, and thin. From what I've been reading on these threads, the best sound comes from...

My roommate has been playing GTA:SA for the longest time, just to drive around mainly, and listen to his MP3s in-game through his spendy headphones. Lately though, his mouse pointer doesn't move in the game, rendering it unplayable. Since I'm the resident tech support guy (?!), I tried in vain...