did you make sure you connected the sata and power cable correctly? that would be the first things i looked at instead of os's

Not sure why you would say it's not good for gaming. Obviously you wont be running BF3 on ultra or anything but pretty much any recent game should be able to be played on medium-high with that laptop. ...

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I'm not really sure about LGA 2011 boards but this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131802 or the s ...

Sounds cool but that is really expensive and I feel like their company isn't too smart since they don't understand that Raid 0 doesn't give you 960gb you would still only have 480gb for storage.

that should run games fine at almost max setting, my laptop with a 550m runs diablo 3 on ultra at 60fps.

How come you went with a z68 instead of a z77 board?

The HAF cases are really good cases but are you sure you need a full tower case? I have the HAF 922 mid tower and it fits crossfire 6870's just fine, I'm sure it would fit your single gpu build grea ...

Apple fail... That macbook costs like what $2100. I got a Lenovo Ideapad 15.6" with 2.2ghz i7-2670 8 gigs of ram and a GTX 550m graphics card for $750. Mac is such a rip off.

Very nice build! :thumbsup: - It'd be so much nicer if the new revision of the HAF 922 had actual cable management cut outs instead of one big whole though. Yea I agree nice build, similar to mine e ...

Yea that will cost a lot to build but it would be pretty awesome. If you want to fit a pc in it too you are going to need a roomy full tower case such as Cooler Master HAF X or even a super tower size ...