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Providence said:
I bought my rig from Inifinity Computer instead. :s13:

$1770 in damage! And I forgot to get a DVI-D adapter. Argh... My old DVI-I adapter cannot fit into the new graphics card.

Does Challenger sells this kind of adapter? :(
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Off topic. I was at Infinity last week and one of the sales guy refused to sell gfx to miner. Respect!
 
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Providence said:
Too bad! My Samsung LCD monitor does not have any sound capability. :(

Thus, I need to buy a sound system for the new rig. Haiz...

Any place to buy a Windows 10 Pro OEM? The cheapest I can find is in Bizgram ($205). :s13:
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Carousell or taobao

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Providence said:
Too bad! My Samsung LCD monitor does not have any sound capability. :(

Thus, I need to buy a sound system for the new rig. Haiz...

Any place to buy a Windows 10 Pro OEM? The cheapest I can find is in Bizgram ($205). :s13:
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Don't bother with LCD monitor speaker or sound. I had this before and the sound is tiny with no bass. Any speaker is better than those. Lucky it has a 3.5jack passthrough so I can use with my old Cambridge PC speakers. (pre-Creative version)
 
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Providence said:
* Face-palm *

There was one ang moh asking me whether I was buying the graphics card for gaming or bitcoin mining? I was like WTF? Why do you care? :eek: :s8:

I just replied him I bought it for gaming. My two cousins gave him the "weird" look as well. He basically hanged around the shop and watched people buy new rigs. Then he disappeared. What a weird fellow!
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It is possible that he was just being friendly ....
 
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Graphics card... mine bitcoin... pfft.. bitcoin miners use ASIC...

Providence said:
* Face-palm *

There was one ang moh asking me whether I was buying the graphics card for gaming or bitcoin mining? I was like WTF? Why do you care? :eek: :s8:

I just replied him I bought it for gaming. My two cousins gave him the "weird" look as well. He basically hanged around the shop and watched people buy new rigs. Then he disappeared. What a weird fellow!
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Garfi3ld said:
Off topic. I was at Infinity last week and one of the sales guy refused to sell gfx to miner. Respect!
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Infinity was one of the first few who initiated the restrictions
They are Gamer First FTW

Alot of the shops in SLS have also followed suit.
Those that did not restrict, usually are very Out of Stock..
 
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Dwragone said:
Hi, may i know why the price is drastically different between SLS and online shops? How does OS installation even works?
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OS installation is the same for all windows 10.

Google Windows Creation Tool.
All you need is an 8gb and above thumb drive.

One is OEM generated key. Likely to be distributed without consent but it's damn cheap. But any problem, no support whatsoever and the key is bound to motherboard.

Shop front are Retail key. Expensive but original for sure. Transferable from one pc to another but only 1 key can be active at a time. You can bind this to your Microsoft account too. Any problem, contact Microsoft. They will help you.


Taobao also have. About 2 bucks from the last time I heard.

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singupingu said:
OS installation is the same for all windows 10.

Google Windows Creation Tool.
All you need is an 8gb and above thumb drive.

One is OEM generated key. Likely to be distributed without consent but it's damn cheap. But any problem, no support whatsoever and the key is bound to motherboard.

Shop front are Retail key. Expensive but original for sure. Transferable from one pc to another but only 1 key can be active at a time. You can bind this to your Microsoft account too. Any problem, contact Microsoft. They will help you.


Taobao also have. About 2 bucks from the last time I heard.

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Really? $2?? :eek:
 
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singupingu said:
OS installation is the same for all windows 10.

Google Windows Creation Tool.
All you need is an 8gb and above thumb drive.

One is OEM generated key. Likely to be distributed without consent but it's damn cheap. But any problem, no support whatsoever and the key is bound to motherboard.

Shop front are Retail key. Expensive but original for sure. Transferable from one pc to another but only 1 key can be active at a time. You can bind this to your Microsoft account too. Any problem, contact Microsoft. They will help you.


Taobao also have. About 2 bucks from the last time I heard.

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so basically i need to download windows creation tool with my current pc, buy a OEM key to install OS or i can just buy retail key, is it like this?
 
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