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Thundurh

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Okay so I just got my third motherboard. First I had an AMD board and then decided to go from AMD, and switch to an Intel board (MSI Z97) then that board broke so I got the same kind of board again (MSI Z97). I installed windows on my original AMD Board. Which was Windows 8. I now have Windows 10 which was somehow deactivated. I bought Windows at BestBuy just FYI. I am stressing sooo much right now, because I installed a new GTX 970 on my second z97 a few days ago. The card was running like my turtles sh**, getting only about 70 - 100 FPS in MINECRAFT! So then, I installed my graphics card I had before (Sapphire R9 280) I got the new GTX 970 and it ran like shit too! But here's the thing, it was NOT running bad before I got my 2nd new motherboard after the first one broke. The first one had windows fully installed, this new DOES NOT it is deactivated. So I am thinking Windows is causing all of this. I know this got a little confusing. Read it a few times if you have to, thank you so much and i'm literally stressing so much because i've been dealing with all of this for too long. Ask any questions if you have to. :(:pfff:
 
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Windows 10 gets deactivated if you change hardware Its tied to the Bios Do not enable or disable csm cause after 180 days it will mark as deactivated again happened to me once. Just do a clean install of windows 10 and it should mark as activated however if your using the same account for other windows it wont work you need separate accounts for each machine. As for the 970 under-performing you got me there run a stress test on furmark or valley benchmark and see if your gpu usage drops which it shouldn't since you have a good cpu if it drops reinstall drivers with display driver uninstaller and check again if it still happens probably the cards fault since you replaced motherboard 3 times and i still doesn't work might also be psu if...
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Just so you know, I bought the GTX 970 and the 2nd MSI Z97 at the same time. They both came at the same time so I just installed them both. And took out my old card (Sapphire R9 280)
 
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Windows 10 gets deactivated if you change hardware Its tied to the Bios Do not enable or disable csm cause after 180 days it will mark as deactivated again happened to me once. Just do a clean install of windows 10 and it should mark as activated however if your using the same account for other windows it wont work you need separate accounts for each machine. As for the 970 under-performing you got me there run a stress test on furmark or valley benchmark and see if your gpu usage drops which it shouldn't since you have a good cpu if it drops reinstall drivers with display driver uninstaller and check again if it still happens probably the cards fault since you replaced motherboard 3 times and i still doesn't work might also be psu if you have a spare psu test with it if not go to a local tech repair shop and ask the guy if he can test the card with another psu tell him to stress test it he should not charge you for it. Ask him as a favor before hand. If it still happens im out of ideas . Hope it helps :)
 
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