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The acer predator 17 is an excellent choice for gaming with its 17" 1080p display and full 6gb 1060. It also has an i7 and an IPS panel meaning photo editing should be a breeze. It has a bit of a "gamer" aesthetic but it has plenty of power and the build quality is good. It can be found for...

Startup on a hard drive is always slow, it takes time for the disk to spin up and files to be read from it. The crashes indicate there may be something wrong with it but not necessarily. Adding an SSD or replacing the hard drive with one will significantly increase the performance, load times...

You'll need to install windows on the new ssd. You can either get a new copy and start fresh or move your copy from your old drive to the new one.

Windows is installed on the ssd correct?

The fact that the card is discreet doesn't really affect the i/o. The place you're buying the laptop from should have a list of ports. If you send a link to the laptop I can check for you.

If the problem started right after the installation of the new board that would seem to be the cause of the problem. It could either be the board itself or possibly a component got plugged in wrong or a loose part intermittently causes a short. Am I correct with the time-line here?

Well you certainly have enough hard drive and power supply. Bad news is your processor might not have a good time with so much at once. You may want a haswell i3 or an fx-4xxx or higher. Your graphics card should be ok but you may want to consider an upgrade if your wallet can bear it. 8gb of...

It is possible to deny those requests. The upgrade is listed a a scheduled event and you can cancel it. You could always roll back to 7 or 8. Windows 10 isn't that bad though. If you add this http://www.classicshell.net/ and do a little more jiggery-pokery you may not even notice much of a...