Need $1,000 gaming build for my daughter

[oboe]

You can still click on the image to get the full size version.

[Shuffler]

I think he missed a bracket.

[DREDIOCK]

there ya go..thank  you

[haggerty]

Half the hardware I got came with installation CDs As well as the OS itself
OS
Motherboard Drivers
Video card Drivers.

Would have been kinda hard to install those things without a drive

Not to mention I like keeping  options open and  we also have quite a view movies on DVD she and I like to watch from time to time.
Some older software too.

The method these days is to download the Windows ISO from Microsoft itself, you don't need an install disk, you put it on USB and boot from that.  All you need is the CD-Key for activation.  If for some reason your network drivers arent working from plug and play, you download them from another machine and put them on the USB as well.  Once you have access to the internet you just download any drivers you need.  Drivers included on CD are usually out of date from their current releases.  Of the 4 gaming laptops, and 3 desktops in my household, only one has a DVD drive, its pretty old though.

[Shuffler]

The method these days is to download the Windows ISO from Microsoft itself, you don't need an install disk, you put it on USB and boot from that.  All you need is the CD-Key for activation.  If for some reason your network drivers arent working from plug and play, you download them from another machine and put them on the USB as well.  Once you have access to the internet you just download any drivers you need.  Drivers included on CD are usually out of date from their current releases.  Of the 4 gaming laptops, and 3 desktops in my household, only one has a DVD drive, its pretty old though.

.... or just enter a windows 7 key from your favorite flavor.

[haggerty]

.... or just enter a windows 7 key from your favorite flavor.

not sure what a windows 7 key has to do with external dvd vs usb

[Shuffler]

not sure what a windows 7 key has to do with external dvd vs usb

Thought they were explaining how to get to windows 10. Either way... once it is installed, enter a win 7 key and it is accepted.