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I'm a little bewildered. My SSD temps seem to be causing instability. At reasonable case fan speeds, it seems to be related to my video card putting out heat nearby. Setting a manual GPU fan speed seems to help quite a bit. (I have 3 case fans and 2 AIO fans, so I'm not yet sure there is NOT...

I have an overpowered system... 1950x, 64GB of RAM, 960 Pro SSD. (Asus Rog Zenith Extreme MB) One of the things I'm using it for is as my main Blue Iris server. With only really BI running, my Tdie and fans oscillate to an uncomfortable degree. (Meaning the noise from the constantly...

I have an MSI Gaming X Trio 1080ti. MSI Afterburner, even after allowing voltage control - will not let me undervolt. It's currently showing 1012mV, and the voltage slider is all the way to the left. Any options to undervolt, or is that voltage really as low as I could go without having...

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The parasites at MS embedding OneDrive and integrating it so as to create a real hassle to remove. Ok parasites is a strong word but really I'm pretty disgusted. My desktop is actually in the OneDrive folder? What? The gigabytes of random crap I put there...

http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=33551 From: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asus-rog-zenith-x399-extreme-review,24.html My 960 Pro is not performing (according to Magician) anywhere near it should be, even with the Samsung NVME driver. That's my MB, so I want...

Ok so I'm a newbie. But when I setup AM (using MPH) the other night, and it started mining Digibyte (Skein)... Showing monthly revenue of $330, I was floored. (1080 ti, stock, some benefit from my 1950x but not much). Fast forward a day, and it's instead mining other things like you'd...

So I'm about to build my general purpose workstation, and I was thinking of installing ESXi on it. (standalone, passthrough monitor, keyboard, mouse to one VM) One of the things it would be used for is for Blue Iris (on a second VM), so frequent (or even infrequent) reboots would kind of suck...

For my 1950X Threadripper build... I purchased the Noctua 14 cooler, with a push-pull fan config. Under load, the single fan Noctua keeps it pretty close (overall) in CPU temperature... And the noise, depending on the AIO cooler, is often better. I may do some casual mining to get some...

So I'm thinking of putting a Fujipoly thermal pad on my SSD controller. (I believe the RAM doesn't get very hot in comparison?) But I really don't want to void the warranty so I was planning on putting it over the existing Samsung 950 Pro label. I'd need to remove it for warranty service...

Hey everyone. I haven't built a PC in over 5 years and one of the more difficult things last time was getting the heatsink on the processor, with a tight case. While my case will have a bit more room, I'm going with a Threadripper. And a 14cm Noctura heatsink, in a push-pull fan configuration...

So I'm thinking of buying a 4x16 kit that is not on the qualified vendor list. But I've seen online where others have used the MB in question with that RAM kit, successfully. The question I have though - is that I see posts about people unsuccessfully trying one RAM kit and then giving up when...

So as I plan my next build... One thing I was trying to see if was possible... To locate the monitor about 50' away (wire distance). I don't think there's a good way to do: 1) Reliably - HDMI tends to get flaky even with great cables at such distances. HDMI repeaters don't have the best...

I'm having trouble finding a case should I end up buying a MB that requires full EATX. (LIke Asus ROG X399 board) I really have four basic desires: (in order of importance) 1) Filters 2) Would prefer a place to mount an ENERMAX LIQTECH TR4 AIO cooler. 3) Only really need 1 external drive...

I'm a little troubled and maybe some people with much more wisdom can educate me. Planning to buy an X399 board, that of course will run 24/7, and likely at some decent loads for a good part of the time. (And I'd like it to run for 5 years minimum) So I was looking for a MB with great voltage...

So I'm finally planning on replacing my 7 year old PC. I always go high end, and then milk it for about 3x longer than the average enthusiast. I don't really game - haven't in years really. But on occasion I might use software that benefits from a high end GPU. (Solidworks for example) And...

Can anyone point me in the right direction for the single socket successor to Haswell-EP? I don't have to build a server anytime soon - and since there are huge changes coming to the Xeon platforms, I could wait it out till next year. I'm only concerned that the 1S platform may not be due in...

Hello everyone. I haven't been much of an enthusiast lately - in that last time I bought my equipment I went pretty high end so I could milk it for years. I think my machine is now about 5 years old... And was thinking of building a machine that would (hopefully) replace my desktop. That is...

Hey guys. I have an Areca 1220 card, and I love it. But I want to migrate to Win 7, fresh install. Areca doesn't seem to support Win7 from what I can tell. When I build a new system, with new HD's, I still want to go with a Raid 5 storage system, using large HD's. Since I'm buying...

I've got 4 RAID5 500GB drives on an Aceca card... I'd like to reduce the # of drives so that I can epand the array in the future without the noise and cooling demands of just continuing to add 500GB drives. However some of the new larger HD's seem to recommend against RAID usage. And...

Hey folks. If I was buying a laptop - I'd spend weeks researching it. But I have a friend who has to buy quickly. I checked their respective websites out - and it appears the Vaio's configuration is significantly cheaper than a T7100 XPS M1330. Same RAM qty, the Vaio has a larger HD (but...

Hey everyone... I have an A8N32 SLI, with a dual slot 7900GTX 512 and a RAID card (Areca). No other slots are in use, but due to the layout, and both of the above cards needing cooling, I really cannot add any more cards :( I was thinking about the Audigy 2 NX... Anyone think Creative...

Hey everyone. I had hibernate working on my A8N32... But it disappeared. One of the few things I did that may have caused this, was to upgrade to BIOS 1009. I did do other things to my system, but they were basically SW installs, and nothing that should impact ACPI. So has anyone seen...

Hey everyone. I'm having problems returning from standby. Every other "wake", my PC doesn't fully "wake". I'm thinking it MAY be this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317272 So I check out my ide drivers in System:Hardware:Device Drivers. Even though I...

Ok trying to put my Scythe Ninja on my A8N32 with 4800+. I re-used the existing back plate, and installed the retention bracket to it. I put my AS5 on, and attempted to bring the HS directly down on the processor. Here is where the problem is: 1) I have no idea how you can possibly...

Hey guys. I searched the forum and came up with several hits but none that I could find that covered some of my specific concerns. I have no idea why AS has a problem giving actual dimensions for the "blob", and refers to bb's and uncooked grains of rice - BOTH of which can have dramatic...

Ok maybe this isn't news - but a search of the forum revealed no link to the vendor (Neximaging).. I used a great price compariosn/search engine meta-search page. Let's you easily put in text in ONE field and then buttons to search several price comparison websites in other windows. (It's...

I kind of like the idea of BFG's lifetime warranty... Not that it is likely to die before I replace it with a much faster card... But if it does fail in 3 years and I want to wait a while - well it would be nice having the ability to get it repaired / swapped. Anyway - but I really want...

Hey folks. Is it worth the extra $300 for a 4800+? I'm planning on getting some good memory (Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO 2GB Kit)... And debating whether to spend the extra $300 on additional memory (I would like to make the PC last me, as-is, for 3 years) or on the additionall clock...

Hey folks. I don't intend to ever use SLI - but I need one of the 8x ports for a RAID controller. I'm leaning towards the A8N32 since the cost difference isn't an issue over the entire project cost of my new machine. I like the 8 phase power supply feature on the A8N32. I have sent a...

Assuming I'm actually able to buy this someday... I probably will use one of the 16x PCIe slots for an 8x RAID adapter (Areca). I'm wondering... I assume I can use one of the slots in a non-sli configuration, right? And if I am correct - does it matter which slot I put the video card...

I think I would buy an X-Fi Platinum, to allow me to use the SPDIF connectors in the future... But personally I just think it is moronic to make people install cables (needlessly) to the front of a PC. For two reasons - aesthetics and frankly many PC's have doors there. I'd buy the...

Are there any large widescreen _monitors_ that support HDCP, other than the Gateway? I'm looking for 23-24" widescreen, with good gaming performance. I'd love the Dell 2405 - but no HDCP support. :(

Hey folks. I'm having some trouble quantifying the read and write performance benefit from using a hardware raid 5 card. I have read Tom's article - but that seems to concentrate on I/O's per second - but I'm also interested in raw (sustained/burst) transfer speeds. (I have been searching...

Hey folks. I'm thinking of putting an Areca 1220 board in a new system (worstation) I am building. Mostly for survivability of losing a drive, but also for performance reasons. I'm looking however to find the most quiet way to implement this. I don't want to use NAS because of the...