Recent content by Al Koholic

I have 8GB of ram and what I like to do is set aside 1GB of it as a ramdrive. On this, I place a static 500MB pagefile because it allows for compatibility with some programs and if it is there, you can see it getting used in the resource monitor in windows 7, so something is using it. I use...

I sprung for an X25-M 160 for my holiday build. Don't regret it a bit! a) It makes the system zoom so much that when you go use ANY computer without one, you know it RIGHT away. And then you get sad that yours is at home (unless it's in your laptop). b) If you are the kind of person who...

Alright well, I got to the bottom of it. Sort of. I ended up doing a secure erase and reinstalling. Turns out the QD32 test revealed that NCQ was on pre-erase. It is not supposed to indicate this in the area I thought it would in the SSD Toolbox. So we can conclude that doing the SWITCH...

What sorts of numbers indicate that it is on or off?

Hey all, my first post here but I'm an Anandtech addict! Anyway here's the issue: I did a build back in December with a 160GB X25-M G2. I mistakenly installed Win7x64 while the mobo was in IDE mode instead of AHCI. Eventually I ran into issues with programs that needed AHCI and changed some...