Recent content by bobby_t1

Hey, I'm replacing my Asus H97M-E with a Asus Gryphon Z97 because I need displayport. If your friend is looking for a good deal on buying my use H97M-E, PM me.

I'm building a new PC which is for non-gaming, but I do a lot of photo editing. I have an existing HP 30" Monitor with a really wide color gamut that I love, but being 5 years old, it only has DVI input (need dual-link DVI input). For my new PC, I've been looking to built the PC around an...

I'm not following how a 100MB partition came up here.. it's due to me being a neophyte to SSDs. Are you recommending to put a dummy 100MB partition that isn't used to get the right offset/alignment?

Interesting.. I wasn't familiar with "SSD alignment" until you mentioned it. In a quick web search, looks like there are a lot of guides out there (like this one) to do this. however, they all deal with step when you create a new partition. I'm not clear on whether (a) disk cloning software...

Sorry, "risk" was the wrong word since I know the cloning will work. What I was specifically asking was whether or not I'll be missing any improvements/optimizations that are made during a fresh Win7 install that I'll miss out on just cloning the drive.

I'm planning on upgrading to an SSD drive after drooling over these for the past 6 months and given their prices are now getting to more sane levels. I just got a new desktop PC that will be the candidate for the SSD drive, but I don't want to hold off on setting up the PC since it may be...