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'][/URL]Your right,my bad. I have lots of screenshots of lots of benchmark progs. Good Eye. Even better brain! I'm going to try the image thing. If it is too small or you have trouble seeing it,watch the next post. I'll look at it with 5 different browsers (did I mention I have OCD?)

I wasn't kidding-when it comes to computers,I get obssive. I downloaded and ran probably every SSD benchmark program out there (I was saddened to see SiSandra grew a bad case of feature bloat-it may tell you eveything you want to know,but finding the info in their confusing, muddled interface is...

I'm sorry,I just reread your post. You are more or less saying what my rational brain is saying. "If it is working,don't sweat it". This was my plan,but the OCD irrational part of my brain downloaded every SSD benchmark program,watched every YouTube Video,read every article,and scrutinized every...

There doesn't to seem to be a way to see what controller is used. Back when I bought it,I knew it was a crap shoot. Sanddik controller were just becoming the "thing to have' and all the major players were shady about disclosing what controller they were using. I knew going from any harddrive to...

"Compute Cores" is not really a thing. It must be a HP marketing thing. I hate to tell you this,but: 1) it is a very bad time to be buying a decent graphics card. 2) you may not want to sink more money into this computer anyway. You may not be able to handle a higher end graphics card. Your...

Are you using Win10? Win10 likes to do massive updates at inappropriate times (one of the many reasons I stick with Win8.1-and when win8.1 was less than 2 years old,I stuck with WinXP....It takes a while for Bill Gates to get right!)

Are you using Win10? Win10 likes to do massive updates at inappropriate times (one of the many reasons I stick with Win8.1-and when win8.1 was less than 2 years old,I stuck with WinXP....It takes a while for Bill Gates to get right!)

I just installed a new PNY Optima 240GB SSD that I bought 4 years ago (I bought it for $150 on sale,and Newegg still has it at $150!!) in an Asus m51AC (bought around the same time). I also replaced the 1T hd with a Seagate 3T and did a fresh install of Win 8.1. It feels lightning fast! But I...