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    What determines whether a core is "active" for Turbo?

    I was recently reading up on how Turbo works with multiple cores, and came across threads like this: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/is-intel-turbo-boost-for-2-cores-or-all-4-cores-on-4790k.2401165/ People seem to be saying the Turbo boost figures depend on how many cores are "active" or...
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    Kingston HyperX SSD not seen as an SSD

    I probably should've tried that :) but I wouldn't be comfortable with that as a permanent fix. If Windows isn't recognizing that the drive is SSD during my regular use, it might not be implementing TRIM and other SSD-saving tweaks...
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    Kingston HyperX SSD not seen as an SSD

    It turns out that this was my problem^ I've reinstalled Windows 17 times in the past 24 hours trying to figure this out. I disabled the Marvell controller in BIOS altogether, and dismantled my RAID drive, but the issue was still occurring. I found I was able to run the firmware updater...
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    Kingston HyperX SSD not seen as an SSD

    Thanks for the response -- The drive is connected to an Intel port, and according to BIOS, the controller is in AHCI mode (although there seems to only be a single setting for that, at least on the BIOS page I'm looking at -- no mention of Marvell vs. Intel controllers). I did verify using the...
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    Kingston HyperX SSD not seen as an SSD

    My new Kingston HyperX SSD isn't showing up in Kingston's firmware updater, nor in Kingston's "toolbox", or in SSDLife (3rd-party SSD health checker). I just installed this new Kingston HyperX 120GB. I successfully cloned my boot drive to it and am now running Windows 7 x64 from it. It seems to...
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    SAS 3g vs. 6g

    Ah, so each drive isn't being utilized more in a large array. Only the SAS lanes are utilized more, by allowing you to put more drives on each lane without sacrificing bandwidth. I think I get it now. Thanks so much for clearing that up for me, really appreciate it.
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    SAS 3g vs. 6g

    I'm still confused by this. If each drive is limited by its mechanics to only read (assuming we're talking about read speeds) data at a certain rate, 150mb/s for argument's sake, how does having more of them suddenly utilize each one's SAS connection more? Assuming we're comparing two arrays...
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    SAS 3g vs. 6g

    I'm confused. My backplane is dual connected. Are you saying with an 8-drive RAID 10, I would, or would not, be hitting the 3g bottleneck? If you're saying an 8-drive RAID-10 only does 9.6gb/s total, divided between all the drives, and therefore I'm not hitting the 3g bottleneck with my 15k...
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    SAS 3g vs. 6g

    You know, that's an excellent question. I actually bought 4 drives initially, but one showed up as failed so I removed it. Then the RAID card still gave me the 1+0 option for the 3 remaining drives and said I'd have a total of 900GB (for three 600GB drives). I was confused but figured there must...
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    SAS 3g vs. 6g

    I just put together a new server using an Areca 1222 RAID card, and was disappointed to find out I got the wrong card. I meant to get the 6gb/s version. I have three SAS 15k 6g hard drives connected via a 6g SAS backplane, in RAID-10. My question is, if I replace the RAID card with the 6g...
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    Final Build $1500 Gaming PC - Please critique

    I generally do like LED fans, never said I didn't. But every feature has their good and poorly-implemented versions. This was also just an example of the ways in which I feel CoolerMaster is superior in the intelligence of their designs.
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    Final Build $1500 Gaming PC - Please critique

    As Boomer said, yes basically all you need is a cooler. If you go with the 932 or 922 case, you'll have plenty of room for pretty much any cooler you choose (good ones tend to be big). There's also thermal grease to consider. It goes between the cooler and the CPU. All coolers come with it...
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    Final Build $1500 Gaming PC - Please critique

    CooleMaster gives you the option to secure using screws in addition after you've clicked-in to the tool-less rails. My opinion is regarding the vast popularity of Antec. I think their name is bigger than their products. It may be that they're better suited for certain applications (or people)...
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    Final Build $1500 Gaming PC - Please critique

    Please do yourself a favor and don't go with Antec. Their cases are popular with people who've never built with a CoolerMaster (no offense intended to Antec fans, but I feel it's the truth). Antec's designs are outdated and their quality is poor, though the parts are built "heavily". As most...
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    SAS vs. SATA question

    Thanks for this info. I did some googling, and it looks like since driver version 12.3.0 (for the H700 according to the thread linked below; I'm assuming it's the same on all the H models) third-party drive blocks were removed. You still see a message saying the drives aren't "certified", but...