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    Most Cost Effective Upgrade SSD or Extra Memory?

    Thanks Guys, I guess I will have to settle for fast not super fast and go with a SATA SSD. I checked out a LGA1150 motherboard with a M.2 slot and boy are they expensive $300 vs $70. I have always lagged behind the cutting edge and I'll have to lag alittle longer for a M.2.
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    Most Cost Effective Upgrade SSD or Extra Memory?

    Bummer, I understand the 860 EVO would be the most cost effective. So if I adapted the PCI-e slot to a M.2 would I gain any thru-put at all?
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    Most Cost Effective Upgrade SSD or Extra Memory?

    If I'm not going for memory I could spring for the 500GB. Now I'm in a slight panic. I had researched going to a M.2 drive a couple months ago and determined that I need a adapter for the PCIe x 16 slot on my M11AD motherboard and made myself notes, now I can't find the notes. I don't know...
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    Most Cost Effective Upgrade SSD or Extra Memory?

    Thanks, maybe it's not even worth increasing my memory beyond the 8GB I already have? Especially if I get a SSD. Most of the memory would be used to cache HD reads anyway, and if most of my processing would be off the SSD it would be a wash. In fact reading HD data into a memory cache would...
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    Most Cost Effective Upgrade SSD or Extra Memory?

    I have a Asus desktop (M11AD-US002Q) with 1TB HD, 8GB Memory, W10 and Intel I7 cpu. I plan to upgrade memory from 8GB to16GB by adding another 8GB memory. I also plan to add a SSD drive probably a Samsung 970 EVO 250GB M.2 . Right now I only have enough to upgrade ether the memory or SSD...
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    Best Ghosting Software?

    I use Image For DOS by TeraByte http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm I have used this for years on many computers. I like it over the others because it compresses the Image tighter than anything I have tried plus it does not store blank blocks in the image. It and has not failed me yet.
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    WMC Guide Thinks It is downloading constantly

    I have been using a laptop dedicated to running Windows Media Center and connected to my TV via HDMI for the last two years without any problem. The week of the daylight savings time change I changed the security on the laptop from Microsoft Security Essentials to 360 Total Security. After...
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    Laptop as a HTPC

    Last year I got a HP Pavilion G7-1260us laptop to use as a HTPC it has a I3-2330M processor 4GB of memory and a 640GBx5400rpm hard drive. Connected two HDHomeruns for a total of 4 tuners connected to two off air antennas. The only problem I have is trying to keep with all the shows it...