Recent content by rseiler

Ah, wouldn't have thought of that. I'll think about what that means. Put here for reference: https://cdn.hw-lab.com/vendor/intel/z68/z68-block-diagram.png No idea on the drive yet, so I'm open to any of the majors with a decent warranty. Win11. This system's BIOS wouldn't even support that, so...

Thanks for all the answers, everyone. I just got online today so am going to digest the responses and then respond to them.

I'm looking to dump my aging spinning data drive soon currently in an older system and am wondering if I should tangle with an adapter for one of my PCIe 2.0 slots so that I can use an M.2 NVMe SSD (not as a boot drive, which is SATA SSD). If the adapters are flakey, I won't, but otherwise it's...

For fun, I decided to try both the latest official Intel RST for Sandy Bridge (12.9) as well as the modded Fernando one 14.8 (15.x sounds unstable). Both were very close to each other, but downhill (with the exception of Magician) from the Microsoft driver, as compared to the results above for...

Oh man, that thread opens up so many possibilities. What Elixer says makes so much sense given that RST does say "Disk Data Cache: Enabled" on the Manage tab (not something that I can set, it just is, and there's nothing at all about the subject in the Performance tab), and it makes sense that...

I'm wondering if it's normal for there to be such a difference in random/4K results on an older PC vs a newer one using the same model drive and the same SATA interface--when there's essentially no difference for sequential. -Does the faster CPU really count this much? -Has there been some...

One difference I noticed with the new set is that it's not double-sided, though it's hard to see that with the heat spreaders. Diags call them "1 rank, 8 banks" vs the "2 ranks, 8 banks" of the old set. Also, the "automatic" tRFC is 208 with just the new set and 128 with just the old set. When...

Great to hear. I won't be playing with the speeds at all except maybe manually setting it to what XMP (probably no longer available with two sets) normally provides (the rated speed of 9-9-9-24 with it; 11-11-11-28 without out it), but that's not a big deal either way as long as it's stable.

I have a late-2011-era G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL kit (2x4GB) that's been in use since then. Recently, I bought the same kit to get to 16GB, with the only apparent difference being that it's manufactured in April 2015. Is there likely to be a problem because of this age difference?

Is there a reason that only DDR3-based models tend to be fanless? Could you get by unplugging the fan on this?

It doesn't look like it: http://i.imgur.com/GKFLTWJ.jpg

The only Samba locations are: /tmp/samba /home/dma/samba The second location is where the sbin dir is that has nmbd and smbd. The other smb.conf (the dummy one that doesn't serve as the source of the real one) is here: /home/dma/samba_conf/lib/smb.conf This file doesn't exist...

I have an Avermedia media server box for which I've managed to gain root access via telnet (BusyBox). What I'm trying to do is change the name of the Samba share, which cannot be done in the box's UI on my TV. It defaults to "eSATA Disk1" as defined in /tmp/samba/lib/smb.conf. While it's...

I first came across this in a CNN.com article from Oct 3: http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Schneider-Electric-Recalls-APC-Surge-Protectors http://recall.apc.com/en http://recall.apc.com/us/frequently-asked-questions After determining whether you have an affected model, the...

Any further word on a new HyperX release? In case anyone needs it, this is 5.03, along with Kingston's warning about it. http://media.kingston.com/support/downloads/SH103_503fw_win.zip