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I've heard that the new Gigabyte motherboards have a hard detecting older Sandforce SSDs that use the SF 1200 controller. Can anyone confirm this? Is this also a problem with newer Sandforce SSDs (such as Intel 335)?

Are there any viruses in Windows 8 that can be installed without permission from the user? I'm talking about things like buffer overflow, using scripts to exploit a browser vulnerability, malicious Javascript PDFs, the old autorun virus from Windows 7 etc... basically things that can install a...

I guess I'll just drop the extra money for 2 sticks of 1600mhz. Thanks for the help everyone.

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I can't use newegg.com The single stick that I linked is on sale for ~$50 USD in my country

Thanks for the tip. How do I know if this is dual channel? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233218

Will the performance of the Intel HD 4600 improve with more / better ram? For a new build I have the option of 4gb 1333mhz or 8gb 1600mhz (same latency) and there is a $20 price difference (the 8gb corsair vengeance is on sale).

I read in this review that this Gigabyte Z87 board had "unsteady DPC Latency" if the Bios version was <F5. http://anandtech.com/show/6989/intel-z87-motherboard-review-with-haswell-gigabyte-msi-asrock-and-asus-at-200/22 Do any other Gigabyte boards being sold have this DPC latency problem? Was...

Other than Gigabyte, which Haswell motherboards have dual bios (where the backup bios is read-only)? Is Gigabyte's backup bios read-only?