Recent content by voodoodrul

Yeah. While the memory timings and voltage are indeed correct, the greatly increased thermal output and CPU voltage jump for stock just aren't necessary. I disabled XMP and set the DRAM frequency to 2400, leaving most everything else on auto. This worked much better as it applied the timings...

Howdy folks. When I enable XMP on this Asus Maximus VII Impact board, 4790k, and Corsair Vengeance 2400 set (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11R), I end up with settings I just don't like. The CPU voltage gets bumped up from 1.072v to 1.28v, DRAM voltage goes from 1.5v to 1.65v and run the memory controller out...

Thanks Burpo, spot on! At least that pinpoints the issue. I am starting to question my love for this keyboard and their headset. Corsair makes decent RAM but everything else seems to be awesome on the surface yet have some show stopper issue. If your average $12 keyboard at Walmart can...

Burpo - no, I'm running CSM disabled. UEFI mode with CSM enabled is a legacy setting. So for me "Launch CSM" is disabled and all options under it go away. Vailr - thanks for the handy guide. I'll definitely check it out. Strange enough, if I plug in a crappy keyboard instead of my Corsair...

Howdy all The Parts: Asus Maximus VII Impact Motherboard Kingston Predator 240gb M.2 drive (pulled from the HHHL adapter) The settings: Default BIOS settings except CSM Disabled (full UEFI mode) Secure Boot on Fast Boot on or off I'm having a heck of a time getting this...

Due to a lack of lanes on this Z97 board, the M.2 drive drops my one and only PCIe 3.0 x16 to x8. I know that this should have almost zero impact on gaming performance, but is there any reason to care that the GPU is running on half the lanes?

I have many steam games that are over 35gb. Assuming a 2tb drive has 1.81tb of usable space, you can hold about 50 similar games. It's pretty easy to burn up 2tb. My 2 x 1tb SSD RAID0 is half full already, no media. Now the obvious solution is to move the games off the SSD. But I want the...

Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.

Hey folks. I'm looking for quality straight SATA cables with the shortest possible connector. The pass through in my case lines up exactly with the SATA headers, but it's almost impossible to connect there because the connectors push out right up to the edge of the cut out. One end absolutely...

And here I just bought 2 x 1tb EVOs simply because 2tb didn't exist. Doh!

I could avoid buying more RAM yes. Regarding these boards, the asrock looks really nice. What about total PCIe lanes? Is there enough here to keep up with a fast m.2, 980 ti, and crazy fast SATA express drive concurrently? I doubt it matters because nothing will come close to saturating it but...

Indeed. I'm leaning towards your suggestion to wait for Skylake since it could be available next month. The 980 Ti would push the power envelope pretty hard, but I think it should hold up.

Updated. I see I'm not the first to ask this question. ;)

What do you people think about this gaming only build? Case: EVGA Hadron Air CPU: 4790k Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Impact RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 GPU: Nvidia 980 Ti SSD: 1tb Samsung 850 Evo M.2: 240gb Kingston Predator The "top ten" questions 1. What YOUR PC will be used...

I'm pretty sure TRIM is enabled. X79 with latest UEFI and RST drivers. I'll have to check out Primo. It sounds like a great solution.