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    XMP isn't quite ideal

    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...
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    XMP isn't quite ideal

    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...
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    Boot issues: M.2, UEFI, CSM Disabled

    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...
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    Boot issues: M.2, UEFI, CSM Disabled

    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...
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    Boot issues: M.2, UEFI, CSM Disabled

    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...
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    M.2 drives drops 980 Ti to PCIe 3.0 8x

    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?
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    [PCPer] Samsung 2TB Pro and Evo SSDs

    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...
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    Straight SATA cable with shortest possible connector

    Thanks! This is just what I was looking for.
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    Straight SATA cable with shortest possible connector

    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...
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    [PCPer] Samsung 2TB Pro and Evo SSDs

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

    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...
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    Mini ITX gaming build

    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.
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    Mini ITX gaming build

    Updated. I see I'm not the first to ask this question. ;)
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    Mini ITX gaming build

    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...
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    Thoughts on using SRT caching

    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.
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    Thoughts on using SRT caching

    That's a great breakdown of some of the concerns, pros/cons. While SRT worked well for my scenario, I'm fickle and I've already moved on. I'm going all SSD with 2x 1tb RAID0.
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    Thoughts on using SRT caching

    True enough, but imagine that instead of getting rid of old games, they just automatically paged out to slow HDDs, then when needed, they are automatically paged into fast SSD storage. The alternative approach is to manually manage aging data. It gets old, you delete it. Eventually you get...
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    Thoughts on using SRT caching

    This serves a useful purpose for me - essentially keeping the last couple of games played in cache. After a power cycle, the first load times for those games will be improved to SSD-like, negating much, if any, value of actually storing games directly on the SSD. I can store a couple of TB's of...
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    Thoughts on using SRT caching

    The 5tb Toshiba holds its own, sitting somewhere in the middle between a single WD2002FAEX and 2x RAID0, according to ATTO. It's a good drive and probably performs on par with the WD Black 4tb models, maybe a little better. It's not a quiet drive and appears to have no acoustic management, but...
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    Thoughts on using SRT caching

    On one of my machines, I have an odd mash-up: 240gb Kingston Hyper-X Predator HHML M.2 add-in card 1tb Samsung 850 EVO 2 x 2tb WD Black RAID0 1 x 5tb Toshiba PH3500u It's kind of a mess. Now because I like to live dangerously, I was considering enabling the Intel SRT caching so a 64gb...
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    NAS backup catalogs

    I actually have two HP N40L Microservers, an ML10, and a Lenovo TS140. I suppose any of these are good candidates. The N40L doesn't support ECC memory, so that gives me some pause in running ZFS as I've heard of horror stories related to single bit memory errors and corruption. Memory errors...
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    NAS backup catalogs

    Indeed. I keep considering FreeNAS for numerous reasons, mostly ZFS features - deduplication, snapshots, and error correction. I might have to build my own to be happy about it, but maybe there is an ideal prebuilt hardware appliance out there. Any suggestions on a make/model?
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    NAS backup catalogs

    In my current home server configuration, I use a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine as a NAS and Hyper-V host. I do nightly snapshot backups using Windows Server Backup. This gives me point-in-time recovery with basically zero effort and the catalog holds a little over 300 days of backups. I think...
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    Opinion time: 3820 @ 4.675ghz or stock?

    While the temps are okay - about 70c max CPU, the rest are 35-40c - it takes more fan action to accomplish that. I suppose I can just enable/disable the OC as needed. In the summer it's probably not a problem because the AC vent blows right in front of the case and I'm pretty sure you could...
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    Opinion time: 3820 @ 4.675ghz or stock?

    So I have my air cooled system stable at 4.675ghz with a CPU strap of 125 and a mild bclk boost. Temps are higher but nothing terrible. Stock Intel cooler and it works just fine in Prime torture. Part of that is good case design. Anyway, this is a healthy boost at 29% but I'm not sure it's...
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    Power line noise wakes a sleeping desktop

    I replaced the keyboard (Saitek Eclipse) and mouse (Logitech G5) with a Logitech K70 keyboard and Logitech G500s mouse. The issue appears to be resolved. Freakin' bizarre.
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    Power line noise wakes a sleeping desktop

    Good suggestion mfenn. I'll give that a shot. For now I'm trying to see if it ever occurs when this particular keyboard and mouse are not connected. If it doesn't, then I think it's either the ports they connect to, or the devices themselves. It's time to replace these anyway, so I might...
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    Power line noise wakes a sleeping desktop

    Thanks mfenn, but the problem occurs with minor static discharge as well, and there is nothing wrong with the wiring here. Try this: take any laptop power adapter into a dark room. Look at the socket as you plug it in. I guarantee you will get a visible spark maybe 1 in 4 tries. That's enough to...
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    Power line noise wakes a sleeping desktop

    Alas, it has returned. I spoke too soon. It seems if any USB device is connected at all, the problem can occur. It's almost as if the more devices that are connected, the more susceptible it is to picking up this RF noise and waking the system. Why the crap is sleep/resume still such hassle...
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    Power line noise wakes a sleeping desktop

    Thanks everyone! It's the keyboard for sure.. picking up RF; not even noise on the power circuit. I can reproduce the problem when the desktop isn't even plugged into the wall. It's possible that my desktop has become self-aware, but it doesn't want me to talk about that..
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    Power line noise wakes a sleeping desktop

    The only devices I have connected to any USB ports, for troubleshooting this problem, are the Saitek Eclipse keyboard and a Logitech G5 mouse. I presume it's not the wiring in the house because the desktop is behind a UPS and should be well protected from wiring issues. I do know it's an RF or...
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    Power line noise wakes a sleeping desktop

    I have been fighting to get to the bottom of this for over a year. Every time there is some sort of power line noise event (static or noise), my desktop wakes up. Event viewer shows: Wake Source: Device -USB Root Hub I only have a keyboard and mouse connected to the USB ports. My desktop...
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    1080P HDMI cable? 80-120$?

    To who? The HDMI cable scam police? Every company selling HDTVs will try this garbage. Always have, always will. I have a mantra - "Never get the extended warranty and never buy overpriced cables"
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    Gateway P-7805U image

    Does anyone have a Gateway P-7805U FX laptop with the original recovery partition intact? Ideally I would like to get my hands on an unbooted OEM drive for the purpose of making an image of the entire disc. Failing that, I would like to make an image of an existing recovery partition, but mine...
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    Inheritance problem

    I agree with you whole heartedly and this is how I approached it from the start. I will use your confirmation of method that I am sane. See? I just need to find one person to agree with my position, and its all okay again. Ha. So broken.
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    Inheritance problem

    This would be fine, except I have never seen multiple ways to compare objects implemented in IComparable. Sometimes we want to compare based on cost (data member in the object), price (data member in the object), and profit (calculated from an overridden method in the derived object class)...
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    Inheritance problem

    I have no problem with using factory methods, but if we stick to a convention that the base class should know nothing of the derived classes, the factory method probably should not be in the base class. In the end, that's how I'm doing it anyway. Thanks for the input all!
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    Inheritance problem

    Thanks guys. I'm going to call this requirement bogus. You never use the base class to interact with its children. We would never expect Shape to know about Circle, Square, etc. We simply say Shape circle = new Circle(); Trying to make a Circle any other way will lead to serious problems. We...
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    Inheritance problem

    Thanks for the reply! I did this via a virtual function earlier, but the virtual function just allows the proper Compare() method to be called if I am allowed to set the type of the Comparator to, say PriceComparator. If I have Comparator basicComparator = new Comparator(); Comparator...
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    Inheritance problem

    So I have done quite a lot of programming over the years. This sounds terribly simple, but I believe it to be flawed in concept given the requirements. I am to create a base Comparator class with a single public method: public int Compare(Type item1, Type item2). This will return a basic 1, 0...