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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

    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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    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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    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

    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

    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?

    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 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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    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

    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...
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    BIOS flash gone wrong - CPU or component damage possible?

    A BIOS flash gone horribly wrong due to flaky RAM left me with a dead motherboard. The machine hard locked during writing of the main block. The subsequent boot attempts failed, obviously. Anyone with intimate knowledge of VRM circuits chime in on what follows. To everyone else I ask...
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    Should I upgrade from Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe?

    Thinking about switching to the Evga 680i board.. Does anyone think it's worth it?
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    Conroe stock heatsink

    Trying to gauge how many times a stock heatsink from an E6600 will withstand install/remove cycles. The CPU remains in the socket. I'm curious as to how durable the push pin system is. I realize it feels flimsy and a lot of people hate it out of hand, but I want to know about actual failures...
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    Need relationship advice...

    Here's the deal.. Just moved in with a girl that I thought was level-headed and mature. It turns out that whatever personal space I used to have has been taken as "our time".. I'm basically not allowed to do anything except think of things we have to do together. Example: I played an MMO for 2...
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    Pixel defect - check this out..

    Check this out I can't figure out what kind of pixel defect this is. The pixels are all good in that they all turn on and off as they are supposed to, but from a distance you can see this tiny dark spot. Any LCD experts know what causes this during manufacturing? (experts only please. I...
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    After 2 years, is this upgrade worth it?

    So here's what I've had for the last couple years, minus a few upgrades in that time: Shuttle SB75G2 w/i875p P4 3.0C 800fsb 2gb of Corsair XMS (2x1gb) dual channel of course eVGA 6800 GT AGP Audigy2 ZS Plextor PX-716A DVD+/-RW DL 2 x 160gb WD's SATA in RAID0 So here's the...