Recent content by burntoc

You're totally right. I usually follow that advice, but since it was Labor Day I took a gamble that having it in their queue first thing the next day would get some action before a phone call. For what it's worth, when I dialed the 909 number and got a live person I was certain I'd chosen...

That answers my question related to what this group thinks is reasonable, anyway. Appreciate the responses!

For a department store, a hobby shop, etc., maybe. No way should this be the case with CPUs, motherboards, or memory. Heck, I had a Corsair AIO issue about 4 months ago and I committed to advance pay and they got back to me within 24 hours and I had a replacement unit the next day. In any...

So yeah, per the title I have a 2x16GB kit of DDR4-3600 CL 16 that I got about 18 months ago. It's been in a media server and while I experienced the occasional hiccup I didn't really look into it until I moved the RAM to a new build this weekend and I decided to run a memtest. I'm getting...

Yeah, I just did a quick read online and it seemed consensus was 512 gave better performance - in fact some were jumpering their WD EARS drives to have it emulate 512b.....Could be nothing to it.

Thanks, parityboy. And you think performance with that filesystem should be good (I mean, not overly impacted by the filesystem vs. other system factors).

Hey guys, Been around here for ages but there is such good info I haven't posted in a long time. I need some help, though, because searching is turning up all sorts of info that isn't quite the answer to my dumb question. Here's the situation: I built an i3 machine which will triple boot...