Recent content by CMG

OK, I guess only Xeon CPUs support ECC. If a parity failure is detected it will fail on POST and show that the failed DIMM needs replacing,

I'm not convinced that writable optical media is likely to have a long life. AFAIK it is not designed for long term archival. When I first started taking digital photos I used CD-R backup and lost some due to the disc being no longer readable. Later i moved to using external HDDs like WD...

With Corsair Link they have clearly gone for making it look flash, not working reliably. Stupid for a PSU manufacturer, especially one which prides its self as being one of the best. On my PC it now gives an unhandled exception when i start it up. It never saves the profiles properly and it...

From the original post the issue is from the overclocking not the PSU. I wasnt sure what put in my new build regarding the size of PSU. There is great detail on techpowerup site regarding the PSUs. Worth going for best quality parts (power caps in particular) and over provisioning so it is not...

I haven't purchased enough mobos to give many observations but I can advise you one thing to look for in order to assess the stability and longevity of the board. This is the quality of the electrolytic caps that they use. My old Asus ran for a good few years but eventually failed to boot. Many...

Some differences I noticed between the X99 boards are the number of PCIe lanes they support, which also differs on the different CPUs. Once you go for an NVMe SSD it will use some (4?) of these. I founds this really confusing as it is not clear when you look at the board specs. I'm pretty...

On a related note, I would recommend using ECC DRAM on the X-99 boards. That's what I've put in my ASRock X-99WS. That would help with identifying and protecting against any failures on the DIMMs. The performance and cost overhead seems negligible. Still, I'm looking for some definitive...