Recent content by cyclone3d

I've never used that. What are the specs and how do reviews for it look? And as another said, you don't necessarily have to replace the compound if you are just reseating for testing.

Are you overclocking your current CPU at all? What temps are you hitting under load? What cooler do you currently have? What about case airflow and case air temp vs ambient temp? Simply cooling your current CPU better may give you a decent boost.

Higher end laptops, 64 and 96GB. Gaming/workstation desktop 64GB. Have one workstation with 512GB

There are a couple EVGA boards that do PCIe 5.0 x8/x8 when both slots are populated. Most other boards I am seeing only have a single PCIe 5.0 slot and the rest being 4.0

Uggghhhh, what happened to them making workstation boards that have PCIe switches on them that don't require the XEON or Threadripper? I've got a couple older ones that do and they are great if you need lots of PCIe lanes.

Yeah, my guess is it is the IMC as well as the BIOS not limiting the RAM speed correctly. I could try these combos at 3200 in the 7740... 2x 8GB 2x 16GB 2x 8GB + 2x 16GB 4x 16GB. The newer 7550 limits the RAM speed to 2933 which is what the 10th gen Intel CPUs officially support. Definitely a...

Well, that POSTs but locks up in diags and the system gets way hotter than normal. Bummer. The ADATA sticks are the only kind I have in 2933 and they are not playing nice with the 3200 sticks as they clock down to 2666 instead of running at 2933.

So I was going through my stash of RAM and found a couple Dell 32GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM modules I had forgotten about. Decided to try them in my Precision 7740 sporting the i9-9980HK CPU to see if they would run properly. I already had 4X 16GB DDR4-2933 sticks running in this laptop at 2933...

Look at the ASUS workstation boards that have PLX chips in them. The boards are expensive but will do what you want. https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/motherboards/all-series/filter?Series=Workstation

Depends on what you buy. Personally, I would not bother with Arctic Silver 5 anymore as it actually has pretty poor thermal transfer compared to just about anything but the absolute trashiest compound available now days. It will also separate if stored for too long. I do use Arctic Ceramiq 2...

Download HCI Memtest and test 1 stick of RAM at a time. You will need to multiple copies to fill all the RAM as the free version doesn't allow a single copy to test all that much. It is way quicker than letting memtest86+ run overnight or for days even to detect a bad stick of RAM. Usually...

Hyper-V sucks indescribably compared to VMWare. 1. It puts the host OS on top of the hypervisor which kills performance of the host machine, even without any VMs running. 2. It really, really, really, really sucks if you need an XP VM. a. Color depth is jacked b. It is very, very unstable. So...

What GPU is it? Might want to see if there is a copper shim available so you can get rid of the RAM pads completely. Most thermal pads are absolute trash. You can either get trash pads or expensive not very soft pads. If you get good pads, you have to make sure to get the exact right...

Definitely sounds like something is jacked on FaceBook's side.

So I am working on getting one of my old programs to compile with VS 2022. And of course a couple of the libraries I used are super outdated and even the newer versions have not been updated in years thus the VC project files had to be upgraded. To top it off, I need to set the correct paths...