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    Do you people remove the warranty sticker when apply heat sink on M.2 SSD?

    I would advise against removing the stickers - the products were already designed and validated to operate as they are out-of-the-box (with the sticker on), so there is no reason to do so. In fact, some SSDs like the Samsung 970 use the sticker to aid in heat distribution and cooling, by...
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    New build; system stuttering

    How frequent are the stutters? It may be worth checking temperatures also, in case the system is thermal throttling heavily.
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    How is this TIM application?

    This looks fine to me. You probably could have used slightly less paste even, but it's not overdone so as to hinder cooling performance. I wouldn't use any more TIM than what you have in the pictures.
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    Computer Instability, Can someone identify the problem?

    Seems like either a dying GPU or power supply. Do you have another video card you can test with?
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    X99 PC works ONLY when underclocked

    I would suspect severe transistor degradation as the cause. I am surprised that 1.9~2.1V did not fry the chips outright!
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    Keep getting bad HDDs?

    Try a different SATA port and data+power cables.
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    Holy 95°C, Coolerman!

    This was my thought also. A proper mount would leave large areas of direct metal-to-heatspreader contact where little paste would appear, as any paste is meant to get squeezed away to the sides from the mounting pressure. The pictures suggest a complete, intact coating of TIM sitting in-between...
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    Stuck at motherboard screen after upgrading video card [SOLVED]

    You should not have to touch any drivers whatsoever when swapping cards. Graphics drivers should not affect anything that occurs during POST and initial boot, so that is one less thing you can worry about. The fact that you can get the splash screen to show means that the card itself is...
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    Ordered i5 6600, Amazon sent i5 7500

    Practically, there should be zero noticeable difference in performance. The bigger concern is whether the motherboard you have would support the Kaby Lake processor out-of-the-box, assuming it is based on a previous generation 1xx chipset. 1xx motherboards will need a firmware update in order to...
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    How much is really enough?

    In my opinion, 16 GB should be the very minimum for a gaming PC - it doesn't cost much to make the jump, yet the benefits are enormous for programs/games that can make use of this additional capacity. Office computers can manage comfortably with just 8 though.
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    40 Percent Now Say They Won't Buy Another Samsung Phone

    Happy with my Windows Phone. :D
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    Did I kill my cpu?

    You mentioned resetting your CMOS. Are you sure that *all* BIOS settings - not just CPU parameters - were correctly configured afterwards? Both games you have mentioned are online games. What you are describing sounds like network-related issues rather than a problem with the CPU. As for audio...
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    GTX 1080 issue with Rise of Tomb Raider

    This certainly seems like a software (most likely driver) issue rather than a hardware one.
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    2.5" form pcie SSD How do you use it?

    They don't connect directly to PCIe slots: - There is the transitional SATA Express interface, and - A faster, SFF-8639 connection... which is a bit of a mouthful.
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    How come so many brand of gaming mouse fails on the click button?

    When shopping for a reliable mouse, look for Omron microswitches, at least for the left and right click buttons. A lot of the so-called 'high-end' mice use cheap microswitches that fail fast with the double-click syndrome - this disappointingly includes the RAT 7.
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