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This is one thing you can try very easily with out overclocking; (1) Benchmark it (2) Underclock it 20% and benchmark it again. (3) Underclock it 40% and benchmark it again. If your benchmark results drop 20% and 40% respectively then your CPU is underpowered. Normally what happens...

Greetings PCI slots are old technology which still exist but not on modern boards, PCI-e slots are what you are referring to. Each PCI-e lane has a bandwidth associated with it, version 1 of PCI-e is 255 MB's bi-directionally, version 2 is 500 MB's bi-directionally and the current version 3...

Greetings I can't see the photo's with the links you provided not that it matters as I can provide a general explanation for you anyway, this kind of situation exists because of Intel chipset limitations and has nothing to do with the motherboard manufacturer, the same thing has existed for...

I have a couple of questions (1) What is the cluster size you are using? (2) Does your Mac have a lot of data in alternate data streams? As far as I'm aware on the PC only the NTFS filesystem supports alternate data streams. I have no idea what other Windows filesystems do with it. Have...

Can you wait two months? http://wccftech.com/gtx-980-lose-performance-crown-amds-r9-380x-febuary-2015/

Unfortunately you can't disable APM for Seagate (if not most consumer 7200RPM drives), you can only increase the byte value timeout interval to the maximum value of 255 using something like HDParm which I understand increases it to something like 5 minutes, if the drive is still idle after...

Greetings If you do it right the first time round you can't go wrong and for this I recommend the Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E/IB-E for a couple of reasons. (1) I just use mine with only one fan in the central position and I didn't bother with the second one, and with this configuration...

I had an E2160 which I overclocked to the speed of a dual core E6600, my cpu had 1MB of cache and I think the E4000 series had 2MB onboard and the E6600 had 4MB, anyway I looked at the graphics benchmarks for single threaded games (like BF2 and BF2142) running with the E6600 and the same video...

(1) re-orientate it so that its vertical (wedge something either side) but make sure its got adequate airflow and try the diagnostics again. (2) if it passes put it back into the case but swap its cable around with another drives and see which one fails this time. Cheers

I wonder what accounts for the lower bandwidth? does memory speed get reduced or are timings increased perhaps? its strange that its exactly half the bandwidth unless perhaps it does a memory access to the first stick and then does the same for the second one in that channel leading to a...

You sure you got them placed right? Socket 2011 channels come in adjacent pairs so to populate with 4 sticks you place them into slots 1,3,5,7 or 2,4,6,8. If you put them into 1,2,3,4 or 5,6,7,8 your only using 2 channels and this would account for half the expected bandwidth. If you have...

Probably a leftover from the CRT days when an invalid setting would leave you with a blank (or black screen) and unable to do anything about it and in that particular situation there was "nothing more intelligent" than to have it revert back to the previous working resolution 15 seconds later...

Greetings Raid 50 would be a higher performance mirrored raid 5 array but only 10TB usable. Raid 6 would be slower but would be 20TB usable. Personally if safe and secure storage is your major concern I'd suggest running ZFS either Raid Z2 (two parity drives like Raid 6) or better still...

I've found that buying from their Aliexpress site is a lot easier as its geared to the end user purchasing smaller quantaties of items rather than B2B on Alibaba, also payments to the supplier can also be embargoed until you receive the item in good condition and if not you can raise a dispute...

Greetings this should help you some. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/printpage/How-to-Identify-Japanese-Electrolytic-Capacitors/595 Cheers