Recent content by Silmatharien

I am looking at building a system using this board: MSI B250M PRO-VDH. In the specs, it says it has an M.2 port that supports "up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s with an M key." Does this mean that I can plug in any M keyed M.2 SSD that communicates via either PCIe 3.0 x 4 (I think this is the...

I've been having the following issue with my Z87 Pro and i5 4670k processor for quite awhile. Probably move than 50% of the time, when I start my computer up with a cold boot, I will immediately get the Q code 00 which I guess is CPU detect. Fans connected to the motherboard will not start up...

Well that would hinder my OCs wouldn't it? I'm not really sure if it's necessary that I have 8 GB of memory this point. I was wondering if 4 is enough or if I really should be thinking about 8. Also looking at newegg.ca, I'm seeing C6 DDR3-1600 G-Skill RAM for about $20 more than the C7. Would...

I'm building a new computer and will overclock it. Going with an i5 750. It'll primarily be for gaming, programming and viewing HD media. Anyway, since these motherboards don't support triple channel I am really leaning towards going to 2 DIMMs of memory. My dilemma is that I'm either going to...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. Anyway ... For those of you who actually did get the 1156 retention kit, I'm curious about how it compares to the 775 kit. Looking at the pictures online they look so similar so I'm wondering if I could use the 775 kit when I get an i5 system instead of having...

Bump. Been using one of these radiators for the last three years and it's worked perfectly!

I'm getting a 2 gig one for my brother for his DS. Anyway, just wondering if there are any brands that are known to give particularly good performance. I haven't found any good comparisons of the major brands.

You don't need active cooling for HDDs. I'd only suggest it perhaps if they were really crammed in there with little to no airflow.

Okay, here we go! :) Apparently the 6.86 drivers are somewhat incompatible with my motherboard. I went back to the 6.53s from 2005, installed, rebooted, and everything works like a charm now. :)

Well, I tried creating a new array - RAID 0, 128k stripe size. I've reinstalled drivers but still, nothing seems to work. :( Unless there's something physically wrong with my motherboard all of a sudden, I don't see what it could be ...

I have though. I have them set up as a 64k striped array. It shows up while the computer boots as a RAID 0 array with the two drives (it shows this very clearly). I have made quite sure that my BIOS has RAID enabled for the primary master and slave drives ... and I don't know what to do. I had...

When I partition and format, they appear separately as two 120 gig drives in My Computer. Right now they are unpartitioned.

The story is that I set two 120 gig IDE drives with RAID 0 and a 64k stripe size. I enabled RAID in BIOS specifically for the one IDE channel that they're both on. When I boot up my computer, I enter the RAID utility and everything appears fine there. However, when I load up Partition Magic to...

mostly storing your items. really handy because otherwise you get bogged down carrying it all with you

I've read the 22 isn't very good. I got the 20" today and it's freaking unbelievable. I love it.