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Ok, thank you for your answers. I'll try with a SATA III enclosure and post my results here.

I used a Toshiba 500Gb 5400RPM drive to test them, I don't remember the exact model but it must be older. Do you have any recommendation for an enclosure (brand/model/controller)? I need to be able to get it in Europe and i'd like to pay 20€ maximum (under 15€ would be perfect). Even if you...

Hi, As I previously said, these enclosures work perfectly with other drives, so its not an issue of Windows trying to assign the drive an already taken letter. Moreover, I work under Linux (sorry, I should have specified it in the original post), which doesn't mount drives that way. From what...

Sorry I misunderstood your first answer. Well, I checked Sabrent's website and I couldn't find anything that could help, or any formatting instructions. And I just couldn't find YouN's website. Moreover, I tried over hard drives in these enclosures and they work fine. I used mkfs under Linux to...

Hi, The enclosures are not from Western Digital, the hard drives are (WD5000LUCT) and I'm trying to install them in third party enclosures. Moreover, I already checked WD's instruction on their support website, but they are of not use in my case. Thank you for your quick reply.

Hello everyone, I recently acquired a few used 500Gb Western Digital white label 2.5'' drives (model WD5000LUCT), and I'd like to convert them into external hard drives. I hot plugged them in my Asus P8Z77-V PRO/Thunderbolt without any hassle. I ran SMART tests and they all passed. I then...

Thanks for your answer. From what I've read on other forums and articles, the Corsair VS series power supplies are regarded as really poor quality. They also apparently use low quality capacitors, according to this HardwareInsights.com review of the VS450, which is also manufactured by CWT.

Hi everyone, I have a Corsair VS550 laying around and I'd like to use it in a gaming PC with the following components: - Intel i5-4440 (TDP 84W); - 2x 4Gb DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaws @ 1600MHz; - 1x 2Tb Toshiba hard drive; - 1x 120Gb SSD; - Asus GTX 770 DirectCU II OC (Up to 300W of power...

Thank you for taking time to answer my questions. I currently have two systems I'd like to overclock. The first one has the follow configuration: CPU: I5-3570K Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBORD; RAM: 2x 4Gb HyperX @ 1600MHz. But sadly this system is starting to have display glitches...

Thank you a lot for your detailed answer, this helps a lot. But I have a few more questions: If I understood correctly, RAM overclocking capacity is on the motherboard side? If the BIOS doesn't offer any RAM overclocking options, are there other tools that can do so? Is the overclocking option...

Hi, I just want to learn more about how the different frequencies are set and how they correlate between one another. I'd also like to know how voltages are set. Right now thats what I understand about how modern systems work: The CPU sets the BCLK (Base CLocK) that is used by the CPU...

Hi, I just got an used Cooler Master RS-400-PSAP-I3, also know as know as the Elite Power 400W. It is advertised as a 400 Watts PSU, it has NO 80+ certification, and uses PASSIVE PFC. It has dual +12V rails, each one being 16 Amperes, and provide a combined maximum output of 276 Watts. For...

Thanks for your answer. I built the computer with these specifications and the q6600 "overclocked" to 3GHz thanks to the BSEL mod, I stress tested it with Unigine Heaven and it stayed stable. My friend as been doing a lot of gaming on it for the past week and it stayed stable, it never shut...

Hi, A friend of mine needed a cheap computer capable of gaming, so I got a few used parts and here is what I've got: CPU: Intel q6600, 4 cores @ 2.4GHz Graphics card: GV-65TOC-2GI, Gigabyte GTX 650 Ti, 2Gb GDDR5, Core @ 1032MHz RAM: 4x 2Gb DIMMs DDR2 @ 800MHz HDD: 1x SATA 500Gb, 7200RPM PSU...

I have a lot of spare graphics cards, I'm not going to buy a new one, I can't afford it right now. Moreover, I already tried a GTX 770 that I own, but I still had the same issues. I also ran Memtest86 from the Ultimate Boot CD to check if my RAM wasn't the culprit, but it didn't report any...