• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Recent content by Unabomber

  1. Unabomber

    Asrock B550 motherboard won't work with SATA M.2 SSD

    I got the card. It works great with just the SATA M2, but I haven't tried it with a NVMe drive in there at the same time just yet.
  2. Unabomber

    Identical twin boards die nearly at the same time

    Asrock B550 Gaming 4 / AC boards came in today. Both are working fine, but I had to find out the hard way that these boards do not support M.2 SATA drives (NVMe-only). No big deal since one system was using a NVMe drive, and I had a 1 TB SATA 2.5" SSD (Teamgroup) sitting around for the other...
  3. Unabomber

    Asrock B550 motherboard won't work with SATA M.2 SSD

    Thanks, guys. I was hoping that there was a BIOS trick that could make it recognize it. No big deal anyways... The PCIe card I'm getting has two slots on it, one that's compatible with SATA and the other that works with NVMe. I don't exactly remember which vendor on Amazon it was, but...
  4. Unabomber

    Asrock B550 motherboard won't work with SATA M.2 SSD

    Hi folks, I have a 1 TB Verbatim M.2 SATA SSD hard drive that was working fine in my old MSI X470 motherboard that died recently. I just got a new Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 / ac board and the drive isn't showing up in the UEFI or Windows. There's a steady red LED lit up next to the M.2...
  5. Unabomber

    Identical twin boards die nearly at the same time

    Just to be safe, I took out the old warrior power supply (a 19 year old Antec Truepower Trio 650 watt unit) on one of them, and put in a new Corsair RM750e power supply. Memtest86 showed no memory errors, even after 4 cycles. Capacitors all look good (solid state), although I honestly...
  6. Unabomber

    Identical twin boards die nearly at the same time

    Thanks. I'll definitely try that this Monday. It had originally be setup for CSM mode back in 2018, but after I got rid of the old DVD-RW drive that required that mode, I converted it to UEFI, and changed the UEFI setting. I'll take a look at the settings. Yeah, if I can keep the old...
  7. Unabomber

    Identical twin boards die nearly at the same time

    Thanks for the suggestions, folks. CMOS battery socket looked clean, but I replaced the CR2032's. No difference. I'll take a look at the capacitors Monday morning, for sure. I'm actually curious to see whether or not they're electrolytic or solid state polymer, but that's going to require...
  8. Unabomber

    Identical twin boards die nearly at the same time

    Sometimes I wonder if the phenomenon of identical twins dying shortly after each other applies to motherboards as well... I have three AM4 systems in my nuclear magnetic resonance facility. These are my own builds, all currently using AM4 hardware. These systems have been in my personal...
  9. Unabomber

    DRAM Pricing Jumps 50%, Only 70% of Orders Getting Filled

    They'll increase prices. There's no avoiding it. https://www.westernjournal.com/apple-raise-prices-citing-unsustainable-situation/
  10. Unabomber

    WTB: GTX 1070-ish GPU

    Next time Kyang's in the central Alabama area, he gets several rounds of brew from the Good People Brewing Company, along with fine Southern Barbecue. Anyways, still looking for that GPU. :)
  11. Unabomber

    WTB: GTX 1070-ish GPU

    I'm in the process of finishing up my daughter's first computer build. I have everything in place except for the GPU. She's getting a Ryzen 5 5500, 16 GB DDR4, and a 500 GB mechanical hard drive. That's plenty for her needs, and should be quite future-proof for a while. I'm about to put...
  12. Unabomber

    Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

    Facebook's prime years may be behind it, but it's not dying completely any time soon. It's like in Citizen Kane, when Charles Foster Kane responds to Mr. Thatcher's report that they lost a million dollars. In all seriousness, though, they're on a much more firm ground than what Myspace was...
  13. Unabomber

    Need PSU recommendation

    That rig isn't going to be power-hungry at all. The unit that pendragon1 linked will be more than plenty. His two biggest power draws will come from the CPU (91 W TDP), and the GPU (120 W max). Also...
  14. Unabomber

    The Nvidia GeForce3 launched 25 years ago — underappreciated at launch, its impact shaped the industry

    I went from a GeForce 2 GTS to a GeForce Ti3 200. The difference in smoothness of play in Half Life (actually more of Team Fortress Classic) was quite remarkable at 1024 x 768 or higher resolutions. At 800x600, the two were similar, but by that time, I had upgraded my monitor.
  15. Unabomber

    What's the worst luck you all have had in the silicon lottery?

    Cyrix 486 DX2-66 (5V part)... I tried to overclock it to 80 MHz, since all of the other components in the system worked just fine with an AMD 486 DX-40. Nope. It would work fine for about 2 minutes after booting up, and then freeze. The CPU wasn't even warm at all. This would happen...
See more
Back
Top