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I recently had a couple nice X99 motherboards given to me, looking for CPUs so I can make use of them. 5960x, 6900k, or 6950x all acceptable.

Has anyone tried slapping a modern NVMe SSD into a PCIe 4x slot that's provided by the chipset via DMI 2.0? In theory, a good SSD is enough to totally saturate DMI 2.0 all on its own, and there are other devices sharing that bandwidth. I'm curious if the chipset will prioritize certain devices...

Keep an eye out, your phone should be notifying you of the update soon. Anyone with a Lumia handset will also be getting new device firmware to go along with the OS update, enabling new hardware features (improved camera software, 5.1 surround recording for videos, updated Dolby Headphone /...

Against my better judgement I went ahead and tried another AiO water cooler. Was really hoping the H55 "quiet edition" would be decent, but it seems to have all the usual problems. The pump in the H55 is now the loudest thing in the entire room. It buzzes constantly and is audible, inside a...

Thought you guys might want to see this: http://www.cnet.com/news/darfons-super-thin-maglev-keyboard-will-make-notebooks-even-slimmer/ I'd be interested in a desktop version of this. If they can really modulate the magnetic fields that suspend the keys in real-time, this type of keyboard...

I'm hoping there's a quick and easy answer to this... Anyone know of an RDP client for Android that supports automatically retrying dropped connections? Bonus points if it also supports automatically connecting to a preset server on when the app is started. We have some Windows-powered digital...

Hope you're all registered to receive the update early, because it's now live! :D Just open up Settings > Phone Update > Check for Update. My Lumia 920 just finished installing 8.1, took about 40 minutes. Time to try out all the new features (like Cortana)!

Figured this mod was worth mentioning here, as I'm rather pleased with the results. This all started because of a bad run of ACX coolers that all had whiny fans. You can read about my trip through RMA-hell right over here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1801784 Supplies needed for this...

So, its been about 20 years since the iconic Channelwood Age poster was originally printed as a promotional item for the original MYST, and the things have become exceedingly rare. Nothing but expired ebay listings await you if you're looking to buy one these days. Even damaged posters have gone...

Here's the timeline so far: 1. I bought an ACX cooler directly from EVGA, installed it on my GTX 780, found out the fan has issues at specific RPMs. 2. RMA that cooler. 3. Replacement arrives, and it's worse in every way. Grinding noises at all low speeds. 4. RMA that cooler. 5. Replacement...

Firewall at my office pulls this up every time I click on a newegg link on HardForum Should I be worried about this?

My previous file server was a hodge-podge of parts and hardware collected over the years, and I wanted to do a refresh "done right" from the ground up. Parts list: Case - Fractal Design Node 304 Mobo - Asus P8H77-I CPU - Intel Core i3 3245 RAM - 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 HDD - 3x Western Digital...

Sooooo... I'm looking for a keyboard with the following: Cherry MX Brown Costar stabilizers Blue LED backlight Media keys (dedicated or by Fn key) Full 104 key layout Plain black casing (no weird indents or rivets or patterns) Normal Windows keys Is there anything that fits the bill? So far...

We've caused ourselves a bit of hell recently with deployed printers. We initially deployed a new batch of printers using the "User Configuration\Windows Settings\Deployed Printers" section of group policy. Well, turns out, that deploys the printers so that they're owned by the local system...

Figured I'd ask this question here since I'm running into a bit of a wall. We have a Microsoft Lync deployment comprised of two Standard Edition front end servers (with failover configured) behind an edge server and a 3rd party reverse proxy. Local clients work, remote clients work, mobile...

Trying to figure out the largest / quietest heatsink I can get away with. I currently have: - Asus P8Z68V-Pro/GEN3 motherboard - Four sticks of Corsair Vengeance RAM - Xigmatek HDT-S1283 heatsink The Xigmatek works because it's thin enough that, even with the fan mounted, it doesn't...

Still dealing with that annoying problem where one screen has a fixed horizontal tear that becomes apparent whenever something moves. I've heard some people have managed to fix it, I'm curious how... My current configuration is as follows: - Radeon HD 6970 with Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 - Three...

So, I've been rocking a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive for a while now, and while the performance is pretty good, the noise that the drive produces (even when it's just idle) is becoming an annoyance. This one hard disk is the single loudest component in the entire computer. I've even...

Anyone else experiencing horrible flickering in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine with 12.6 and 12.8? The flickering goes away if you enable V-Sync, but that causes weird performance issues (like nerfing the rate of fire on the heavy bolter). This may only effect eyefinity display...

Just saw this article posted, I'm absolutely astonished at such quick turn-around time: http://wmpoweruser.com/idc-nokias-market-share-in-finland-is-on-the-rise-on-the-back-of-windows-phone-hits-41/ Nokia has taken the top-spot in their home country. Here's the breakdown for Finland: 41%: Nokia...

Any ideas what might be causing this horrendous performance graph? The drive in question is a Crucial C300 (64gb version) with firmware revision 006 The blue line should be completely flat, hovering around the 355 MB/s mark. As you can see, it's pretty far from that... Drive is plugged into...

Upgraded from a BIOS-based motherboard to a UEFI based motherboard, kept the same install of Windows 7. Everything is working fine, but I have one nagging annoyance... Windows 7 is still using the old bootloader for BIOS-based systems, which I imagine doesn't help start-up times. Is there any...

This is getting a bit ridiculous... the fan in my Corsair TX750 power supply has picked up an annoying rattle, so I went ahead and got an advanced replacement from Corsair. Unbox the shiny new TX750 v2... fan rattles worse than my old TX750 v1. Call up Corsair again and explain the problem...

Heathcliff75 has just released WP7 Root Tools 0.9, which allows users control over root certificates on stock Windows Phone 7 ROMs. You can hand out full root access on an app-by-app basis for homebrew applications that need it. Before this was released, the only way to get root access on WP7...

You read that right. The Lumia 900 is now AT&T's company-use phone. What does that mean exactly? AT&T provides their employees with certain company-use phone models for free; formerly this included the iPhone and some Android handsets. Seems those are off the table, and the Lumia 900 will...

I've been trying out Windows 8 on my HP Touchsmart TM2 (convertible laptop/tablet) and loving it, but I kinda want to see how it handles itself on a very low-spec system. Pulled out one of my oldest laptops and attempted to give it a go. Machine is an HP Pavilion ze4805us. Specs: Athlon XP-M...

Something seems to be very wrong with the voltage control on the P8Z68-V/GEN3. No matter what I do in the UEFI, when I boot into Windows, the voltage is WAY higher than I set. I currently have the UEFI set to 1.125v and the voltage is showing up as 1.35v in Windows. Am I missing something...

Looking to get a nice Z68 motherboard (P67 would also work, I don't care about integrated video). Are any of these particularly stand-out choices? My current top-pick: ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 Runners up: ASRock Z68 EXTREME4 GEN3 EVGA Z68 SLI 130-SB-E685-KR And a P67 version of the ASRock...

So, here's how I managed to end up in my current situation... 1. Built two identical media center PC's 2. Installed and configured Windows on one of them. 3. Cloned the hard disk in the configured system to the blank system. 4. Changed the product key on the cloned system so it's unique...

Surprised nobody has made a thread about this yet... Microsoft just threw the switch, carriers have the green light to distribute Mango (Windows phone 7.5). Even AT&T, who was among the last to distribute the previous update, has said that the update will begin rolling out to devices from...

This doesn't sound good... The full blog post is rather in-depth and well worth a read. You can find that here: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/most-android-vendors-lost-their-linux.html As if there weren't already enough lawsuits and federal investigations being thrown at Google and...

Source: Windows Team Blog Post Build number for the final version of Mango appears to be 7720, which is 59 builds newer than Mango Beta 2 (7661), and a full 330 builds newer than NoDo (7390). Looks like we're just waiting on carriers to push the update, at this point :D

Surprised nobody has posted about this yet. Microsoft has officially rolled out the March update for WP7 (Build 7390). This is the big update that adds "copy and paste" Full changelog for this update: - Copy/paste support. - Large speed improvements (memory management tweaks). - Better...

The original post that kicked this thread off around 6 years ago... Since then, Nvidia has implemented a rudimentary hotkey system... unfortunately, it doesn't work correctly. The built-in Nvidia shortcut keys only allow toggling between Surround and single-monitor modes, when they should...

I commented on this issue a while back, but it looks like it still hasn't been resolved. The drivers are completely disabling my GTX260's fan at random (usually after resuming from sleep or hibernation). Months without being resolved...It's like Nvidia is intentionally trying to kill off old...

Has anyone been able to get Dawn of War II to run correctly on a recent driver? The game wouldn't start at all on 10.10e, and now 10.12a runs it but eventually causes a BSoD (cause is listed as an ATI dll of some sort). I can go all the way back to 10.4a and it'll run just fine for hours and...

So, I just ordered an Asus Xonar DX and a set of Sennheiser HD 595's to go with it. I'm coming from an Audigy 2 which I've only ever used with speakers, so this is a pretty big upgrade for me :D This is my first foray into anything even approaching high-end audio, and I'm understandably a bit...

I was just going to post up the monitors, but now is as good a time as any to clear out my parts closet. Keep scrolling, there's quite a bit of random stuff in here :D I'm looking for an Asus Xonar DX, an SSD (64GB minimum), Sennheiser 555 headphones, or Sony MDR-V6 headphones if you'd like to...

I figured it would be nice to have a list of (non game-specific) major driver issues, as well as their associated workarounds. It took me quite a while to hunt down the exact causes and possible solutions for these issues, hopefully someone finds this pre-made compendium useful. If anyone else...

I ended up replacing the hard disk in my bedroom media center PC with a spare 2.5" hard disk (Seagate, 320GB, 7200RPM) that I had lying around. This lead to a pretty substantial decrease in heat and noise output from the machine, to the point that I was able to remove the small PC's only intake...