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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

yes, Intel issues "product discontinuation notices" however, its a bit hard looking these up in a coherent structured manner, usually these are reported on the net. e.g. http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i5-3350p-discontinuation-notice/ https://communities.intel.com/thread/3776 Cheers

Greetings Is it possible for you to locate an old working 80486 PC with a floppy drive? I used Ghost that was around at the time and it was a two stage process as I would simply just boot DOS and then insert the Ghost disk (which occupied pretty much the entire floppy disk) and I would copy...

Greetings I have a couple of questions and comments. Firstly regarding "That's when I encountered an issue: The pool was incompatible! " Did this not ring alarm bells? ZFS at version 28 is perfectly capable of reading each and every version below it from 27 down to 1, if its incompatible...

Because if say you use the ZFS filesystem in a NAS and make the data available on a network share and you snapshot it on a regular basis then the snapshotted data becomes immutable (as its now read-only) and therefore becomes completely IMMUNE to these cryptolocker type virii, the worst that can...

Apparently this particular CPU will have reduced PCI-e lanes in that it will only have a total of x16,x8 and x4 available, given most people usually run multiple video cards in a S2011 system then this may present a few problems and so the more expensive 5930K would be a better option in that...

Greetings Correct because although its a digital signal it's transmitted in an analog fashion so as it travels along the cable the signal strengh declines and once it gets so low that a "1" is interpreted as a "0" then you start getting problems, this decline happens faster in a poor quality...

Greetings It's a single tower cooler and so probably more than adequate for cooling a 3570K, you would only get a dual tower cooler like the NH-D14 if you were really pushing the overclocking limit and needed a bit more cooling capacity otherwise it probably isn't worth it. I have a...

Greetings Really hard to say at the moment because the 2 extra cores are not really needed, but since most people are still running X58 gear that's 5 to 6 years old I would expect a 2011 system to go for roughly that amount of time as well, you may need the extra horsepower when 4K gaming...

True, but most single threaded games would be fairly old (like say BF2/BF2142) so in this instance the choice of CPU is mostly irrelevant provided you have a half decent graphics card. The I7 920 would still be the better choice for something like BF3/BF4 because you have 4 cores/8 threads...

Greetings This is somewhat outside my area of expertise but I presume that what you mean by "absolute bottom dollar" is that performance is not a huge issue, in which case why not just simply build another PC preferably with a server motherboard, Xeon cpu, EEC memory and a couple of M1015...

Greetings I'm not sure if I've got a rough idea of what you want to do so could this be a solution to what you want done, assuming you have 2 eSATA's then you get two 5 to 1 SATA port replicators like this or this that Backblaze use in their Storage pod version 3 and then just house up to 10...

Greetings I have a 4930K running on an X79S-UP5 with two GTX660Ti's in SLI which I use mainly for BF3/BF4, cooler is similar to yours as its a Thermalright SilverArrow SB-E with one central fan. In a room at 24 degrees with the cover presently off on an Antec DF-85 case I get the following...

Greetings What about the re-badged HGST Toshiba version DT01ACA200, only major difference is that it runs at 7200 RPM but that shouldn't be a problem. Cheers

Yes you can. Once its attached to another computer then "Chkdsk X: /f" where X is the attached drive letter. Cheers P.S. The other thing you can do on a pre-emptive basis (and unfortunately probably in your case only once you get the system running - although I could be wrong about this...

Greetings and Just to clarify, I think you must be a bit confused by my reply, OP is not asking to boot off the drive in the USB device, OP just wants to recover data files from it when it is sitting in there. If it can be fixed as I suggested this is a bonus result. The reason I...

Greetings Yes that should be no problem, occasionally though its not the registry that's corrupted as I've had this problem as well, NTFS was the cause of it not starting up so do a "Chkdsk /f" first on it and try booting again as it may work, if it doesn't boot your no worse off and at the...

Greetings No they are not. The major difference (well major if you need it and irrelevant if you don't) is that "K" cpu's don't have VT-D for virtualization whereas "non-K" ones do. If you do want this feature AND you also want to do overclocking you have to go the Socket 2011 route as...

If your getting an ECC capable board and CPU why aren't you also getting ECC RAM? surely it can't be that much more expensive? Cheers

For FPS on BF3/BF4 minimum frame rates approx +20% more average frame rates approx +50% more maximum frame rates approx +80% more Doesn't sound too impressive but it might turn a system that shudders a bit from time to time when it gets bogged down into one thats pretty smooth all the...

Greetings Here's a background of problems that used to occur with 100 Mhz ethernet that went away with Gb ethernet. Cat 5 blue cables (100 Mhz) were usually wired up as send pair > receive pair on the other end and also the receive pair > send pair on the other end with the remaining 4...

Apparently transistor leakage was a huge problem with the Prescotts at higher speeds, this article explains the problem somewhat. Cheers

Greetings Not as far as I'm aware, I could be wrong but I think you usually need ZFS running on the opened pool to check the integrity with a scrub, the only other thing you can do is just read all the blocks from start to finish on the remaining drives to check they actually work OK but I...

Greetings I agree with Worldexclusive that a 6GB 780 is probably the best way to go, I have read that people like yourself with a 2GB 680 also struggle with that game and yet someone who has a 3GB 580 has no problems so VRAM must be the issue as the 580 is a slower card, in addition if a...

Greetings I vaguely do recall an Asrock motherboard that had your requested setup in a Z68? or Z77? motherboard as it had the x16 slots in the 1st and also around the middle of the board in I think the 4th slot position which I thought was ideal if you wanted to run 2.5 slot wide video cards...

Greetings Please refer to the following two PDF files https://www.snia.org/sites/default/education/tutorials/2008/spring/storage/Whittington-W_Desktop_Nearline_Enterprise_HDDS.pdf and...