Recent content by kschendel

Question What 1 TB NVME drive would you buy today?

PCIe 3 or 4? (5 isn't worth it IMO except for corner cases.) What am I putatively doing with the drive? If I'm looking for a general purpose drive, at today's US pricing, probably the Klevv CRAS C910. Inexpensive and decent enough for most things.
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- Post #9
- Mar 4, 2025
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Question Need advice for upgrading my pc

My immediate reaction would be to upgrade the BIOS on the motherboard, drop in a 5600G CPU, and either add another 8 GB stick of RAM, or (preferable) replace with 2x8 of 3200CL16 RAM. I have no idea what pricing is like in your region; if 2x16 is doable, that would be better. If there's money...
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- Post #2
- Mar 3, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Review My quick review of Fractal Design's Core 1100 mATX tower case

Fractal Design have some winners and some losers, like pretty much everyone else. I really liked the Meshify 2 Mini (now hard to find, it seems), and the Define series are good. The Core 1100 is an 11 year old design and the Focus G is 8 years old. I think their more recent designs are...
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- Post #2
- Feb 26, 2025
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
Question What do these terms mean in BIOS? Should I open it? Should I leave it closed?

Unless you plan on booting over a network, in which case you probably should already know what those terms mean, disable the network stack and the remaining items become irrelevant.
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- Post #5
- Feb 22, 2025
- Forum: Motherboards
Question What is best option for increasing storage for GAMES?

Unless you enjoy throwing money around, I'd take the easy way out and add some SATA SSD's. You can move some less active stuff to the SATA drive, if you like. Realistically, for most games that load once and run, you'll never notice the difference between a SATA drive and a fast NVMe. (I run...
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- Post #3
- Feb 18, 2025
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Question Quality PSU in 2025

RMx is probably Corsair's best 80+ Gold efficiency unit, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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- Post #8
- Feb 17, 2025
- Forum: Power Supplies
Question Question about PCIe versions and slots and lanes - please spoonfeed me.

The answer to the last question is no. The maximum number of lanes that a PCIe card (or m.2 slot) actually uses is hardwired. Any PCIe card can run at a slower speed (PCIe version) than what the slots supply, but they can't go faster. Also, any card should be able to use fewer lanes than the...
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- Post #3
- Jan 24, 2025
- Forum: Motherboards
Question Europian Motherboard Compatibility in US

I'm not sure where you are looking; a quick google shows newegg selling it, and I'm sure there are others. Anyway, it's probably manufactured in Taiwan, not Europe. Even if it were, there shouldn't be any issues. I can't think of any Europe-only standard that would affect anything on the...
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- Post #2
- Jan 24, 2025
- Forum: Motherboards
Question Quick Memory Recommendation for a 5700X3D System

Right now I have 3 tabs open in Chrome, and 2 more in Safari, and I honestly can't think of any reason why I'd want more. Very occasionally when I'm looking at forum posts I might temporarily have 8 or 9. Anyway, enough of that OT.
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- Post #5
- Jan 24, 2025
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Question Quick Memory Recommendation for a 5700X3D System

I think my head just exploded. I get lost after about 6 or 7. Anything that's 3200cl16 or 3600cl18 ought to be fine. The whole point of the X3D cache is to minimize memory references.
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- Post #3
- Jan 22, 2025
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Solved! Has anyone seen this?

Yes, I've seen this sort of thing before. If you have the right kind of failure at the device end, it can hang the controller, and if the POST doesn't have appropriate hung-device timeouts, you get long boots or no boots at all. The person writing that part of the BIOS code either figured a...
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- Post #3
- Dec 5, 2024
- Forum: Motherboards
Question IDE controller

LOL this reminds me of a true story from many many years ago. I was working at a computer timesharing company. Everyone used serial terminals to connect to the computers, and we had our own field engineering department to keep the computers running. One engineer had a serial terminal in for...
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- Post #31
- Dec 1, 2024
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Question External Drive - what does the PC see?

Yep, assuming the USB-to-SATA chip in the enclosure supports UASP. I haven't seen a non-UASP enclosure for a while (outside of the $5 junk).
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- Post #7
- Nov 7, 2024
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Question Types of Storage you use

To be fair, it's not like they are running a modern system off of floppies. The entire train control setup is ancient, and the $212 mil price tag includes overhauling pretty much the entire thing, including comms, sensors, actuators, the lot.
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- Post #54
- Oct 26, 2024
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Question GREATEST CPU OF ALL TIME (DESKTOP >1999)

One more vote for the 6502. If limited to the poll selection, the initial Sandy Bridge series. I have a soft spot for the 80386 as well, as the first x86 with rational memory management.
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- Post #25
- Sep 20, 2024
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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