Recent content by AkhandChakra

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    Samsung 970 PRO 512 - Just clone took 1.4TB of Total Bytes Written

    Hi I just got the new 970 PRO, 512 GB and cloned data from my SATA M.2 to this 970 PRO NVMe one using the Samsung Data Migration tool. To begin with when i test with Crystal Disk Mark i just got 3200-3300 MB/s not 3500 MB/s. Anyways, i just did the clone of around 180GB of data from my old M.2...
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    Z170 vs X99?

    I feel for heavy gaming, even i5 should be fine as the Graphics card is gone make the difference. I think you can get 2 monitors as well with this setup, irrespective of X99/Z170, it all depends on GC. But, one key difference would be, Z170 will have support for Dx12, might be future proof...
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    Intel Z170 LGA-1151 Motherboard Roundup

    Building new, so, don't want to go with x99, and I may need more M.2 slots as I've my laptop with PCIe M.2, would swap drives if required, need USB Type-C as well. BTW, I'm not sure X99 chipset has more PCIe lanes than Z170, I doubt that. Are you sure. Also, I don't see any RAM kit supporting...
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    Intel Z170 LGA-1151 Motherboard Roundup

    How about this, my Dream Skylake PC - http://pcpartpicker.com/user/jinishans/saved/28F9TW PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zj78Bm Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zj78Bm/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Cooler...
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    Google Chrome being really (and I mean REALLY) SLOW

    Chrome is really really really really SLOW for the last 15-20 days in my Windows 10 Tech Preview (desktop mode). I've 50Mbps always from comcast, still youtube is slow, netflix is slow (though it works fine in my xbox one), even google maps is slow, daily motion is slow. simple google search is...