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Thank you very much for confirming.

Hi, I have an Z390 AORUS ULTRA MB and wanted to find out how many hard drives I can run at the same time. I currently have 4 SATA drives and wanted to find out if I can add one or two additional NVMes. My 4 hard drives are connected to the lanes SATA 0, 1, 2 ,3, 5 (I think I use 1 extra lane...

I stress tested with Realbench for 4h with no errors but I think the 8h test restarted my computer. I'll have to re-run the test. Do you think that the 4h test is enough if it crashes at 8? I have been playing games with no issues.

Hi, I upgraded my mobo and CPU to an i-7 9700k. I get a stable O/C at 5.1ghz with 1.2 voltage and 70C package temps. When I try to go to 5.2ghz I keep getting the blue screen. I've gone up to 1.215 voltage. Does this mean that I have reached the end of my O/C or I should continue to...

After killing iPhoto, CPU usage went to almost 0%. I find it incredible that an app from a developer such as Apple would be so poorly optimized.

I looked at task manager and the only 'heavy' process is icloud photo library which uses 19% of the CPU, after that it's icloud with 3.4% and all else is negligible. Is this normal for the CPU to be at 90%usage on one thread?

Hi All, I recently upgraded my CPU and mobo to an i7-9700k. HWM monitor shows that on idle, on the Utilization section, one of my CPU cores runs between 80% to 98% while the others are between 1% to 28%. I tried rebooting and the core that runs high keeps changing, i.e. it's not always the...

Yes, I like ninite! Thanks for your advice USAFRet

Thanks, I guess I'll just try to just do a reboot with no fresh install and see what happens. Is there a software solution that allows for re-installation of software after hardware changes? I guess not?

Hi All, I'm replacing my Motherboard, CPU and RAM and need your advice with regards to Windows installation. My question is, can I just let Windows 10 do it's thing, i.e. change the hardware, boot and let Windows install all necessary drivers? I have a retail Windows 10 and am familiar on how...

@CountMike, would I then boot into a linux system and plug in the drive via a USB? Will my other drives work so that I can copy the data from the USB drive to my Hard drives?

Hi All, I need some help with one of my hard drives. A bit of background first. One of my hard drives, which only has data on it, started malfunctioning. I rebooted my computer and then kept getting the blue screen. After a few failed auto-repair attempts and some command prompt digging, I...

I'll try the optical and see. I was only worried whether I would be able to easily add a sub in the future (I haven't bought the speakers yet). I read somewhere that the sub levels and speakers levels would need to be adjusted and it's not as easy as plug and play.