Recent content by alvinenns

I just had my motherboard break from a cooler. I have a Z77-DS3H motherboard and i5-3570k processor. I started to use an application that would drive up my temp to 80C which bothered me. I researched coolers and purchased CRYORIG H7 and it worked great - dropped my temp from 80 to 56. But after...

The way that I look at it the mSATA is just another drive along with mechanical and SS drives. The difference is that it fits on the motherboard and uses an interface protocol that appears different from SATA 3 or 6 and hence can offer faster speeds depending on the mSATA capabilities. I do not...

I built a new pc with the Z77-DS3H motherboard about 2 years ago and I picked it mainly for onboard SSD. I used the mSATA drive as my C drive with the OS and applications and it works great. Originally I could boot in 22 sec.s but I've added more applications and now it takes 28 sec.s.