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I have had a few crashes on my Windows 10 machine (HP Zbook 15G2). At first, I thought they might be related to heat as it's an older machine and was running pretty hot at the time, however..., during reboot after one of the crashes, there was a message during the Windows startup screen that one...

Thanks a lot popatim. Your info about x16 and x8 PCIe based on populating the 2nd slot was really useful, and I like the solution of one SSD, one NVME, and one spinner, especially if a 3rd SSD for scratch is not really necessary with NVME speeds. Actually I already have an extra SSD sitting...

I'm looking at an AMD AM4 motherboard and would like to use 2 NVME drives, but I can't figure out whether I can really get the benefit from them. We can use the ASRock Killer as an example: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Killer%20SLIac/index.asp There is 1 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4 &...

I accidentally wrote Z370 instead of X370 which is the mobo in my shopping cart. I've updated the original post, thanks.

I'm building a pure editing workstation primarily for use with Adobe Premiere and After Effects. I will be processing greenscreen footage, color-correcting, layering footage and rendering 4K and 1080 videos for Youtube etc. I'm not a pro editor, I'm just a guy starting a business which involves...

I have two hard drives in my laptop, an SSD with the OS and a 2nd platter drive. The platter drive (which I use to store music, videos, etc.) is still working somewhat...however very slowly. A few files seem to have become corrupted, it hangs Windows Explorer and other programs, and so on. I...

I agree with what's been said, I've lived in USA and Germany for long periods of time, never had battery problems, used the same battery (and charger) with the same laptop, didn't even get a new dedicated plug, just used a cheap adapter fitted to my USA plug to use German power. Sorry I can't...