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Just ran out and got the P8Z68-V/GEN3 and the settings missing above were on this one. Great right! Wrong. For some odd reason it never goes above 3.4GHz... I can still return this motherboard if for some reason I NEED the P8z68-V Pro/GEN3 board. Does the "Pro" have a necessity that for some...

Well I've tried all that I can think of. This is what I got it set to: AI TWEAKER: OC Tuner: Manual BCLK: 100.0 Turbo Ratio: By All Cores By All Cores: 46 PLL Overvolts: Auto Mem Freq: Auto I GPU Max: 1650 (I never touched this) OC TUner-----> DO NOT TOUCH. It starts Auto-OC DRAM: All Auto...

I am rather new to overclocking as I normally never bother with it but I was told that with this mobo and the 2600k that it was ultra easy. So I went into the bios AI Tweaker and set it to manual, bslk to 100 and all cores to 40 (was told 46 was safe but start small...). No dice. CPU-Z still...

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Well I went with the Crucial M4 256GB before Christmas and just thought I'd log on and let you all know that I'm rather pleased. I don't know if I'd recommend this $400 part for the common user as most look for an entire system for that price but it definitely sped up the bottleneck. I left my...

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JackNaylorPE - Wow...now that is some info! So really a HDD setup is a HDD setup regardless if non-RAID or RAID0. So is investing in a SSD really worth that much more than a Raptor 10k? If so, would a simple 128GB for the OS be enough or should I really get a 256GB to hold both the OS and...

j2j663 - Thanks for the response. I know that I can't simply run the programs again, I guess because after a reinstall I invariably forget what programs I had and it is nice to archive the Program Files folder for a few weeks just in case. Plus, after Quicken saved a friend's database in the...

rolli59 - Guess you got a good point. I already moved the User files to my Storage drive but I guess it has just been plain habit to have 3 drives/partitions for OS / APPS / STORAGE. I always kept my APPS separate for the simple reason they may store something I don't want wiped in case I need...

GhislainG - Thanks for the info and rolli59, thank you for the link. So I guess it is a flip of the coin on reliability and what I may just do is disregard RAID and keep doing the nightly backup to NAS idea. One more question, since SSD is strongly being suggested here then would the Crucial...

Very interesting. I did some reading up on TRIM as I never heard of that before and from what I gather, it is disabled when in RAID mode correct? So technically, RAID is an aging technology with the HDD... So you would suggest one 128GB SSD for the OS and one 128GB SSD for the APPS as I would...