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Hi, I have a b450m pro4 and although it says it's not possible to downgrade bios, I did that by mistake a couple of years ago and it kept working. But that was for the same generations of CPUs. Now I want to upgrade from the bios prior to the support of the 5000 series to the latest...

Thank you. I gave up the idea of using octane for this setup, however I do have an older PC with Intel 6th gen CPU and a sata ssd. It happens to use a high end Z170 motherboard that has m2 gen3 slot!! For this PC it can actually work right? However I have no idea where to start, and how to use...

Hello, A brand new WD SN770 1TB shows decent speeds but one of the tests looks like it's much slower than others when comparing to reviews online - the READ SEQ1M Q1T1: View: https://imgur.com/a/dpml9Gt Could the drive be faulty? Or there are other reasons for that and it's normal? thanks

Hello, I know this is not the use case for Optane and nvmes are already fast enough, but theoretically can I still increase the system's performance by having both nvme and Optane? The motherboard itself has one pcie 2.0 and one pcie 3.0. **Assuming it's the Intel Optane p1600x 118gb...

thank you @sycoreaper , yes I know they are a Micron brand, but I'm curious if the Crucial sticker itself is a fake because the font is very bold compared to all images I found online(Amazon reviews for example), and all the images have 2 QR codes on the Crucial sticker and I only have on the...

Update: I decided to connect the RAM and this is how it shows up (It has serial number but I removed it here): View: https://imgur.com/a/YYzeenR Does it seem OK? It is not Crucial but it does look like genuine Micron. Or it also can faked? It does not show up in Micron's SPD lookup...

I got a reply from both Crucial and Micron both saying that it's probably fake :/ Also compare the PCB to actual Crucial CT8G4SFRA32A on customer review images on Amazon and the PCB is different

Do Crucial RAM suppose to show up as Crucial in CPU-Z, or Micron? I'm not kinda scared to put them in the laptop :D On Amazon customer reviews images, some people seem to get stickers on both sides as well (like mine, micron on one side and Crucial on the other side). Here are 3 images of my...

I bought a laptop DDR4 from from AliExpress. It has stickers on both sides. On one side there is the following part number: CT8G4SFRA32A with Crucial logo On the other side the following part number: MTA8ATF1G64HZ-3G2R1 with Micron logo *Do Crucial laptop RAMs have stickers on both sides...

I want to clean my friend's old Lenovo Q190 ideacentre. It has Intel i3-3217u CPU and it idles at 55-60C, under load (not much load, web browsing, spotify etc..) it goes about 65C. Running stress test temps go to 72C. Thermal paste never replaced, but for such small heatsink it may actually...

Here are some photos: *The heatsink itself if you look in this photo is 65x54mm (its height is 70mm) And bunch of many components hidden in the above photo (To the right side of the heatsink, underneath, their height is 10mm, capacitors being the tallest)

There is no: https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-compaq-dc5800-small-form-factor-pc/3658082/manuals But I can just use a multimeter, however it doesn't solve the problem of actually finding such adapter, this is how the connector looks like:

Hello, I have an HP station with 4-pin fan connector but the plastic notches are different, the plastics are over pins 1 and 4 and not 1 and 3. Now I want to replace the fan and I want to know if the pinout is the same, and if you think that I can find such adapter from regular 4-pin to this...

It's A custom mini heatsink for this small form factor pc. 80c is too hot because it's rated for maximum 71c. I thought about ziptying a 70mm fan to it. Do you have a recommendation for a not too loud 70x70x15mm fan? Thanks

I'd like to use the 4-pins for the PWM to work so it will be silent (Or I'm wrong and it can be silent even without PWM) And, it's not that I want to avoid push pins, I just can't install push pins there because it has threads for screws (Or again I'm wrong and I can still use push pins with...