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Hello all, I just bought a OCZ Vertex 4 128gb, and it's not getting 550mb/s read, instead it's somewhere around 420mb/s. Everything else seems lower too. Firmware is 1.5, and TRIM is enabled. Any tips? Thanks.

Why would you even buy a miata in the first place? lol, I can see your point though, I'd rather buy a vw bug, put a lift kit on it, and wedge a twin-turbo 502 in it.

Hey, I have an ASUS DRW-24B1ST DVD/CD Burner, and it won't burn DVDs. I'm trying to burn an image in DeepBurner, and I'm getting the response "Not a writing drive" and "writing drives not found". Also, if I try to burn this image using Windows 7's stock image writer, I get this: "The selected...

Oddly enough, I have just a degree lower idle temp when my cpu is set to stock and the voltage goes down at 1.6ghz. Just a degree. It seems heat isn't my issue. I heard anywhere below 1.5v is safe for 24/7 use.

I really hope I can fix it, it would be nice to be able to. I still wonder though, it seems plenty of people leave their overclock on, and don't even speedstep it. Just a constant 4.5ghz. How is that bad?

I set everything to default, now when it's idle (at 1.6ghz) voltage drops to 0.960. That's because vcore is set to [auto]. Like I said earlier, my mb doesn't like vcore to be set to [auto] when I set the multiplier to x45.

If you could bump your budget up to around $500, you could get all of this: Core i5-2500k, awesome processor, I'm amazed by it. http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Core-2500K-Processor-1155/dp/B004EBUXHQ Same motherboard as mine, except with PCI slots...

Well, I updated the bios. Things don't seem very different, it was only a change from version 2.4 to 2.5. I decided to try something though, I turned down my voltage from 1.3v to 1.290v. When under complete stress from IBT, CPU-Z says the voltage is dropping to 1.264v, sometimes bumping up...

Well, right now I'm on the stock bios, I guess that could have something to do with it. Those pictures are from the in OS bios. I'll do a bios flash when I get home.

Heres a link to bios pics: http://imageshack.us/g/10/cpur.png/

Um, you mean power settings in the control panel? Balanced. Voltage is always 1.3v. Auto vcore doesn't work. There is a way to control TDP, but I would have to use OC Genie II, which is integrated into my bios but acts funny.

Well auto vcore isn't working. I tried many things, for some reason my bios doesn't allow me to adjust TDP unless turbo is turned on, I figured out how to set the turbo clockspeed higher, I tried that too with auto vcore, but that didn't work either. Should I really worry about trying to lower...

I was thinking SSD since my Graphics card is serving me fine right now, I can run Shift 2 Unleashed in full HD maxed out with 8x AA and 16x AF at 60fps+. An SSD will get me insane boot times and faster loading programs, is that correct?

This really helped, now I idle at 1.6GHz, which is good, but how do I make the voltage change automatically? I don't think setting vcore on auto will work, since it wouldn't boot the last time I set it to auto. Right now even at 1.6GHz vcore is still 1.3v. Any fix?

I made a post earlier about getting speed-step to work with overclocking, there doesn't seem to be a setting for the turbo multiplier in my bios. My motherboard's an MSI Z77A-G45, and in its "Clickbios II" all there is is a "CPU Ratio" setting. No Turbo Ratio or anything else. My CPU cooler...