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I bought a 4 TB 990 Pro for $250 a few months ago, but before I got around to installing it, on another PC, had an OS update error that wiped out my old SSD (which I used for both boot and data), so now am thinking I want to have separate boot and data drives so I won't loose my data again in...

I didn't realize FF put inactive tabs to sleep. I had installed a tab sleeper extension on one of my computers for Chromium, but didn't like the delay in refreshing inactive tabs, so disabled it. I have over 50 tabs in multiple windows of both FF and Chromium. I only bookmark tabs that I want as...

This is why I don't believe wireless will ever replace wires for broadband.

What is H2? 2nd half?

The computer I built last year, I sent in 2 rebates and never heard back from 1 vendor. Totally agree with author and probably won't mess with MIRs next time.

I tried swapping DIMMs into slot A2 and while pressing the keyboard, saw some the monitor splash screen briefly flicker every time I hit delete, so decided to try another HDMI cable, one that seemed even thinner than the other one. Wow - now it works and goes into BIOS! So much for "DYNEX...

The pump tubes were long enough to mount the radiator and fan to the front of the case as an intake; however the radiator extends too far down to retain the case front intake fan. I'm going to run this configuration and monitor the temps. Interestingly, System Profiler on Linux doesn't display...

It's a 5600X (I'll correct the original post).

The first GPU I tried was an XFX Radeon HD 7870, then swapped it out for an old PNY GeForce GT545 to eliminate any possible problem with PCIe power cables.

Yep, tried 2 different GPUs and even swapped out the one that required 2 PCIe power cables for one that powers off the PCIe slot, both connecting to the monitor by HDMI. I even tested on my old 1080p monitor instead of hooking it to my 4k monitor to avoid any video problems. Since it passes the...

My new build with this motherboard won't boot. The cool multi-color LED under the chip-set fan lights up and cycles through various colors when plugged and stays lit. When I power on, the troubleshooting LEDs cycle through DRAM -> CPU -> VGA -> then gets stuck on BOOT (yellow green). Fans all...

My Corsair AIO H60 AIO recommends mounting the radiator to the rear of the case, then the fan to that as an intake (as does https://hardwaresecrets.com/which-is-the-best-configuration-for-120-mm-liquid-cooling-fans/). Should I then relocate my rear case fan to the front and also orient the...

I pretty much expected this as the 5600X smokes all the 3000X/XT processors in single core benchmarks if the 19% IPC improvement was to be accurate. I had been looking at the 3700X for my next build, but since there is no 5700X and the huge price jump to 5800X plus an additional $50 for a cooler...

Exactly. I don't understand the marketing hoopla around sequential r/w. That's a very limited, specialized use case. What matters to 99.9% of users is IOPS and latency. Samsung's own website doesn't even publish IOPS for their 980 Pro, so we only get numbers from 3rd party reviews. :-(

So what happened to their promise that they would announce a 4000G for consumers? No mention of the consumer 4000Gs on Thursday that they promised! I've been holding off buying a 3700X since March for my next build as integrated graphics would save me $140 off having to buy a 1050 Ti or better...