Recent content by Genralkidd

Thanks for clearing that up! Just one more question before I order a motherboard. So one specific example is the Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard. It has 8 slots for RAM on the motherboard but the manufacturer's manual says the max supported RAM is only 64 GB of RAM. The Xeon CPU I'm using should...

The CPU I'm using is the Xeon E5 2696 V2 and to my knowledge it shouldn't have any problems with 128 GB of ECC RAM. So even if the CPU supports the RAM capacity I want, the motherboard itself could still be artificially limited to a lower amount and refuse to POST when there's more RAM?

It's hard to tell then cause a lot of the boards I'm looking at are all similar 4 slot boards on AliExpress. And different sellers of the same board will have different max memory listed. Some sellers list it as 64 GB while other sellers list the same board as 128 GB max. Some of the boards also...

I've been shopping around for an LGA 2011 X79 motherboard to use with a Xeon CPU I have and I currently have 128 GB of DDR3 ECC RAM on hand too. However I've noticed that a lot of listings I've seen for X79 motherboards have inconsistent information for the max supported RAM. Some sellers...

The card only has a single SATA data port that's meant to be plugged directly into the motherboard. There's no SATA power connector that an 8784 connector can connector to. So somehow we'd need a single SATA data cable to USB adapter if that even exists or at least some DIY way to plug just a...

Ok just an update, I finally received my PCI riser and a 12V power adapter for it. So far it does indeed power on the PCI Ramdisk despite not being plugged into the PC! So next step is the SATA to USB adapter. I've tried plugging it directly into my PC's SATA port but the port on the Ramdisk...

Yeah the PCI riser I was eyeing has a 12V barrel jack connector for the power source and the other connector is a USB 3 port to connect it to the PCIe adapter but hopefully I won't need to worry about that aspect. Unfortunately I don't have the PCI riser yet so I can't see if the PCB has the...

I have an old Gigabyte GC-RAMDISK that I wanted to get some use out of again but since it uses legacy PCI instead of PCIe, I can't really use it on any modern PC I have. So I was wondering if it'd be possible to convert it into a portable USB drive? The Ramdisk only uses the PCI slot for power...

So I ended up buying the MSI Thunderbolt M3 card but I can't seem to be able to get it work on my PC. It's plugged in, power is getting to devices I plug in, but Windows doesn't seem to see anything was plugged in. When I plug something in, Windows doesn't even play the new device sound. The...

I'm looking to add a Thunderbolt PCIe card to my MSI Z490-A Pro motherboard. I saw MSI has their own Thunderbolt PCIe cards. The MSI Thunderbolt M4 is only compatible with 500 series chipsets and above according to their product page. Meanwhile the previous gen MSI Thunderbolt M3 is listed as...

Good to know thanks! And yeah I saw an Apevia 1000W PSU that was missing nearly 400W from the 12V rail. But now I know what to look out for future PSUs.

I looked at some more PSUs to try to spot group regulated ones, some are only missing a few watts from the 12V rail, are those still group regulated or does it have to be a significant chunk of missing wattage? Like the Super Flower PSU you suggested, it's missing like half a watt and I've seen...

Ahh ok I see, so as a general rule of thumb, if there's a big chunk of the wattage that's not on the 12V rail then that's a group regulated PSU?

I got curious and looked into Enermax a bit more. I'm not so sure they still use group-regulated designs. Years ago they stopped making their own PSUs and now has a 3rd party make their PSUs. In fact, I read that group regulated PSUs are almost non existent these days for any PSU made in the...

Looks like that worked! I tried turning off the Intel Adaptive 251W Boost thing in the BIOS and now I've been able to launch and play Star Citizen just fine. So I take it that means it was definitely a PSU issue because the temps while playing Star Citizen were still well within normal ranges...