Recent content by gsteele531

When you say legit copy, are you saying a retail copy of Windows? And when you say "entirely new hardware" are you referring to a new mobo and CPU only - same memory, HD (pre-SSD), graphics card, etc.? It's probably the case that the image would work (boot from the rescue disk, proceed to...

I find the question odd, for a few reasons: 1. You are going to buy a Samsung Evo drive. Samsung packages a migration utility with the drive that does the cloning for you; the resulting disk is an identical image of your old disk, with activation status intact. I have done this 9 times with...

Just a note: I generally use a razor scraper as a "putty knife" when applying HSC. If you look at the microscopic imperfections on the surface of the heat spreader and the sink, you can see that under most medium viscosity situations, there will be air trapped between the HSC and the metal...

I understand the kvetching about not including the Samsung pro drive in that it makes the review a touch incomplete. But in a sense, the existence of the review provokes that response, which itself fills in the missing reference, if not the information (of course, the links supplied do provide...