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So far it's just manual backup once in a while, to an external USB drive. I'm going to look into automatic cloud backup but that's a different topic.

After another hdd crash on my desktop PC, I want to set up a mirrored drive using 2 identical SSD drives. I need about 2T of storage. I also prefer these 2 drives be housed in an external enclosure, so if there is a fire, I can grab the enclosure and run instead of trying to take the whole PC...

Once in a while my PC would crash blue screen while running premiere (video editor). I don't know if this editor cause the crash, or stress the system to trigger a flaw elsewhere. Anyway, crashing is not the issue here, it's recovering from the crash. Sometimes, during the next reboot all my...

Despite having water cooling (corsair hydro H50), the core temp rises beyond 70 C when I run prime95. I suspect I may have used too little thermal paste, but is there a way to tell for sure? Otherwise I'd just be re-attaching the heatsink and wondering if I'm doing it correctly. I'm not even...

Is there a CPU stress test that is adjustable so I can set the load to say, 50%, 80%, 100%, etc?

Trying to add network wiring to my house and need about 200 feet of cat7 or cat7a cables. I found very few stores selling this on the internet. Any idea which online stores sell good cat7 cables or which brand cable to buy?

I just installed a corsair hydro h50 water cooling heat sink on a i7-4790K. It makes the CPU much cooler than the stock intel heat sink, but the temp still reaches more than 85 degree C when I run prime95 at 4200Mhz (I started low and gradually increase the multiplier until 85 degree). My mobo...

I am now able to under clock using asrock's F-stream utility's OC Tweaker. I still hope to be able to do it in BIOS someday.

Sounds easy but... There is a "CPU ratio" in bios. I changed it from auto to manual (which then default to 40) to 30. And I set BCLK from auto to 100. This means the max speed would be 100Mhz x 30 = 3000Mhz, right? After I booted up, hwmonitor reports that the max clock is 4400Mhz on all four...

I found the stock heat sink that comes with i7-4790K is inadequate. I ordered a larger heat sink. In the mean time I need to limit the max speed of the i7-4790K to prevent overheat. Right now the clock speed varies between 1200Mhz to 4300Mhz depending on CPU load. How can I put a cap on this...

While running a video encoder the temperature of i7-4790K cores rise above 90 degree C. I couldn't believe it. The CPU is running at stock settings (4Ghz) with stock intel heat sink. Does this imply the heat sink is not properly installed? Is there a way to verify this without removing the heat...

If I buy a case with a top mounted fan and set it to high so that it draws in more air than the other fans are blowing out, that would create positive pressure inside the case to keep dust out, right? Obviously I would need a dust filter on top of the top fan. However, I wonder if setting this...