Recent content by iwan44

I fixed the issue by using 0,5mm pads.

Here are the photos of my work. Blue thermal pads are after and grey are stock before. View: https://imgur.com/a/DBQn0KY

So, my GPU was having a weird hotspot temperature of 90-100 during load while my core temps were around 70 while gaming. I thought that was strange so I decided to repad and repaste. I used cooler master V1 IC value thermal compound for GPU die and Arctic APT2560 1mm thermal pad for the rest...

PCIe 2.0 Most modern PCIe SSDs are designed for PCIe 3.0 slots, but since PCIe is backwards compatible they can still be used in older systems with PCIe 2.0 slots. The resulting performance will be about half the performance if the SSD were connected to a PCIe 3.0 slot, so typical PCIe 2.0...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33053044621.html?spm=2114.13010708.0.0.3c4c4c4dmjywLx This is the one I got. It should work, it's just an adapter it shouldn't slow down SSD that much.

I bought a new ssd crucial p2 500GB to upgrade by old PC a bit. My motherboard gigabyte ga-z97p-d3 doesn't support m.2 so I had to get an adapter card. Bought some cheap chinese <Mod Edit> adapter to be able to plug in the ssd. Everything works fine except my drive is quite a bit slower than...