Recent content by jason3871

I tried that but it didn't help. :(

Update: I tried out the M.2 drive in in a friend's system and it recognises as PCIe 3.0 x 4 and works as it's rated speeds. So now I'm convinced that it has something to do with my Mobo or CPU. Any ideas or possible theories as to why the drive is only working at PCIe 3.0x2 ony setup? Any help...

I live in India and from what I've gathered MSI India isn't the most co-operative. I will have to see how to contact them.

Yes, I'm absolutely sure about it. I'm not the best but I'm quite sound when it comes to computer hardware which is why I'm so confused in this matter. I have the Ryzen 1600.

The funny thing is that I'm using an RX 550 2GB that runs PCIe x8 and not 16. It is recognised at x8 and runs at x8 in Windows as well. Also, doesn't the Ryzen 1600 have 20 lanes?

My main system components: Ryzen 1600 MSI B450 Tomahawk Max Rx 550 Western Digital 1TB HDD Samsung 980 1TB M.2 I just bought the Samsung 980 M.2 to speed things up and was shocked to see the read and write speeds at 1700 MB/s, instead of its rated 3500 MB/s. I checked Samsung Magician and saw...

Hi, I'm using the same motherboard and purchased the Samsung 980 m.2 drive. To my horror it is currently running at Pcie 3x2 instead of 3x4. I saw that you had the same issue but fixed it. I read your solution but wasn't able to understand what to do to make it run at 3x4 speeds. Any help will...

OP if you could consider the Noctua D15S instead of an AIO.

The i7 7700K with a good overclock would do the job perfectly. If you are only looking towards AMD then I'd grab the 1700 just to be sure although the gaming performance might not be much different from that of the 1600 as already mentioned by Ecky.

Yeah, 8MB extra of L3 cache.

Personally I'd throw in a slightly higher wattage PSU, just in case you consider SLI in the future. 4K gaming is only going to get more demanding in the future and can already humble a 1080ti.

Well, I've tested several Ryzen chips and saw that those made in China seem to be luckier than those made in Malaysia. The best you'll get out of these chips are 4Ghz or 4.05Ghz and that's under custom liquid cooling with a hell of a lot of rads to keep it cool during the summer months. The good...

The difference is mainly felt as more heats needs to be dissipated by the cooler. More the amount of wattage to cool, more the distance between the wraith cooler and hyper 212. However, I must say, the wraith cooler is pretty good for a stock cooler.