Recent content by Konig1981

yeah I know, but its a way for me to get some SSD storage that I can use now, giving me some performance increase with load times and texture loading.. and then I can use it when I build a new machine, which probably wont be for another year at least

7 gigs a second... we are in the future for sure my man. I could of never of dreamed of speed like that back in my 486/DOS days. I may get one of those and use it as an USB-3 external drive until I build a rig that can make full use of it. Thanks for all the replies guys, I was amazed how...

I do have Windows on a SATA SSD .. I used to have it on a scratch disc, but someone sold me a small 120 gig SSD for like 8 bux a couple years ago... So I only use it for Windows... it only has about 40 gigs of free space on it at any given time... but my understanding is that as long as it has...

Yeah I was looking at an NVMe SSD, a western digital black, 2 TB..was only 55 bucks on amazon. It sent me on a research quest to see what options I have to hook up one of those using a PCI slot..or just using one of my USB 3 ports... my thought was, even if I can't get any extra speed vs a...

yeah I get ya... I was misunderstanding where the generation number is represented in the chip name. This 3770 is the first Intel chip I've had since the Pentium 4, and that was a store bought work computer, so I never had to look at anything in detail, just used it for work at my office. I...

ok, so the problem is my current is 7 gen (the 6/7 pairing), and the other one is a gen 8, (8/9 pairing) ..that's what you're saying right?

I was poking around online looking for any possible cpu upgrades that would allow me to keep my mobo and just increase performance for gaming. I've always known about the i7-3770k version of my cpu..but based on the specs its in no way an upgrade for gaming...maybe for running a server it would...