Recent content by MrQuallzin

I'm leaning more towards the Gigabyte between the two of those. Moreso because of the color. I'll likely head to Fry's tomorrow to return the M5A99X if a clean install doesn't work. They might have one of those two, or something comparable.

I'll likely overclock it some. My CPU advertises 5.0Ghz overclocked, but I would likely stick to 4-4.5Ghz. I'm planning on going into video production which is why I chose AMD over Intel for its multitasking.

Just tested the SDD on a third rig in our house: Worked perfectly. I'm going to try a clean install (After cloning it to the WD6400 and resetting it, of course). If that doesn't work, I'm throwing my money into it being a bad batch or something from ASUS. I'd return the motherboard for a...

My second drive is seen by BIOS every time. The current BIOS version is at 2301, one version behind the latest which added some USB compatibility. I'm thinking I might reset the SSD and try cloning again. Perhaps that's where something went wrong somehow.

SSD is in the new rig. Like before, the motherboard sees it about one third of the time. When it did see it and I booted into it, it took 5 minutes to get to the Windows login screen. I'm sitting here waiting for it to load startup programs which normally take less than a minute.

Around a month ago I decided to start upgrading my computer. Went ahead and got the PNY 240GB SSD and it has done wonders for my system. This past week I got my new motherboard and CPU, an ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 with the AMD FX 8320. For the first few days everything was wonderful. I pulled out...