Recent content by Owen_23

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    [SOLVED] Full system drive caching upgrade ?

    linus tech tips did a video on how he used optane on a amd system with PrimoCashe to get similar functionality to intel systems, it's about the same price to get a 16gb optane drive and a 8 gb stick of ddr4 , the question is 8gb of faster ram or 16gb of slower optane.
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    [SOLVED] Full system drive caching upgrade ?

    well the reason i'm doing this is i have 3 hard drives in my system 2 are 70% full, i do have a kinston ssd where my windows 10 lives
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    [SOLVED] Full system drive caching upgrade ?

    Hi everyone, I'm using PrimoCache with 4gb of ram dedicated (16gb total 4 out of 8 slots). PrimoCache supports SSD caching to speed up a hard drive using a SSD, so I was thinking about getting a 16gb optane ssd and using that or an additional 8gb of ddr4 and changing the amount of ram for the...
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    [SOLVED] weird network problem

    ok i figured it out windows grabbed the wrong driver for my motherboards ethernet, i went to msi website and got the most up to date driver. problem solved thanks for trying to help.
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    [SOLVED] weird network problem

    ok i'm not to sure what to do i don't have much experience with port forwarding
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    [SOLVED] weird network problem

    wired network not working for steam but wireless is working when i switch i lose my connection to the server and am not able to go to the website till i switch back to wireless, checked driver firewall steam cache reset router and restarted my computer, nothing has worked to get wired...
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    [SOLVED] using the second pcie 16x slot

    r9 290x as far as i can tell no performance loss maybe gen 3 4x in enough
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    [SOLVED] using the second pcie 16x slot

    my motherboard has crossfire it's a gigabyte z170m d3h it could be that my card isn't enough to saturate the pcie lanes
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    [SOLVED] using the second pcie 16x slot

    so because of my case setup i had to move my graphics card to the second 16x slot and use my first slot for my sound card i ran a benchmark and i got the same score, my power supply sits above the pcie slots and the card is a little taller then normal but is there anything else i should look out...
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    not able to manually overclock

    Yeah that's load idle is 36c
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    need some help overclocking

    intel XTU is working i got 5ghz on my first 3 cores and 4.9 on core 4 thanks 1.355v load 71c idel 35c
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    not able to manually overclock

    i did make another thread but they pointed me to intel extreme tuning utility now my cpu is running @ 5ghz on the first 3 cores and 4.9 on core 4 @1.355v 71c
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    Need help picking out a power supply

    check this out http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/ but it is good to go 100 or so watts over what you need so you can upgrade later
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    GPU shutsdown when reaching 75C

    the problem might be that your card doesn't like to get hot, has it been doing this for a while
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    need some help overclocking

    i have a i5 7600k and a gigabyte z270m-h3d motherboard, for some weird reason my bois is somewhat locked down i found a way around this with gigabyte easy tune with it i was able to get my ram from 2133 to 2700 but i can't touch my cpu i know my cpu does 4.6 ghz @ 1.25v if some one has the...