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Very nice. Thanks to both of you. Turns out, I was assuming the 860 M.2 was NVMe/PCIe. It's not. :( My key benchmark is for gaming. I can see the difference running Diablo III from my current SSD (OCZ-Agility3) vs HDD (WD Black). But D3 is hardly pushing a modern system. This thread says...

I thought this would be so much easier, but I just can't find any concrete information. Any specific help would be enormously appreciated. I want to put a Samsung EVO SSD (either 500GB or 1TB) into a new desktop gaming system. I cannot find the information I need to choose between three...

Thanks for the reply -- I really do appreciate you taking the time. There are some issues, though: The CPU is locked in, and there's no way I'm going to buy Radeon. I've never successfully sold a single old video card. I still haven't seen any actual proof that this particular 1660 will be...

I know this thread is pretty old, but I thought I'd add one note. I did replace the HDD, and I did manage to get everything safely off it using my Mum's Windows 10 PC. But there may have been another culprit. There's a good chance my Power Supply has been part of the cause of my various...

If anyone else wants to weigh in, I'd be happy to hear. Will post my decision when I make the purchase. :)

Thanks for the replies and advice. I'm still not convinced, but I am better informed. (It's sad, because I used to know the answers to all of these questions.) @jay32267 - That comparison site is awesome. But it seems (at a glance) to only compare baseline versions. @hftvhftv - Good advice...

I'm trying to choose between the two video cards below: A$330 for a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce3 OC 6GB https://www.umart.com.au/Gigabyte-GeForce-GTX-1060-Windforce3-OC-6GB-Graphics-Card_49660G.html A$370 for a Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1660 Gaming 6G OC...

Thanks, iMatty, I'm afraid a 1070 is completely out of the question: more than double the price, and no longer available. I don't necessarily mind a GPU bottleneck now, since I'm only likely to have it for 3-4 years, while I'm likely to have the CPU for 8-10 years. I have a new question...

Thanks for responding, iMatty. Current power supply is a Master 800 WT 800W -- probably the reason why I'm having problems, buying no-brand. For the new system, the recommendation is a SilverStone ET750-G 750W Gold 80Plus Essential (guess they didn't know when to stop adding designations!)...

A sudden increase in mid-game crashes means I have to upgrade my PC in the next week or so. Unfortunately, I'm no longer following the PC Hardware scene, so I could really use some help. I am also on a budget, and always try to hit the value sweet spot between price and performance -- after...

There is a problem in the Sticky Thread entitled, "How to Ask for Advice about Choosing a New GPU". The very first piece of advice in this thread is to look at "Tom's Hardware Graphics Articles". This link is broken, leading only to an error page. Given how important this topic is to the...

Thanks for the suggestion. I've also asked at a few computer stores. The consensus looks a bit like this: - Surface scan was the worst possible thing to do. - Use power saving on data drives in the future, or a hot-swapping dock. - Recuva is very risky for a whole volume (not sure why). -...

As a private individual with a budget, it's difficult to buy large enough storage media for complete backups. I certainly back up my documents, but a lot of media is just too difficult, both to organise and to afford the terabytes. I would still like to know what experts think the symptoms I've...

More info: Disk Management (Windows 7 x64) eventually clocked in. It lists the drive as "2794.39 GB RAW | Healthy (Primary Partition)" WTH?

On my PC system I have a number of hard drives, including a WD Green 3TB HDD bought in March 2013. There are no programs on this drive, it's all data, including backups of my music and DVD library. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that when copying one file the system would pause in the middle...