Recent content by Ruarc88

All drives showing 100% health. SSD in particular reporting >1000 days remaining/3.4TB of writes. It is showing average of around 49 degrees though. This shouldn't be a problem since the drive is rated for up to 70 degrees, but wondering if it is actually thermal throttling. All freezing seems...

I'm having a weird issue where my system is intermittently locking up any and all tasks that appear to be related to storage in some way. Basically, I'll run or close an application and either nothing will happen for up to 10 minutes and then it'll finally open/close or the window will appear...

Recently built a new gaming rig and losing my damn mind trying to figure out why it's so loud. Current configuration is: CoolerMaster HAF XB Evo (grill top) Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero i7 6700k default (4.0-4.2GHz) CoolerMaster MasterLiquid Pro 240 cooler (using a single 120mm fan pulled from...

Recently installed the above cooling unit on an Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero board. Noticed during install the dedicated water pump header and found that the pinout for the water pump header was reversed from traditional fan headers. Couldn't find anything that would make this header a problem at...

Figured it out. Boot loader had corrupted with the drive cloning. Managed to inject the NVMe hotfix into the installer and after reinstalling was able to add additional hard drives without issue

Specs: Mobo: Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero CPU: Intel i7 6700k System drive: Intel 600p 1TB (M.2 in PCI mode) Just purchased parts and assembled and went through literal hell installing Win7 for various reasons, my procedure that finally worked: Ran Asus utility to prep install media with CD/DVD...