Recent content by somebassplayer

The "pricing problem" is early adopter tax. People who want to be the first on their block to get onto 7xxxx series should expect to pay high(er) prices. The rest of us will wait until prices come down before upgrading.

I went to an AIO to make it easier to work inside my system. I had a Hyper 212 EVO air cooler in it which takes up a lot of room. Much easier to work inside now.

I'll have to check when I get home, but I think my new Dell XPS 15 laptop comes with this kind of SSD. It's a 256gb, which I promptly swapped out for a 1tb ssd.

It has one drive bay. To put a second drive in, you have to use the optical drive bay using drive caddy that works there.

You can upgrade on that system at any time. You won't need any additional keys. We have a ton of HP Z series workstations where I work. They all came with Win7 Pro installed. Each of the system came with both a Win7 pro and Win10 pro install disk. When I've upgraded to or reinstalled with...

You can get a better system for around the same money or a bit less, if you build your own. But this is not a bad price. I had an 8700 and it was pretty good performance wise. The case was cramped, which I didn't like. If you go ahead make sure the power supply is good for the 960 and make sure...

According to the Crucial website, the MX300 is compatible with your laptop. http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Dell/inspiron-17-%287779%29

I'm assuming that you saw this on the first startup after the system was powered off. This message indicates that data cached in the raid controller is gone or corrupted. Most likely due to a weak or dead battery or due to not having any battery backup. This is usually not a problem, as long...

LGA means land grid array, which more or less means that the pins are on the motherboard with flat contacts on the bottom of the CPU. It has nothing to do with the specific processor you want to use. As long as the socket type for the CPU (1151) matches the socket type of the motherboard, (LGA...

I have a couple of macs here at Casa De Bassplayer and I like them a lot. But there was nothing compelling about what Apple showed today. The systems were incremental upgrades to existing models, for the most part. And not a peep about a new Mac Pro.