Recent content by Sp3ctre18

What I wondered was why I used to fully load my car and reach 60mph in 5 seconds while this newer one can't. Thought it was a space (lanes) issue, but it seems it's more about the weight of the stuff I'm putting in. Good to know about the GPU lanes. I don't run the latest and I'd fine staying...

I'm starting to consider building a new PC partly to get past some current issues and bring it more up-to-date for the SSD world we're in now. However, at least for my Skylake-era PC, I've found that PCI lanes became a concern I never had before. While in previous PCs I'd have fun adding...

Ouch, ok, so if I want high performance NVMe at full speed, the PCI card will have to be 4x+. Thanks!

As others are implying, it's not your "data" - your files - that is a real concern, apart from the small risk of damaging the drive or corrupting it from static or knocks if it's a running HDD. The concern is OS stability. Every MOBO has its own drivers, BIOS, unique settings and software, and...

Thanks, yeah, I remember those details are in there, but is that really all I have to worry about then? Nothing else is using PCI lanes? (I guess I obviously did forget that when I installed the SATA card though; I have it in an x16 slot for some reason. Should move it to an x1.) I remember...

Kind of overwhelmed trying to figure out and understand PCI lanes. Easy to find CPU + mobo chipset lanes, but I don't get how they're taken up, shared, etc. Is there really no way to just get a report from software? Can't CPU-Z or HWinfo or something else tell me how many lanes in use? Does...

This is basic dual-booting procedure, it should be part of your research and understanding of how to dual-boot to know how to do this before trying to work with it. You should be able to easily google how to set up / edit the Windows bootloader - that's what you want to google. I would...

Do they work in other browsers? Chrome? IE? Opera? I would also check Youtube settings and NOT use Flash if you can. If you really are using Flash for Youtube, Flash is being phased out, and Youtube can play videos as HTML5. Check your Youtube playback settings to see which method is being...

Found this, but doesn't help much. http://www.digitalcitizen.life/when-each-sound-windows-sound-scheme-played I wasn't sure what the "Information Bar" was, but googling it seems to say it's the yellow bar that sometimes pops up near the top of Internet Explorer. I don't use IE so I wouldn't...

I don't like going below 450W on ANY decent PC. Upgrade it. Even a 500W can be less than $100.

DRIVER, not drive. You're talking about a lot of very random things without much information, we don't know where those errors are coming from. But if this is really is about driver issues, Windows 7 and above are really good at such things. All you need is your internet working and you can...