Recent content by ststns

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    Secundary HDD: sleeping-spining or always runing?

    Now that I have Win10 (from XP) my secondary's HDD's they go to sleep after being inactive. The only downside is that I have to wait like a couple of seconds every time (they are sleeping) I have to access something, it’s not a big deal. But I'm thinking what’s worst for HDD durability, be...
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    Any Cons of using Win 10 as real administrator?

    I’ve been using for more than a decade XP Pro as administrator, now with Win 10 Home I realized that the normal user even with administrator permits is not really god-like, It’s always asking me confirmation to give admin permits for erasing this, I have to run the CMD as administrator to do...
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    16MB of HDD or SSD virtual memory, or none?

    I have now 16 GB of Ram and Win 10. I want it to run fast so I don’t want any hard drive virtual memory, I think I have enough Ram. It says the minimum (if enabled) are 16mb, don’t know why. So I have 3 options: None. 16mb at a secondary HDD. 16mb at the SO SSD. Why 16mb? well the only...
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    Gigabyte H61M-S2PV + Ivy Bridge (non-k) : Ram Speed?

    I recently asked about H61 Gigabyte ram speed on sheet specs, because depending on revision some can OC to 2200 some are limited to 1333. (Info below). I have a GA-H61M-S2PV Rev 2.0 (all rev's limited to 1333mhz) and doing some research I found a bios settings video, which shows that with a...
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    Why same gigabyte MB can OC RAM or not depending witch Rev

    For exemple GA-H61M-DS2 max Ram speed: rev. 1.0 : 1333 rev. 1.2 : 1333 rev. 2.0 : 2200 rev. 2.1 : 2200 rev. 2.2 : 2200 rev. 3.0 : 2200 rev. 4.0 : 2200 rev. 5.0 : 1333 GA-H61M-S1 max Ram speed: rev. 2.0 : 2200 rev. 2.1 : 2200 rev. 2.2 : 1333 rev. 3.0 : 1333 rev. 4.0 : 1333 Yes there are some...
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    DDR3 future prices?

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    DDR3 future prices?

    Lately DDR3 has dropped like DDR4, but as with every change of RAM technology production is expected to stop and prices will raise. When it will happen? How is the stock? I have plan to upgrade my ddr3 (to 16gb) in a couple of months.