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I had this issue for a while now, where my PC will wake up from sleep in the middle of the night and wake me up because there's a Windows update. I had this issue for about 3 years now and had it on two different motherboards and builds (my previous motherboard had water damage due to CPU block...

Thanks for the detailed reponse, I am mainly concerned about the PCIe lanes situation, my i5 9400f only has 16 and I'm running a RTX 2060. NVMe uses 4 lanes so I assume that will force the GPU to x8 from x16. I'm new to the whole M.2 so I'm only saying/thinking what makes sense to me.

What about Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB? They seem to be priced fairly, then I'm only left with the question if I use it with my system.

I haven't bought the drive yet, I was looking at drives like "Sabrent 1TB Rocket" or any 1TB M.2 drive from a company that I heard of before (little bit sketched out to get a drive from Chinese brands like Vaseky)

I recently built a new rig and my new m/b has a M.2 slot which I never had before and I'm planning to get a 1TB M.2 SSD to replace by 120GB sata SSD and 1TB HDD. While I was setting everything up in BIOS, I noticed theres an option to switch the M.2 between PCIe and SATA. I assume using PCIe is...

I recently bought a used i5 9400f, the buyer was unable to confirm if the CPU worked or not, I decided to take the risk. I tried to post the CPU on my Asus tuf h310m-plus gaming motherboard since it's the only motherboard that I own that supports 9th gen (I never had a 9th CPU in it before so I...

There's a STRIX H270F GAMING locally to me for $40 without a box or anything, just the motherboard. I want to get it for living room controller gaming station because I have a spare i7 9700k because recently I upgraded my rig to i9. I checked CPU support and it's not listed there but they have...

Thanks to both of you for the suggestions, would one of you be able to provide a link to it? I can only find it on Amazon US and the seller doesn't ship to UK. Thanks

I'm currently in the market for a monitor as I'm trying to upgrade from my 27" Asus TN 60Hz triple monitor setup. What I'm looking for is something like this: LG 27GL850-B it basically ticks every box for me which is: 1440p 27" 144Hz IPS Panel Vesa mount Respectful thin bazels (I want them thin...

What about AOC G2590FX/G2590VXQ? Affordable ✅ (£190 for 144hz variant, £130 for 75hz variant) Thin side bezels (I don't care about the top or bottom bazel) ✅ (only thicc bottom bazel) Available in 60hz and 120/144hz variants ✅ (You can get 144hz and 75hz variants) VESA mount ✅ Maximum 27" ✅...

Alright, thanks for your input, I did as you said, running on 1.5 vcore right now with 55C on idle, on top of that, I also re-disabled C-State incase it attempts to do something funky and I also disabled OverSpeed protection to eliminate instability. I will follow up in few days unless I keep...

How much do you think I should start off with? 1.4? or start with 1.5 and slowly lower it every week or so if I don't get watchdog time out until I start getting it again and stop? My CPU is watercooled with an open loop and a 360mm radiator so I'm not worried about high voltages and potential...

For some reason I get BSOD regarding "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT " in Win 10 with my OC'ed i5 2500k from time to time. It seems pretty weird, what I noticed is, if I'm playing a game, I will get CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT randomly from time to time, like once a day, sometimes once every two days, but if...

I was able to fix the issue, enabling EIST, Intel Turbo Boost and Enchanced Turbo in the BIOS, allowed me to overclock the CPU past the turbo clock, I'm not sure which one did it or if it's the comination of the three.