Data Storage

Is there a way to check the number of write/erase cycles my USB flash drive has, and the health of the USB flash drive? Is there a way to see the S.M.A.R.T status of the USB flash drive? With CrystalDisk, you can see the health of your SSD/HDD. Is there a software like CrystalDisk, but for USB...

Hello guys if i buy this gtx 750 (https://www.axle3d.com/750) will it work on my MB (https://www.asrock.com/mb/NVIDIA/N68-S3%20UCC/)

I have gs65 1070 max q when i play game there is a frame drop when i see a smoke or many object on the screen fame drops about 30 or 40 thermal is ok both gpu and cpu drivers are all reinstalled help!!

Which mid-range chipset is better for a mainstream build, Intel’s B360 or AMD’s B450? We take a look at the features and weigh the considerations to find out. Read more here. JOE SHIELDS Joe Shields is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US specializing in motherboards.

Hi every one ! i have asus mg279q , but old monitor , i intend to upgrade msi optix mpg27cq , msi better than asus , thanks all

My pc components are : Ryzen 3 1300x Zotac gtx 1050 ti GIGABYTE B450 DS3H Corsair 8gb ram (dual channel) 500 gb hdd 120 gb ssd Corsair vs 450 power supply What can I upgrade??

I have an 1TB 7200 RPM HDD. I have my Windows and After Effects on it. Now I want to by an SSD to assign the disk cache of After Effects to the SDD. Now I know that I should keep the Windows on the SSD but I just want to know Will I see improvement in performance with the SSD being...

I am currently using a i7-7800x with a MSI X299 Raider (8 slots of memory capacity), Just recently bought the Corsair Vengeance LPX 32g (4 x 8) 2400Mhz, and for some reason when I go into the MSI bios the mother board is picking up that 4 slots are in use but when I boot windows it says 3/8...

Install appears to go well, but after installation reaches the first reboot step, the computer reboots, and reboots, and reboots, and attempts to auto-repair (fails), and reboots, and reboots....etc etc. Primary Drive: Samsung - 970 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive MB: MSI Z370-A Pro...

So, I just got a new SSD in the mail today, sealed in the box and everything. No it's not the best SSD in the world, but it will work for my applications. But I do have a bit of a concern about it. After installing windows and everything, I did a few CrystalDiskMark benches, probably more...

My old AMD Athlon II X3 440 is showing off its age after 8 years of non-stop use. Just started a course on Data-Science and ML (Machine Learning) and this current desktop kinda performs OK but I something a bit better. Bit of Google search tells me graphics and multi-threading is more important...

I have i3 2100 right now. the seller offer me i5 2400 used for only 100 dollars. what is the best? huge upgrade?

witch has better cooling the ftw2 or the strix ? noise isnt an issue

I want to use these 2x4gb sticks of adata memory with this mother board, but im not sure if they work. I checked the asrock compatibility list, but I dont seem to see them. The ram modules themselves claim to work with ryzen. Thanks for any help. Motherboard...

Here's the information of my laptop Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 - 6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz 2.40 GHZ Installed RAM: 8.00GB System type : 64-bit operating system, x64 based processor. If the answer is No. please do tell me what i must do to improve things.

hi looking to upgrade my gpu and I was wondering if my current psu can handle it. when I use the calculator it tells me to have 124w for the 3.3v and 5.5 v. this is my current setup cpu- ryzen 5 1500x memory - 2X 8gb ddr4 mobo- ASRock x370 Fatal1ty gaming x hdd- 1tb sdd- 240gb fans- 2 120mm and...

I'm using SpeedFan and it says the Cores are all below 30C but the CPU is at 120-130C. Why the discrepancy and how do I lower the CPU temperature being measured?

Hey,recently I got Razer Kraken Pro Green.I decided to test both connectors that I got from these headphone(one for phone,and an extension with two different head {red -MIC and green-headphones}) In the end,I saw that the connector for phone has more microphone voice quality than the other...

I was looking for a laptop comparable to the I5 dual processor and was told that an AMD quad core 97 hundreds would do the same job is this true?

Just the facts as they happened: I ordered a GTX1060 graphics card directly from EVGA on 12/08/2017. They charged me $219.99 + $17.17 shipping on 12/11/2017. I finally got the card just before Christmas, opened it and could tell immediately it had been repackaged (and a tab bent). Installed it...

Hey guys as miner are flooding internet bot shopper. its literally impossible for me to buy good graphics card at a good price. what is the best way to buy them now.

So I have MSI gaming carbon pro ac Z370 motherboard. Here are the specifications. Here is the picture of the motherboard. I dont know the terminology so i will just try to explain my question. I see I have 3 "big" slots for graphic cards and 3 "little" which are the default ones for the...

I saw the bundle on newegg (link below) and was wondering if the motherboard is a decent choice. It's an x370 mobo which is nice because if I want to upgrade to zen+ after it comes out I'll be able to without having to worry about preformance, but I'm unable to find many reviews of the board. I...

EDIT: Should probably be posted in "Builds" Everything spins and lights up, including my peripherals (can even change numlock/capslock on keyboard). I'm not sure if mobo is short circuiting because I didn't use brass stands (only came with 2 brass stands) There are parts of the case that are...

Recently I reinstalled windows 10 for various reasons regarding the somewhat recent "creators" update. However, I do not wish to upgrade to this version of windows because of the problems it gave me both with windows itself and some applications on my computer. Thus, I decided to disable the...

I am typing along and have about one quarter of the document done. I save this part. Next I am in the middle of typing and suddenly what I have just typed has disappeared. Why?

Greeting my fellow computer enthusiasts. I've been dealing with a rather annoying and constant issue for nearly a year now(started randomly) that was not present for the first year of owning this card.. Whenever I run Duel monitors(after a system restart) Everything will run smoothly without...

I have Lenovo laptop with windows 10 and i3 processor with 2gb ram and no graphics card but I want to change this display adapter from microsoft to intel adapter please help

Good day! I have problem regarding this i normally use chrome browsers and some applications and it consumes 90% of my RAM can someone help me? Spec Amd bulldozer 8cores 1x8gb hyperx ram Gt730 dd5 1tb hdd partitioned Hec 550w

Greetings, A co worker gave me a laptop hdd to try to recover. I plugged it in to my PC running Windows 10 with a sata to usb. He was running Windows 7 at the time, not sure if that will matter here. My PC recognizes the drive, but when trying to access it it will lock up Windows Explorer all...

Alright so its starting to annoy me, I want it to be Open or at least Moderate. I tried a bunch of things, one thing I tried was Enabling DMZ, making Xbox the host, that worked for a while but then a couple weeks later its back to strict and I dont know what to do. It says its behind a port...

Sorry for long post. So recently, I bought parts little byt little to build my new pc for rendering and gaming. I wanted 16gb of ram, got short and bought 1x8gb instead. Im saving money to get the other 8gb and thought of SSD. Which should I buy first for better performance? I have...

I had a SATA drive that was failing so I decided to clone the drive onto another SATA and repair the corrupted boot sector to then clone onto a Samsung EVO SSD. After cloning it onto an alSSD and booting up with the SSD it allows me to boot into windows 7. However, after boot up and seeing all...

Hey guys i want to upgrade some parts of my PC starting up with the PSU.I am using a Corsair vs 550 and i am thinking of buying a Corsair TX550M Is it good?Also i currently have an i3 is it ok to upgrade to an i5 7600 or buy a ryzen 1500-1600 instead?And lastly for mobo i am currently using a...

My current set-up is an hd 6970 and an a8-7600k (I know, pretty cheap and bad), I'm on max power settings on BIOS, and I get like 70 FPS average on the CSGO benchmark test 1080p low, and about 80 FPS with an HD 7770 same cpu(same settings). In addition I had little to no background programs on...

I have three drives on my computer, an SSD and 2 HDD; my system drive is the SDD, and one of the HDD I use for backing up Windows 10 with a System Image. Lately this HDD with the System Image has been failing and sometimes it isn’t detected by the computer, this shouldn’t be a problem since I...

I had another thread but i cant remember it so i decided to put up new one. So, i just bought my friend i5-4670k with z87k and had a thought of updating gpu at the same time ( still running my old trusty fx-6300 with ga970-ud3p ),but for what i know the motherboard doesnt accept SLI ( i have gtx...

How is this for my first PC Build i want to play games mostly. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/D7ddQV

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad sl410 laptop with 2gb ram.This laptop support maximum 8gb of ram.And i want to increase it to 8gb. When i opend the back cover there are 2slots in which 1slot have 2gb ram and other slot was empty.So i purchased a another 4gb ram and put it on empty slot but my laptop...

I installed a text to speech software on Windows 10 64 bit a few weeks ago, it worked with no problem. But since the operating system Windows 10 updated to creator update (version 1703), the software stopped working, it could not start to run, i.e., I clicked the executable file, it didn't start...