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    [SOLVED] SSD's estimated remaining life dropping rapidly

    Hi all, I currently own two Aorus NVME SSD drives: First one is the older Gigabyte Aorus SSD 2TB M.2 NVMe (5 GB/s, 4.4 GB/s) which I own for around 2years and I've used it as my primary drive until I I bought the new one. It's drive estimated remaining life is 99% as reported by the software...
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    [SOLVED] Would cpu throttling prevent all damage to a CPU?

    My Intel CPU has been running for about 2 years without a fan reaching often 100 celcius for several hours each day. This is obviously very bad, but my question is: if it was so bad that it would cause problems, wouldnt the cpu throttle down to an acceptable level? Would that mean that 100...
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    [SOLVED] SSD and CPU fan in contact. Is it ok for SSD life?

    Hello! I have big Noctua CPU cooler with 2 fans on Asus motherboard. Also I have 3 M.2 SSD ports. 2 of them are busy. So I have one last M.2 port to install new SSD. Design of motherboard is that this new SSD should stands vertically in front of CPU cooler. The good thing is that it will be...
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    Caused a big mess

    While removing things off my computer I was going to give to a friend.Decided I wanted to change admin name and password. I used netplwiz to do this. Restart computer, login name was still mine. Yet this time my password didn't work, tried the new password didn't work also. Upon google searches...
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    How do I transfer an my entire drive to a new SSD *AND* have the SSD actually boot on install.

    I'm not totally comfortable with any Windows backup program. Carbon Copy Cloner works exceptionally well on OS X, the closest I've found for Windows (my primary OS) is XXClone, which still leaves about 5% of files uncopied. So when I want an exact duplicate of a disk, I put a Live OS (such as...
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    What is the smallest PC case type?

    What's the smallest of the PC case types? I'm going to say it's one of these: ATX Mini Tower HTPC MicroATX Desktop MicroATX Mid Tower MicroATX Mini MicroATX Slim Mini ITX Desktop Mini ITX Test Bench Mini ITX Tower Thanks in advanced!
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    HD 7770 brick: blocking bootup (video card bios)

    Hey guys, I have bricked my HD7770's VGA BIOS on flash attempt. Now I know how to recover such a thing. But, the thing is, the card blocks the PC when inserted. It will not boot up/PC will not even go through the system BIOS when the card is inserted. It does not block when the power (gpu...
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    What upgrades can my computer get and how do i know?

    Hellooo So over here i have a noob piece of crap computer with the following specs: Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 Model:Aspire X3470 Processor: AMD E2-3200 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2.40GHz Ram: 4GB (3.46 Usable) System type: 64-bit So I'm wondering if I can upgrade my processor...