Recent content by Static~Charge

Where's the tin foil? I need a new hat.

Am I the only person here who read the product announcement and had this flashback? 7:32 -- "They make great finger gloves, for when you have to touch filthy and repulsive things."

Why? Because: I have higher component-quality standards than the likes of HP (or Dell, or Lenovo, or . . .). I have a different end-goal than the system vendor, not necessarily: maximize profit, minimize cost, clear the old junk out of inventory. I want my system components to be normal, not...

It is not. Apple used a proprietary PCI Express connector. If you have more money than sense. OWC sells compatible drives for a lot less than that.

That case was ugly to start with. Painting it pink just makes it ugly^2 .

I need the Seagate FireCuda 120 SSD 1TB because I need more storage space, and the extra speed would be a plus.

I have a bigger issue with this plan: Why in the hell should my taxes be used to support big corporations who make a crap-ton of money and do their utmost best to avoid paying taxes?! They can afford to build their own fabs, but they're too damned cheap to put a crowbar in their corporate...

Did someone at TPU dig up a product release from 20 years ago and repost it? :roll:

I'll wave as it goes by (assuming that I'm awake at 6:05 AM Eastern...).

The bottom line: If you want to buy a license key from one of the more reputable online sellers (like the ones that TechPowerUp endorses), then that's your right. Sure, you're taking a slight gamble this way. However, these sellers guarantee that the key will work, or they'll send you another...

Lenovo appears to experiencing "technical difficulties" with late-model laptops that have Thunderbolt controllers: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Recent-Lenovo-ThinkPad-laptops-have-a-problem-with-defective-Thunderbolt-Controllers.451061.0.html The highlights: May happen after 6 to 12 months...

It sounds like your drive is having problems, and the o.s. has to try multiple times to read the data. No. CrystalDiskInfo will pull the drive's S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) stats. If the drive has been logging any errors, CDI will alert you when it runs. If...

From Gigabyte's web site: "The second chip acts as a backup BIOS and has the factory default BIOS version on it." It would be nice if your current BIOS was copied to the backup chip, but it doesn't work that way.

Your motherboard has DualBIOS, so it would be worth a try. If the modded BIOS doesn't work out, you can tell the board to boot off the backup BIOS copy.

Google "Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 M.2 boot -Ultra" (to exclude the Ultra version of this motherboard, which has an M.2 slot) and see what people have reported. The board can use M.2 as a data drive but won't boot off it because the BIOS doesn't have support for that feature.