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This is an issue I very commonly see in Dell laptops which use a third pin on the charger to tell the laptop how much power it is allowed to draw. However, this Asus does not use an ID based charging system, so I'm honestly stumped. Out of curiosity, what happens if you run a live linux USB and try running benchmarks on that? It might show if its a windows issue or a laptop issue,

There are a couple of X370 mATX boards. But they were shit.
 
https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/GA-AX370M-DS3H-rev-1x#kf
 
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=871
 
I am hanging out for B450/X470 mATX. We just want something high end with good VRM's etc.

I'm pretty disappointed too mAtx is the perfect form factor size vs features. m.2 on front (vs overheating on rear of itx boards). Good room for VRM
 
Intel has tons of mAtx boards. First gen ryzen had some excuse, but now demand is high for AMD.

Thanks for explaining. Yupe, already did that on both of my SSDs.

I did it, thanks.

just keep it one partition and apply the default over-provisioning on the Samsung software

Yeah I am using a SFX PSU, which is also usually more expensive than a ATX PSU. Although the case supports standard size ATX PSU's if I am not mistaken. Good quality SFX PSU's for 450Watt are about $90 compared to maybe $50 for standard ATX (gold rated, modular).
 
Don't have a pic, but these are my specs:
 
- Motherboard: MSI h110i pro
- CPU: i5 6600
- CPU Cooler: be Quiet Shadow rock LP
- Memory: 2x8GB DDR4
- GPU: EVGA GTX 980TI SC
- Front intake fan: Noctua 140mm
- PSU: Silverstone ST45SF-G Gold rated fully modular 450W
- SSD: Samsung 840 Evo SATA.
 
It is tight, but everything fits quite comfortably actually. The front 140mm fan is temp controlled by the CPU temp, so under load it can ramp up and airflow is actually quite good. GPU has a side vent to draw cold air from, runs very cool (around 70C OC'd and on standard Fan curve).
 
Only issue with these small cases is cable management. You might want to opt for an M.2 SSD like some people suggest instead of a 2.5" SSD (saves 2 cables: power cable and Sata cable). That, combined with a fully modular PSU helps a lot with cable clutter.
 
(I don't recommend my PSU btw, it is pretty loud under load. I have heard good things of the Be quiet or Corsair SFX PSU's)

I have the 840 evo 256. Not had any trouble. Not used the Samsung overprovisioning yet. But I do keep 10-30% space free. But only so I can write/move files easily, instead of having to find things to delete when I buy that 30gb game on Steam sales.
 
I read up at the weekend (posted near the same question ), and it appears there are 2 options.
 
1) Run with the normal settings. Use the drive as you normally would. Samsung already allows some overprovisioning for TRIM/wear levelling. This is hidden from the user, and enough for consumer/home use. I would still reccomend leaving 10% free, for those surprise Windows 10 updates, game updates, backups, emergency "I need to download this now" things. Nothing worse than letting a drive max out to 99% full, thinking you have enough time to wait to delete things, and then Windows/games trying to download and causing a problem.
 
2) Over provision the recommended 5% and get a tiny boost to write speeds only. As most of us don't care on write speeds (game downloads will be internet speed bottlenecked, game/OS loads won't benefit) , this setting is often left for servers/special case use as it also improves lifespan, if the server is writing TBs per day. (When I checked it warned me the drive would be formatted if I tried overprovisioning. I'd say backup the entire drive before trying)
 
It may allow a little more lifespan, if you over provision more. But the same is true if you leave 5% space free manually. And a home user is not going to be writing TBs every day. (AFAIK the software/drivers/Windows and TRIM commands *know* if the space if free, partitioned or not.)
 

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I currently have 840 evo 256gb splitted into two partitions. C is for windows 10 pro, while G is mostly for other apps. I just bought Samsung EVO 850  500GB for crazy cheap (spent only 107 GBP).

How much space do I need to free on a SSD/HDD to keep best performance?
If I want to calculate how much space I need to free up, do I need to measure two SSD portitions as one unit (combine their used storage and make sure both have equally free space)? Or I can fill up one partition max and leave another one more empty?


 

Software development primarily data manipulation and visualization. The base tools I use are actually MS Visual Studio with custom plugins, plus a bunch of stuff I wrote myself. Plus database servers of various types - running both locally and remotely with the data viewer running locally or remotely. This is both at work and at home. I can't talk about current by my last job was working with petabytes of data at a time to determine its validity. 

As an illustrations:
Browsing website in chrome with 30-50 tabs open : 8gb
If you have 8gb only, windows will give chrome like 5gb and 3gb will be moved to hdd as paging memory (swap).
If you have limited memory, inactive tabs will be moved to paging memory, if you access it again, it would have be moved back to active memory (ram).
Without paging memory i can access inactive tabs almost instantly.
With 16gb i never had any page memory used.
Some people will say they have no problem with 8gb memory until they check the paging memory usage.
 
Gaming, a game will use active memory (ram) and video memory in gpu (vram).
For graphic & 3d processing it would use Vram, most modern games use 2-4gb or vram, if you have limited vram, then the rest of graphic memory will use your memory, if the memory is full, it will use page memory (hdd). So if you have 1gb vram and the game want 4gb, 3 gb will be stored in your memory (ram) and so on.
For game data calculations like scores, coordinates etc the game will use active memory (ram). Some games need 1-3 gb for this.
With 8 gb of ram you can game without problems as long as no other programs running at the same time.
If any program running, the memory used is moved to paging memory.
 
Adobe photoshop, editing a 20mp picture would consume like 3-5gb of memory.
Adobe premiere, 3 minutes video : 8-12 gb. You can set premiere to use all of the memory as a swap, premiere loves more memory.
 

With AMD it's been poor board choice. None of the ITX boards currently out are particularly good. That might change with the launch of the 400 series chipset though, we'll have to wait and see. Other than that you just lose the ability to add additional add in cards. Only you can really tell us if that's a drawback for you or not, as it'll very much come down to your use case.
 
Personally I love ITX boards, especially ones that have a couple m.2 slots. Removes any need for the additional cabling.
There are lots of small cases that use ATX power supplies. Though, honestly, I'd look into replacing that unit anyway; it's not the greatest PSU.
You will always get less than what you sell something for. What's the bigger waste, getting nothing for it and having it sit on a shelf, or recouping at least some of the value? I'd say it's the former.
 
You're looking at pretty big ITX cases. If you're getting something that size, I'd just go with microATX.

M.2 Storage (with NVMe support) cards,
SATA ports cards,
Wifi and Bluetooth cards (some come with both function in one card),
Audio cards,
TV tuner cards (yes, watching TV programmes with a PC is a thing),
Radio capture card,
USB 3.0 cards (type A and Type C connectors available),
U.2 cards,
mSATA cards (for using some laptop storage drives),
mPCIe cards (for using laptop WiFi and BT cards),
MXM cards (some removable laptop graphics cards use MXM, so you can you one in a PC for fun I guess), 
Some processors for certain workloads, like Red Rocket for R3D workflow.
 
/yeah, a lot of stuff most people dont end up using even though they can

Should be fine, if not, you could always get 2 16 gb kits

I would think the 4 year goal is realistic.  Vram in GPUs keeps going up, so system requirements haven't changed much in the last few years/generations.  
Now, video editing and other production stuff is a different story.  So are some outlaying stuff like flight siming.  That can use a lot of system ram.

You can always add more memory down the road. Even after 4 years, I don't see an absolute necessity to do a platform upgrade. I've been using the same configuration for almost 7 years albeit more RAM and a SSD was added on later down the road.

A rule of thumb is figure out how much memory you're likely going to use when you're doing work and double that. If your work on average only caps out at 8-9GB, 16GB should be fine for you for at least a few years.

DDR4 will support 16gb on a single stick.
so with 2 slots you can get to 32gb in the future.

Been running 16GB for photography for the past 10 years on my systems, I've only recently begun to look for more, as I'm doing videography now as well and that really chews up the RAM.

Long enough that you don't need to worry about it.

As for texturing and modelling, that doesn't usually take up too much RAM.
 
It depends on how big your scene files are, and how dense your models are, 
textures get loaded into VRAM and unless you're working with 8K full PBR shaders you don't have anything to worry about I guess.
If you're going to get into CPU rendering, you might want to upgrade your RAM.
 
There are also very neat CPU + GPU render engines available, the current version of Vray can handle hybrid rendering and I think Maxwell does as well, but
I think that for the things you are trying to do that's a little too ambitious.

TLDR:
You're fine with 16Gb ram at the moment, especially if you have a decent GPU.

The biggest drawback going with an mITX board is simply you get less expansion capabilities. While people claim you're paying more for less, I see it as I'm using more my board and getting my money's worth.
 
Regarding the case situation, it depends on the case you get obviously. I've had the BitFenix Prodigy and Corsair 250D. Both were fine cases if you're packing high performance components or need more room to work with. I currently use a Silverstone FTZ-01, and it holds its own well.
 
But really, you should plan your system for what you are going to be using and are really sure you'll be using. I don't think it's worthwhile to buy a board capable of multi-GPU just because you want the capability to do it but you're not committed to the idea, for example.

ITX is pretty hard to work with. It requires much more planning. You'll get bitten in the ass on things like PSUs with non-modular cables. 

ITX cases do not support large GPUs in some cases (mostly long and/or tall ones).
ITX cases have worse airflow, depending on the case. This may result in more noise due to fans having to do more work to keep components cool.
Any kind of expansion options - SATA ports, RAM slots, PCI Express slots.
Some ITX cases might not fit ATX PSU, you will need to find SFX then (and these are some what harder to find).

Price. ITX is a classic example of paying more for less.
 
Resistant to failure. Let's say the onboard LAN port dies after warranty. With mATX mobo you can simply add a cheap PCIe LAN card and call that fixed. With mITX, you are out of luck.
 
Capability to use PCIe expansion cards for new stuff. same as above