Stormi

Rig name: HugoCpu: Intel Core i5-2500KGpu: GTX 970Ram: 16GB DDR3 1300Score: 6.6

Username: Stormi Favorite videos: https://www.vessel.com/videos/Yj4PbcgKj https://www.vessel.com/videos/JYZEYDYx0

Works, 5€ here in Germany.

Hi guys, I'm using a Samsung SSD 840 Evo for my Windows partition and want to encrypt it using the Encrypted Drive feature with Bitlocker on a 64bit Windows 8.1. This way Bitlocker should just manage the keys of the build-in encryption of the SSD and don't have to do anything itself (thereby removing any perfomance impact of a software encryption). I've tried multiple guides (the StackExchange ones for example you find immediately using Google) but so far none of them worked. Whenever I want to enable Bitlocker (I've configured it to work without a TPM btw), it only gives me the option to either encrypt all existing files or the whole drive, both of which is not using the hardware encryption of the SSD. I've made sure that: - I whiped my SSD using SecureErase (I've tried this already multiple times) - the SSD has an up-to-date firmware - Samsung Magician says Encrypted Driver is enabled - Windows is installed in UEFI mode I realise that there are other (and probably better) ways to do a full disk encryption (like TrueCrypt) and that I shouldn't trust proprietary software for security. For my purposes Bitlocker is secure enough. I just do not want to lose any performance due to the encryption happening in software. Do you have any ideas what might be my problem? I'm willing to reinstall Windows (again) but only if it is promissing (no more trial and error, I've done that enough already...).

Would be fun to have one.

Damn, too bad I did't pay more attention back then. Guess I'll invest in a GA-Z77X-D3H mainboard. Overclocking would work then I guess?

Cooling shouldn't be a big issue, I've just installed a Thermalright HR-02 Macho Rev A.

Wow, that was much faster than I expected. Thanks to all of you! I've actually "overclocked" my CPU to 3,4GHz by setting the multiplicator to 34. Somehow I was not able to get it any higher in the bios/efi (I've flashed the latest stable version). Is it possible that my mainboard won't let it go any higher?

I'm thinking about upgrading my old GTX 560 to a GTX 970. I don't want to upgrade my CPU/mainboard yet, as I'm waiting for Skylake. How much of a bottleneck will my old system be? And will a 2-year-old 600W Sharkoon PSU still deliver enough power? I'm specifically thinking about the MSI GTX 970. My current specs: CPU: Intel i5-2500K Mainboard: GA-H77M-D3H Memory: 2x 8GB DDR3 1300MHz Main drive: 840 Evo Thanks for your input!