DavidYpres

Normally I can figure this stuff out pretty quick but this has me stumped. I have an MSI Xpower Titanium Gaming Edition motherboard, and a Samsung 950 Pro m.2 NVME drive as my boot drive. I also have 2 850 Evo's 250GB that I want to pair together in a RAID 0 array. So, last night I reset all my BIOS settings to default, formatted my NVME drive and did a fresh clean install of Windows 10. Once installed, I shut the PC off, hooked up the two 850's and went into the BIOS. I changed the mode from Legacy+UEFI to just UEFI, enabled Windows 10WQHL support, saved, exit, go back in to BIOS and look at the Intel Rapid Storage tab but only one of the 850's is showing. However, when I have the BIOS set up as UEFI only and Win10WQHL support on, it either loops back into the BIOS or, if I try to boot from my Windows install disc, it says my bootloader is corrupted. F11 won't even pick up my 950 Evo as an option to boot from when it's set up like this, so I'm just at a loss for ideas. Is there a setting I'm missing? I spent about four hours trying to figure this out last night before I finally gave up. Any help would be appreciated!

I've been running the same revision since May, as that was the last update for my board. I just find it weird that the 4.6GHz preset works yet if I enter the exact same specifications manually, no dice.

Alright a small backstory. I have the following: i7 6700k MSI Xpower Titanium Gaming Edition motherboard 2x8GB Corsair Dominator Plat DDR4 3000MHz 750W EVGA Supernova 80+ Gold Asus Direct CU II R9 290 (don't hate, it still works fine) So I had my CPU overclocked to 4.85GHz at 1.400 volts, stable after an 8 hour realbench run; BIOS is the current revision, XMP enabled, all is well. My 2 year old son hit my power button while I was using the computer, and then I began getting the ME-FW Bios error and everything went screwy. My main monitor would no longer come on, only the secondary with that half of my desktop but it would boot to Windows. I took my CMOS battery out for a full reset, problem persisted. I switched to the backup BIOS, flashed it to the newest revision, same problem. I then switched the cables on my monitors and then it worked again. Yay! The issue now is that if I do a manual overclock in the BIOS, it just reboots back into the BIOS and won't go to Windows. The preset overclocks work, though, up to 4.6GHz but anything higher won't POST. Anyone have any ideas? I tried Google but I couldn't really find anything that fits my scenario. If more info is needed, let me know. Thanks!

It is but I highly doubt it would write 20TB in two days.

Trying to deal with Samsung has been a nightmare, legit. I started using this as a boot drive in August. It's got Windows, a couple of games (StarCraft and Diablo), and Firefox/Chrome which are both set to run InPrivate Browsing at all times, and uTorrent which saves to another drive. So on December 22nd I was looking at Samsung Magician which said I had written 68TB to the drive. I think, this can't possibly be right so I opened up a case with them. I look today and it's written 89.91TB!? Wtf even. This is the 256GB version which has a TBW of 200TB per their website. Can anyone think of any reason this would be happening? I've checked on a couple of other programs as well which both show the same amount of data written. And can anyone recommend any programs which could monitor and log the disk usage/bytes written? Thanks!

At this point I have re-installed Windows and I'm still getting the same slow speeds. I have the NVME driver, newest BIOS, etc. I'm at a loss here. Anyone?

Yes that was installed when I put Windows on. It did read previously at the rated 2200MBps but seems to have slowed way down for no apparent reason.

I have the 950 Pro 256GB edition and when I first installed Windows, it was stupid fast. Here were are a couple of months later, it's slowed down considerably. Photo attached, any ideas on how to resolve? For reference, I run a 6700K on the Xpower Titanium gaming motherboard, drive is plugged into the top m.2 port.

So I want to buy this: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233913 Though not on the QVL that I could find, will this work with the MSI Xpower Gaming Titanium Edition? I haven't been able to find a yes or no answer and have been googling for a while. Thanks.

From what I've seen, the 1080's and going forward are limited to dual SLI so there wouldn't be a 3rd or 4th card in my build anyway. I'm not looking to play many games across all 3 monitors save for things like Homeworld Remastered, Half Life games, and maybe things like Skyrim and Fallout. And, if ever the day should arrive, Half Life 3.

The end result build I was going for is because I wanted to run three 4K monitors. I don't think a single 1080 can handle this which is why I was looking to do it in SLI. I also understood m.2 in Raid 0 to be extremely fast. I understand that RAID setup can cause a data loss if anything goes wrong but I wouldn't really have anything on those drives that would be mega important anyway.

So I just bought the MSI XPower Titanium Gaming Motherboard. This has two m.2 ports. I would like to run two Samsung 950 Pro m.2 drives in RAID 0, but I also want to have two GTX 1080's running in SLI. I'm reasonably sure I can do this but I defer to the more experienced people of linus tech tips. Thanks

Would that be via a .bat file? I have pretty much zero experiencing programming I apologize for my lack of knowledge.

Good day all. I'm creating a Windows profile for my daughter so she can use the computer for YouTube and her games and whatnot, but I'm trying to find a program which will start a timer and automatically log her off when it's up. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!

For the longest time I've been an AMD fanboy, but honestly, just not feeling it anymore. From all the reading/research I have done, Intel CPU's put AMD to shame. As well, a friend of mine is also building an Intel system so while this is partly for my own project of a new system, it's also to out-do him because...why not. (He's got a 4970K/R9 290X). Because of this, I've decided to build my own Intel system, on a budget of approximately $3000 CAD. While I would love to have my own 5960X, that's just out of my price range. So I've compiled a rough build of what I would like to go for, and any critiques or suggestions would be appreciated. I don't know a huge amount about Intel builds so I want to make sure I have the best system I can possibly get on this budget. Thanks! Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor [MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION ATX LGA1151 Motherboard G.Skill Ripjaws 4 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB HYBRID Video Card Cooler Master Cosmos II (Black) ATX Full Tower Case