Mikius10001

I know this is going to sound silly, but my boot drive is an 850 EVO 250 GB, only thing on it is windows, lol. I know I should put the boot on one of these newer ones, but I have the 1TB for games, and the 500gb for video files. I like to keep the data clean Thanks for your help on this one!

Yeah, after some fiddling I got it figured out, and you're right. Looking like I may get an add in card just to make it easier and to take full advantage of the read/write of the SN5500. https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX75786 As for this "Alos, it isn't mentioned in your manual, but often when you install a SATA M.2 drive one of the SATA ports gets disabled", yeah, it's port 0 and 1 in fact. So I moved my 850 to port 5

Additive to this, I have 3 other SATA drives, an SSD and two HDD. I'm looking to move all the data off the HDD on to this new drive in order to completely remove them from the system. I was having issues with the drives sharing lanes with the m.2 SATA SSD, but have since resolved that.

So, forgive me if I miss something or explain incorrectly, this is why I'm here First off, hardware. X470 Aorus Gaming Wifi 5 Rev 1.0 (https://www.gigabyte.com/ca/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-GAMING-5-WIFI-rev-10#kf) WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD (https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-blue-sn550-nvme-ssd#WDS250G2B0C) WD Blue Solid State Drive 3d (https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-blue-3d-nand-sata-ssd#WDS250G2B0B) So, there are 2 m.2 slots. The M2A, and the M2B. I put the SN550 in the M2A, and the SSD in the M2B figuring the better drive goes in the better slot, right? No. I found out according to my manual ((Note) The M2B_SOCKET connector supports only PCIe SSDs.) So, I swapped them because I'm a bone head and didn't realize this. So now at least they are both detected. My issue/question is, the M2A is PCIe 3.0 x4, while the M2B is only PCIe 2.0 4x. This SN550 can do "theoretically up to 2400 MB/s". but I'm only getting 1600MB/s roughly. Is this simply a limitation of the PCIe 2.0 slot? After digging a bit a 2.0 slot should at least do 2000 MB/s at a theoretical max. Am I missing something? *Edited for spelling*

Lots of views, no replies. Guessing nobody has anything? Will most likely return it but I really don't think it's a monitor issue.

So to sum up, my screen flickers. It looks like (if I had to be specific) the brightness is flickering. It's not constant but it's definitely frequent and annoying. System is Win 10 version 1903, NVIDIA 436.15 (most recent), RTX 2060, Ryzen 7 2700X. If you need more info let me know. Things I have tried but to no avail: Swapping cables Swapping Display Ports (I want G-Sync so HDMI not an option) Downgrading to 120 Hz (dumb because I want to use 144Hz but figured worth a try) Updating the power management mode in the NVIDIA control panel to maximum performance Downgrading the refresh rate of my secondary monitor down to 60 (it's a 75 Hz max) Wiping and reinstalling drivers As a side note, turning G-Sync off entirely in the control panel stops the flicker (because of course it does).

I ended up ordering a AORUS X470 Gaming 5 WiFi :)

Howdy, I currently have a B350 Gaming Plus from MSI with an R5 1600X with a manual OC. I recently picked up a R7 2700X on black friday, 349.99 CAD, woop woop! and while I know that it will technically work with my current mobo, I feel like through the small amount of research I've done that I won't be able to take full advantage of XFR 2.0 (I do not intend on manually OCing this chip as what I've seen XFR will be more beneficial for what I do and requires 0 work). Is this the case? If so, I imagine everyone will say X470 is the way to go to help future proof (hate that term) through at least 2020, but would I be fine with an X370? Budget reasons. Anyways, anything people can add would be appreciated. I'll continue to poke around and see what's what. Hoping to catch a cyber monday sale if I NEED to upgrade.

Is this cooler any good? I've got a Hyper 212 on a Ryzen 5 1600X and wanted to do a bit of overclocking but keep fan noise down. Currently on a Black Friday sale for $47.99 CAD Any thoughts? For reference https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16835103252

So a colleague and I have been discussing something and we can't seem to agree or even find the answer on way or another. I'm hoping someone, or several someones here can help us out. Overclocking in a hypothetical situation: (Trying to ask and hoping for an answer in the most ELI5 version possible, lol) You have a CPU that has 4 core and runs at 1 GHz and has a possible turbo of 1.5 GHz. You go in to your BIOS, then change the multiplier to 17 effectively giving you a 200 MHz overclock. Does this simply give you CPU a higher BOOST to 1.7 GHz? Or does it set the speed for all 4 cores (not worrying about single core OC) to 1.7 constant? As an aside to that, can you simply change the turbo from 1.5 to 1.7 so that when you do need it, there's more head room? *EDIT* I'm thinking maybe some of this is MOBO specific?

Thank all for the input, looking to upgrade to a DARK ROCK 3 most likely. Now just waiting on a sale

And is also 33% higher than my budget Plus, I know Noctua fans are AMAZING, but that brown....lol

SO, I have a 212 EVO, it's kind of loud (could be my case fans or GPU) and I'm thinking of upgrading so that I can OC my Ryzen 5 1600X (hoping for 3.9 or 4GHz). Any suggestions? Was looking at a couple 120mm AIOs but I see a lot of "don't get a 120mm AIO, not worth" Also worth mentioning, I'm on roughly a $75 CAD budget. Or do people think that I should just get a better fan for my 212 and stick with that? Was debating a silent wings replacement.

Thanks for all the help all, appreciated

http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/i5-6600K-and-Asus-Z170-MoBo_30409660 What do you guys think? This is in CAD. Maybe $400 offer?