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So, little update! The drive started smoking and melted some plastic on the back. Sending it back to amazon

I am going to reinstall the drive now. I should mention that this is an entirely new build. I would assume that there isn't a bios issue, but I can update that if this doesn't work.

Yeah, the board's sata controller is ahci. There is a seprate section for none drives and it just says "no drives detected there". On the sata page the only options are ahci and an intel rst (very long name not sure what it is except that its for optane)

Hi! So I have a 1 tb crucial mx500 and a gigabyte ga-z270xp-sli mobo. I have the m.2 installed and went to install windows but the drive wasnt there! I then check bios and its also not showing up. I have nothing in sata port 0, which conflicts with the drive. Any ideas?

My strafe (non-rgb) and m65 stopped working about a week ago. I uninstalled CUE and went back to corsairs website and re-downloaded the software. It seems to be that they changed the software dramatically and for some reason, instead of detecting an update, my CUE just died.

Thank you. He said that he would rather me just return the card than give me any money back. So, I purchased a different card and I am returning this one.

So, I recently purchased a gtx 660 on ebay. It was labeled as a gtx 660 ti (which as you know is a more powerful card). I purchased the card for 90 USD. I contacted the seller and he said he was sorry and give me a full refund for the card. I was just wondering if you guys think that I should return it or is 90 dollars a good price for a 660. The card is the strix edition and I plan on using it in an under 350 dollar build. My customer plans on using it for playing newish games like DOOM on console quality setting and e-sports titles. Thank you for your time. P.S. if you think that I should return it, what is a decent gpu alternative around 100 usd? (a 7850?)

Now, I had an issue similar to this on an asus z-170e board. My problem was that I was trying to install a 2 amp server fan into my machine which I guess is wayyyy higher than any regular case fan. Mine would spin for a bit then die. Is yours doing the same? And is this fan any different from your other fans?

I've had decent luck buying used HDD's for cheap PC's I build for ma fellow teens.

Yeah, sorry was just pulling the name from CPU-Z. And I think I will pretty decent upgrade from my fx-4350.

I just picked up a used i5-4590 for 100 bucks. Then I got a Gigabyte M81M-H, 8 gb of ram, and a deepcool tesseract case for an extra 50 bucks. I feel like this was a really good deal. What has been you guys' best tech deals and snags?

Sorry im going on a lot, but another thing is that server cases usually have a lot of internal fans and so there usually aren't very many "custom cpu coolers" for cheap. I personally would get some molex fans or molex to 3 pin fan connectors and then rig up something so that there is a fan connected to the coolers. I've used a ziptie to attach one to a heatsink before.

Ok, so there are some things here that are not exactly right. Number one is that this MOBO has a no PCI-E 16x slots for normal sized graphics cards. This can be okay, what you would need to do is cut the back end of the PCI-E 8x slot off so that the graphics card hangs over the edge. You shouldn't have an issue with bottlenecking a card unless you go for a very high end model (those last pins in a pci-e actually are only for data... all of the power comes from those first few pins.)... Also yes the ram is wrong. Any power supply would work BUT if you get a server case then you would need PSUs that fit that specific case. I actually start up my server mobos with a regular PSU. ALSO you should note that many server start up on power. SO, plugging a psu into it (or flipping the power switch on an pc psu) will cause the mobo to start. so make sure you get a psu that has a power switch.

Can someone please explain to me the argument for the i5-6500 over the i3-6300? I seem to just be hearing a lot about how the i3-6300 will be obsolete or how games aren't supporting dual cores. And people are just saying that the quad out performs the dual but I have exact evidence against that fact. Where are the benchmarks to prove that the quad actually provides a better experience than the dual core? Or atleast a better experience that is worth the 30-40 USD extra the i5 costs. We have to remember that the i3-6320 is a newer manufacturing process, and as we see with the rx 480 and the gtx 1000 line, that new process and be a huge improvement for cost to performance ratios and overall performance for the price. I have built a pc with the i3-6320 and it is in no way bottle-necking the gtx 970. I have an rx 480 ordered and we will see then but I think it'll prove to be a similar story.

I think this brings some interesting things to the table. I mean look at the part where he is playing fallout 4 specifically. I think that this might just be a better option for him, if he isnt going to opt for the BEST intel processor.