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NVME show up kinda weird in some BIOS. Does it show up when you use a windows 10 USB installer and it's the only drive plugged in? It looks like your M.2 should show up in the "OffBoard SATA Controller Configuration" menu. Other things to check (will result in currently installed operating systems not booting) are the UEFI vs Legacy mode and what mode the SATA controller is in. Also - if you have PCIE devices installed in slots other than just the top 16 lane slot, that would cause conflicts according to the chart you posted.

Sadly, my EVGA Z10 keyboard stopped working. I really liked that thing and it's impossible to get another at a reasonable price (they're like $180 used on ebay at time of post). I really loved that display with the date and time right on the keyboard and also the windows key being on the right side of the board for WIN + L and WIN + . single hand. Does anyone actually use windows key shortcuts on the left side of the board for anything? Got a dirt cheap AOC mechanical board with outemu blue switches that was bundled with a mouse for $19.99. I'm still using the wrist rest from the Z10 because it too was great, although it is a bit annoying without the magnets to hold it in place. I also got a V1TECH "Sick Love" XL mouse pad with a gift card I won. It's kinda nice to have a mouse mat for the first time in over a decade. lol

You must have some really fast internet. Pretty normal in that case. It's download and decompressing the files as well as verifying their integrity. The faster the internet speed, the more the CPU load. It gets really nuts when there's a local cache and you have 10gig or faster local connection (and the cache has drives fast enough saturate it).

So I was watching WAN show and they were talking about the forum and I thought to myself, gee I should probably update my profile and build log. Decided the old title of used parts rebuild from the original post wasn't accurate and I've been joking about it being a PC of Thesus for a while so I went with that. Decided to check the build logs and saw you also went with a similar title. Sorry about the similarity, it was not intentional.

2/2 I got in on the Newegg shuffle almost every time they had EVGA 3080s and finally was drawn for a 3080 FTW3. Unfortunately it was bundled with an 850W PSU that I didn't need. I decided bundles roll downhill and sold my other GPU with it. Installing this thing really pushed this case to it's limit. Yet another thing that makes maintenance on this PC a royal pain. This is around the time that I needed to replace the 6950x with the Xeon. I also got an Optane P1600X 58GB that I use for system page file and a 256GB SSD to get a couple blockchain VMs off my HDD. I was able to get a steal of a deal on eight 32GB RDIMMs so the PC now has it's maximum potential capacity, 256GB of memory. I also shucked my two 8TB external drives to mount them in the case. I also put together a little NAS using a really cool retro PC case my brother in law gave me, my nieces old i3 7100 / gtx 1050 setup and some 4TB drives my brother in law gave me. Although since she had 8GB of memory, I put in two of my 8GB sticks for 16GB. Of the eight 4TB drives, three of them were dead. I should have figured as much since they came out of a network video recorder and they likely set it up as raid 6 and only replaced the drives after it stopped working because of the third failure. A fourth drive failed after a few weeks of running - leaving me with no redundancy as I set the 5 drives up in RaidZ1. I used one of the 8TB drives to copy the data off the NAS so I could set it up correctly instead of running a single VDEV. It's now running two mirrored VDEVs. I got another of the same from someone on marketplace for just 20 bucks and have it as a cold spare. Then my brother in law gave me another 4TB drive, this time a Seagate Skyhawk instead of Seagate white label. I don't want to be in a situation without a spare again so I guess I have two cold spares now. I really want to swap the red LED fan in the side panel for a blue one so it can be blue for in (cold) and red for out (warm).

I have Theseus'd a bit more in/on to this case. (Pictures in spoilers to reduce scroll length) I upgraded my boot volume from the Patriot Ignite 480GB to a WD SN750 1TB. I found a reason (adding 2 more NVMEs - Patriot VPN100 1TB) and funds to upgrade my i7-6800k to an i7-5960x for the two more cores and all 40 PCIE lanes instead of just 28. The problem then became that my Hyper 212 simply wasn't going to cut it for the 8 core - not unless I gave up a pretty substantial amount of single thread performance (both Broadwell-E generations overclock to similar performance levels single threaded). My cache overclock on that chip resulted in a relatively short life and I replaced it with it's Xeon equivalent about a year later. I won an EVGA CLC280 in their live streams (rip EVGA) but didn't use it for well over a year because I was waiting for a case that fit it. This cooler would handle the power quite well and I realized that the side 'window' on these older style cases are just held in by some folded metal tabs. I unfolded the tabs and removed the plastic. I mounted the cooler to the outside of the 280mm fan intake and wrapped the cold plate around thru the missing plastic window. I found some stuff to fill in the empty hole where the rest of the window was. This is a royal pain to service. The fans that came with the cooler would not work for how I needed to mount the cooler so I used some red led corsair fans. I later upgraded to push pull Arctic P14 fans. 1/2

Remaining silent consigns any possibility of improving the situation. Simply adding 12c and 16c options around $600 and $900 respectively would be enough to while not being perfect, at least get close. Then for $1500 you could go with a 12c and a high end board or a 16c and the $600 TRX50 Aero D from Gigabyte that has just 3 PCIE slots (2 gen 5 with 16 lanes each and 1 gen 4 with 16 lanes). Or save $300 and go with the 12c on the Aero D for $1200. While you'd still be stuck with registered server memory and these prices aren't for everyone, it would at least be somewhat attainable. For me, perfect would be for AMD to go all Apple M1 Ultra on the consumer IOD. Having a severable high speed interconnect that could make two consumer I/O dies by slicing it in half or one HEDT I/O die should make bring-up easier I would think. It would offer the ability to have consumer 6-16 cores and HEDT 12-32 cores with HEDT having 4 channels of DDR5 non registered memory, 40 PCIE lanes and they could even have two chipsets like X670E but instead of chaining them together, each could have their own dedicated 4 PCIE link.

RE: Bifurcation Bifurcation can be great some of the time; however, it is my understanding (and I could be remembering wrong - I do not have hands on experience with the situation) that all devices on the root PHY operate at the per lane transfer rate of the slowest device. Since most of us likely want to put devices that could even be as old as PCIE Gen 2, it would really stink if the GPU suddenly found itself having to operate on 8 lanes of Gen 2. I mean, my X99 when it is finally retired will get the fastest used enterprise network card I can reasonably justify (same with the desktop) and also at least one retired SAS HBA for hard drives. [edit] Having just watched Der8aur's video on the RTX 4060 Ti with M.2 SSD slot, it appears that at least some modern platforms can negotiate different generation speeds for different devices on the same 16 lane PHY when bifurcating. It is unknown just how far that can be taken. If I had the card, I'd be all about testing that.

You forgot about the W5s, but ironically while intel offers Lite Workstation W5s in addition to the Pro Workstation W5s, AMD does not offer Lite Workstation Threadrippers since they start at 24 cores. It's a huge misstep IMO.

How did this video make it thru the ECC squad with the comment about W790 not being a direct competitor to Threadripper? W790 is very poorly marketed, but just like Threadripper and Threadripper Pro; it is both Professional Workstation and Lite Workstation. It just depends on the orientation of the socket. When the socket is facing the traditional direction, that is a board that supports quad channel memory and is built for the Lite Workstation market. It is also built around the 64 PCIE lane configuration of the W-2400 line of CPUs. When the socket is in the rotated orientation, it supports octal channel and is built for the Professional Workstation market. It is also built around the 112 lane configuration of the Xeon W-3400 line of CPUs. *Only used this brand for demonstration as they offer both versions. Both motherboards support both the W-2400 and W-3400 processors, but installing a W-3400 processor in the quad channel board does not allow you to utilize all of the features of the of the W-3400 CPU. Installing a W-2400 in an octal channel board results in being unable to use 4 of the memory slots and some of the PCIE features. Here are the charts of the W-2400 and W-3400 processors and their features. (It is my personal belief that none of this stuff, including Threadripper, is HEDT. Registered memory is not enthusiast nor are the prices. The intel W-2400x starts at $1025 and Threadripper starts at $1500. HEDT pricing would get both the motherboard and CPU for under 1.5k. Honestly, the W790 refresh could potentially meet the pricing level, but it'd still require server memory. Threadripper could also come out with a $600 12c and $900 16c and really impress me there since TRX50 boards seem to start at just $600 instead of the $800+ of W790.)

It's hard to believe the amount of changes I have made with this system in the last two years. I put a GTX 750Ti that I picked up for a steal in the blue computer and sold it. I used that cash to pick up a 6800k and X99 Taichi motherboard. I also got a 5.25 to hard drive cage and an 80mm red led fan to put in it. Then an absolutely insane stroke of luck hit me and I won an RTX 2080 founders edition from a live stream with a 0.5% chance to win. Well crap, now I have to upgrade my power supply again and unless I want to actually turn RTX on (lol), my 1080p60 monitor will be a massive bottleneck. So I got myself a 850w Seasonic Focus Plus Gold PSU and an AOC AGON 24" 1440p144 Freesync / G-Sync Compatible monitor. Holy crap, 1080p is hot garbage now. I also got the machine off the floor and utilize both the new and old monitor by turning and facing the side of the desk instead of where they intend you to put a computer. Oh and a friend gave me an EVGA Z10 with brown keys. It still messes with me a lot when gaming but typing on this thing is so much better than the crappy old Dell keyboard I used to use. Oh and most recent upgrade was me being absolutely tired of having only 16gb of RAM and Newegg had a sale on cheap Oloy 2x8GB kits for $45/ea so I got two of them for a total of 48gb of RAM. Here's a teaser - the rest will be in the spoiler. As with all my previous posts, click the large thumbnail for full res.

I just thought... A. cute and B. she seemed to placed in ways that hid the camera from view a lot.

Sorry about the late reply and I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned already in this post, but in order to run Optane Boost on a hard drive you need a supported motherboard and chipset. 200 series and later boards and a 7th generation or newer core i3 or higher CPU is required. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023994/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-memory.html

https://edgeup.asus.com/2016/broadwell-e-overclocking-guide/ I believe this is the one you were talking about and it looks like it is exactly what I was looking for. No idea why this didn't show up the first time I was searching.

I'm not looking as much for an overclocking how-to guide, as I am looking for a breakdown what the things are, what they do, ect so that I can go at it myself with more understanding. BIOS labels and descriptions aren't that great.

I recently upgraded from an i5 2500k to an i7 6800k. I have an ASRock X99 Taichi motherboard and a single 4gb stick of 2400mhz Geil 1.2V memory (temporarily until I sell the 2500k stuff and can buy more RAM - and yes it's pretty brutal haha). I am trying to find something that just explains all the high end desktop features and how they relate to overclocking. There is much more to X99 than there was to the Z68. I mean the Z68 was as simple as turning on core enhancement and setting a 44x multiplier and being off to the races. I have not had too much luck with my searches. However, I have been able to get my overclock as follows. core 1.25v, 41x multi, uncore 1.1v, 34x multi, ddr4 stick 1.35v forced timings to the 2400mhz settings and raised clock to 2800mhz. Machine has been stable for 24 hours now. My load has been mining Lyra2z with 8 threads while using the system as normal. The threads are balanced out as 1 thread for core 1 and 5, 2 threads for core 2 4 and 6, 0 threads on core 3 (found it to run hottest so I made it my dedicated free core), Max temps range 68 to 72 C with this load. Cooler is a Hyper 212 LED with 2 fans. Here's some screen snips. If anyone remembers such a guide that could help me better understand what I'm doing here, it would be greatly appreciated.

@Manchu 1.78x 1080p is 1440p. It won't be 100% accurate of an actual 1440p panel, but it should help some. And honestly, I would think it'd be lower fps than an actual 1440p panel if anything since it has to be down sampled.

Enable super resolution in the nvidia control panel to render at 1440p and downscale to display on your 1080p monitor and bam you have your answer.

Holy crap this thing puts a lot of icons in the system tray. haha However, that being said; it does actually work for what I wanted. Although, I do wish I could get more than just the one side case fan to turn off entirely. I think the motherboard is outright preventing the fans from being off. Probably because of that calibration thing in the bios to determine the point they start spinning. With the exception of the side intake that I only want on if the GPU is warm, the other fans I do want spinning all the time. It's just that manual to 0% confirms that the software is controlling the fans beyond a shadow of a doubt.

ok then I'll take the trial and see what's up. The website specifically says it only monitors fan speed and controls the fans on the GPUs.

Thanks for the suggestion to check out Argus. Unfortunately it appears to only monitor motherboard fan speeds, not control them. It looks like the NZXT Grid+ is what I need, but then I'd have to use CAM. I am so tired of companies that want our money to make us the product.

A-Tuning is hot garbage. I cannot control a fan based on GPU temperature. Therefore it is useless to me.

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I've always used SpeedFan and for the most part it has worked well for me. However, I have recently upgraded from Z68 to X99 and the fan controller in my ASRock Taichi is not doing what I need it to. Only one of the headers on the board has any level of control in speedfan, and all I can get is 0% or 100%. Ultimately what I need is a new physical fan controller (3 pin is fine, I don't have PWM fans yet) that has good software (or is 100% compatible with SpeedFan) that will allow me to base fan speed off of CPU temp or GPU temp. I have a side case fan that I want to be off unless the GPU is above a certain threshold and then curve up from that threshold. It worked wonderfully with the ASRock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3 board, but the X99 Taichi won't. The built in fan controller and software only permit based on cpu or motherboard temp. I can straight up hear my PC half way across the house and it's not a very pleasant tone. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. The cheaper the better.

Hey thanks for the investigation and passing along the information. I was going nuts trying to figure out why the drive wouldn't show up in windows but would show up in macrium. To make things more odd, the bios would detect the nvme on the nvme page, but on the storage page, it says both m.2 not detected. Really odd. Anyway X99 Taichi with 6800k here. I got the 16gb Optane drive to use as a dedicated Windows swap partition. My 4k seems reasonable, but the writes are trash. A fifth of the speed of my sata boot drive. I will try tomorrow to pull the drivers out of my nieces machine and see if I can't mine to recognize them. The write caching option doesn't exist on the Optane drive options pane. Intel seems to actually offer Windows 7 RST drivers that have Optane support, but they refuse to install unless you have a 'supported chipset'.