Thomieboy

Thanks for the suggestion. Gave that a try, but still does not work unfortunately. Also tested it in another computer (simple PC with one PCIE16x slot) and no luck there as well. I guess this adapter is just broken. I'll send it back.

Hi everyone. I recently got a good deal on a Kingston A2000 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD. I initially installed it in the M.2 slot in my Asus Z97 Pro Gamer motherboard, but this is only PCIe Gen2 x2. I get about 800MB/s read/write out of this. (Less than half of what the SSD can deliver). I am only using a GTX1070ti in the top PCIe 16x slot, so I thought that I could just install the SSD via an adapter in the second 16x slot. I bought this adapter from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/NVMe-PCIe-Adapter-Desktop-Support/dp/B08MNPCXRY (Should be PCIe Gen 3 x4) I have tried plugging it in the second PCIe x16 slot (PCIEX16_2) but this did nothing. When I go in the BIOS to "Advanced -> System Agent Configuration -> NB PCI-E Configuration" I can see that the mobo is not detecting any device in that slot. I then tried putting it in the bottom PCIe x16 slot (PCIEX16_3). In the BIOS I set the speed to the max of 4x (Advanced -> Onboard Devices Configuration -> PCI-Exporess x16_3 slot (Black) bandwidth), but this did still nothing. Does anyone have an idea what is going on here? I did some googling, and it seems that this should just work. Let me know if you need additional info, thanks for reading . Additional PC info: Motherboard: Asus Z97 Pro Gamer (manual: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/Z97-PRO_GAMER/E10265_Z97-PRO_GAMER_Guide_v2_web_hi_res.pdf) BIOS Version: 2203 (latest) OS: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.18363 Build 18363 CPU: Intel I7-4790K Boot Disk: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA

This would be a nice upgrade for my gtx 770 that is in my second rig

This would be sooooo awesome for out attic. Now it's all wood, but we are planning on making it our personal cinema. This has been a dream from the start we moved in. (12 years ago or so). Thanks to LG and LMG for this giveaway!

i don't know much about this, but have you tried not using hdmi? Maybe a dvi-i to vga? When I build my pc I could not see the bios screen etc. I had to attach a vga cable to have it work.

You can leave the panel of and turn of the case fans completely by unplugging all of them. Game for a few minutes and this way you'll know

That hub thing were the fans are connected to is just powered by 12V so your case fans are running full speed all the time. You say that the PC is noisy when gaming and not when Idleing, which means the noise comes from your GPU or CPU fans. I see you use the stock intel cooler, my guess is that's the culprit!

Have you tried getting dust out of it with a aircan, or a vacuum cleaner? or maybe you can disable it altogether ( http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-disable-the-windows-key/ )

I have bought a XPS15 about a week ago, you can read my review here (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/541720-my-horrible-dell-xps-15-experience-updated/). Maybe for you kind of workload and use, this might be a good laptop but not for me. Only thing I can say is that there quality control isn't great.

It is not really noticeable indeed, but when I do, I keep noticing it, now I know where it is. It's not a big annoying that ruins my experience, it's just the fact that it's broken. All pixels should work. Definitely on a laptop with this price. Like I said also in the post, I'm very picky and can't accept these things. There are people out there just like me, and this post is for them.

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I don't really recommend buying one unless you will only use it for work or productivity. Media consumption and gaming.. Not really great.

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Update 3: This is the last straw, I really really do not recommend this product! After all the disappointment you can read below, I discovered another huge problem... A dead pixel... This is really the last straw, I am done with this. I don't care anymore about the beautiful design and aluminium build quality nor the amazing colors on the screen. I payed too much money for this. I will try to return this and get a refund, but I'm afraid it will not be easy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello everybody, I little backstory, this schoolyear I began my freshman year at college here in Belgium. Therefore I needed a laptop. I’ve always used my gaming desktop. I definitely wanted an aluminium Ultrabook. I searched for one weeks and weeks. I was really interested in the Dell XPS with infinity display. But there were a few problems. The price, it was a really expensive laptop but ok, I would give the money for that. But then I found the XPS 15 with that display was not released yet. I didn’t want to pay so much money for a 13” laptop. I really wanted that laptop, but back in September 2015 I heard It will come out at the end of 2015. So that’s too late for school. I went with buying a temporary laptop which I would sell when I had the XPS 15. I bought an Asus Zenbook UX303 with a 5500u and Intel integrated graphics. I found it pretty cheap for 666€ 2nd hand only a day or 2 old, as good as new. Months have passed now and I finally got my XPS15! I am really starting to love that Asus Zenbook. It did so much right. This is my true and honest opinion from a person who payed the full retail price where I had to work my ass of at a holiday job. I am really picky, and I want the best of the best, this is why I bought the XPS. The model I bought has: - I7 6700HQ - 16GB DDR4 - 4K Touchscreen - Geforce GTX 960m - 500GB Samsung NVMe drive Here are my Pros and Cons: Pros: - Amazing screen! The colours are brilliant. - Pretty good speakers, they get very load and are surprisingly good for a laptop. - Keyboard is ok, not so much travel but pretty tactile. - Very nice trackpad (UPDATE 1: Altough the trackpad feels great, I seem to have a bit of trouble being precise with it, this seem to be a common problem, it's not too bad, but yeah. I use a mouse 90% of the time so not really a big problem) - Stunning build quality, the aluminium is almost pornographic. And the top lid is fingerprint resistant! - Great performance! Cons: - Headphone jack… This is a problem I worry about the most and I find the most disappointing… There is quite a lot of static noise on it. And it clicks a bit when the sound is enabled. You really hear the transition good. I have had this program a lot with tablet; but they were all cheap so yeah. The problem is caused by a bad design of the audio part on the laptop’s motherboard. it gets a lot of interference of the other components on the motherboard. I will probably buy a DAC because it’s pretty unbearable for me… Sad.. really sad.. - Little shift in red colors on weird viewing angels. When you look at the screen from a pretty weird angel the colors shift a bit, but that is ok. You will never watch your screen from that direction. - No numeric keypad, this is a “problem” I knew from the beginning. But I got used to working with shift + 1,2,3,4 etc due to my Asus, so yeah, a bummer but nothing too bad. - From my little time I have spend, I can say that the fans are pretty quite but the fan profile is a bit aggressive for my liking. - Bloatware, not too much but still too much.. - The hinge, this is another annoying one. You need quite a lot of force to open the hinge, so one finger opening is a nono. ( I had this on my Asus, so I will need to get used to it ) - High pitched noises from the screen adaptor? When something is changing on the screen you can hear quite a lot of high pitched noises coming through the fans grills pointed at the screen. It’s like a bit of a coil whine with GPUs. - Low quality camera, very bad low-light conditions. But I don’t us this much so, it’s okay. - Very weird problem where I haven't find the cause yet. The laptop boots quite fast (slower then the Asus) but when I close my lid and open it again, it takes 12 seconds or more before the login screen pops up. Those 12 seconds are just black screen. I can't seem to find anyone else with this. I will contact costumer support about this one next monday... UPDATE 2: I have found another pretty big problem... Screen ghosting, a lot of screen ghosting. I tested a game and it's very noticable. For my case it's okay, but it was to be expected from such a 4K panel. Another quite big dissapointment.. So for the gamers under us. I think the 1080p model would be better for that. I can still hook it up to another monitor for gaming but that defeats the point of a laptop. While testing with games I was abble to puch it quite heavy. I even played CSGO highest settings on 4K and it was very playable. It looked great too. The fans went too full throttle and they can get quite noisy. But not the annoying whining sound but more the whooshing, air moving one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So as you can see, there are a few cons, but most are not really a big deal. The one thing I’m the most disappointed about is the headphone jack issue.. Any other persons having this with there XPS? These are the things found with inly using it for an hour. I will update this for the interested from time to time. I hope I can help some people with this. With greetings, Thomas