Rubin Chen

We want to make this happen. It's still unclear how it'll work especially with respect to music licensing.
 
It's possible we will have to eliminate the "download MP4" feature and force people to stream outright.. but if we can find a way to keep it, PLEX integration is something I personally really want to see.

no guys this is not funny! they might be watching all my prime videos...

no guys this is not funny! they might be watching all my prime videos...

For air cooling the effect is far less. I would say 5 minutes is more than enough. As for "benchmarking", if you are really serious about it, get another hard-drive/ssd and have a clean copy of windows and all the drivers you need on it and nothing else. Then use this ssd/hard-drive as a control over your usual setup. 

To add to what Majestic said about computers are not like cars, I like to point out why cars need a some to get everything warmed up. Cars has a lot of moving metal parts that are nearly air tight with one another. If you ever tried rubbing 2 pieces of metal against each other you will find that no matter how smooth they are they get really hot and the friction is enormous. Therefore it needs the oil to lubricate it. However back in the day oil consistencies are not what it is like today. Especially on colder days the oil is thick and not very fluid. Thus you needed to heat the oil to increase the fluidity before you go 60 on the freeway, since at those speeds the friction might be too much for the car to handle long term wise. Now computers are not the same. There's no oil, or metal rubbing against each other. Computers hit up because of electrical resistance. If you think about light bulbs you will understand this more. When you connect a light bulb to power you see it give light due to the temperature the filament is at. Same with a CPU and GPU. When you power on the PC, it is like turn on the light bulb. it actually gets hot immediately. In fact the die of the CPU or GPU is always hotter than the metal touching it. The only reason why it doesn't overheat is because there is a cooling system attached to it spreading the heat to a large surface area be cooled off by the fans. Also due to the fact that at higher temperature differences heat transfer is also increased, your CPU will loose heat at a faster rate the hotter it gets. 
 
In summary your CPU will never heat up too quick for your cooling solution to handle unless its thermal throttling. There can be too much power(energy/time) for the coolers to handle but not too quick to handle. 
 
Also side note if you want to see how you system runs. Depending on if you have liquid or air cooling if might be best to give it like 30 mins after startup to run benchmarks. This has nothing to do with damaging the system or anything it will just give you more "real" numbers. Liquid coolers has water inside and water has a high specific heat, meaning they can absorb a lot of heat before going up 1 degree Celsius. So you kind of want your system to warm up the liquid before running benchmarks to not fool yourself thinking you may have a better cooling solution than you actually do.

Hey Rubin,
 
It's been 1 month since I implemented your last fix and I am happy to report that Win 10 has been remarkably stable. So thanks a bunch!  I hope you had some success resolving your situation. 
 
I'm also hoping the updates for Spectre and Meltdown patches don't cause any added headaches.  Always something.
 
Happy New Year.

Start menu, Cortana, Action Center, and various other taskbar flyouts are part of an application called ShellExperienceHost. 
 
Windows Explorer is responsible for launching this app as needed, but this app is NOT part of Explorer, it is a separate exe. When a flyout is opened, ShellExperienceHost is un-suspended and the flyout is opened. When the flyout is dismissed, the app is suspended (taken off CPU, but remains in memory), and stays that way until another flyout is opened.
You can track this behavior in task manager, you have to show the Status column though, and "Show suspended status" in one of the menus. 
 
The issue seems to be with un-suspending ShellExperienceHost. My usual workaround is to end ShellExperienceHost.exe in task manager, and that will force it to restart.
 
It seems to be worse in FCU (compared to CU), don't really have a better fix other than restarting the app though. 

1500x shouldn't be an option, 1600 all the way, it's way too much of a loss. best budget build right now =r5 1600, ddr 3200 (less important but it's ryzen), use the stock cooler, oc to 3.5 or 3.7.

I actually went and time this shit cause i am stupid. I had a 1tb 850 before full startup with everything loaded took 20 seconds. I then cloned that disk to my 1tb 960 and it now takes 15 secs to load everything. GG! pop goes $450. The difference is far from HDD to SSD. But if 5 secs is really that important to you then i guess you need it... BTW with window 10 1709 update theres a feature that loads everything in for you before you log in and that further eliminates the need for the 960 in my opinion. All that being said windows does like giving you false "BIOS times" and if you are into those, that number will decrease a lot with nvme. I  am currently down to like 7 secs or something...

No. It's safe to assume x1 slots will route to the chipset.
 
However I would like to assuage your worry about stealing lanes from the GPU, because even a GTX 1080 doesn't see major performance hits until it gets down to PCIe 1.1 x8.

Thanks for sharing this resource.  I may need to revisit this at some point, but soln #1 still a solid fix for my particular config.  As for now, I'm very relieved to not have this recurring issue. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hi Ruben,
I used method one and my PC has been stable for better than a week.  It's 6 days uptime since the last restart, but that was for an install.
My PC f@h full time as well as being our main home PC.  I'm calling it a success.  I was certain there was going to be someone on LTT who would have a solution.  Yeah.  
Thanks very much for your good help.  Xysto.

According to intel:
Affected products: 
6th, 7th & 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v5 & v6 Product Family Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family Intel® Xeon® Processor W Family Intel® Atom® C3000 Processor Family Apollo Lake Intel® Atom Processor E3900 series Apollo Lake Intel® Pentium™ Celeron™ N and J series Processors So i think you are fine. 

Hi Rubin,  I'll give this solution a try next time START, will not START!  Thanks for reading.  I will post my results, so stay tuned.

I'm not sure on exactly when the fix was first made available, but it is very possible that as a new Coffee Lake system, it already has the fix. From your mobo page:
 
Note the last line!

z270 is made for i7 7700k. the reason why they say its outdated is because the 8700k is released and it can only use z370. besides  the 7700k will not work on a z370 anyway. But if i were you i would wait until 8700k price drop then buy that.

z270 is made for i7 7700k. the reason why they say its outdated is because the 8700k is released and it can only use z370. besides  the 7700k will not work on a z370 anyway. But if i were you i would wait until 8700k price drop then buy that.

I believe it comes with one

i think it is. and you might also get coil whine but that happens to motherboards expensive or cheap. a little sacrifice on build quality too. so your video card might sag more.

while True: print "Hello World" Pretty sure you should be doing this instead.