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Nevermind benchmarks, the OC doesn't have as much VRAM. In modern gaming you're gonna need more than 2GB.

Fair enough, we came to the conclusion at work as well that this time it isn't ASUS being hyperbolic. Disappointing, though. Either we'll have to get a system with a relatively new ASUS board at work (we usually don't spend that much money on internal needs), or find a different affordable adapter to use for file transfers. At this time we don't get enough systems to repair with an M.2, so spending a lot of money on the capability to read them isn't really justified. In this case we had to plug the M.2 back in its system and backup the contents with a linux distro. The machine was a complete mystery as to what was wrong with it (client wouldn't/couldn't describe the problem with great enough detail), so we were trying to be overly cautious and not boot it up until we had all files backed up. Sorry for being so rude, I woke up very much on the wrong side of bed today.

I actually have a cheap-o wireless mouse that emits a high pitched whine (not very loud, mind you) whenever it moves, may be a condenser in the same circuit as the laser, dunno.

Well thanks for the very un-informed reply. Manufacturers say shit like that a lot, doesn't make it true. I was rather looking for user experiences with this product that might tell me more than the ASUS website.

So I'm trying to salvage data from an m.2 and I don't have any native m.2 devices at my disposal right now. I have an MSI Mortar Z170 board and I got this cheap ASUS Hyper M.2 X4 MINI PCI-E m.2 adapter, yet this adapter doesn't seem to be working. The adapter power LED is shining bright but I can't see the drive in Disk Manager and the activity LED is not blinking at all. Any ideas what might be the issue?

Most AAA games (the 1050 can run them at modest settings) will use more than 2GB easily, definitely makes the Ti the minimum for anyone even remotely thinking about gaming.

Still, you're saying MSI is no good for something that happened 9 years ago. I'm just asking for some objectivity man.

So your one bad experience with MSI is from 9 years ago? Definitely contemporary and recent information then! Come on man... I don't really have an opinion on ASRock, though I tend to avoid them. At least my grievances of ASUS are from this decade, last time they f***ed me over was last August.

That's not very helpful, professionally I prefer MSI, their RMA-process has never given me the middle finger like ASUS has.

3 reasons that most often cause bootlooping: bent socket pins; memory installed improperly (not seated all the way in) or bad mobo. Once I had boot looping caused by the BIOS version being too old (Running skylake on a Rampage V) and it gave me a RAM error even though the problem was the bios version. EDIT: 3 most common reasons IN A NEWLY BUILT SYSTEM that is. EDIT2: Once I didn't notice the RAM sticks being seated in the slots but not all the way in, a colleague happened to crouch next to the mobo when pondering it with me when he noticed the sticks were all crooked. Said build was also boot-looping.