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Yes, absolutely. I have it and I love it.

I don't figure it will hurt anything, but you might just try cutting off the loose part with a hobby knife.

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/fittings/extra/ball-valves I've seen something like this on Jayz builds and it always seems so useful for draining the system.

I'm all for automating things! I'm sure there's some way to do this, but my windows scripting skills aren't the best.

My understanding is that TRIM just tells the SSD to go clear out cells marked for "deletion". Deleting a file on an SSD doesn't guarantee it will actually by physically deleted. It might increase the wear level a bit, and if it TRIMs when you're busy, it might impact performance for a bit. I think windows tries to TRIM only when the SSD isn't busy, so if you've had a lot of torrents running, it might never have gotten to the point where it triggered the TRIM to run.

Yeah, TRIM is good to run more often. It can help keep performance consistent, especially if you're writing and rewriting a lot of data. (say, video encoding).

Give it a try and see! (Science!)

Maybe TRIM isn't working like it should? That can cause slower writes.

I'd possible there is a short somewhere. Probably means you'll need to RMA it (unless you like voiding warranties).

The main issue I've heard of is input lag and latency. There is also the fact that many TVs don't support the same color compression and might cause an issue with the readability of text. Just make sure the TV supports Chroma 4:4:4 instead of the standard 4:2:0 found on many TVs.

Happy to help! You can always pick up another single RAM stick pretty cheap. It would be a good idea to do that, as I think odd numbered sticks will limit your memory speeds. If they were all bought about the same time, I'll still suggest running a memtest on them, to make sure there isn't any other lingering issues. The free memtest86 is a good tool for that: http://www.memtest86.com/

I currently have a 4K monitor (though I'm a 60Hz pleb) and I can run a few games at 4K on high with my 980ti, I typically run at 1440p to prevent any FPS dips. That said, I've ordered a 1440p ultrawide (still at my 60Hz pleb standard) as I find myself constantly scaling to 1440p anyways and I think I'll enjoy the increased width of an ultrawide over the 16:9. If you want 144Hz+, 1440p 16:9 seems to be where it's at right now. I've only seen ultrawides at 1440p get around 100Hz (and typically without gsync).

Sure thing. The Seagate BarraCuda is a pretty good choice. I've seen them for about $70USD on amazon. If you want a bit more performance, the Seagate FireCuda is about $100USD and has a pretty handy solid state cache built in. (I just got a 2TB FireCuda to use as an external drive for my xbox one s.)

That's a direct relation of how much writing/rewriting has been done. This can go quite high in the endurance tests I've seen on Samsung SSDs. Your total writes are no where near the amounts that Samsung SSDs have been tested to endure. That sounds like a good idea to me! For drives larger than 2TB, you'll just need to format them in windows and have them use the GPT partitioning scheme: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2581408

Sweet! If swapping out the sticks and they each work, it might be the motherboard. If you can try different slots to see which slot might be bad and avoid that. I'd also suggest running memtest on it when you can. That can help show errors.