jamesc639

@kb5zuePersonally it's a great board and I've had no real problems with the board except that the high tdp chipsets run a little hot but liquid cooling solves that lol but the software in windows and poorly written programs have given me many problems

I tried both my current 8gb dimms in one at a time in each slot as well as one of my old 4gb dimms in each slot and still a bsod every time

I tried to run event viewer from the command prompt in the windows recovery options and it said it wasn't recognized as an internal or external command

I would assume it means that windows is damaged but I would like second opinions cause I can't get a repair disk

Help I have Asus Tuf saber tooth 990fx r3 with a AMD 8350 CPU running win 10 pro 64bit and I keep getting the bsod upon every startup it says system thread exception not handled which usually deals with drivers but I even get the bsod after I went into command prompt in the troubleshoot screen and did bcdedit to make windows start in minimal safe mode I would make a repair disk but I've got no access to another pc

and the sandisk extreme external is 20 dollars more

sandisk ssds are also quite fast but according to quoted specs on newegg the sandisk extreme has a read/write of 415 versus samsung t3's read of 450 and writes of up to 480

you could go with the asus dual model or the evga hybrid model as for if the strix is worth it just depends on budget

evga is the best out of your lineup but i agree with the others the asus strix is amongst the best

yes in most the cases there is simply a hole there that the side panel hides but metal cases wont be affected to much by heat carboard might tho

yes its a thin flat continuous channel with fins in between to help dissipate heat

go into the bios and change usb initialization from partial to full initialization or else the only usb devices it will register are keyboard and mouse

i would recommend that you have two fans in front and the one in the rear cause youll need some intake and i believe it comes equipped with both fans as exhausts

samsung and western digital are generally the fastest just make sure you are running it on a usb 3.0 port or youll slow down significantly

go with a samsung t3 external ssd very fast and 250 gb is only 100$