Rockstarz

It uses both, but not as much system memory or it would take 4 to 8gb. However it does use more than any other individual program I run outside of gaming. Couldn't imagine using 12 to 24gb for the big miners. Those things were expensive enough. You know how much a 1600watt PSU costs?! I'm just grateful the ETH prices came back up.

according to the manual, both will support it, But only one m.2 can switch between sata and nvme.

Unless you are going NVME, you may as well buy the regular 2.5" ones. The speed will be the same. Only reason you would go with an m.2 sata version is cosmetics or space reasons. So I would go with a Samsung 500 evo. Performance is the same and I can guarantee it will work with your motherboard. Unless you just want one because they are kinda cool or whatever. I'd still go Samsung.

Open up every program you have, not including games, and check to see how much memory you use. Mine it 3.6gb. And that includes an ETH mining program that is cooking on two GPUs. And a virus scan.

So here is my final answer. If you have a 64 bit version of windows. and both of those sticks of ram add up to 4gb or more, then you will gain absolutely nothing from adding more ram, but you can. Adding 4gb will set you back around $40-50. You will however see a HUGE improvement in performance, if you replace your hard drive with an SSD($90) and a small improvement by adding a $30 graphics card. Provided you are up to the challenge.

Yeah, thanks for the lesson super sleuth. I've seen a lot. I have worked on a lot. I have a process. I like to be 100% sure and 100% accurate when I give someone my opinion. Your answer "you just add 2 rams to it into the open slots" sounded more like a troll than an actual answer. So I am completely blown away by the fact that you could tell it was DDR3. What you don't know is, I've seen refurbs shipped with 4gb ram 2 per slot with 32bit windows 7 on them even. I've seen people downgrade operating systems many many many times. You just never know. And I don't want to be that asshole that made a guy waste $40. Granted Amazon has a pretty nice return policy, it's just nice to be right the first time.

Maybe one about the buffer effect of aio coolers. For example, if all you do is basic web browsing and office work, you can keep the fans way down. It takes so much heat to get the water temp to climb that the fans won't ever have to ramp up and down to keep up. Keeps the dust out of your computer and the noise down. If you are a hard core gamer, you will get amazing temps, but then as time goes on and heat builds, then you end up with decent temps still, but the fans have to ramp up to keep the temps down just like an air cooler, effectively gaining you..not much over an air cooler. Then after you stop gaming it takes a while to get the water temperature back down because it takes quite a bit to pull all that heat back out of water. Also WHY in the world do the fans on an AIO cooler ramp up based on CPU temp instead of Water temp, that is so annoying and pointless unless you are running it hard for a long time, it's stupid.

Just do a whole bit on LAG in general. Different types and how to avoid them. Types of connections to the web. Wireless or cabled mice. Refresh rates and response times on monitors. Types of switches in keyboards that reduce input lag, if that even matters. If frame rate limiting games helps. How to determine if you or the server you are connected to is the cause of lag on the web. Hard core gamers or wanna be hard core gamers would love this.

You're welcome, wish I could have solved it for you. I was almost sure we had it when you said the HD was also in slot 1.

Did you try the other slot just in case? If that doesn't work, I have no idea what the tell you to do next without having it in my hands.

That m.2_1 setting is under the advanced tab. And to be completely honest, resetting the bios completely would probably be a safe bet at this point. Just to clear out any weird crap having both of them conflicting like that could have caused.

okay did you check the setting in the BIOS. The m.2_1 setting. make sure it is on auto. If you are not sure how to do that, just set it back to optimized default settings and save.

Okay, take the ram out carefully and find the speed and type. That is how you will order you next two. Thing is, I can 't tell you if it will even support more. We need some kind of information. What version of windows and if it is 32 or 64 bit would be a huge help. Also the current size of each module it already has would help as well.

Yes, that is your issue, they would be conflicting

IF you didn't change the setting in your BIOS, it should automatically detect your SATA m.2 drive and disable the SATA 1 plug on your motherboard. If you messed with it, you will need to go to the advanced tab and find m.2_1 configuration and set it to auto.