JohnMcL7

Did you manage to sort your problem? I've a friend who not only has exactly the same error but the same motherboard as well, they had a boot SSD and a storage hard drive but the hard drive is failing. They replaced the hard drive but the system stopped booting even though Windows and the boot files were on the SSD, startup repairs failed so just decided to clean install Windows (with the hard drive removed) which looked fine until the PC was rebooted and it showed the BSOD with page fault in nonpaged area. They tried just doing the Windows install again but received the same BSOD. What I'm find odd is that the PC was working fine before this hard drive issue and Windows 10 installed fine the previous time as well. Most articles I can find on this error point to faulty hardware or a bad software update or driver but none of those seem to really apply here.

I went for a Fractal Design R6 in the end which just fits in the area I wanted, takes an ATX board, has an optical drive bay, has six 3.5in bays and two 2.5in bays. It also has two USB2, two USB3 and a USB-C port on the front which is handy and having now built the PC I'm very impressed with the case.

I'm planning a new build PC built around a 3900x and probably a Noctua air cooler which I want to have capacity for an optical drive and six 3.5in drive bays plus a maximum size of 426mm x 645mm x 250mm (HxDxW) . I like the look of the Corsair Carbide 678C which meets these requirements, looks a not bad case and is quiet: https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Mid-Tower-ATX-Cases/Carbide-Series-678C-Low-Noise-Tempered-Glass-ATX-Case/p/CC-9011170-WW#tab-overview Reviews are very mixed though with some saying the airflow is not great and also that the price is far too high although the latter isn't so much an issue as it can be bought far less than the price it was reviewed at. The difficulty I'm finding is that the alternatives that are recommended don't have the optical or hard drive bays so they're of no interest. I've no plans for hefty overclocks or dual high end graphics cards so I'm still thinking of going with this case but thought it worth checking to see if there was a better alternative I should be considering.

Have you built this PC yet? I've been thinking about these two coolers after the video on them vs the AIO's on LTT for a 3900x so I'm curious to know how your system is doing.

That's just not the reality though. Automatics are more expensive to purchase (around £1500 for a DSG over a manual), that is just a fact and economies of scale don't help a complex device with high labour costs, just look up VW DSG mechatronics failure to understand that better. The more than can go wrong means more potential failure points especially in modern cars where the failure of a single sensor is enough to cripple them, again going back to DSG boxes (which I'm most familiar with) the temperature sensors can be critical and enough to cripple the car when misbehaving. I used to be a big diesel fan until I had a Euro IV diesel which required a more complex EGR system and necessitated a DPF. I was very careful to avoid short distances with it to ensure it could build up enough temperature to regenerate but the night before a 1,000 mile trip one of the four sensors on the intake/outtake of the DPF system failed and since the car could no longer measure the flow to the DPF and put the car into limp home mode which meant a hire car. So I drive a manual petrol car with no turbo, no DPF, no SCR, no DMF and no EGR, sure the car isn't quite as efficient as some others but it's a reasonable trade off for the higher reliability given I buy second hand and hold onto the car for a while. Of course you could then argue that a torque converter auto would be a better choice but then you still have the cost disadvantage as well as performance, weight and fuel efficiency disadvantages. Hence choice is good, I weigh all the pro's and cons (and don't just ignore all the cons of technologies I like) and for now a manual is by far the best choice for my use. An automatic would be more expensive and potentially less reliable with no benefit given the bulk of my car's time it's just cruising in 6th hence it's frustrating the increasing number of normal cars no longer offering a manual. I don't really see the point in trying to pretend there are no disadvantages to automatics or simply not being aware of them but each to their own I guess.

I don't do much city driving nor high performance driving so there's little advantage with an automatic for my use but there's lots of disadvantages, initial costs are higher, servicing is more expensive and the modern autos like the VW DSG are highly complex so any problems can be expensive. I'm not saying they're all going to fail but why have that worry when I don't want or need an auto, similarly I drive a non-turbo petrol after having fun with overly complex modern diesels as I don't do the miles to justify that hassle. I can easily see the benefits for automatics for some use but I find it puzzling the number of people that are able to complete ignore that there are disadvantages to automatics.

I'm in the UK so only ever owned manual cars and the only autos I've driven are the occasional hire cars where I couldn't get a manual. There is quite a shift here though and it's getting more difficult to get a manual, two of the three cars I'm looking at to replace the current one are auto only and the third one is 50/50 on manuals/autos. Which is frustrating as I have no need or want of an automatic so I don't want to pay the premium for them and as I buy second hand, I don't want the complexity either but it looks like I'm not going to have a choice.

I wasn't that fussed originally about the Star Wars films but quickly became engrossed with Star Wars after reading the Thrawn trilogy long before there were any plans for the prequel trilogy and the TIE Fighter PC game which filled in the gaps in the films and as a prequel to the Thrawn trilogy showing his rise to the top position. I think the point about the lack of technology development in Star Wars is a good one and it's something that was handled well outside the films with the old dreadnought-class heavy cruisers in use in the latter days of the old republic (some of which are seen in the rebellion fleets stripped down to lower their crew requirements), the newer Katana-fleet dreadnoughts intended to standardise the old republic fleet (and all of course lost) then the Victory-class Star Destroyers, Interdictor cruisers the mighty Imperator class Star Destroyers eventually matched up to the big Mon Cal Star Cruisers as well as the evolution of the fighters from the TIE Fighters to the Interceptors, Advanced TIE Fighters, the TIE Defenders as well as the gunboats and missile boats. It also fitted in well with the original films as one of the reasons the rebels could survive and take on the Imperials was the Imperials were fighting a brutal and costly civil war. After that though I lost interest in Star Wars as I thought the prequel films were too awful and dislike the focus on jedi then the new films have just completely killed any interest in Star Wars although I am a little curious if they are bringing the Katana fleet storyline into it as there's a shot in the recent trailer showing a fleet of what looks like derelict Star Destroyers. I have tried the new Thrawn books but haven't liked them at all, there's no explanation of the new timeline so it's hard to know what has and hasn't happened and I don't like the new Thrawn who is now the good guy and his completely perfect in every way, never making a mistake unlike his original self which while a tactical genius he did make mistakes from time to time which made him more real. For a long time I had no interest in Star Trek as it was fairly randomly shown on TV here and would frequently be swapped for a Gaelic children's program. When First Contact came out I thought that looked good and after that made an effort to see some of the TNG episodes, around that time Voyager's Scorpion episode was shown which got me into Voyager particularly when the excellent Year of Hell two parter was shown shortly after. I'd never been able to follow DS9 on TV but when I had a daily 90 minute commute on the train it was a great opportunity to watch all of DS9 back to back which meant I could appreciate what a fantastic show it was. I have tried to watch Discovery but given up on it, I do like the idea of having long continuous storylines especially now with streaming making it easier to watch such series and it allowed DS9 to have better character development and longer, more complex storylines. However Discovery makes such a mess of all of it which often very basic stories, many of the characters are annoying and shallow with little development and overall it just doesn't feel at all like Star Trek. It's also strange to make almost exactly all the same mistakes as Enterprise did by hamstringing itself with being a sequel and choosing to be bizarrely inconsistent about respecting some of the Trek lore and other times deliberately ignoring it. I thought some of the elements were good with a prototype ship being pushed into service with a warmaster of a Captain but none of that potential was realised. Orville on the other hand has been a real surprise which initially amused me by it's silliness but in time has really shown up Discovery with more serious storylines and real consequences to actions rather than the quick and easy fixes Discovery always seemed to have.

Alienware do offer this on their bigger 17 R5 (the non slimline one) with the option of a 1440p 120Hz screen although not on the m17. What you've said makes sense but I'm wondering if they don't see much demand for it.

I've been thinking about a gaming laptop and did look at reviews of the AW m15 and m17 but was alarmed at the noise and heat of the machine in light workloads never mind the ridiculous heat and noise when the laptop was under load (60 degrees surface temperature). I find the low powered ULV laptops often have irritating fan noise as they appear to be too thin but I wouldn't say that I'm that fussy otherwise, do people just accept these insane temperatures and noise or is it not as bad as it looks? It seems an odd contradiction to the many desktops on LTT where there's frequently a focus on quiet cooling systems. I also wonder what it means long term for the components as my last gaming laptop was the Dell XPS M1730 which ran hot and loud but didn't last long until its GPU melted. I'd also have been interested to see the how the different graphics options perform as some of these max-q cards seem to underperform more than expected for their namesake and upgrading to the higher performance cards may not be worth the high cost.

I usually just buy as needed as it depends on how much hardware has moved on as to what is worth upgrading. I bought my current system as one back in 2011 (i7 3930k) although put the drives from the previous system into it, since then it has had a new GPU, storage and ram. It's probably due a new processor and ram sometime soon but will keep the rest.

I've been wondering the same and not having much luck really finding anything. I have one of the old HP microservers which is still running WHS v2011 but I don't need the four bays and it's not very power efficient so I've been looking for something fairly low power with a couple of 3.5in bays ideally a barebones where I slot my own drives and SSD in then install the OS I want. There's plenty of choices for such a device with no expansion like the Intel NUCs and there's also plenty of choice of prebuilt NAS units that run their own OS. After seeing a recent Linus video about an external Thunderbolt HDD enclosure I looked into buying a NUC type device and then adding storage via Thunderbolt although the prices for even just a two bay Thunderbolt enclosure are eye wateringly expensive. That said I'm starting to come back around to the idea as the Thunderbolt enclosure is pricey but it's a one off expense as I could change the host PC as needed in the future and would also have the option to directly connect to a different host machine as required. USB 3.1 enclosures are far cheaper but then especially coupled with a lower power CPU they don't seem a great choice for a NAS device. I'd be curious to hear of any other suitable machines that would take a pair of 3.5in drives with a low power processor and can run server 2016 or similar.

I'd liked Lego when I was younger but could never afford the sets I wanted but the much later on as an adult, my brother reignited a love for Lego when he gave me this little robot minifigure: He chose this minifigure as it represents me, the little robot that fixes computers. Since then it's become a bit out of hand and now at a bit of stalemate as I don't like dismantling the sets but no space to build new ones. What surprises me is how many other adults love Lego as I thought it was almost something to hide, at Christmas in the office I decided to take in a few Lego decorations which my boss adored and so the next year wanted more so ended up with a display like this: My favourite Lego build is probably the Chiron which is just an incredible piece of engineering, I took it into work to show someone who was thinking of buying it but still keep it on my desk as I like it seeing it all the time. It frequently draws a lot of attention when people come by, I'd never tried a timelapse of a build before so there are issues with it but still gives a good idea of the complexity of the vehicle: Although I've not really had anything to do with Ninjago I bought the Ninjago city block as I though the design was fantastic: https://imgur.com/a/91XMF After vowing not to buy any more Lego they released the Stranger Things set which I had to buy as it's so clever: https://imgur.com/gallery/RlEZElr

While El is part of the show I wouldn't say she's the reason the show is awesome and I feel the show is getting stuck in a rut now so if the fourth series just brings more of the same and goes with the very tired trope of the superhero earning their powers back. One of my favourite of the recent superhero films is Logan which deals with Logan/Wolverine and Professor Xavier losing their superpowers which makes for a fascinating story amongst a flood of increasingly generic superhero films. We've seen three series of El with her superpowers so I think there's a lot more potential to develop her character by not having powers. I'm a bit disappointed in general with the second and third series, I was rewatching the first two series before the third one came out and while I liked the second series the first time on the second viewing back to back I felt it's a lot weaker because it feels like it's stuck in a loop. In the first series we start off with nothing and gradually bit by bit we learn of the monster, the upside down, El, the government experiments and how it all comes together. The second series doesn't really feel like it progresses as although they 'win' at the end it's no surprise that it's still ongoing for the third series. The third series again feels like it's not progressing much and the numerous 80s/90s references spoil the feel of the series they did so well in the first series. That's why I'm hoping they mix it up and do something more with the fourth series, having Hopper actually gone, El losing her powers and would also like to see more of the Upside down again My worry is Hopper is going to be alive, El will get her powers back, they'll temporarily win again and we'll remain in the same loop again.