Milez5858

I recently bought an Oculus Quest and my buddy was bugging me to try the PC Link Beta for it, but I didn't have a gaming rig. What I had was an i7 3770, 16 GIg DDR 3 and 2 10000 RPM spinners in a rig I had used for training on hypervisors back in 2012. I tossed in a 1660ti and a couple SSD's and I"m amazed that I can play just about all the games I've tried on Epic with frame rates over 100 (1080p) The exception is Asgard's Wrath... it's a freaking bohemith 120 Gig game that is certain the best looking VR game I've seen to date and I have about 30 of them.

The best way to answer that question for your region is to look on Kijiji if your in Canada.. maybe Craiglist if you are not. I'm in Calgary and most are asking $250 CAD for 1070TI... and I would assume they would accept an offer of $200 or $220.

If you search NVME vs SSD game loads on YouTUbe.. you see that it's only about 1 second better with NVME. Is that one second worth the it to you?

RAID and power management together is sketchy. My WD 10000 RPM drives spun silently for 10 years. No issues ... I'll bet a spent 2 cents per month extra. as for your disk managment issue... delete all those partitions on disk 1 and 2 .. break the RAID in bios. shut down... go into bios and recreate the RAID. Then you should only see 1 drive in disk management.. not 2.

oh... but first check it in disk manager .. maybe there's a partition issue or no drive letter assigned etc.

I had the same thing with my Kingstons. I had to turn off all power management and then edit the registry so that AHCI settings would show up in power management and then turn that off as well. Check the bios and make sure that AHCI it turned on there.. and the turn it off in windows. There are lots of guides if you google it.

BTW.. AOMEI backuppper is free cloning software. The first time you use it to clone the system it will tell you to purchase. Just close it ... run it again and it will work for free.

Even with cloning software I had the same issue. I had to create a windows boot disk and use disk part to make the boot partition active. The boot partition is not the c: drive, but rather a 450 MB partition just ahead of the c drive. Once done that, you'll need to do a search and look for post HDD to SDD installaiton tasks as you'll need to change power saving and AHCI settings or the drive may have weird pauses.