Recent content by x-voodoo

Was playing a game that was stored on the mechanical Seagate 3TB hard drive (files, videos, music, and most games) and was getting heavy pauses. I ran CrystalDiskInfo and it said "caution" for that hard drive. Bought a new Seagate 4TB for $67.99 at Staples, used Clonezilla to clone my 3TB to...

So much for Windows 10 being their last OS..... https://www.extremetech.com/computing/323676-microsoft-will-drop-support-for-windows-10-by-2025

It's pretty much out there that one of the biggest disadvantages of SSD's is the limited write cycles. My primary boot drive (Samsung 850 EVO 500GB) is now 3 years old on its original Windows 10 install (started with 1607, now 1909). For the heck of it I downloaded/installed Crystal Disk Info...

My 500gb SSD I use for Windows and a few games is filling up (thanks to GTA5, RDR2, Forza 7, etc). Picking up a 1TB Samsung, wondering if I should just add as a third hard drive (right now I have the 500gb SSD and a 3TB mechanical hard drive for other games and storage). Or do I upgrade my...

So at my work, one of the computers was still on 1511. Updated to 1903 and is now getting a very low download speed of 0.78, upload is 10. Tried another computer to rule out the internet and got almost 200 download. Tried using a different USB wifi adapter, no difference. Updated network...

My 3 case fans (120mm) are set at 600rpm by default and stay at that speed all the time, should I be setting them higher like 900rpm? Also my cpu fan curve seems to be a bit conservative, 13% at 40c, 38% at 55c, 63% at 70c, and 100% at 85c. How would something like this sound? 30% at 40c, 60%...

I have a set of cheap masscool 80mm fans for rear exhaust that are noisy compared to the 3 insignia 120mm intake fans (although those are system controlled, I put one at max and it was still much quieter than the 2 80mm fans). Any recommendations on quiet 80mm fans? Thanks!

Lately I've been noticing reduced performance in games sometimes, hwmonitor takes longer to open, etc. hwmonitor used to report my 6700k pegged at 4200mhz all cores, now one or two are just under 4000mhz. CPU is not overclocked. Board is MSI Gaming M3 Z170a, 16gb ddr4 gskill rated at 3000mhz...

MSI released a BIOS update in July which addressed the spectre vulnerability (confirmed with InSpectre). So I then uninstalled KB4100347. Today I check for Windows Updates and it ends up reinstalling KB4100347?!?! Is that now a required update??? Even though the BIOS is enough to keep me...

I have a Samsung ultrabook from 2013 which has been quite good except for the warping. I did some google searches and they say it's cause the battery is warping. Does anyone know of good places to get a new laptop battery? Hoping the laptop will "unwarp" back into original shape. Thanks!

Of course I download the BIOS this morning and flash my motherboard. I am concerned as to why it is not on their site anymore......did they retract due to issues? I guess only MSI would know..... EDIT -- now it's back on their website......maybe it was a browser glitch or something

This has happened twice in the last 24 hours. I have the latest Geforce drivers 388.72, latest motherboard drivers, all the Win10 updates (16299.125), etc. I did a google search for dxgmms2.sys and it seems related to DX12, so I am now trying a previous driver hoping that will fix it. Anyone...

I was trying to use MSI CC to see how hot my 6700K gets playing games such as Forza Motorsport 6 APEX and had quite a bit of stutter while running MSI CC. I closed MSI CC and the stutter went away. I don't recall this happening in the past so I am now wondering if anyone else has experienced...

I'm curious to know if I should enable this on my MSI Gaming M3 Z170a, as my RAM is rated at 3000MHz but my 6700K only goes up to 2133MHz. I intend to keep the 6700K at the stock 4GHz as I do not have a massive cooler on it but seems to be adequate for the stock 4GHz speed.

Any idea on what this is? I noticed drivers for my motherboard and was curious to know what it does.