Recent content by ChaoticAtmosphere

Nice. It looks sleek.

What CPU cooler is that?

I'll be glad to answer your question. problem exists between chair and keyboard

I was thinking PEBCAK too but didn't want to say it. Thanks for stepping up to the plate.

Is there bees in there??? How does that system even stilll work? Right out of an episode of hoarders!

Try different RAM? Your video card is better than mine (Asus RX 5700). 5500u could be a bottleneck too.

Disable adrenalin. There's a setting that I found does no good. I forget what it's called but I actually disabled adrenalin altogether.

I work as an account manager facilitating procurement of IT hardware, software for my clients' IT infrastructure. A quick search for "price increase" in my outlook inbox yielded price increase notices by Brother, Canon, Microsoft CSP subscriptions (O365), Lexmark, Sonicwall, Cisco, Dymo, Zebra...

Global semiconductor shortage.

I have two of the SN550s set up in RAID 0 with a 4 Tb WD My Book external for back up which comes with a 5 year Acronis True Image license. I'm all set. Not bad for $430 CDN. 2 x 1 Tb in RAID 0 turns into 2 Tb + performance upgrade. 2 SN570s would most likely see 4000+ MB/s Max read in RAID 0...

Agreed. It's okay for a first install to see R/W speeds, especially in an NVMe RAID 0 striped set to see your R/W gains. After that your wasting your time and wasting read/writes on your SSD. They are limited and degrade over time.

Yes I do! Bought it on spur of the moment because my old system was hiccuping and needed to upgrade fast. Because I work as an account manager for a VAR, I get to purchase at our cost + 1% and because we drop ship from the distribution channel, I had to choose a Mobo that was in stock and LG...

Nice Mobo Animalpak ;)

10 year old case and PSU with brand new CPU, MOBO, CPU cooler and GPU EDIT: I just realized I can add 2 x Intel Optane M.2 SSDs onto the MoBo PCH X390 and rid myself of my Kingston 256Gb OS/Gaming SSD. Huge Game changer. Here comes another $1k expenditure to make this a sick BEAST!

It is. Believe it or not, I didn't even purchase everything based on aesthetics, it just worked out that way. I wanted something ASAP so it had to be in stock (I work as an account manager for an IT VAR so I have access to IT products at our cost in the distribution channel). Believe it or not...