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    Lexar Announces New Professional NM700 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe SSD

    My first guess was endurance, so I checked the product specs. Its not endurance.
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    X99 build for my wife: any suggestions?

    What does the performance tab in task manager look like while doing that? All 16 threads almost equally loaded, or 1-4 threads near 100% while others nearly at idle? If it's the latter, we can assume no performance benefits over a cheap i5/i7.
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    So, I am finally pulling trigger on my rendering rig.

    You have an MB/CPU with quad-channel memory support, yet only two memory modules. Did you see any rendering performance increase when going from the single 8GB stick to the 2x16GB kit? That would be due to the (theoretically) doubled memory bandwith, and you could double that yet again with an...
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    X99 build for my wife: any suggestions?

    What kind of operations (on the mentioned apps, Sketchbook Pro and Illustrator) feels slow with you 5960X? Are you sure you're bottlenecked by core count, and not clock speed? Most info I can find on most graphical design and modeling software suggests that high core count rarely helps with...
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    Windows-based Memory Testing Tool: Looking for testers

    Might be interested. Commercial use, wide range of new platforms. Does it currently work with dual-socket systems / high capacity regdimms?
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