Recent content by Violet_Shift

So I had to move overseas for a while so I broke my PC into component parts, shoved them in my suitcase, and brought them on the plane with me. When I went to reassemble at destination, everything starts fine, but now the CPU is idling at 95 degrees and the fans sound like a jet engine. I have...

So, the saga continues. Data saved from the RAID (great success). While I was at it with a free trial of Macrium Reflect I figured I'd replace my aging primary SSD. I cloned it to a new, larger one. Forgot to set it to auto-fill the empty space but let Windows extend the partition, no...

Yeah, it was getting hot; I pointed a fan at the enclosure to keep the temp down, was able to keep it in the "green" range in HD Sentinel doing this. Do you have any recommendation for a better one that's not overly pricey?

For those that are familiar with my prior post, I'm migrating my data off a dying RAID. All of that's going OK so far - everything I care about is on an external SSD and I plan to write it all to a WD Gold I bought. I bought a cheap enclosure off Amazon (this one...

Well, fate hit me hard. Just when I was preparing to do it, one of my RAID's drives decided to die, so now it's in degraded mode and that precludes cloning. I'm using teracopy. Doing quite a good job of things. I should be able to get most stuff off this dumpster fire. Thanks a lot everyone!

It's not bootable, it's just a pile of data. Ideally I'd want something with built in verification. Does Macrium Reflect do that?

Hi everyone, I've had a RAID for the past decade or so and I've grown to despise it. I want to toss all the data on it onto a single disk (I've bought a large WD Gold) since I've learned the hard way that RAID beats the shit out of disks, I'm sick of replacing them. There is about 6GB of data...

A matter of days ago - this is brand new. Unfortunately she doesn't have access to another monitor that uses digital video - all of the others in her house are VGA.

Her monitor is an MSI Optix G241. Seems to be a pretty standard budget monitor, and I'd not expect anything overly weird from MSI.

Hi, I'm posting this on a friend's behalf, so admittedly this is second-hand, as she's feeling anxious about asking a public forum for tech support, but I ran out of thoughts on this. She recently got a new PC, but when she plugged in the monitor, there was a recurring thing where there'd be a...

Everything's running at default settings for now; I don't usually mess with them. I'll open BIOS later tonight and report back. I did it right now, since I found out that my settings got reset and I was wondering why I couldn't see my RAID volume. 2133MHz, using automatic voltage settings. I...

Just installed the memory - aside from a "I'm an idiot" moment (accidentally unplugged my cooler's power supply and only realized when I'd got to the desktop and had to power down ASAP) everything is fine. I'll run memtest when I have the free time, but for now the computer seems really stable.

I'm a computational biologist - I was using a brain cell simulator, and while my 16GB was fine for very short simulation runs, it would max out on very long simulation runs, and some of what I need to do now runs for longer than 12 hours. It was very annoying to find that the program gave up on...

I bought the memory so I'll keep you all posted.

Would the F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC kit be appropriate for my needs?