I called Mushkin Tech Support, they are very reliable and helpful. The gentleman on the phone told me I had to initialize the new drive in windows. I did that, and it worked. Now my windows reads my 2nd SSD as an E drive, which is what I intended. Thank you for any potential answers/help for this qu...

So long as you don't mind the 2nd SSD drive being the D drive (or next drive letter available), then it should be no problem to just hook it up without any RAID (I would not recommend RAID in your case). I followed your procedure, however, windows does not recognize the 2nd SSD. My bios detects the...

I have 2 SSD. My 2nd SSD arrived today, and I connected it to my PC. The bios reads the 2nd SSD, no problem. I don't want to run raid, I just want windows to read them separately (like a C drive, and an E drive). I want to use my 2nd SSD just to store my media files. When I boot into windows, I only...

I have to buy a new SSD.

Is Marvell better (more reliable) than Sandforce?

Intel
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820167086

or

Crucial M4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820148443

I have a Biostar TZ68K+ (1155).

How can I boot from a USB?

In my Boot priorities, I have 3 options.

Built-in EFI Shell
DVD
SSD

No option for USB.

I'm trying to install windows via USB....

Picture of failed boot:



Picture of successful boot:



Does this mean one of the SATA ports is bad, or that one of the SSD's is bad?

So, something weird happened.

It took 3 tries to boot up into Windows.

The first 2 tries, it wouldn't boot, and it said my Raid0 Status Failed.

The 3rd try it booted up normally...

Hello My computer is 2 months old (I built it), it ran fine up until this morning. My build is the following: i7-2600 GTX 580 16 GB Ram Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium Seasonic X650 Two (2) Mushkin 120GB SSD Raid 0 (240 GB) Suddenly this morning, it keeps freezing (locking up), and it's usually follow...

I'm not very knowledgeable on RAID, or using two SSD's. Currently, I have 1 SSD with my operating system installed on it, and everything. I want to add a 2nd SSD for more space. Does this mean I have to run the two SSD in RAID 0? Will Windows 7 recognize the two SSD as one drive, or will it recogniz...

I called Intel twice. The first agent said it does not support 3.0. I called back a second time just for confirmation, and the second agent said it does support 3.0.

This is frustrating, as I'm getting conflicting reports from everywhere, and even from Intel reps.

mkk, are you certain? I'm not saying you're wrong, it's possible you're right. However, I'm getting conflicting reports. I've found some sources that claim that the i7 3820 supports PCI-E 3.0 http://www.guru3d.com/news/core-i7-3820-processor-review/ and http://www.anandtech.com/show/5537/intel-relea...

Does the i7 3820 support PCIe 3.0?

I'm relatively new here, and I enjoy learning, and discovering about PCs - a hobby. However, like you all, I have a personal life, and with it comes its ups, and downs... Angel was a lop, who passed away yesterday late-afternoon on December 3, 2011. I had given her some pellets, and she ran to me wi...

Well I don't think fanless is pointless in all cases. However, fanless is pointless if your primary goal is to build for power. I've realized yesterday, that it is impossible to have both fanless, and the most power, all in one. I've taken a step back, and realized that I'm building this for gaming,...

Abula, I must ask a question. If I put a GTX 580, will I need more than 500W? Will the Kingwin 500W fanless PSU be sufficient enough for the GTX 580? http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121083 Or should I go with the X660 such as you. I suppose the GTX 580 you have is louder than...

I too must concur that the Lian Li's texture is superb, however, the case(s) are not deep enough to fit a HR-02. I saw the Antec Solo II, I don't like the finish at all. I much prefer the Silverstone. If Noctua, or any other company makes a 180mm silent fan, that would be ideal, but I don't know of ...

Abula , what I may do is opt for the Silverstone, remove the front 180mm fan (which you say is noisy), and add a silent Noctua 120mm in the rear. Either, the NF-S12B http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608009 or, the NF-P12-1300 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82...

Bump. Today, Dec. 2, I updated my original post yet again. Abula, and others, I need a suggestion here. I need to choose one of two cases: The Silverstone MicroATX Temjin TJ08B http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163182 or The Lian Li MicroATX PC-A04A (Silver) http://www.newegg.c...

Once again, it looks like a lovely build Abula.

Could you post pictures once its built?

I have a question, or two, as I want to make a similar build to your's.

How's the material/construction of the case. I went to go look at cases yesterday, and much prefer the quality of the Lian Li opposed to Antec.

Please post more pictures, I'd love to see some.

Bump. As I'm on the pursuit of building the best overall (silence, cooling, and power) -- once again, I updated my original post. Inspired by Abula's recent recommendations. These are the significant components: Case: Antec Solo II http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129177 Power...

Is the FT03 too loud?

Maybe I'll go SOLO II, first time I've seen it.

I updated my original build, see the original post.

Silverstone FT03.

Fanless CPU (HR-02)

Fanless PSU (Kingwin)

Sparkle GTX 570.

Bump.

Here's the case with a 6870.



Full thread...

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php? ... -upgrades/

Firstly, thanks in advance to those who give me advice. On to the questions... Do you think the following build would be wise? Is it too small? Does smaller the case mean more heat? I've done my research, and people have managed to fit a full size GPU in this Mini-ITX case by Silverstone, the Sugo s...

Thank you for your valuable insight.

Can you confirm whether the HR-01 is compatible with socket 1155?

If not, I'll go HR-02.

I live in North America, and unfortunately it doesn't seem that the CR-100A is sold here.

Abula that is a nice build. I may go the same direction you went, except I'm going to passively cool my CPU. Also, going passive PSU Kingwin 500W fanless. That GTX 580 looks awesome with the Accelero kit. I'm not sure what case I'm going for though, that Silverstone looks nice, or I will wait for th...

So far, I only know of two.

Thermalright HR-02.

Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B.

Which of the of the two are better?
Or, is there an alternative to both of them?

Thanks.

I definitely will consider doing a passive on the 2600K. I don't see an increase in terms of cooling when its fan vs passive, when the CPU is at stock speeds. Might as well go passive.

Couldn't find his post on that page though. It redirected me to some guy with a corsair liquid cool.