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by Lawrence Lee
Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:49 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Skylake: Intel Core i7-6700K
Replies: 19
Views: 20694

Re: Skylake: Intel Core i7-6700K

Are you also going to be able to review the motherboard? Would be interesting to see if Gigabyte has made their fan control more passable now. Not going to review the board as it will be mostly repetitive. Working on a couple of Asus boards atm. The Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 fan controls is similar to the...
by Lawrence Lee
Thu Sep 10, 2015 6:59 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB M.2/PCI-E SSD
Replies: 9
Views: 10445

Re: Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB M.2/PCI-E SSD

So I take it you had no problem booting from it, on an old machine? In what modes (EFI or classic)? My understanding is that most of these laptop PCIe SSDs don't have boot ROMs, so only work on newer machines with NVMe support built into the BIOS. No problems booting on our test system (Intel P67 c...
by Lawrence Lee
Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:25 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Antec P100 Case: Performance One on a Budget
Replies: 12
Views: 13836

Re: Antec P100 Case: Performance One on a Budget

how hard would it be to include data with all or an optimal number of the fan slots filled in future reviews? What do you mean by optimal? Optimal is usually 2~4 fans for our test configuration. Do you mean fill them all? What fans do we use? Wouldn't that change the entire sound of the case? Is it...
by Lawrence Lee
Fri May 22, 2015 10:37 am
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: Fractal Design Define S Tower Case
Replies: 41
Views: 44372

Re: Fractal Design Define S Tower Case

I was a little surprised to see SPCR choosing the windowed version instead of the nicely damped solid side panel though. I wonder if that was part of the problem with the hard drive vibration issue? That window looks like a great design for a case vibration amplifier, especially since you mentioned...