2017 Hardware Thread

OldMike65 said:

Easy Mike :) put in a usb stick, then whatever screen you want to print, click F12 and it will show you your usb stick, hit enter. After you save your pic thou Mike, if you want to Display those pics on here, you need to change the format to like .png or jpg, something our forum accepts. :)

Oh, thanks, that would be useful, wasn't in the manual.

CountMike said:

No reason to RAID setting, it also prolongs BOOT time as driver has to be used. On this MB even DVD drive works in AHCI mode which it couldn't in old one. All together, happy camper, once I turn off couple of things from startup, I could expect 5 - 6 seconds boot time, its almost 10 seconds now.
Just restored image to SSD in other computer (Phenom 2 x4 965BE) and boot time fell to 15 seconds from about 10 minutes on old WD Green drive. Long live SSDs !!!

Like I said earlier I don't like Raid ....thats one of the reasons, slows down boot time, adds more crap to my device manger. :)
Love SSD's toooo.

CountMike said:

Oh, thanks, that would be useful, wasn't in the manual.

Unless your Asus bios is different then mine, it should work. :)

Next time your in your bios Mike, look at the top right hand corner, you should see a "Hot Keys" menu, that shows you what some of your F keys do, that's how I found it. :)

Has anyone looked into purchasing an AMD RX Vega card? I'm looking at the RX Vega 64 but prices have crept up to over $200 bucks above MRSP. Additionally all the reviews point to a power hungry card with a loud fan, and slightly underwhelming performance thus far. I say thus far because I don't think the drivers have been optimized yet for this card yet.

Anyway I'm interested in getting this card, but the price is a bit steep right now. Thoughts?

Warning: Not for Squeamish Hardware Geeks!(NFSHG)

Thanks @Cliff S

Nice vid.

slicendice said:

Thanks @Cliff S

Nice vid.

Here is a cool simple-to-do mod find:

In the Rumor and Speculation Department.....

• Nvidia Volta release date
  Early 2018 seems like the most likely release for Volta-based gaming cards, despite some rumour-mongers suggesting a release late this year.
  
• Nvidia Volta specs
  The professional-class Volta – the Tesla V100 – uses TSMC's 12nm FinFET design and the full GV100 GPU has 5,376 CUDA cores. Imagine a GTX 2080 Ti with that.

Nvidia Volta - release date, price, specs and performance