2017 Hardware Thread [2]

I've done it several times on Windows 7 and it works perfectly. I tried it twice on Windows 10 back in the pre release days. Once it worked and once it didn't. At that time I believe it was, it will work if you are on a clean install. If you are on an upgraded version it won't work. Things may be different now that a lot of changes have been made since then.

essenbe said:

I've done it several times on Windows 7 and it works perfectly. I tried it twice on Windows 10 back in the pre release days. Once it worked and once it didn't. At that time I believe it was, it will work if you are on a clean install. If you are on an upgraded version it won't work. Things may be different now that a lot of changes have been made since then.

Ok, then I will prepare two M.2's and try both ways, but I will have a USB handy it I need to clean install(I really hope that won't be needed though, 84 regular programs, and 40 UWP apps....the thought makes me shudder).

solarstarshines said:

Attachment 164631It Happened

Isn't that rad upside down??? or the fans are "pulling"?

badrobot said:

Isn't that rad upside down??? or the fans are "pulling"?

If he's water cooling, pulling air in from the back fan makes a lot of sense. It blows air on the VRMs, so they don't throttle the BCLK:)

solarstarshines said:

Wow this guy said what i've said for a minute people who bought into Z270 got burned

Tommy, that's crap. When the technology improves, so does the board. Look at the features you have now you didn't have on the Z170 board. Your 6700K wouldn't do, as you said, 4.7 out of the box would it. You had a good chip if you could get 5 GHz on a 6700K. Now you get a almost guaranteed 5+ Ghz on almost all CPUs as well as 50% more cores. It's the age old argument about technology improvements. It takes new equipment to do it. I didn't have one, but I thought the Z270 and the 7700K was a good improvement. The Z370 is even much better, but changes are required to get the improvements. Otherwise, technology would be stagnant.

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
All I did was insert the same ssd with the original install of 7 and 10
The 7 reactivated no issue it was a retail
10 I had to feed it another activation key = another win-7 pro key and it activated
All the stuff in that link I did not have to do :)

Mike all it does is strip all the old drivers out of the system and lets Windows install new ones just like it was a new install. That tutorial sounds like a lot but it actually takes about 3 minutes to do it and you won't have drivers from 2 chipsets in the system. If it works on 10 it would be well worth doing. It's very quick and easy.

Yes, it will usually work without doing that, but I think you are better off doing it. It keeps all the software and personal data from the old drive. It's almost like a clean install without having to reinstall everything.

essenbe said:

Tommy, that's crap. When the technology improves, so does the board. Look at the features you have now you didn't have on the Z170 board. Your 6700K wouldn't do, as you said, 4.7 out of the box would it. You had a good chip if you could get 5 GHz on a 6700K. Now you get a almost guaranteed 5+ Ghz on almost all CPUs as well as 50% more cores. It's the age old argument about technology improvements. It takes new equipment to do it. I didn't have one, but I thought the Z270 and the 7700K was a good improvement. The Z370 is even much better, but changes are required to get the improvements. Otherwise, technology would be stagnant.



.

One thing all you gamers and overclocker also missed mentioning about the Z270 & 7th gen CPUs:
They also got more security built in(the 8th gen even more again) and you could run Netflix UHD too(if you wanted....blech), plus you also got Optane for your HDDs with kaby. I don't think that was so bad.

Here is the comparison for 8700 7700 6700 K series, and expand all the boxes and you'll see: Compare Products

DEEPCOOL Tech Support Experience

Last Aug 2016, I purchased a Deepcool Genome case from Newegg.
This one:
[IMG][/IMG]

It came with a built-in 360 liquid cooler.



And the cooler died earlier this month (after more than a year).

So I sent an email to Deepcool support site and I got a reply (from Hong Kong tech support) the next day asking for photos of the "dead" cooler. I also sent them a video link just to give them a better understanding of the problem. Then I got a reply that a replacement cooler will be sent (coming from California, USA) . That's it. Everything is done in a few days. Then after a week I got the replacement cooler.
Deepcool tech support is so easy to deal with.

Now my system is back and running again...


And while it was down, I had a chance to deep clean everything... haha...