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Thermal Interface Material (TIM), aka thermal compound

An often misunderstood and sometimes overlooked critical hardware component is thermal interface material or TIM. TIM is typically seen as a thermal pad on a CPU heatsink, or in paste form. It may also...

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SSD Firmware Upgrades + Diagnostics

​SSD Firmware Upgrade & Diagnostic Info​ Manufacturer Firmware + Diags Corsair SSD Toolbox http://www.corsair.com/us/blog/the-corsair-ssd-toolbox

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SSD Setup Tips

Start with: - Disable automatic defrag (this means you'll have to manually defrag any connected platter-based hard drives - use Task Scheduler) - Disable Superfetch service - Disable Prefetch (through...

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Test RAM With Memtest86+

Test RAM With Memtest86+ jcgriff2 said: EDIT: The memtest86+ RAM diagnostic tool has been the preferred choice for testing RAM sticks for several years now. However, the memtest86+ diagnostic tool has...

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Video Memory Stress Test

​ ​ Video Memory Stress Test​ http://mikelab.kiev.ua/index_en.php?page=PROGRAMS/vmt_en

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Test RAM with Windows MEMORY DIAGNOSTIC tool

Preamble Read More: The following options, procedures, paths, windows sentences, were tested/verified on Win10 Home x64 v1607 Build 14393.1066 (Anniversary update). When I tried the windows memory...

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Why a 1TB HDD appears in Windows as 931 GB in size

Great article authored by Seagate explaining the reason why Windows always lists the space of your HDD at less than the figure listed by the HDD manufacturer. The short answer is binary vs. decimal...

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Format HDD (low level format) - KillDisk

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Test Power Supply Unit (PSU)

Information: The following steps are completely safe if the following steps are done exactly as shown. Warning Do not under any circumstances open the case on any PSU! The capacitors in it will hold...

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Test RAM with HCIDesign Memtest

Simple steps (don't worry, detailed steps are present later)​ Go to hcidesign memtest webpage (click), download it and unzip it. Close all opened windows and programs to assure the least amount of RAM...

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CPU STRESS testing: Mersenne.org Prime95 and Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool...

Prime95 Hardware Stress Testing Steps: Download Prime95. Navigate to where you saved the Prime95 files and unzip the files. Open Prime95 from the list, and then click Run in the dialog box if it opens....

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Test RAM with memtest.org MemTest86+

Screenshot Notes: The steps to create CD/USB bootable media were originally posted by admin Tekno Venus. I expanded them and then added also other users' experiences. Follow the instructions below for...

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Building a Homelab

This thread was originally posted in April 2018 in sysnative.com/blogs, by @Tekno Venus. This has been moved over to the main forum as part of a software migration. What is a Homelab and why build one?...

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Get access to BIOS settings & Boot Menu: F-keys/Hotkeys by System...

Get access to BIOS settings & Boot Menu: F-keys/Hotkeys by System Manufacturer (OEM) ` Hot keys for BootMenu / BIOS Settings You may get to your Boot Menu or to your BIOS settings by using special...

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FurMark Display Card Stress Test

FurMark Display Card Stress Test: First, download and install the latest version of FurMark from FurMark: VGA Stress Test, Graphics Card and GPU Stability Test, Burn-in Test, OpenGL Benchmark and GPU...

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Basic System Internal PC Clean-up

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Get access to BIOS settings & Boot Menu: F-keys/Hotkeys by System...

Get access to BIOS settings & Boot Menu: F-keys/Hotkeys by System Manufacturer (OEM) ` Hot keys for BootMenu / BIOS Settings You may get to your Boot Menu or to your BIOS settings by using special...

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Utilizing DDU Display Driver Uninstaller Properly

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Hard Drive (HDD) Diagnostics (Sea Tools for DOS) & SSD Test

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Test RAM with PassMark MemTest86

PassMark MemTest86 is a stand alone memory testing software program originally developed for x86 computers. It was re-written to work on x64 devices (with the native 64-bit support) and on new...

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