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My motherboard is a MB-531-GI Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX When I first installed the extra Drive, the order of the drive sequence changed, making my SSD 1 and my new drive 0. My SSD is now back to 0 which it should be, my new drive is 1 and the older HDD now 2. My...

Yes, thanks. I did some googling and saw that I would be ok, so gave swapping the cables a go this morning. It worked a treat, so now my drives are numbered in the order I'd like. When making an image of my C drive using Macrium Reflect, I noticed that a 16MB unformatted partition had been...

I know, but I'm a bit OCD. :( Lol. Never-mind, I'll learn to live with it. :)

I'm now wondering though, if I swap cables, if Windows will show them as new drives that require formatting. I don't want to lose my data. Maybe I should leave it as it is. :)

I've added a 3TB drive to my system that's running Windows 10. It previously had a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD After adding the new drive and rebooting the machine, the new drive was recognised as Disk 0, and my SSD which was previously Disk 0 was re-numbered as Disk1 - as in pic below - I had...

I'm planning on using the existing 1TB drive for backups. My external drive is only 500GB so not big enough for everything I've got. Between the two, I should be pretty well covered.

Ok, cheers. Thanks for the advice. I'll get a spltter cable. :)

The cable feeds through into the machine and powers my DVD drive. So the connector is out of action, as far as plugging it into something directly. Here's a better pic from a different angle - I've circled the connector in red this time as it shows up better. I'm now wondering if a 30cm...

At the moment I have one cable connecting the SSD, and another one going to the existing SATA drive. There don't seem to be any other cables that can plug directly into anything, so I think I'll have to have an extension cable. The PSU specs say that there are five SATA connections, so there...

Hi Guys, I had the following system built for me by OverClockers in 2016. At the time I thought that a 1TB hard drive would be enough, but it seems I was wrong! I'm going to fit a 3TB drive and have opted for the BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive (ST3000DM007) Unless there are recommendations for...

That's a shame that it didn't meet your expectations. I've only gone with a couple of fans for the cooling, but I don't anticipate really needing more than that. It's only for office work! I've only got Windows 10 on at the moment, and it does run really quiet. :) My progress has stalled a...

Well done! Have you put the OS on yet? My system will have a small ssd for OS and programs, plus a sata drive for data files. I'm seeing advice from about a year ago that says to disconnect the sata drive before installing OS onto ssd. Not sure why that is. I guess it's not an issue for you...

Don't do what I did. I bought a JeanTech Phong case back in 2005, and it stayed in the cupboard until about two weeks ago! Lol. Cheers, that does look like a nice case. I've already taken the plunge though and have gone with the be quiet! silver case. I'm getting OverClockers to build my...

Ok, thanks for the advice. :)

I missed that! Time for my visit to spec savers! Not so much gaming, but I will be wanting to use the machine for video editing. So I think the fastest processor I can afford will be better for me. Here's my specs so far, although I am still to choose the graphics card.

Lol. Ok, thanks for the explanation. So something like this maybe? Intel Core i3-6320 3.90GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor It has 4MB L3 Cache instead of 6MB L3 Cache that the i5-6600K 3.9GHz has. But that's the only difference I can see in specs, except that the i3-6320 3.90GHz is also...

I'm just finalising specs for a new system, and have chosen the Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 for the processor. However I've just spotted that this is actually described as 3.5 GHz (Turbo Mode 3.90 GHz) I'm not sure what Turbo Mode actually means. Is that a fancy way of...

Cool. It does look nice! Only two more days for you to wait! Lol. Happy birthday for Saturday! :)

I did wonder if the speed differences would be noticable. Your experience seems to show that it's not! :)

I think I may have found one I like the look of. - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/be-quiet-silent-base-600-midi-tower-case-black-ca-105-bq.html It's right at the top end of my budget, but it seems to have everything I'm looking for. :) Edit. I quite like the silver version too at the same...