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Re: Z420 CPU fan not increasing under load
Kamzeride, The pic below shows you will be fine with your proposed approach. This is a Z420 v2 with a E5-1660 v2 under an unmodified Z440 "Performance" heatsink/fan. These currently go for roughly...
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Hi SDH, thanks for replying and confirming that the larger heatsink and airflow baffle will fit together, hopefully this will help keep the system a bit cooler overall. I'm hoping to squeeze a few more...
View ArticleBasic UPS for Z840
Where I live, the power drops about once or twice a month. Usually just for a second, sometimes a few minutes. What I'm looking for is a UPS, that'll kick into keeps the lights on, and if the outage...
View ArticleRe: Basic UPS for Z840
most of the UPS makers (APC-Eaton/Dell-CyberPower-Emerson) have online calculators to determine the required UPS wattage/runtime https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/tools/ups_selector/...
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That's interesting.... you seem to be using a hybrid approach. Brian posted his HowTo a while back. Do you first install that XTU and set it with his recommendations, and thereafter install the...
View ArticleRe: Z420 CPU fan not increasing under load
The latest compatible versions of XTU with Windows 10 (which do not cause immediate BSOD's) on the Z420 do not fully work as intended from what I can tell; for example the Additional Turbo Voltage...
View ArticleRe: Z420 CPU fan not increasing under load
For those who have not heard of the Ultimate Performance Power Plan HERE is a nice quick HowTo article: https://betanews.com/2019/04/01/windows-10-ultimate-performance-power-plan/ That's not me in the...
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LSI SAS Raid 10 on z840
Hi all, I'm setting up a refurb z840 that shipped with 4 X 4 HP 4TB SAS drives. I decided to create a raid 10 in the LSI SAS bios utility. I couldn't find any very specific documentation on this and I...
View ArticleRe: Motherboard internal 5 pin usb header.
Hi DGroves, My TP-Link Archer AX3000 Wireless Dual-Band PCIe Wi-Fi Adapter with Bluetooth 5.0 came in Today I installed the Card and Connected the 9 pin internal cable to the 5 pin header on the...
View ArticleRe: Z820 what 2tb ssd to use as boot drive
any 2GB or smaller"SATA" based SSD will work as a boot drive no NVME devices will work as a boot drive although they can be used a s a non booting DATA drive
View ArticleRe: LSI SAS Raid 10 on z840
the onboard LSI ROC chip, like most lowend LSI cards can take anywhere from 20 min to over a day to finish the background initialization task create the array, leave that screen (don't reboot, just...
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Many thanks for your help! In the meantime I had left it in Windows over night and now it seems to be built, and reports Status - Optimal, Task - None in the LSI bios., constant disk access has...
View ArticleRe: LSI SAS Raid 10 on z840
huh?.......in my reply to you i NEVER said to manually start a rebuild!!! far from it,...i told you to leave it alone and let it finish the init by itself go back and reread what i wrote carefully
View ArticleRe: LSI SAS Raid 10 on z840
Apologies, it seems to have finished building overnight. My question was that given I clearly didn't leave it when I first created it, whether I should delete this array and build it from scratch as...
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HP Z turbo Dual pro drive dont recognize m.2 in ssd-slot 2 -- HP Z440
Hello,I have a Z440 (broadwell v4, bios v2.26) with a Z turbo Dual pro drive installed (bootable win 7 pro on it) installed as specified in PCIe slot4 (gen3 x8). Up until now i have only had one m.2...
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View ArticleRe: LSI SAS Raid 10 on z840
unless you like waiting for the background init to finish leave the array alone!!!! there is no benefit to re-doing a working array
View ArticleHow much cores (max) HP Z6 G4 motherboard supports ?
Hello. Have question about HP Z6 G4 motherboard. Is it supports the lga 3647 cpu width up to 75 cores ? https://support.hp.com/lt-en/document/c05791619
View ArticleRe: Additional Hard Drives not recognized or usable
That's correct, the devices are not visible in BIOS, Windows Device Manager, or in Windows Explorer. A drive connected externally through a USB cable is recognized, but not connected internally using a...
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