Any PC Builders Out There?

Well shit, so there is really nothing I can do?

 

Probably not, outside of complaining to the company's IT people. Change the mouse batteries? If they have things admin locked, you likely can't disable things or update drivers. You may be able to set it to where the touch pad is disabled when the mouse is connected, which will avoid possibly some mixed signals.

 

Solved the problem, actually I solved several. I managed to get the admin password and I ended up getting another logitech MX Master 3 mouse, replaced the dongle and synched the keyboard and mouse up. The glitch is gone. I'm thinking the dongle went bad or something in the old mouse.
Put the old mouse back in the new box and will take it back to staples as faulty. Refund.

 

Well kiddo and I started unboxing stuff for his PC build and the dang Corsair AIO radiator is super bent and has to be returned/replaced. Amazon had us waiting 2 weeks to get it and it is unusable.

 

I bought this:



Works very good & quiet. Noctua NH-D15

I have a Corsair case & power supply

 

I thought about an air cooler but I’ve had a Corsair H60 AIO in my current system for years without an issue. Figured I’d stick with something similar for the new build. Amazon just slapped a label on the Corsair package, there was no outer packaging or bubble wrap or anything. What a waste of a good piece of hardware.

 

I died a mini Roblox death when we opened it.

 

You just need an "Amazon Experience" case to fit with that "Amazon Experience" radiator.

 

BTW I should have bought your 3070 and am still kicking myself for not grabbing it.

 

I forgot I even owned it lol I say that because I only play in 2K and can't spot a difference between it and the 3080 I run; Microsoft Flight Simulator does show a difference but I haven't fired that up in awhile!

 

Question regarding the NVMe drives...

The Asus TUF Z790 mobo has 4 NVMe slots - three of them are under metal cover plates and one is out in the open.

I have two WD Black SN770 drives (1TB & 2TB) to put in there. I plan on using the 1TB for Windows and programs and such and the 2TB for games and file storage. Seems like the top slot (nearest the CPU) is best for the OS drive, correct?

And which slot do I put the other drive into?

 

Consult your MB manual. Usually 1 slot, the closest to your CPU, is hooked up directly to the CPU and should be your OS drive. The other slots will be either hooked up to your chipset or cause your graphics card slot lanes to be bifurcated (cut in half). You don't want your GC slot to be bifurcated so hook it up to whatever M2 slots are connected to the chipset. There will be a flow chart in your MB manual showing you how all the slots are hooked up.

 

Okay I found this quickly in the Manual for the Z790-Plus Wifi (check to make sure this is your board):



So your OS drive should be in slot M.2_1 and your storage/game drive should be in either M.2_2 or M.2_3. Don't use M.2_4 since it probably will do something funky to the chipset USB or SATA since it has SATA lanes allocated to it.

 

Thanks - my last build had spinning platter hard drives and a boot ssd. Haven’t messed with NVMe drives before.

 

wow, that thing obviously took a beating at some point! My Corsair AIO from Amazon conveniently came with no removable plastic film over the thermal paste, so it had just gotten all over the place in the packaging and was hard and crusty. Put a 1 hour delay in my build when I realized that because I didn't have any thermal paste and the closest best buy to me is 30 mins away.. Good times.

 

Almost tempting. The price was less than $430 last week. Think I'll hold out until it reaches 10TB capacity.