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Help buying SSD for Boot & Gaming Drive

nChen — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:36:45 +0800

This SSD’s been with me for ages, never crashed Windows, no BSOD, ran BF6 beta perfectly with no stutters or texture bugs… only thing is boot’s getting a bit slower think it’s time to retire it... and the health been steadily dropping ~1% every 2-3 months...

Avg temp: 39°C idle, min 36°C with AC on, 55°C under load...

I don't know which NVMe to buy, I have already some in mind and I'm only going for 1TB max and no QLC SSD like Crucial P3..

KC3000 DRAM, SN7100, SN850X DRAM, NM790, and maybe another SX8200 Pro Gen3

I was initially gonna buy the SN850X, but then two of my friends both have SN850X 1TB as their boot drive, and they also ran BF6 beta on it.. they get texture disappearing bugs.. the game crashes, and sometimes BSOD during BF6 beta.

I don’t really care much about Gen4 speed but honestly I can't find decent Gen3 cheaper than Gen4 so might as well go Gen4.

TM didn't upgrade my internet to 4mb

nChen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:26:05 +0800

Broadband provider tmnet streamyx
ISP/package: 4mb
Location: KB
Have you called your ISP's helpline?: yes

Personal equipment
Modem: ZTE ZXDSL
Router: Tenda (currently online without router)

Problem details
First occ of problem: since upgrade

Problem description:

full details-

-Last month, I upgraded my 1mb package to 4mb.

-I was internet-less for the first 3 days because they cut-off my old 1mb service.

-got my internet back with 7.7mb downstream rate and 512kb upstream but the speedtest is just 1.6mb(215kb/s) download speed.

-on the 6th day, the technician came to check the line with his own modem and the result was "-0.1db snr margin, 6db line attenuation and 40kb downstream." he tried to connect to the internet with his own account but failed and told me that I can't upgrade to 4mb because my snr and downstream rate are below normal "-0.1db, 40kbs". I had no idea what snr means so I let him go.

-I did some research about snr margin, and found out that with -0.1db I wouldn't be able to connect to the internet but my Internet has always been stable without disconnection for years. So I checked the line status with my own modem, and the snr is actually 16db at night and 12db afternoon @ 7.7mb downstream.

-I called the technician to check the line again, and then the next week he came and checked the line with his modem, and the same problem occurs. He said that I really can't upgrade to 4mb then I explained to him about the -0.1db noise margin BS and forced him to check the line with my own modem.

- after doing the line check, he said his modem is kiok and I can upgrade to 4mb but in the afternoon my line might not be stable because of the snr margin will drop to 12db, I told him that I don't care because I only play at night.

- He spent about 30 minutes calling the TM office to upgrade my account and none of them answers. He said he will call them again on Monday because that day was Saturday and they only have few shift workers and most of them must be curi tulang. I wasn't in hurry, so I told him it's alright and let him go again.

- the technician then MIA, he never comes and calls me again. I lost his number by accident.

- a week ago, my internet died again for a day and then my 7.7mb downstream rates dropped to 4mb, but my speedtest still shows that I have 1.6mb internet.

- now It's already been almost a month and my TM upgrade status is still in progress.

who should I call now?

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HD4890 & GTX260+ which one should I buy?

nChen — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:52:01 +0800

Brothas, my old gc died last night. so I wanna buy a new one.

but I cant decide between these two.

HD4890 and GTX260+, I've googled the specs and comparisons but that didnt satisfy me.

Hope ma bros here can help me to decide.

my screen reso is 2048x1152

Q: about Line Rate and IP range

nChen — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:40:34 +0800

Can someone here detect my problem?

I thought that Line rate means ur current internet speed.

however I'm only getting the same old 60.48~60.54 1mbps IP, and my download speed is around 2mbps(240kbps)

they supposed to give me new 110. range IP right?