RAM & SSD Upgrade with Older Z170 Mobo

gkong3 — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 17:51:44 +0800

Hi all, hoping to get some advice here. I'm currently running a rig I set up late-2016. At the time, I got myself an ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming motherboard, 16GB of Corsair Vengeance LED (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 in Channels 1 & 3 (the SKU is CMU16GX4M2C3200C16), and a SanDisk M.2 SATA 240GB drive (the SKU is SD8SN8U256G1122). So, pretty old parts and 8 years on, I'd like to do a refresh.

My first question therefore is, what is the likelihood that I can get any RAM that will still work in my system other than the 'value' RAM sticks that are 2666Mhz or thereabouts? Would the updated version of my RAM (in this case Vengeance RGB) with the same timings and using the same XMP profiles have any chance of working at all, even if I mix with my current RAM in the other 2 slots (or completely replace, I'm open to that)? Or are my options to either go all in on the cheapo RAM or upgrade mobo/CPU/RAM all at once? 'Cause that's pretty expensive right now, but if I have to, I have to.

My second question is that I've bought myself the WD Blue SN570 500GB NVMe M.2 drive to replace my current SanDisk boot drive. It should work in my mobo, I hope - the M.2 slot accepts either NMVe or SATA, and I don't particularly care that it runs only in PCIe 3.0. More importantly, I'd like to know whether I need to get a heatsink for it - I'm hoping not, since it's not super high-performance or anything, and the kit is just the bare SSD, more or less.

Thanks to all the sifu for your help!

Any reputable smartphone repair shops in KL?

gkong3 — Fri, 15 May 2015 01:11:39 +0800

So, here's the deal. I have a couple of HTC Desire Z smartphones. Pretty old phones, dating back to 2010 or thereabouts. One's got a crap micro USB port (only certain connectors and cables work with it, and it's a real hassle to charge), the other's got a crap keyboard (doesn't recognise keypresses or doubles them, again, real hassle to use) and possibly a broken GPS.

Short of going to Low Yat HTC service centre (who might charge me incredible sums if they can even repair it at all), just wondering if anyone knows of smartphone repair people who are up to buying the parts off eBay or something and doing the necessary soldering and whatnot. Heck, I don't mind buying the replacement parts and just get them to do the labour.

There are very few smartphones with landscape-style keyboards, so I'd like to keep these ones running as long as I can. Any help would be appreciated.

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