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Change the SATA controller mode in the BIOS to AHCI mode. You can switch modes without affecting windows: 1) Switch to boot in safe mode using msconfig (boot options) 2) Restart 3) Enter BIOS, switch mode 4) Enter Safe Mode, login 5) Enter msconfig and switch back to regular boot 6) Restart Voila! It is 50% faster now!! Switch from Legacy to True UEFI BIOS You can switch this easily in the BIOS and not have to reinstall your OS if you keep the legacy ROM option. However, it is better to go to pure UEFI mode for storage controller as well. To be able to do this, before you switch over completely, use Rufus to generate a UEFI only Windows Install USB drive. On newer motherboards, the USB drive with UEFI/ Legacy option will work. For this Dell, for some reason, it will only recognize the UEFI only mode USB drive. Then install the OS and speed is good. If using GTX 960 or larger Video card Use the supplied adapter to connect two 12V rails to the video card. Th...

This is a monster card with 4GB RAM and more than enough horsepower for a DEV box. It was showing artifacts and the card would just stop the output of video to the monitors. I did contact EVGA who replied promptly to uninstall using a special utility all the display drivers and reinstall. That was the only way to get rid of the artifacts. To make the card not blow on me, I install EVGA Precision and I noticed my card was running at a high temperature of 63 C by default. I clicked the FAN CURVE button and changed the fan settings to aggressive. After that, the fan runs pretty fast and the GPU temperature is around 40 C. It seems to be stable now. I think this will work fine.

Firstly, I got an AMD CPU because even though Intel CPUs are better, unlike Intel, Intel does not change the socket design for CPUs in each generation as frequently as AMD. Because of this, when my CPU gets slow after a few years, I can go back and get the best CPU for that socket available at the time. This saves a lot of money. I used to have an old 1.8 GHz Opteron in my server. After 5 years, when it got too slow, I replaced it with the fastest CPU supported by the motherboard which was 2.8 GHz. I was able to use the PC as long as the motherboard did not die. So, it lasted for three more years (a very long time). I selected the FX 8350 over the FX 8370 because there is not much difference in performance compared to the price difference. http://www.microcenter.com/product/401795/FX_8350_4GHz_AM3_Black_Edition_Boxed_Processor Note that this CPU does not have 8 cores. It has 4 physical cores and something like hyper threading to make 8 processors show up in Windows. I got a b...