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I’ve got a couple of their USB powered hubs, 3 of their powered drive enclosures, and an nVME drive. I have no complaints about any of them. The nVME drive is easily on par with the Samsung 980/990 units that I have alongside it.

i looked into this for my own nitro last year. tbh swapping the motherboard on a laptop is really tough - the mounting points, cooling system, and power delivery are all custom per model. what helped me was just upgrading the ram and adding an ssd instead. both make a noticeable difference. for ram

With you on the UM773. Barebones, 32 Gb Kingston DDr5 and a 1tb Samsung 980. All in $550. Cooling fan later and it’s my desktop work daily driver. If I knew it wasn’t going to last, I would have gotten another more bougie one late 2025.

Yes thats completely normal, samsung 980 pro is also 1.4, its just a standard nvm 1.4 doesnt limit speed or functionality.

i ran into this last month. the ps5 needs double the game size free during install because it copies then verifies. so a 70gb game needs 140gb free. 109gb is basically a dead zone where nothing big fits. easiest fix is grabbing an external ssd for ps4 games or moving stuff to extended storage. for p

I have that same model, just double the ram, the maximum configuration. You will need to change out the stock thermal paste, by default it gets extremely hot very quickly, even idle. I have Honeywell PTM 7950 in mine, on the CPU and GPU, the difference in thermals is mind blowing in my experience. I

crucial mx4 or samsung 980 are solid picks for budget friendly options. your specs are pretty good so any decent nvme will work fine with that setup. i got the mx4 last year and never had issues, loads games fast enough and price was reasonable btw those are some nice specs for someone new to pc bui

That 9800X3D is going to absolutely crush 1440p gaming but you might want to consider stepping up the motherboard a bit. The B650E-M is fine but if you're already spending that much in CPU maybe look at X670E board for better VRMs and more features. Also that Patriot SSD is decent value but Samsung

Different manufacturers take the same base chip and add their own cooling solutions, power delivery systems and features which affects price and performance. The gigabyte gaming version probably has better cooling or higher factory overclock than the cheaper asus one For RAM yeah ddr5 is ddr5 but sp

i had this exact loop on my nitro last year. turned out the boot partition got corrupted during a crash. what helped me before was making a bootable usb with windows media creation tool on another pc, then booting from that to run startup repair. if that fails, you might need to pull any important f