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I know where you are coming from.  I have been doing this sort of thing for many years, and I concur, Windows can be a total dog's dinner and messages are not always what they seem. It is many years since I let any 'third party' software anywhere near my Registry for 'clean-up' purposes.  Not on my Systems. The Laptop has not shown any problems at all since the last updates which triggered these System Errors in the Event Logs, but I am keeping an eye on it.  As a Nerd I always want to know why, but am content if I know I can ignore it 🙂 Anyway, thanks for the comments.  Appreciated... ... Meer weergeven

Assuming GPT (as sweetpoison mentions), then as big as anything available that fits the Device (SATA/M.2/Etc.) and what your pocket can afford. 2.5" x 100mm x 7mm SATA SSD I think is 8TB (Samsung) at the moment.  For M.2 SATA I think it is 2TB and M.2 PCIe NVME 8TB. One thing you can be sure of is capacities for SSD's increasing dramatically. Right now I think there is a 100TB SATA SSD available at a price that could buy you a house (depending on where you were of course) and is 3.5".  These big boys are targeted at Enterprises. ... Meer weergeven

Probably a bit late to comment, but anyway. I use a P7651 (MD 60806). i5-8250-U, DDR4 RAM, GTX 1050 4GB. I did not buy it for DAW use.  I have a Desktop System for that.  I use Cubase Pro 10. But I thought I would try it out as it can be convenient to use the Laptop from time to time, and I was curious to see how it performed. I fitted the Laptop with 16GB RAM and larger SSD's. Using the onboard Audio Adapter is hopeless even with ASIO4ALL. However, the performance was transformed using the Steinberg UR22 USB Audio Adapter and can cope with large Projects with fairly heavy VST use.  Audio Monitoring Latency (i.e. recording Electric Guitar) is more of an issue and to a lesser degree MIDI Keyboard, depending on the amount of VST and their demands.  Some are very demanding, others not quite so much. I wouldn't want to use it as the workhorse but I found it works better than I had expected. The key seems to be keeping the Audio Buffer fed without interruption, but there are a variety of reasons that can be compromised even if all the Hardware is decent or even more than necessary.  It can be a bit of a minefield. Anyway, I don't know if this helps at all. ... Meer weergeven

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CoreTemp isn't the most reliable monitoring program, it doesn't work completely accurate with all CPU. It might be that short workloads may stress the CPU and for that short peroid of time the fans ramp up to adjust to the load, which CoreTemp probably can't log fast or accurate enough. Also since you mentioned that CPU temperatures exceed 90°C, the TIM probably has turned worse sooner than expected and a re-paste, ideally of both CPU and GPU will help with general temperatures and prevent temperature spikes, thus enabling the fans to spin at a lower RPM throughout all workloads. I personally recommend using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, as it's simply the best thermal paste (not including liquid metal for obvious reasons) on the market since it's debut. Medion notebook are quite user-friendly to maintain (at least in my experience), so the process should be faily easy if done carefully.   EDIT: Are you using the latest 2.12 BIOS version? If not, I recommend updating it. It's worth upgrading it alone for the CPU microcode updates and although the changelog doesn't specifically state it, a newer BIOS version might include a tweaked fan profile. Here's the link to that BIOS. I would still recommend re-pasting as this will help with both CPU and GPU temperatures significantly. ... Meer weergeven

That's a pity, but it's not a pressing need just a nice to have.  I have 16GB installed so am at the limit.   Btw it did not come with 1 x 8GB Module but 2 x 4GB Modules installed.   And thanks for checking for me.  Saved making an expensive mistake 😉 ... Meer weergeven

You have no idea! 🙂   The first Desktop I became aquainted with was the Texas Instruments TI 770, way before the IBM PC came out and started all this rot!  8088 @ 4.77MHz.  Seems like another world now. Have been working with PC Technology ever since. Your good health! ... Meer weergeven