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Hi all, I've installed two new RAM sticks and it works, however, now my CPU is capped at 3.89Ghz (3.9Ghz I guess) no matter what I enter for multiplier in BIOS. Before it was stable at 4.5Ghz with 1.25v Of course, the RAM is mismatched, but only in voltage. Everything is as near as seems to...

Hi all, just a quick one. Whenever I connect headphones or speakers the onboard sound wants to calibrate (I guess) and emits a really sharp spike of sound at full volume. It's not the best when wearing headphones. Does anyone know what it actually is and if there is a way to stop it...

Just after tips for Zowie FK1 skates mounting. Have gone through 2 sets of Hyperglide feet in the space of two weeks, trying to stick them on but with each set there was some rocking - would be due to the feet being stuck on unevenly, I doubt it's to do with the feet themselves. As careful as I...

Hi people, having had the mouse for a while and really liking it, as strange as it sounds, I think a rocking has developed when I press the LMB on the extreme left. Now it did not happen before and seems to happen with much less force required for the left side vs the same situation but on...

Hi all, I've tried an OC and the GPU driver crashed - think I tried about 1560Mhz on the core, so I went back to stable previous, restarted and did a clean reinstall of drivers. Since then I can't get a stable core frequency in games whilst using my safe OC settings - about 1507 Mhz...

Hi guys, right now I have the Dell U2414H IPS monitor. It's pretty good for colors, but even at a 70Hz overclock, it's not ideal for gaming - I feel a difference to my old 19" TN panel even. So I'm wondering,are there any good IPS monitors for games out there which can give a high...

Hi guys, and help on why w10 is not loading properly, after resetting bios settings and consequently getting rid od a cpu oc and rapid start? Rapid start was not there for the os install fwiw. Windows loads, but then the ui doesn't react fully or at all to inputs. I have an ssd as boot and 2...

Hi guys, I've been looking for a while now all over for an adapter for the Zalman 9700 CPU cooler to allow fitting on LGA 1050 socket. Any ideas where I can look or if it actually exists? Open to custom suggestions.

Hi everyone, long time no posts! Just looking at the SeaSonic 660W XP2 as a PSU for below system. Want comfortable room for OCing the GPU. i5 4690k plan to OC to around 4.3/4.4 Asus Z97-A 8GB RAM @ 2166 R9 290 1SSD 2HDD 4 x 120mm fans. ________________________________ Sure...

Hi all, I've been getting issues with cold booting. I need to cycle power several times before a post. Once posted the system is solid and even if I manage to get a little OC on to stay it is still solid - Prime95 for a few hours no probs, temps also okay. It all began when I put a Q6600...

Has anyone had this? When slow mo diving the legs are falling through ground but only then. Walking around is okay. This does not happen if I set the NV settings to let application decide but then there is mouse lag. What I ensure in the NV CP is that vsynch is off - tripple buffering...

It is the worst game I've played in recent memory. Or ever even. The shooting itself it okay and can even be fun but what ruins it is the constant interruption and nannying about of the fucking cut scenes - when you are in the stadium and tracking your buddy WHY does the game force you to...

I am now using Chrome as my primary browser, however I still use FF sometimes. I want to get an add on with allows to "paste and go" as well as when right-clicking a highlighted URL allows a "go to" function like you get in Chrome. I'm pretty stuck for ideas and a heads up would be ossum!

I have re-installed W7 onto a different HD - completely clean and yet I have no sound. I have the exact same computer as when I had sound in W7 without any problems. Now it says that the speakers are not plugged in, when they are and working. I tried install gall sorts of drivers and...

I've looked around and have an idea, but would just like to confirm/ask a few things. Baking time is about 10 minutes at about 200C? Do I need to remove all of the thermal paste before baking [as in any harmful fumes?] Will any thermal paste do afterwards? I came across one thread...

The laptop was on the table and the cable got caught... so it fell on the actual place where the cable goes in it seems. The port for the power cable looks damaged and the laptop won't turn on from battery or the cable. There are some sparks coming off the cable when you try to plug it in. I...

I've tried to set RA with my uncle - get him to send me the invitation file and tell me the password, well send it over. I asked him to keep the RA window open when it's waitning to connect which he did do. So when I tried to connect to him nothing happened... I tried from a laptop with...

Hi everybody, I have an ASUS Republic of Gamers 285 GTX for sale for £140. It has been sent to me as an RMA reaplcement, so it only came with a box - no accessories. There is a bit of that infamous coil whine with this one, but my dad had it for about 2 months and it has been fine. (he has a...

Not sure if this is the relevant section, but: So I've signed out of Youtube, not sure why, then logged back in. Tried to log back in. All of a sudden I could not use my old login details, so I had to basically use my e-mail address which is down for Google Checkout and for the youtube...

There are a few similar threads, but I'm just asking for more opinions. Would a 285GTX be alright with the 450VX? I ran a 260 216 and a 192 on my PSU fine, the 260 192 GTX did die though - not sure why... [or do I not want to know...?] I did have it in my computer for a few weeks though...

Does anyone have a 7900 GTX Go? I'm in the UK as well.

I RMAd my Copperhead as it started double clicking - then after a lenthy process with Razer I got a mouse that was alight - I got 3 in total as the first two had pushed in buttons basically. Now the one that I got from the RMA process is double-clicking as well. So I'm thinking, do I buy...

The audio does not work - it says Headphones are plugged in all the time, regardless whether they are plugged, whether speakers are plugged or nothing at all. Drivers are up to date. I took the OS HD to a different PC while mine was sitting without a GPU - and I used headphones while on the...

As the title suggests - how is the fan noise between the two? The 260GTX is a pretty quiet from experience - and it stays quiet even under load (games and such). Can anyone say how the 4890 compares? Thanks.

Hi all. If any of you can give me advice/suggestions on the following two variants that would be great. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? £500, tax included, shipping about £10 total...

So I've been looking for a mouse. Just something fairly straight-forward and functional. I've bought the Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 - I got it and straight away the RMB was pressing too lightly, I sent it back - got a refund. Now I got the MX518 and here the LMB is harder to press than the...

I got the Akasa Amber 120mm fan a couple of days ago, and as soon as I turned it on there was a rattling noise - almost certainly a motor noise. So have any owners of this fan or those who have seen/head one running encountered anything like that?

Hi everyone. I've been around a few shops a couple of days ago and have tried out quite a few KBs, granted - for a short amount of time. There were keyboards ranging from about £20 all the to about £120. And they all felt pretty similar and none of them felt outstanding so to say. In school...

Hi. So I've been reading some threads about monitors here and a lot of guys are pretty damn anal about them it seems. Now as far as I go - yeah the better it looks, of course the better. However not having £300-£500 or so to spend on a good IPS panel I'm looking at the £200 segment. It seems...

Hi - it jsut came up now. I was looking at the "WGOTY 2009" thread a few months ago here and there were mentions of ArmA 2 and L4D... I was quite surprised. So wy did people mention ArmA 2? Was it because: They were just not prepared to commit to the game or what? The performance is not...

Hi. I just spotted this monitor while browsing through and it seems alright. Now I'm just wondering whether any of you people on here have it and can give me some impressions, or some ideas to any similar monitors which might be good alternatives. (1680x1050 is welcome too) Thanks for...

This is pretty wierd issue I have with my computer, Whenever I restart it after it has been on for more than a few minutes, throughtout the startup the screen looks like this (with some variations as it goes through different stages of the start up sequence): It also stays like that...

One of the springs/coils has snapped on one of the pedals - the brake pedal to be specific and it looks like this: It does not look like the spring can be replaced so that does not leave me with much if that actually is the case. So, can anyone give me ideas of what I could do... or tell...

Hi, I want ot backup my current W7 install from a 60GB hard drive onto a 750GB hard drive and boot from that backup, move the whole OS onto the 750GB to use it there - so that I only have the 750GB HD in the computer. The question is - I don't know how or if it's even possible to do that? If...

To be straight - I bought these and did not like the sound quality, though these headphones are quite highly regarded by users and professional reviewers. Used them for a few hours during roughly a couple of days. All packaging and accessories are there. I'm in the UK, so while shipping to...

I installed the Zalman 9700 onto an E8400 and I am puzzled by one thing - the deltas between the two cores are 6C at idle - 32/38 and, for example stress testing would be like this: Core 0 (32 at idle) would start rising and when it gets to about 38C - 40C Core 1 starts to rise too, but no...

BIOS sees the LAN connection and tests it to be 100Mb/s and basically sees it. Then when the computer boots into Vista 64-bit the LAN light on the connection is not on or even if it is there is still this thing: device manager says that the device is not working. I have little idea as to why...

What should I do about the voltages that are set to Auto? Would they increase proportionally with the FSB or just stay at their auto settings? Also on the Asus P5B at least there was an option to set the frequency of PCE cards (33.33Mhz or something) but I have not seen anything like...