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I'm not sure now is the time to think about upgrading my PC. The news of the imminent release of Windows 11 has brought this on. The current system I have is now getting on for 10 years old. It still does my just fine, thought the boot stage isn't 100% reliable, one in ten times I have to hit...

I'm not looking forward to another mess with the introduction of Win 11, my pc works well and is far from redundant but I need music manipulation software to slow pieces down without changing pitch and also have a separate pitch control. I am currently using Amazing Slow Downer on my Windows PC...

What recommendations for a lap top for my wife, I'm a dedicated desktop user, I can't see the point in something so small and needing batteries doesn't make sense to me! However she would really like a lap top. Her current pc is my old desktop. An Asus P9 X79 PRO mb with 32 gig of ram, 500 gig...

I've been running Firefox on my PC's for over 20 years now. I've recently had issues using Facebook messenger in video messaging. It used to be perfect but recently I have had major issues with freezing images, very poor audio with only the odd word coming through. In fact trying to conduct...

I though I had the sound issues well sorted having gone to build 2004, today no more sound on Video clips again, I am seriously over Windows 10 and all the crap you have to put up with. Really really p!553d off. Why do I have to keep deleting all the sound outputs that Windows keeps installing...

I have done a fresh installation of Windows 10 on my wife's PC. So we can both be mostly up to date. She doesn't do a whole lot of work on hers these days. But I thought updating to Windows 10 would likely be a good solution. So after the fresh installation I thought I'd check out the sound...

I have now got my Windows 10 PC working fine in the Audio dept. I can now listen to YouTube videos with good sound quality and I can at last carry on conversations on Facebook messenger with clear audio and video. It cost me a cheap sound card that isn't needed but it was way cheaper than a new...

Hi I really want to get away from Windows 7 and 10. I'm not a gamer and don't do much photography anymore. I don't want to buy another PC just to make Windows work. I really like Windows Media player. I have used it for I can't remember how many years and it allows me to find all my downloaded...

I don't know why, but someone has moved my post about all the issues I've had recently with my Windows 10 PC. It transpires all my criticism of Windows 10 was 100% justified. I was going to post the reply below to finish the topic only to find the whole topic has been moved or removed!? So after...

Up until the other day I thought the Rampage 4 Black edtion sound should be a pretty good and reliable on board sound. It has been until the other day. I booted my pc as usual and got a message that the speakers were not plugged. I hadn't touched anything since shutting down the night before. I...

Everything I do in Windows 10 takes more time, is less stable and more likely to crash. I've lost features that were so helpful and easy in Win 7 I see post after post here on what's the most stable version, crash here, blue screen there, black screen now, update fail, how do I disable this? How...

One of the reasons I've stayed with Windows so long was the Windows Media Player I really like the rating system, the extra columns you could add for key signatures and other details. Plus the way you could load all the album info and use the original album art. Is there anything like that for...

I'm running 7 professional with Media Player 12 With the loss of some of the functionality I'm looking to find a replacement. Something that will catalogue all the music I've put together over the last 20 odd years. I tried VLC but it was just a massive long list? Any suggestions?

Everything I read about Windows 10 makes me wary of trying to use it again. When it first came out it corrupted everything on my drive and caused major boot issues. I'm running Win 7 pro 64 bit currently and it works fine. I realize that sooner or later I'm going to have to upgrade and also do...

I've just done a clean install of Windows 7 Pro SP1 64 bit. I had previously set up a disc with Linux mint on it and had set the secure boot to "Other Operating System" I just tried changing the BIOS back to Windows secure boot, but it wouldn't boot back into Windows, I had to get back into the...

I had a water cooling pump failure on a Swiftech H220 Put in a new system and everything booted. Because of the pump failure I did a CPU check. I was running an i7 3960 but it came back as a fail on the Intel diagnostic so swapped it out for an i7 4930k but that to while passing the Intel...

I've had the CPU block and Pump in all in one water cooler failure. The PC still boots up okay. But it's kinda slow these days. I hadn't checked the CPU performance for a while and I just did an intel check on my system and instead of a seeing 6 core 12 thread count on the CPU the Intel report...

I need some help and while others may have vaguely similar problems, side tracking a genuine request for help................well isn't help! If you can help me, magic, it will be much appreciated as I'm really confused at present. I swapped out my GTX 780 for an AMD EAH 4550, no help at...

I committed to make the switch from Microsoft to Linux mint after so many hassles with all the puerile changes in upgrading from Win 7 (which I like) to Win 10 which is just abysmal. Trouble is it won't boot on my pc and I'm at a loss to see where I've gone wrong. Here are a couple of screen...

Who writes this crap; https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/windows-10-spying-almost-everything-opt-130502898.html I quote "Windows 10 is amazing. Windows 10 is fantastic. Windows 10 is glorious. Windows 10 is faster, smoother and more user-friendly than any Windows operating system that has come...

I can't get any gadgets to open however I try? I right click the desktop and get the menu with all the choices along with the "Gadget" icon. When I click it the menu just disappears and nothing! All the other links work, ie VIEW, SORT BY, REFRESH, NEW etc etc. Just want to put some clock...

Flash player crashes several times a day. What's going on and are there any alternatives?

Am I frustrated or what! Not only did my Asus X79 Deluxe need to be RMA'd But my one month old Corsair AX 860i fails the self test and won't power up my pc and I have been waiting for 3 days now for a reply to my ticket!!!!!!!!!!!!!Ahhhhh :mad: I got the confirmation email that they'd...

Can anyone help me get a couple of icons back into the "All programs menu" in the Start Menu. I dragged the Office "Outlook" and "Publisher" icons from the "All programs menu" onto to the desk top thinking I was just placing a link on the desk top. What I've done is actually remove them from...

I've been trying to use the AI suite 3 overclock facility on my X79 Deluxe and I'm getting all sorts of strange results. Not only that the AI III suite seems a bit flaky opening sometimes and then sometimes once it's been opened once it won't open again unless I reboot. I've also seen that the...

I've just about got my system done. I replaced my old Coolermaster case with an Obsidian 750. It's now got an X79 Deluxe board and I splurged on a Corsair AX 860i power supply. One of the things I didn't like was the constant change of the fan speeds in the old set up. I put it down to the...

Hi I bought one of the Swiftech H220 AIO's, very nicely put together but I'm getting a high frequency ticking from what appears to be the pump/cooler block. It's not super noisy but I can hear it just which makes it even more annoying! It's only just started after I'd been running in turbo mode...

Hi I'm getting really slow boot time of 3min plus on my P9 X79 PRO & my mouse doesn't work properly in BIOS. It freezes then works again Not sure what I've done but I'm getting real problems booting my machine. I'd been playing with RealBench and also using the AI suite to do some...

I've been playing around with the standard overclocking on my P9 X79 pro motherboard and have got it running at 4549.5 Mhz at 46 degrees C. Is this a reasonable overclock for the 3960X ? It's showing 126.6 x 36 on the Ai suite. Cheers John

Can anyone suggest where to buy an X79 Deluxe in the USA, I've got a friend that will then on ship it to me in Australia. Newegg don't have stock and the Amazon ones have now gone over the $400 mark. Thanks John

There is a deal at present for Seagate 120 gig SSD's for $100 each. I do have a nib Samsung 512 gig pro. It's probably a bit larger than I need and if I sold that I would be well in front. Would there be any significant gains running the 2 120's in RAID0. I've subscribed to Acronis true...

I'm in a spiral of ever increasing costs! Not sure what to do. I built my current PC using the following; Case; Coolmaster 690 II advanced running 4 Thermalrite 140 PWM fans MB; Asus P9X79 PRO CPU; i7 3960 @ 4.3 gig overclock RAM; 64 gig G Skill f3-17000cl11q2-64gbzld VGA; Gigabyte...

I really have no idea how to judge my video card for the limited gaming I do. All the games I want to play are WW2 or WW1 airwar type games. I've got all the MS titles but really don't enjoy them so much these days. I'm now playing IL Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover and wouldn't mind a bit of an...

I want to do a clean instal on a new SSD Is there any way I can keep or transfere all the microsoft updates. Every time I've done a clean instal it winds up taking all my cable bandwidth just to get all the updates. I'm running Win 7 pro 64 Cheers John

Having asked the question and done the research about Swiftech cooling systems I was pleased to have found what I thought was a realistically priced solution for my PC. Then I tried to find one locally, that's when it got frustrating! I started off looking for someone that may have had the...

I was on line the other night when we had a power cut. On re booting I'm noticing some glitches when the 4 balls come up and it's taking much more time to boot. So, I'm not really that worried as I have a 512 gig Samsung 840 Pro SSD on the way and was going to do a clean instal rather than...

I've just up graded the cpu and ram in my machine and am now looking to improve the cooling. I initially went with the intel water cooling and while it's running fine, we are now in autumn here in Australia and my study is very much cooler than it is in summer. My machine spec is Case...

I've put more money into my build than makes any sense! Ah well, you only live once. My current drive is a Crucial M4 256 gig. I decided that I'd up the spec to the Samsung 512 gig 840 PRO as the one I found was an excellent price and the specs were that much better than the Crucial M4...

I knew I should have left well alone, my pc was running fine. I have a Gigabyte HD 7850 model GV-R7850C-2GD I was trying to run the auto flash and also the manual method. On both occasions the update failed. I went the extra step and opened some of the downloaded files and tried opening...