Recent content by bonalste

That's interesting. I have never looked outside Intel. Certainly something to consider. Why did you downgrade from the 150i to the 115i?

Nah just gaming. Interestingly enough I just recreated the build but in the "overclocked pc's" section and it knocked £100 off the price. Bizarre. https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-z790-overclocked/794d4KaXA2/ Not sure what I've done wrong, or right, with that one.

I've included the link in the original post as you suggested. Thanks. The monitor is nothing special, but it'll be connecting to the new TV as well, one of the new Samsung Q-OLEDs coming out soon, so 4k, 144hz, and I'll probably be getting a Samsung Odyssey G9 Neo at some point in the near...

Hi! I bought a PC from PC Specialist 10 years ago, and it's started to be left behind a bit (although still doing an astounding job... the 4790k is an excellent CPU!). I'm looking at buying something nice, and have come up with the below. Not sure on the number of fans, whether the motherboard...

Hi, I'm wondering if anybody here could give some advice. I bought a PC from here a couple of years ago for over £3000. Now I'm looking for my parents who want one at the opposite end of the spectrum. My dad is retired and doesn't have much money. He wanted to spend £500 but I don't think that's...

Hi, just wondering what case fans PCS supply as their 'additional case fans'. I know they're corsair, but what type? I'm looking at adding an extra fan or two, and am wondering what PCS use to determine where in the case they would be best suited. Looking at them, they look like high static...

Well, I received my order 6 days after placing it, which wasn't too bad. The machine I ordered was: Case CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 750D FULL TOWER CASE Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-4790k Quad Core (4.00GHz @ upto 4.70GHz) Motherboard ASUS® SABERTOOTH Z97 MK1: USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s...

My budget is around the £2500 mark and I intend to use this machine for gaming, with heavy flight simulation use, some CPU-intensive games, photo and video editing. I would like to make this machine capable of producing moderate results over the next, say, 5 to 8 years. My current machine is on...

I've already spoken (typed?) to a few of you on here on various subjects surrounding a build I'm looking to get and found the help that people have given to be really useful. So, hello to those of you I haven't spoken to, thank you to those I have and thanks to everyone in general for offering...

Hi, I'm hoping somebody could help me with my build. I'm buying quite an expensive machine, around the £2300/2400 mark, and I am obviously thinking about the warranty offered. Does anybody here advise getting the platinum warranty? It's expensive at £135, and for only £5 I can get silver, but I...

On the home page there is a link to "SLI Ready" builds. Just a suggestion, but I notice in the "what is SLI?" text above the pre-builds that it states "Rather than to create an SLI configuration from the start, consider creating an "SLI ready" configuration instead. This way you can get a high...

Just a quick suggestion, but I've created the machine I'll be buying once I've saved the money in the PCS system builder and I found one aspect of the boulder to be almost infuriating. It was honestly the least pleasant part of creating my system and I feel I that it could be improved. To give...

Hi guys I'm considering a build, in fact it is more or less finalised, but I have a question about the RAM. Now, the HyperX fury is clocked at 1600mhz, but I understand that it automatically clocks itself to the motherboard's maximum? Or something along those lines, I really am a novice at...