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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Overclocking advice

    I currently have the ASUS PB278Q which is 2560 x 1440 60Hz. I could potentially try and overclock my monitor to get a higher refresh rate. I kind of like the idea of buying what would be the most expensive component (GPU) and getting some benefit from it now, then, when I have the money...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Overclocking advice

    I've read up on the very basics of overclocking. As far as i was aware the CPU usually only boosts for a short duration to help with CPU intensive tasks. When i run Prime95, surely the CPU shouldnt be boosting all the time? Even so, like i said earlier i seem to be getting 4.18GHz. This build...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Overclocking advice

    Hi guys, So I have the urge to buy some new hardware but my bank account says otherwise so i though I would have a go at overclocking my CPU. I currently have an i5-3570K which should be running at 3.4GHz, however, when I ran Prime95 I checked my current speed in task manager and it was at...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Laptop factory reset

    I bought my girlfriend a laptop from Pc specialist the other year and she wants to do a factory reset to help speed to her laptop back up. Is this advisable, and if so how do we go about doing it? Thanks
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST External Blu-Ray players

    I was just wondering if anyone could help out in regards to watching different region Blu-ray's on my PC (which was bought from this site :P) I was wondering if it would just be worth buying 2 separate external Blu-ray players and having each one set to a different region. Is this something...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST CPU bottleneck

    I was recently thinking about purchasing a new GPU, more specifically, a GTX 980. I checked out the upgrade page on the website and found that I could upgrade it through pc specialist. However, there was no option available for my CPU. I was wondering if you guys think that I would run into...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Region free Blu-Ray player

    Not 100% if this belongs inn this section but anywho...I'm after a region free blu ray player and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to a good quality one? I'm starting to collect a lot of anime blu-rays and a lot of them are region 1 (USA). Also, if the blu-ray...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Upgrade question

    First of all, apologies if this is the incorrect part of the forum to post this. Now the question at hand, I was looking at some of the upgrade options for my pc that I bought from PC Specialist a while ago, specifically, my CPU, and found that there is only the option to upgrade to a i7-3770...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST TV USB input

    I currently have an old(ish) TV that doesnt have a USB port on it so i cant plug in my external HDD to watch music/pictures. Does anyone know of anything that i can plug into, say, my HDMI port and then plug a external HDD into that instead? maybe it's externally powered?
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Vw mk2 golf

    I was was toying with the idea of buying a "new" car and have always like the old MK2 style Golf's. I was just wondering if anyone has any experience driving/owning one of these who could give me some information on them. Cheers
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Final Spec

    I'm wanting to order the following laptop and was just wondering if anyone could just take a look over it: Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz) 6MB Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Need help with laptop

    Look's like I'm buying the Mrs a laptop for xmas and was after a little help with configuring one. For a bit of information, it's mainly to play WoW and the Sims...however, she is really into the Dragon Age series and is looking forward to Dragon Age 3 so she would like to be able to play it...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Insidious: Chapter 2

    Anyone been to see this yet? I went on Friday night with the other half and it scared the crap out of me. Very good sequel, would highly recommend it
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Screenshot desktop background

    I managed to get it working lol. I ended up using FRAPS to take a screenshot Here's my desktop now:
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Screenshot desktop background

    I wanted to take some screen shots of certain games i was playing to use as desktop background but when i tried to paste them into paint all that appeared was just a giant black square...nothing else. Anybody have any idea why this is happening? Should i be using something other than paint or...
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