Recent content by Hello Paul

Just noticed this, and as a professional video editor/motion graphics designer, thought I'd chime in. Regarding monitors for editing, you'll want as big as you can afford/fit. It saves SO much time when you're not having to shuffle windows/panels around constantly. Regarding editing software...

Well, it's been back with PCS for a few days now, and they've not managed to fix it yet. Apparently they can confirm that the cooler is at fault, but they could never get to the bios as it fails to POST at what looks like a GPU issue. They’ve tried 3 different GPUs and none of them fix the...

Let's hope it all works out...it does all sound a bit too good to be true!

After a chat with PCS, they've said yes - they will fix it for free (apart from the shipping costs) because the warranty covers the labour and the parts are all within their manufacturers' warranties, which is nice! So it's going off to them for a bit of surgery soon. And I'll have to limp along...

I'm guessing I couldn't somehow smoosh those two warranties together...I send it off to PCS, they give me free labour ('cos that's the only thing remaining on my PCS warranty), and get a free cooler from Corsair because that's still under warranty?! I'll give PCS a ring tomorrow and see what my...

So, I'm planning to send it back to PCS. I've got my old PC up and running again, and am lamenting its relatively sluggish performance - an After Effects render I did today on my old PC took exactly 4x as long as it did yesterday when my new PC was working!

The PC is out of its 'parts' warranty, so the only benefit to the warranty is the labour. I'd be reasonably happy to have a go at replacing the AIO cooler. It's apparently £35 to ship the PC to PCS and back, plus £16ish if they provide a box (I think I chucked mine a few weeks ago because it...

Yep - all those seem plugged in ok - although I can't see any obvious plugs going to the CPU block (the cables going into that look hard-wired to me) and I cannot see any accessible cables/plugs going to the cooler radiator unit - they must all be behind parts of the chassis. On the advice of...

I've had a good rummage around the PC, checking whichever connectors I can get my hands onto are all snugly fitted. I assume the temperature probe (and pump power supply maybe?) are these things connected to the Commander Core. They kinda disappear into the back of it somewhere....I snipped one...

Mine's very different! And if I click on Device Settings, I just get a message saying "Plug-In Version 1.2.4.0". I have not messed with any of the connections in the PC since PCS delivered it (other than to install some RAM and an M.2 drive on a PCI card).

Thanks for your reply, Tony. That iCue app (I updated it to the latest version today) only seems to monitor temps/fan speeds, and allow me to control the pointless RGB lighting. There are no options for any kind of cooling control - unless I'm missing something very well hidden?

I wonder if my problem is something similar... This morning I was working away (nothing too arduous for the PC) as normal, and everything was fine. My office is about 20 degrees C, my PC sits on the floor under my desk with plenty of airflow (I even have the feet raised up on a couple of 1inch...

Hi @JonFri . Coming from a motion graphics/VFX background (been doing that for >20 years), I have a couple of thoughts that my or may not be of interest: You will need FAR more storage than you could possibly anticipate. Video files, 3D rendered image sequences, etc. are HUGE. Take for example a...

I've been trying to increase the speed without tweaking the settings, on the (probably mistaken) assumption that I shouldn't need to crank anything up because I'm only trying to get the memory running to its stock speed - not actually overclocking it at all. And I can't even get my 3600MHz...

I'd previously contacted PCS asking them about a BIOS update, and they replied saying that as long as it's not a beta version, updating the BIOS will not affect the PCS warranty, so I've gone ahead and updated it to version 4204 (the latest non-beta version) and everything seems to be running OK...