Recent content by rachow

@SpyderTracks Thanks, that's extremely helpful.

Thanks, it looks as though the cooler is well out of the way and there is one yellow port free -- the optical drive is on the brown one?

Thanks for the quick reply! It's been a while (about 30 years) since I occasionally had to swap boards and drives in IBM PS/2 boxes, but I might be willing to give it a go if I can't have it done professionally. I should probably have a look inside, though -- the cooler is quite bulky and I'd...

I bought the PC described below from PCSpecialist in 2015. It's done me well, but it's getting a bit slow to boot lately and I was wondering if an upgrade to an SSD system drive (and perhaps a new, larger storage drive as well) would give it a new lease of life. Unfortunately the upgrade tool on...

I'm looking for a laptop for light scientific data analysis and general home-office use. I need about 1Tb of storage, but I can't stretch my budget to a 960Gb SSD, so I'd like a smaller SSD as a 'system drive' and a bigger HDD for data. If I configured a 14in Lafite with a 1TB HDD and 128Gb M.2...

Hi all. I'm contemplating my first new desktop PC since 2007 -- I've had a couple of laptops in the meantime. The minimum requirement is that it be noticeably more computer than the Core i5 laptop with 8Gb RAM that I bought last year; the maximum hardware budget is £800, not including monitor...