Recent content by thomor

Hey all, got this PC from PCS back in 2019. In recent months it's been having a bit of a sluggish boot time, seeming to hang for 10 secs or so with all the fans spinning and lights on before it finally gives the boot beep and starts up. About 3 weeks ago it just stopped booting altogether and...

Available is a strong word lol.

I'm looking to upgrade to an AIO cooling setup, but wondering what is the difference between the PCS Frostflow 240mm and the Corsair H100x 240mm, there is a £30 price difference, which is about the same as you'd expect stepping from 240mm to a 280mm within the Corsair range. So which should I...

Oh right, they have APU's instead right? I heard the new 4000 series APU's are gonna be pretty decent for a budget gaming machine though.

To be honest I'm not sure why they even still offer the 710 as an option, wouldn't the newer processors pretty much have better graphics options just on integrated?

I think the point is not that it's a more expensive build than someone else's, but that PCS have made the most colossal mistake pretty much anyone on this forum has ever seen them make, and instead of pulling out all the stops to fix the problem (as should be expected of a company who's values...

Imo that's a really bad atmosphere for a company like PCS to be putting on their employees if that is true, I wouldn't expect them to be working at any speed faster than they normally are in a no-covid world. Rushing your employees when their job is to precision build customs machines is just a...

Your RAM is a bit slow for that processor, I'd say 3200mhz minimum for new AMD stuff. EDIT: About the RGB, I chose 2 strips instead of 1 because at that time I was in the "if it says RGB tick the box" mood at the time, and honestly it's a bit much. I'd drop down to 1 strip if I could just...

I was surprised to wake up to an email this morning saying they just started working on my RMA issues. Seems like they have extended their work hours and are now working Saturdays and Sundays to cover the backlog.

Well this thread doesn't fill me with hope for my recent RMA lol, but I'll let them deal with it since I'm done stressing over problems that I didn't cause. I'm not going to be as generous as the guy who sent it in 3 times for repair though, if it comes back to me with even a mere hint of a...

I RMA'd mine mate, nothing I did got anywhere so I'm just letting them deal with it.

I'll see if I can boot up the old mothball that's been sitting in storage for the last year. Don't have access to any other than this PCS one and my old one atm. If it doesn't work tonight I think I'll just go ahead with the RMA. All this troubleshooting is too much for my tiny brain, seems...

That's frustrating, I only clicked write image to usb, that's all, didn't change anything else. I'll reinstall and give it another go tonight, but this is the only USB stick I have and it's literally brand new as of last week. Seems like everything i receive is faulty.

I was just about to go to bed and leave memtest running but I feel like I must be a real idiot or something because I still cannot get it to boot. This is what my boot prio looks like: General UDisk is the USB stick I have memtest installed on. No idea why there are partitions on it or...

I see, no idea what the tech support person was trying to tell me then. 🤷‍♂️ I'll give it a go tonight and let it run while I sleep, thanks for your efforts.