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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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
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...
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...
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...
No problem, just didn't quite get what you meant.
I've had a look and as far as I can see, I cant find any 230mm blue LED megaflow fans. There are other brands that do 230mm but they are only 20mm thick whereas the megaflow ones (the one currently in your HAF X) are 30mm thick, plus I'm nor...