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  1. crisis uk

    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 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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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Murderbox II

    Think you'll be getting this case in any time soon :P http://kotaku.com/5944092/this-is-what-a-1200-pc-gaming-case-looks-like
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Grown Ups 2

    Just wondering if anyone has seen this yet? It's been slated in the reviews but I loved the first one.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST SLI Setup

    Not so much a problem...more of a query. I received my 2nd GTX 670 in the post today (hooray) and have installed it. Now I was just wondering if anyone could tell me, when using MSI afterburner and it refers to GPU 1 and GPU 2, is GPU 1 the card that is placed in my top PCI-E slot? It's just...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Installing H100

    I've been contemplating overclocking my CPU (nothin ridiculous but enough to make a difference) and am a bit skeptical about using my spire Gemini that I got when building my rig through PCS. Now what I was looking into was getting a H100 as it seems to be a right out of the box installation...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Going SLI

    I have just bought a 2nd GTX 670 so go with my other one which I've had since I got my computer from PCS and was just after a little advice 1. The 2nd card I bought is a Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce, compared to the Palit GTX 670 that came with my rig, the Gigabyte looks to have better cooling...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Difference in GPU?

    Could anyone tell me what the difference is with the gigabyte GTX 670 windforce and the normal gigabyte version? As far as I can tell the only difference is the price when ive checked the stats on them both.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Power lead for 2nd GPU

    I'm looking at getting a second GTX 670 soon so I can run it in SLI and was just curious about something. My current 670 has two 6 pin lead powering it, now I know that some GPU's can require 8 pin leads or a mixture of both, however, when I have looked at my remaining leads coming from my PSU...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Replacing fan LED's

    I have been looking all over for some 200mm case fans with green LED's for my HAF-X but am really struggling to find any. I have managed to get a 230mm for the front and a 140mm for the rear but the side and top 2 just seem to be impossible to find (could only find red and blue LED fans) so I...
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