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OK, thanks for the replies. When I have the time I guess I'll try and clear out the Realtek drivers and see if that improves things like the other user found. If not, then I guess it's just my imagination.

Hey there, I have a Defiance laptop (Windows 10) which I got from PCS in 2021, and I've always wondered about its audio quality (including headphones) compared to my previous PCS laptop. Unfortunately, that old laptop completely died so I can't compare them directly to see if the issue is real...

I bought an Office 2019 Home Licence through PCS when I bought my new laptop. It came with Office software installed, but for some reason wouldn't work when I tried to log in with my Microsoft account and register the software. PCS never sent me an e-mail or anything with my licence key. The...

Thanks again. Is turning off Turbo Boost likely to have any noticeable effect on day to day Windows performance (not intensive games)? As I said, when doing Windows updates and installing Steam games the fans would sometimes run very loud (although I didn't look at the CPU usage or temperature)...

Thanks for the detailed response. I appreciate it. I guess I my issue is I just have to face up to my anxieties and actually get down to regularly using my laptop and testing it out. A couple of questions for now: I'm afraid I don't understand your explanation of the offset feature... Is there...

Hi everyone, I've got a new 17" Defiance with an i7 Eight Core 10870H and RTX 3080 Max-Q (will post full spec below), and I've been struggling to set it up due to my anxiety issues over getting used to new pieces of technology. (Plus it had a screen hardware issue which I had to send back to PCS...

Is this when you're using headphones? I had this issue with my new laptop and it was because the sound card was aggressively turning itself off when no sound was playing, making this noticeable "pop". You used to be able to disable this in the "Realtek Audio Manager" program, but that's now been...

I would recommend contacting PC Specialist. I recently had screen flickering problems with a new laptop (although a different model to yours and not as extreme as your example) and sent it back to them. They changed the motherboard but that unfortunately didn't fix the issue, so I sent it back...

Thanks for the advice. Did these steps work for you? I tried changing the frequency, but that didn't seem to do anything. In the end, I've actually sent the laptop back to PCS for an RMA. I contacted their tech support about an odd screen display issue (as well as this audio problem), and after...

Well this one is very weird. The flickering/artefacting would appear on that webpage whenever Chrome thought its display was at 125%, but no other scale. So if Windows' display was 100% and Chrome's was 125%, the issue would occur. If Windows was 125% and Chrome was 100%, then flickering. But...

Yes, restarting the computer after changing settings didn't seem to affect anything. What was interesting is that when I changed the scaling back down to 100%, it INSTANTLY seemed to stop the flickering, without having to close it restart anything. Changing it back to 125% instantly made the...

Got a new 17" Defiance laptop. It has an inbuilt Intel graphics card, and I chose an RTX 3080 for it. I changed the Windows display settings to scale to 125%, as I find the default 100% a bit small. In the NVIDIA Control Panel I set the RTX card as the default for programs, but I'm guessing the...

Got a new 17" Defiance laptop. Tried using my headphones with it for the first time today. They are over-ear, can headphones. I've noticed when I'm sitting there wearing them, but not listening to any music or anything, every once in a while there will be a small audio "pop". Just a tiny little...

Well, an update. I found a way to fix my desk to the wall, and this seems to have stopped my screen wobble. I haven't used my laptop a huge amount yet, but from the typing I'm now doing, it seems the screen is staying still. I guess my desk really was very unsteady to cause such a noticeable...

Got a new 17" Defiance a week ago and have been struggling to set it up due to my anxieties in dealing with new, unfamiliar things. I'm slowly getting there and will hopefully be alright in the end. What's bothering me most at the moment is screen wobbling. The Defiance is much thinner than my...

Hey Petrad, I also have a new 17" Defiance and was curious how your experience compares. How are you finding the screen? I've noticed that it's very thin and so easily wobbles when the laptop itself is slightly moved. However, my desk itself is quite wobbly, so when I'm typing away the physical...

I don't think that will be possible, as my previous laptop was from four and half years ago and apparently was a SATA SSD, while these latest ones are NVMe. Not that I really understand what any of that means, but I'm guessing the connections into the hardware are different.

I'm working on putting together a spec for a new, high power gaming laptop and am thinking I'll go with the 17.3" Defiance. I bought my last two laptops from PCS over the past decade, and I had both set up where I had a small SSD with Windows installed (and a few Steam games), along with a...

Is th 17.3" Defiance a CLEVO chassis? That's the model I think I'm going to go for in the end.

Looking to get a new 17.3" gaming laptop after my last PCS one of four and a half years has completely died. Glad that the RTX 3000 series mobile GPUs have just been announced. I'm thinking I will probably go for the Defiance, but was looking at all the options available. I'm not hugely...