My 6th PC from PC Specialist.
Like all the others this does not disappoint. Arrived well packaged with planety of charge in battery to get it up and running with no real preparation.
Elected to have an NvMe SSD with 16GB Ram to run Windows 11 so a snappy start and set up was just a case of...
Still kicking specs and ditched watercooled option and also as suggested AMD looks a better bet than intel after a lot of reviewing on line. Is the jump up from 5900x Ryzen to 5950x worth it? Also suggested board out of stock so was looking at next one up = the ASUS® CROSSHAIR VIII HERO.
I am...
Yes reviewing - will ditch the pure water cooled base and go for cheaper option - I do use a lot of storage but will reduce drive sizes and go for SSD and not mechanical drives. Upgrading warranty. Still gives me what I want with slightly reduced cost on non essential stuff
My existing 6 y old PC keeps freezing up and has so many possible issues Iwant to get a new one up and running before failure or lengthy diagnostic taking it out of use.
My hopefully long term PC specs
Case
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 500D SE CASE (LS)
Custom Liquid Cooling Kit
Liquid Series...
Thanks guys. After initial install did a speed test. The after watching a video I went back into Advanced BIOS and there was a setting for the M2-2 clot to change from x2 to x4. I applied this and the drive as indicated now shows almost double read/wrire speeds so seems a result. So I note the...
I have a Desktop with a Strix Z270E mb. I am going to add a second M2 drive in the second M2 slot.
Confused re various things I have read, Do I need to make BIOS changes before I can format and use it?
Many thanks
Ok I will need to explore the Bios - I can now spot the second connectors on the motherboard. Not sure what you meant by making sure I am not using SATA 5 or 6 already - do you mean exisitn grives? I have an M2Nvme plus 2 HDD installed.
Hi I have a ASUS® ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING motherboard and I am trying to decipher wether or not I can add a second Nvme drive. Online stuff suggests I might but cannot see a second slot on motherboard pics? Can anyone give me a definitive answer ? Many thanks
Yes been through them all. A second lot of Windows updates today may have fixed. The Camera app after being reset and also applying this second lot of Windows Updates has done the trick. So good news.
My new PC is very noisy when hard disks are working. They are placed near the bottom of the case and when AV or Windows working them the noise is very intrusive. I cannot find smaller accoustic mats only large rolls.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
I have a Vortex laptop. Had issues starting this monring (now resolved) but found cannot get laptop to boot from CD rom Windows Disk. Works fine in older desktop. Finally found how to get into BIOS but does not seem to have same options as previous versions. How do I enable a CD Rom startup...