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Just fitted the above mobo. When I was initially looking at it, I was sure the configuration stated it had a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot. Looking at it now, it does not appear to. What am I meant to do with a Soundblaster AE-5? *edit* nvm, sorted. Me being dense :)

Looking for something that's reasonably quiet, but good performance for a 14700KF. I'd originally wanted an Arctic Freezer II, but it won't fit on an ASUS Strix 790-E, and I'm not prepared to file or drill a £450 motherboard.. Any suggestions? *edit* original post was for a 280mm solution for...

As part of my new build, I was planning on getting an ASUS ROG Strix Z790-F/13700K, with an Arctic Freezer II 280 cooler. However, I've been reading about incompatibility issues with some 690/790 series motherboards (Asus, quite a lot). While some folk say you can just remove the PCB header on...

I'm moving up to a 3080ti from a 1080ti in the next week or so. I'm currently using a Viewsonic 2703GS, which is still quite nice, but I want something better to compliment the 3080ti. Looking at reviews and benchmarks, it seems that 4K (with all bells/whistles on) on a few games is still an...

I've been running my 8700K @4.9Ghz quite nicely for some time. I changed something in the BIOS the other day (the LLC I think) and now the core speeds won't hit 4.9Ghz under load (Prime95/Handbrake). By that, I mean the cores will show 100% but the core speed will fluctuate between 3.7Ghz and...

Curious to see what the RAM requirements are amongst [H] users. I've just moved from 16 to 32GB, bit of futureproofing, RAM is cheap just now.

I've just installed another 16GB on my ASUS Z370 Maximus X (same modules as the previous), so 4x8 for 32GB. System boots fine and benchmarking looks good, however, when I look at the SPD settings in ROG-CPU Z it shows dual channel for the original modules, and single for the new ones. Memory...

They're out. Couple of interesting new bits..... Game Ready for Wolfenstein: Youngblood with Ray Tracing The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Wolfenstein: Youngblood including the introduction of ray tracing. In addition, this...

My two pcs at home don't show the Anniversary Update at all, otherwise they're both fully updated. It's been available since 2nd August. I could manually install it, but I'm wondering why it hasn't auto-installed yet. Also, have the initial 'issues' reported with the update been resolved?

My VP2770 is best part of 3 years old now and I've been looking around for a possible replacement but there's a lot of choice it seems at the moment. Ideally I'd like 27 inch, 2560x1440. IPS or better is a MUST. PQ is most important to me. Gaming 80% with general use 20%. Budget - I don't...

Right, not sure whether this should be in Hardware or OS. So I'll start here. PC (in specs) been working absolutely fine up till today. I'd left it on to go do something else, came back and it was stuck at the 'we encountered an error....' screen. No bother, rebooted and seemed ok. Then it...

I do seem to get these :( Right. A clean 8.1 install in the last couple of weeks. One major change (new GFX card). When I put the system to sleep, 9 times out of 10 it will restart itself immediately. However, if I put it to sleep AGAIN, it will always go to sleep properly. Looking...

As the title goes, I'm after a 980Ti. Bear in mind two things, 1) I'm in the UK, so prices are horrendous and 2)I haven't had an NVidia card in over 15 years, so go easy with me. I appear to have a choice of MSI GTX 980TI Gaming Graphics Card £559 EVGA 06G-P4-4995-KR GeForce GTX 980 Ti...

Can't find anything specific about this. Basically I've just built a new rig and put Windows 10 on. I have sleep settings to 45 mins. But, whenever Windows decides to do an update in the middle of the night, it wakes the pc, does the update, and then sets 'go to sleep' to never. Every time...

So I'm starting a new build. Part of this is an Asus Z170 Deluxe and a Corsair H80i cooler for the 6700K. Backplate on and double head screws in, yet I can move the backplate, almost enough to get a finger behind it. Now I've read various things on the interwebz about this. Some say it...

My last build was April 2012, with last update in Nov 2013. I tend to skip at least one gen when it comes to CPU and GPU architecture. I have 6 weeks holiday coming up in the next few months and I'd like a little project to do, followed by catching up on some of my older games and getting...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-amd-redundancies-idUKKCN0RV5NN20151001 Struggling chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc said it would cut about 500 jobs, or 5 percent of its global workforce, as it looks to rein in costs amid weak demand for its chips used in personal computers and...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? Gaming/video encoding/browsing 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? £500-600 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible. UK 4) What exact parts...

Recently my pc has started to refuse to power up in a happy reliable manner. I can put it to sleep, then it won't respond when I press a key. Pressing the power button may fire it up but more than likely it won't. The only thing that seems to work is repeatedly using the PSU switch itself...

I've upgraded from 7 to 8.1 a week or so ago, and so far, I'm really quite liking 8.1. However there's one issue that was massively pissing me off for a good day or so until I resolved it, and I'm wondering if anyone can explain why I was having the problem. Initially, I set up the PC using...

Not quite sure where to post this exactly, so I'll try here. Been thinking about building a NAS for a while, and bouncing back and forth between just getting a prebuilt or having a bit more fun and building my own. Would appreciate some feedback. NAS would primarily be a media-server...

Actually never mind

OK I'm after a decent soundcard to replace my aging X-FI. Have read superb reviews of the STX, and some mixed reviews of the Phoebus (HOCP included). The Phoebus is newer, with seemingly better driver support, but the STX seems to have better hardware, is it right for what I want? It's...

I'm currently in the process of planning out my new build and would like any opinions 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Web, Gaming 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? £1000 inc VAT(tax)/shipping 3) Which country do you...

Haven't upgraded in around 3 years so I'm feeling the urge to do a complete (minus gfx card/monitor) rebuild. Current system below, followed by intended new build. Would appreciate any comments/recommendations :) Current : OS MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2 CPU Intel Core 2...

nVidia's answer to AMD's MLAA by the looks of it Subpixel Reconstruction Antialiasing (SRAA) combines single-pixel (1x) shading with subpixel visibility to create antialiased images without increasing the shading cost. SRAA targets deferred-shading renderers, which cannot use multisample...

Limited time. Nice deal even if you factor in shipping :)

Not sure whether to post this in Hardware or OS, but let's see :) OK. Recently upgraded my rig to the spec in sig. Problem is now, I cannot get Vista 64 to enable DMA for my DVD drive (NEC 3550A). Previous rig had no problems (was nVidia 680i based, which makes me think it's a driver...