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Oh, quite likely, I'm sure. I think what I'll do is get a nice new Seasonic for now, and then do a complete new build later this year when the next-gen GPUs arrive. Thanks for everyone's comments!

Well I remembered I actually had a couple of old GPUs in my loft (a 7 year old HD 7950 and a 10 year old HD 5870!) so I've put the 7950 in my PC and the problems have all disappeared. Dark Souls 3 is running fine with no crashes (albeit at a lower framerate), and no other processes are...

Well, a friend of mine mailed me a spare PSU to try. Same problem still occurred. Gave that a try. Made no difference. Don't know what else I can do now. :( I mean, if I have no way of proving where the fault lies, that leaves me with replacing random components until it works, or cutting my...

Yeah, sorry, I completely forgot to mention it but the temps are all fine. (Fans are running well, heatsinks aren't clogged, paste hasn't been changed for around 7 years but was top quality at the time). I mean, they've always run a little hot because it's a warm room in general, but the CPU...

Spec in sig. No OC on anything. Symptoms: While gaming, the screen will turn black (but will not go on standby) and the PC will completely lock up, requiring a hard reset. After symptom 1 occurs, the PC will quite often do exactly the same thing again on the Windows login screen, or...

I really love the gameplay in MHW, but as my first foray into the series I just cannot abide the fact that skills, and therefore your entire character build, are dependent on RNG decoration drops and specific armour combinations, with no way to get the rare skills you want other than hoping and...

I've also seen multiple reports of KB4467107 (2018-11 Security Monthly Quality Rollup) failing to install properly on Windows 7 and I've actually experienced it myself. Every time you boot the PC it tries to install the update again, but fails at around 95% and then reverts all the changes...

This article is a little misleading and implies that the malware targets any device with "USB Debugging" enabled. In actual fact, the malware only targets devices which have port 5555 open as a result of enabling "ADB over Wi-Fi". That requires someone to have actually connected to the device...

It has brilliant gameplay and the different weapons can drastically alter your playstyle which allows for some variation, but at the end of the day, you are just killing the same monsters over and over again, first in Low Rank, then again in High Rank, and then to grind for crafting materials...

I've no idea what Salon is, but to be honest, I'd have no objection to the sites that I do visit on a daily basis having a crypto-mining option as an alternative to ads. I mean, I absolutely hate ads and use an ad-blocker so they get nothing from me currently, but I understand that they have...

Not disagreeing that the Xbox controller is a better plug and play option, but as far as I'm aware, this has always been an issue of the game developers not bothering to support the DS4 natively, rather than a lack of compatibility on Sony's part. However, some newer games seem to be including...

I think that's simply 200^4 + 200^5 + 200^6 + 200^7 which works out as 12864321600000000.

This ^ f.lux is also available for jailbroken iOS and rooted Android devices now. Works nicely on my Android phone. They claim it actually removes blue and green from the display rather than simply applying a red overlay like Twilight...

Thanks for recovering my account Kyle!

I once wrote a simple calculator for people replacing their monitors, where they could enter their current screen's diagonal size and aspect ratio and it told them what screen sizes they'd need in other aspect ratios to achieve the same physical screen height. For example, if you had a 24"...

You can collapse the start menu. Just drag the edges or the top right corner to resize it like you might with an application window. It should look like this: http://cdn1.tekrevue.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/windows-10-small-start-menu.jpg Personally though, I've just installed Classic...

I wonder if they can fit the entire XKCD archive on my head.

Are you suggesting that examples such as the MoH:AA and CoD4:MW demos led to more lost sales than new customers? Because they led to day 1 purchases for me... I might agree if you had said "Bad demos have a higher chance of losing customers rather than gaining them" because given that a lot...

Umm, on what grounds are you making that claim? I mean, I can see two quite obvious options: Let the player go where they want and do what they want for a limited amount of time, i.e. the demo ends at, say, one hour of play and then kicks the player back to the menu. They can start again...

I used to use the paid version of FRAPS for its pre-record feature and high image quality but with the latest beta version of MSI Afterburner adding support for 64-bit games, I don't really see a reason to use anything but Afterburner. Advantages of Afterburner off the top of my head: It's...

Words fail me.

I don't really trust the numbers distributed by that netmarketshare site. From what I've just read about them: They apply weighting to their stats based on stale geographic data They only track unique visitors as opposed to page views Their data comes from a relatively small network of...

When I see articles on password strength, I'm always reminded of this:

Well the board uses polymer caps so, as I understand it, there shouldn't be any venting or leakage? I inspected the caps anyway, and there's no visible sign of any damage. The reason I thought it might be the PSU was, I saw a forum post somewhere on the net where someone described how...

After trawling the internet for a bit, I did some further experimentation by switching the PC on, leaving it powered up for 10 minutes in its non-POSTing state, then rebooting. This time, it POSTed and gave me the failed overclock error, as with step 2 in my first post. I was then able to...

8-pin connector is plugged in, yes. Do you mean I should try unplugging it? I have fans connected to a fan controller powered from the PSU. No fans plugged into the mobo at all.

Unfortunately, I already tried both of those suggestions when the problem occurred for the first time. I cleared the CMOS and left all the mobo settings at stock values, and it still wouldn't boot to Windows with all 4 sticks of RAM in, until I figured out the steps in my previous post. I...

I've had a stable overclock of my Q6600 to 3.2GHz for 2 or 3 years. Never had any issues. However, recently the PC has started failing to POST until I carry out a very specific set of steps. Reverting the overclock to stock settings makes absolutely no difference. I simply get no display...

How's this? :D YouTube - Mistabishi - Printer Jam

That doesn't sound good :eek: Has anyone else experienced similar issues, or can anyone else say that their HDMI output works fine? Does the optical output work well for you? As I understand it, S/PDIF connections only have enough bandwidth for 2 channels of uncompressed audio, so the only way...

I've been trying to find out exactly the same information as the OP, with my main focus being gaming, on a 5.1 speaker system. The two opposing points of view I've seen elsewhere on the net are: The HDMI output on ATI cards is simply a passthrough so you'll be hearing game sounds exactly as...

Ok, just an update - I took the PSU out of the case and the noise is 100% coming from the PSU. No noise from the case at all with the PSU outside. The PSU is quite clearly whining as in that youtube video I linked before. I've now noticed heavy disk access also triggers the noise. So that's 3...

Sorry, I wasn't ignoring it. I've just been out all day and have a clan gaming commitment this evening. When I get a chance I'm gonna take the PSU outside of the case and then listen to the mobo through a tube like you suggested. I was simply thinking out loud based on what I've heard so far ;)...

Thanks for the reply. This should probably be moved to the PSU section, but anyway... I had disabled all the CPU features in the BIOS to work on my OC. I'm not sure which setting, if any, refers to EPU, but everything else is off. I'm 90% sure it's the PSU now. It definately seems loudest...

Umm, yeah. I just installed a brand new P5Q Deluxe mobo, did a fresh install of Windows 7 x64, and the PSU is suddenly making a strange buzzing/squeaking sound whenever there is activity on the USB ports or I'm running a 3D application.. Moving the mouse or running a 3D game makes a...

Simple question: Is the GA-EP45-UD3P discontinued? I know it's an extremely popular board, but there is literally zero stock in the UK online stores - not even a single eBay auction. Either way, does anyone know where I can get one? Or is there a really good alternative (I'm OC'ing a Q6600 G0...

Yeah, ideally, I would have tested the drives in another system already but unfortunately I don't have another system :( I just found this though, on a random old forum post listing known 680i bugs: Sounds exactly like what I've experienced - lockups, drive access light constantly on, and...

My SATA cables do have locking clips on them. I am overclocking but these problems started a long time before I did the overclock.

Hi guys. I wonder if anyone can give their opinion on whether my mobo (an EVGA 680i SLI) is on the way out. Basically, a few months ago my SATA optical drive started causing my PC to freeze and crash, so I unplugged it and everything was fine. Then I tried plugging it into a different SATA...

Hmm, I pretty much just want to configure my 2D and 3D fan profiles. I know people are saying CCC has never caused them any problems, but it doesn't sound like it provides any killer features either. A bit of Googling turns up threads with people saying "Use ATT! It's so much lighter on...