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I think I killed my (old) family HTPC. CMOS reset was no help. I have an old rig (from new) for my family to use hooked up the the TV as a HTPC. Zotac H55 itx, lga 1156 - Xeon x3470 (i3-550 to hand) - H50 corsair aio - 8gb micron 1333mhz ram (have 4gb of mushkin too) - 550w Silverstone psu...

I have a 5700, I bought it because it represented good value: - flash 5700xt bios - soft power tables tables - overclock and get amazing performance The more I've read/watched it seems that watercooling is pretty essential. This means another £100 on the block plus the rest. Also, drivers seem...

Problem: the lights are on but no posting to BIOS, CPU fan spinning slowly, GPU fan not spinning other than initial fan burst. B450 Strix itx R5 3600 5700 RAM PSU NVME is blank and I tried having W10 on a bootable USB plugged in and not plugged in. I don't know where to start as the last...

Hello OC3D, it’s been a while. I realise this is not an exciting thread/build but I’m in need of some advice so hopefully someone will chime in. Around 4/5 years ago I bought some parts for a build that have sat gathering dust in a wardrobe. At the time they were decent but they are surely...

Hi, I was going to convert the molex to a fan header and run the pump from a mobo header, but the ampage is too high. So I wanted to grab a sata connector to power the pump from the psu. I can only find male ones like this: Am I missing something? I need a female version of that...

Hi, Picked up a bargain DDC Ultra/res combo (12 months old). I want to combine the molex and sensor wires onto a single PWM header. I don't want to run a single molex cable from my psu just for this, I want a nice clean look and to run the pump via the CPU PWM header. I found an...

Don't judge me. I'm using a 120mm rad in a custom loop. FT03 has space for a single rad in the roof and a dual 80mm in the floor (without really having to do much modding). Since there are basically two '160mm' rads it's an easy choice. So, single rad. The loop is CPU/GPU only. Ivy i7 and...

Hi guys, Firstly; Tom - thank you for the ram you lovely man. I've been lucky enough to be given some shiny new ram (specs here) Mobo is quite old now Zotac H55ITX-A-E with an i3 550. Couple of SSDs and HDDs, 7950 etc. Both sticks of ram = hangs a usb controller One stick of ram = gets as...

Hi, I bought an Asus Direct CUII 7950 from one of our members. I have a Lian-Li PC-Q08 and can only fit a dual slot, the card I bought is tri slot. I've been offered a refund but I was trying to source a flat I/O dual slot plate (a lot of the single/dual have a curved lip which won't work...

Hey, So my media collection/hoarding is getting out of control and I need more HDD. I noticed in pictures I should have had an additional HDD cage below the main cage as seen here I don't have it and I've had the case for quite a while now so I can't really contact the etailer... I've googled...

Long time no see! So, I'm building a htpc but I have a problem - I bought a silent hd 5550 a few months ago and when it came to it, it won't fit due to small case/psu. I can't return it so I need an aftermarket cooler, like the accelero s1. My problem is no one lists any compatibility with...

If anyone is interested... Linky Edit: Cheers Pyro http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...0-review-test/ http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/EAH5970/ http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/H...970_CrossFire/ http://hardocp.com/article/2009/11/1...eo_card_review...

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I need some decent long range kb/mouse action. I see mixed reviews for bluetooth - it drops out etc... What is the best tech? I need a good solid 10m range for everything from games/browsing. It will replace my saitek/deathadder, just bought the MS lazer kb/m 6000 v2.0 but it sucks balls. I...