Recent content by Ollii

Hi guys, After designing and building my custom PC, I now unfortunately have to try and sell it. So I'd love to know how much you guys think It's worth and how easy it would be to sell. Thanks. Here is everything inside: Motherboard - Asus X58 Sabertooth TUF Socket 1366 CPU - Intel Core i7...

Hi guys, I've got a problem at the moment with my computer freezing as I type in my password at the log in screen before getting into windows. I have tried just about everything to fix it but to no avail and I've actually wanted to wipe my computer for a while now, so it's a good opportunity to...

Hey, Recently I've been wanting to upgrade all my audio equipment and thus have been looking around and I sort of know what I'm looking at but wouldn't mind what you guys think. Sound Card - Budget £60-90: It's either going to be the Asus Xonar D2X or The Asus Xonar DX as they do seem to be...

Hey, I am currently building a rig for a friend. I have just about finished the build now but I think while installing the CPU I have bent the pins on the motherboard although I wasn't sure. The pressure upon pulling down the latch simply seemed far too much and after doing so I reopened the...

Hey all, I am currently designing my friend a budget rig for around £600-700. I've just about finished designing it but would like all of your opinions of it, thanks: Motherboard - Gigabyte Z68 GA-Z68AP-D3 = £83 CPU - Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz Sandybridge = £172 CPU Cooling - Arctic Cooling...

Hey, I am currently looking for a desktop external hard drive with around 1-2TB storage space and also a portable hard drive with around 500GB-1TB storage space. What would be the makes to look at and what are peoples general opinions on certain ones? All advice is welcome, Thanks.

Hey, I am planning on learning how to create websites. However at this moment in time I know almost next to nothing about creating websites except that HTML, CSS, PHP etc are used to do so. I need to learn relatively quickly how to design and create a website for a project coming up, so could...

Hey guys, a few months ago I complained about my games constantly crashed and I was advised to re install all of the direct x files or "install the June 2010 DXSDK". I haven't attempted it yet but my games are still crashing and it is very irritating so I'm going to give it a go. However I have...

Hey guys, Since build my new rig I have been exceptionally happy with it. However I do seem to have a few problems; one of these being that my games, no matter which one will crash at a random point while playing, be it at 10 minutes, 30 mins, 2 hours etc. I will simply be playing the game and...

Hey guys, I have recently realised that I need a wireless card. However I have no idea about any of them so I would love some information on them. Heres a few questions just to get things started: Should I go for a PCI/PCIE card or just a USB one? Whats the difference between a PCI...

Hey, I invested heavily on a very good water cooling loop for my rig at Christmas. However I am sorry to say that I do regret it; mostly due to the performance not being what I thought it was going to be (Although my CPU also contributes to this due to it being very bad at overclocking) and also...

Hey, as some of might of seen I have been overclocking my system recently but I have finally come to the conclusion that no matter how many volts I through at it 4.2 GHz just doesn't want to be completely stable So I have now backed it down to 4.0 GHz, much to my PC's relief I started off...

Hey, I have recently done some overclocking but I left it at a state were I found it was not 100% stable. So today I boosted the volts a little and have finally found a set-up that is reasonably stable. It passed LinX with 2048 MiB on 20 runs which I think is fairly stable (It fails however on...

Hey, In the process of overclocking at the moment and have hit the 4GHz mark but it seems if I now go over it everything will freeze once the max temp Prime gets under way, here are my settings at the moment (I am running a water-cooled loop, A Thermalchill TA 360 with EK supreme HF CPU Block)...

Hey, I am currently overclocking and was doing fairly well until the ram hit 2000 MHz. I have mushkin ridgebacks 2x3 6-8-6-24 standard. I was just getting to a 4GHz overclock on my CPU which was fine however the Ram failed to start the first time on 2MHz and I quickly realised the times weren't...