Recent content by slam159

Hey, I know it's technically not a build, but it is advice I'm looking at buying a decent mid-range laptop, about £400 budget I need it for college work, Minecraft, and watching TV/films occasionally. I am looking for: i3 500gig HDD (roughly) At least 3gig RAM WiFi etc ~15" screen. Not...

Hey all. 'Tis my birthday coming up, and my parents asked what I want. I've been looking at the Dr Dre Solo HDs for a little while now, and am wondering if they're actually worth it. Anyone got any experiences with them?

Hey With my Christmas money/paycheque, I've decided to upgrade my rig a bit to future-proof it for a bit longer. Current Rig: Intel i7 930 @ 3.6GhZ 4gb Kingston DDR3 1600mhz Noctua NH-D14 Corsair TX650W Palit GTX 460 768mb 1 x Samsung HD103UJ - 1TB 1 x Samsung HD502HJ - 320GB Antec...

Hey There First question: My PC takes bloody ages to boot Windows completely on booting up, and was wondering why, any ideas? Windows 7 Enterprise x64. Second Question: What should I upgrade first? RAM/Graphics Card Currently have 4gb Kingston 9-9-9-24 Palit 768mb 460 Tah

RAAAAAAGE @ Crappy college computers resetting the post that I just spent 15 minutes typing up. Gr. Anyway, Hi There I am looking at getting some new RAM. I currently have this, running at 1440mhz along with my 930 @ 3.6GhZ (intending on pushing it up to the big 4.0 soon) But I realised...

<3 my for my Noctua. My i7 930 is currently clocked at 3.6GhZ, and is being cooled by a Noctua NH-D14 (using the included TI). My question is: does 37 idle, and 67 under stress sound reasonable? I am preparing to make the push for 4GhZ, but want to know if I may have to do something first to...

Hey there I just got a job (woot) and am therefore going to have some money for once. So I am intending to buy a monitor after Christmas with my wages and Christmas money. I was just going to buy a standard 2D monitor, but I thought I might as well go the full hog and get a 3D one to go with...

Hey Got around to overclocking my i7 930 http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1433850 But when I boot up, first of all it crashes a few seconds in, then it boots itself back up properly with the overclock working properly and stable. Am I missing something here or is it something that...

Hey, I met Tom at the CCL stand at i40 and got some great advice for my build which I think really paid off Well I got the parts, Core i7 930 GA-x58a-ud3r Palit 768mb Corsair 650w PSU Noctua NH-D14 Kingston HyperX Blu - 4GB I did however decide to get the Antec DF-35 because it looked...