Recent content by SWAT Strachan

Afternoon peeps . Right, this one is boggling my brain. Yesterday my internet PC decided to die rather spectacularly, by blowing a bright blue spark out of the motherboard and toasting the processor at the same time (it was old, bless it). I am now typing this on the replacement, an Asus...

Having recently built a luvverly new gaming rig (i7 at 4.2ghz, 6gb Corsair Dominator, Gigabyte G1 Assassin, Corsair AX1200 PSU, 64gb SSD), I added a 3D monitor last week and so far it's great . However, running games in 120hz mode (mainly BF:BC2) does make the frame rate suffer and it's a little...

I must be missing something here, but I can't use the mic socket on the rear of the board as it only recognises it as a line-in socket, even though it is labelled as line-in/mic. I'm using a set of Rokkat Kave headphones and I need to keep all the cable connections at the rear, but how do I...

Morning all. Being an avid 3D gamer, and a complete BFBC2 addict, I am finally thinking about getting myself a 3D capable monitor, but as I am something of a Dell fan (I have 5 of their screens and in my opinion they are great, if a little reflective in the case of the SP2309Ws) I am thinking...

Sometimes, you just have to let the inner nerd shine through . It's even better when you see it in motion .

...from an overclocking novice . Evening all, I'm Scott, a 34 year old IT engineer from Portsmouth UK. I've been building rigs since my very first PC all the way back in 1997! However overclocking and extreme tweaking isn't something I've ever really ventured in to. It doesn't help that my...