Recent content by tomclowes

Ok guys time for opinions. This PC was meant to be a budget PC. I only wanted to spend £500, but I forgot about the monitor, keyboard, mouse etc Stupidly I also wasted £45 getting the PC built when actually I had built it correctly but just had a dud motherboard. So, the breadown Please...

1 x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 250 Gb 1 x Samsung SP0842N 80 Gb 1 x Western Digital Caviar 160 Gb 1 x Hitachi Deskstar 250 Gb Hey guys, I just bought the above 4 hard drives, untested for £54 Opinions? Good buy? My main HD Is a 500gb seagate arracuda 7200.10 Will any of the above be able...

Hey guys, Spent the whole day trying to work our why my call of juarez was no longer working. Thus I decided to dl a no CD crack. The game came on, but then after 5 minutes the monitor would just die. The PC stayed on but i couldnt reset the monitor. I had to turn on an off ant the wall. I...

Ok, I am going to need a TFT monitor, so I asked someone for an opinion out of the eight I had picked out. He picked out: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250155813887 So there I was waiting to bid. Then I looked on google, and found loads of different ones. The AL1916W...

Hey Guys, So I am back from my holidays, my laptop still playing up and being mega slow. It got me thinking, why did I jut spend £700 on my new desktop setup? Admittedly I dont have a DVD drive, or a keyboard/mouse yet :) but I havnt actually got anything to do on my PC. I dont have the...

Guys, Nearing the end of my hol. Thus I want to order the following so that they are there when I get home. DVD DRIVE - Considering LiteOn LH-20A1H (Lightscribe) 20x CD/DVD Writer for ~£20 KEYBOARD/MOUSE - Any Ideas? Just a cheap, preferably wireless comfortable etc SCREEN - A thin one(TFT I...

Hey guys, I have got my PC to turn on, but when it does all I get is 'DISK BOOT FAILURE -INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER' I have tried both with the motherboard disk, and the vista disk but same thing. I have tried going to the BIOS and putting on Fail Safe Load.. neither with success...

I am aware this is a bit cheeky, and I in know why believe that I 'deserve' any frrebies from anywhere. However I thought I may as well put this out there in cae there is anyone who has a screen that is just gathering dust. Basically, I was building a custom PC, and mega sty;e overshot my...

oK guys, My pc is at the shop being put together as we speak. Question is, when I get it, what do I do? I have a windows vista disk. Is it a simple case of connecting a monitor, booting from the disk, and installng XP? What is all this stuff such as BIOS, CMOS etc/how do I optimize my PCs...

Ok many of you may know I have been having trouble with my PC build... Today I ordered another GA-P35C-DS3R which should be coming tomorrow. Then I will take all the parts to the computer shop and get it put together. Basically I put my PC together originally and couldnt get it to start up. I...

My computer dreams have been stopped. Why? I screwed up my PC. Couldnt get it to start so I took it to the PC shop. Got a call today. The motherboard wont power on, it is broken. Phoned back to get specifics and was told the heatsink wasnt on properly. When you tryed to power on you may have...

Ok guys, got my psu and case today. Got the processor a few days ago. Awaiting the mobo and hd. I have put the case and psu together. Monitor my progress through images at www.rers.com/PC Am I going well :) If you want to review the parts that will be going into it please do so here...

Please see my rig to be below in my sig. I believe it comes with two fans in the case. Do I need more? Will i need to venture into any other cooling methods? I notice you can buy seperate cpu coolers. My e6750 ha a heatsink with it, is this sufficient? This may be a bit off topic in this...

Could I have peoples opinions on my soon to be rig. This is costing me ~£600, which is a hell of a lot of cash for me. I wont be upgrading for a while, thus hopefully I have done a good job. 500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 16MB 2 * 2gb OCZ PC2 6400 GOLD EDITION XTC 256MB HIS X1950Pro,TURBO...

500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 16MB 2 * 2gb OCZ PC2 6400 GOLD EDITION XTC 256MB HIS X1950Pro,TURBO PCIe Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 Motherboard Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz VUSYS Space Warrior Yellow This is my Setup so far, I.E what I have ordered. Just wondering if the HX520...