Recent content by WiganflightsimSteve

A few years ago i built a desktop PC for my Mum, and all has been fine up until about three months ago. It started to just drop the signal to the monitor leaving it black and in standby mode whilst the PC was still running. I ran all the checks and couldn't find anything so i did a full re...

My recent upgrade to an 8150 bulldozer left me waiting for the patches to be released, only to find out they were for windows 7 only. I am running it on Vista Ultimate and considering upgrading to windows 8 when released, i have found a beta release for developers and i am wondering if that...

790FX-GD70 with an AMD Phenom II x4 955 processor and 8Gb of Corsair Dominator 1600Mhz memory. For some reason since i paired it up with another hard drive and updated all the drivers it has decided to refuse any overclocking. The memory only runs at 1066Mhz and even the slightest hint of...

Hello everyone, i have been building my own rigs now for about 9 or so years, i am not an expert by any means but i know just about enough to get by. All my builds have been around AMD so i guess you could class me as a 'Fanboy' I do own a laptop though that has an Intel i5-450M, its an MSi...