Recent content by ABud

As cheap as possible, especially as the parts would have to be second hand. I might see if I can get £400 together and then buy a new CPU, Mobo & RAM. I'd have to stick with the GTX 460s for a while though - £600 is defo out of range. Maybe a Ryzen 5 setup? Would still be way better than my i5...

I'm wondering if there's any upgrade possible to my PC which will add meaningful performance. I run iRacing (30-60fps) and FSX (all over the place lol). Current spec is: Gigabyte P55A UD3 mobo Intel i5-760 cpu @ 3Ghz 2x GTX 460 gpu SLi 8GB ram Was wondering either about finding an old i7 cpu...

Yes they're up to date.

Recently I've started having to run netsh winsock reset (and then restart the pc) everytime I boot up my pc to get the internet connection to work. How would I go about finding which bit of software is corrupting the catalog? I'm running Win 7 x64 if that helps. Thanks Andy

Scratch that, all through the software. Thanks for your hep though, would of spent hours looking otherwise. Ps I wish manuals were better written!!

How do I get audio out through the HDMI then?

Hello. Dumb question time but I can't for the life of me find the SPDIF socket on my Gainward GTX 460 card. Can someone put me out of my misery? :lol: Andy

Thanks for all your advice. I downloaded SeaTools for DOS and booted up using this. This found the disk errors and also repaired them, and so far all is running fine. I guess what I was hearing was the drive skipping over sectors on the disk rather than a mechanical failure developing. I think...

I've just run Seatools and it's failed the Short DST, guess that's it then. If I were to get an SSD for windows 7 only, what sort of size would be reccomended? Also would games benefit much from this or shall I save money and get a SATA II HDD?

I've currently got this Seagate 500GB SATA HDD. Recently on boot up my system has been showing a "Boot disk failure, enter system disk etc." error and the HDD has been clicking. However if I just restart the PC it loads up fine and runs normally. I'm wondering if this is the beggining of the...

All sounds good, now enjoy your PC :D

On second thoughts im probably over egging the performance loss due to temps but wear will certainly occur at faster rates (not from idling but under load obv.)

I meant under 50C at full load not idle, obviously >50C at idle would not be great! The point of the comment about getting near 70C at full load is precisely that it would show up a problem with some part of the setup. I take your opinion on cleaning the paste, like I it's just some advise I...

Maybe it would be worth downloading Prime95 and running a quick stress test just to put your mind at rest. If you do, open up your temp monitor (or dl speedfan) and watch the CPU temp as Prime95 runs the Large in place FFTs program. It will get up to full heat in about 10mins. Idealy you want...

Thats the cooler i've got on my i5-760 and it comfortably goes to 3.6GHz. When I pushed it up to ~4GHz it does get a bit hot whilst running Prime95 so I backed off. As an aside to this, how hot would you lot allow your CPU to get whilst running Prime95 large FFT's for 1 hour?