Recent content by andyk1985

Hi Thanks in the end I set her up with up with the below for a grand total of £280 :P £220 for a 2nd Sapphire R9 290 Tri-x OC 4GB card and about £50 for Aster v7 so basicaly she can use my PC with independant dual screens, mice, keyboard, mic, speakers etc at the same time as me with each of...

Another question would be that board H81M-HDS also supports i5s so if we find its just too slow I suppose we could always swap out the CPU at a later date.

BIOS update shouldn't be a problem :) I had to do the same when i set up a Intel NUC as a HTPC to get Windows 7 to run on it. Would there be any advantages on going for the original mobo over this cheaper one? I know it supports more memory but she wont ever hit 32GB on that system and I assume...

With the overclocking Ive seen that people have got it up to 4.8 and its been stable, 4.5 seems to be considered easy to achive. At 4.5 GHz it would run much hotter I would assume? As for the board just found this one instead after reading a review here on Tom's Hardware. ASRock H81M-HDS Micro...

The GTX 970 was for more of a long term plan so that she wouldnt need to swap out the GPU in the next couple of years or so.

Hi im looking at building a 2nd PC which would be a budget gaming / office pc for my wife to use as she works from home. She doesn't need things like Photoshop or CAD just internet based applications and MS Office Apps mostly from the work side of things and she also likes gaming but not First...

Thanks for the answers so far. Im leaning now towards just buying a 27" 1080 display for now to replace one of the 22" ones I have then save the cash and see what's about in a few months time. Even if I do that and then end up buying a new GPU / higher res display I the 27" would still be good...

Basicly I already have a Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card an i7 32gb Memory SSD's etc but I was contemplating adding a second card. I use Multiseating software so that 2 people can be connected to the PC at the same time and simultaneously log in and use the...

Ah sorry no idea why it posted it under storage :(

Basicly I already have a Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card an i7 32gb Memory SSD's etc but I was contemplating adding a second card. I use Multiseating software so that 2 people can be connected to the PC at the same time and simultaneously log in and use the...

Hello, im moving to a brand new development in the next few weeks and im going to have my office on a different floor to the master socket where the router will be set up. Wireless may reach to this room but I would assume the signal will not be great plus only some of my laptops have true...

Il be putting in 32gb RAM so i guess that wont be a problem, it will also have an i7-4930k CPU so should be pretty fast. So to sum it up just go for a 500gb SSD looking at the Samsung 500gb 840 EVO and have OS, Apps / Games and then drop the pagefile down to something small. Again its better...

Thanks for the quick response :) If using one large SSD would it be better to create 3 partitions on it? One for the OS, one for apps and games and a 3rd for the Page file or just leave it as one partitions using the whole drive?

Hi, i'm building a new system and would like to know if its better to have a 500gb SSD and have the OS plus applications and games installed on it or buy 2x 250gb SSD's and have one for the OS and the second for Applications / games. Or alternatively buy 2x 250gb and set them in a Raid 0 and...

Perfect thanks, looks like the mobo will be ASUS® P9X79 LE as im building the system via PC Specialist and thats one of the options for this CPU