Recent content by Big Red Knows

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    Help needed. New rig won't boot. How to diagnose problem?

    Hi. Was unfortunately called away on business. I got a new PSU and that certainly was one of the problems, but not the only one. Now all the fans work (including graphics card and CPU cooler) but the CPU LED stays lit and the board still fails to post. I now have a case speaker but no...
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    Help needed. New rig won't boot. How to diagnose problem?

    TYhanks for the advice. Yeah. It's now sat outside the case but with the same sort of problems. I noticed (no idea why I hadn't before) that the person I bought it off had put an extension onto the CPU power cable, so I took it off and plugged in the original lead. Now instead of the CPU...
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    Help needed. New rig won't boot. How to diagnose problem?

    Hi. It claims to have an AC input of 100-240v on the sticker. I'm in UK BTW.
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    Help needed. New rig won't boot. How to diagnose problem?

    Hello, This is my first build. PSU finally turned up today so I built the system. Doesn't seem to work at all. Components are as follows. board: p9x79 pro CPU: 3930k GPU: gtx680 (MSI Twin Frozr) RAM: 32gb (4x8gb) Gskill Ripjaw Z 1866 PSU: Corsair HX750w 80+ Gold Boot disc:512gb Vertex 4 SSD...
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    Is this a good deal?

    Cool. Do you think I might notice any issues using XMP - if I don't they appear to run at 1333mhz Edit, I wrote this while you edited yours. :)
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    Is this a good deal?

    I'm looking at buying some memory for an editing setup and these caught my eye. 32gb (4x8gb) gskill Ripjaw z 1866 (10-11-10-30) Cost is £212, which seems pretty cheap. Is a latency of 10 gonna be important to me (as opposed to 9) and does the fact I need to use something called XMP to change...