Recent content by Blobfish101

I've been looking into undervolting my laptop, because it appears that I should be able to get better thermals and potentially better performance by undervolting it. I tried installing Intel XTU, as this is generally recommended as the program to use to undervolt intel CPUs, though when I try to...

I have found while benchmarking my dell XPS 13 that the processor, despite being rated at 1.8GHz, will only reach 1.3GHz. I have been running Cinebench r15 and task manager only shows the laptop reaching about 65% utilization accross all cores and shows the CPU speed as 1.3 GHz. I also checked...

When I search for things such as "devices and printers" or "programs and features" in the windows search box, there are no results. This has occurred since the Windows 10 creators update. Before this update, I was able to search for anything from control panel in the Windows search box, and it...

Sometimes a blank console window will randomly appear on my screen and then immediately disappear. This only occurs around once an hour, and generally isn't very disruptive, however if I'm gaming, the game window will be minimised, which is quite annoying in fast paced multiplayer games...

I am currently using an AMD FX-6300, an ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 motherboard, 2 x 4GB DDR3 Corsa Geil RAM and I'm running windows 10 (upgraded from windows 7). I plan to upgrade to an intel 6700K which will mean changing my motherboard and RAM as well because AMD and intel sockets are not cross...

I found that I had a PCI-E to USB 3.0 card, I've plugged that in and it works fine with everything. The USB 3.0 from the motherboard still doesn't work, but I now have working USB 3.0 slots.