Recent content by CManderifeld

I would like to build a ryzen 3 system and i have a pretty tight budget of £330 to buy CPU, MOBO, RAM, Storage (preferably a small SSD and a 1tb hard drive), Power supply, and case. i already have a disk drive and a copy of windows as well as all the peripherals i will need. I also have an old...

I have a budget of £400-£450 and i want to build a home office PC for excel, emails web browsing etc. I thought an i3, maybe skylake, would be best but obviously new kabylake pentiums have just been released and other office builds i have looked at seem to include these and some seem to be...

Hi, i am having compatibility issues when using my USB stick at school... some of the computers simply cant find it, even though it works on other computers at school and at home. this means i am now using a smaller usb which does work with the school computers and i it is one from my dads work...

hi, soon i will be getting a BenQ XL2411Z for my birthday, i want to connect my PC via DVI and connect my Xbox ONE by HDMI and because DVI doesnt carry audio i cant plug my speakers into my monitor directly so i was wondering if this audio setup would work with the Xbox, PC and monitor: I can...

Can anyone recommend a good monitor for gaming for around £200? i was looking at the BenQ RL2455HM but i saw that it is a TN panel and i read that they are bad? maybe im just under educated but anyway, can anyone recommend a £200 gaming monitor?

Hi, i was sorting out the cables in my pc and i changed the port that the boot drive was plugged into. everything works fine but now i get an error message every time i boot up, so i change the SATA port again and it boots fine. then if i boot my pc later on i get the same error message can...

I was looking for a new monitor and heard that ultrasharps were good for gaming. this one is IPS and is 24" that i was looking for and also has really thin besels so i could add another one to my set up later on. it is also at the perfect price for me (£190!). only thing is, it has a 8ms...

I have a pair of Bose QC25's for iPhone. I have an xbox one stereo headset adapter and when i plug my QC25 into the adapter, i can hear game sound and chat of people in party but how do i get the mic to work? has anyone managed to get it working?

Can anyone recommend a good online survival game (not minecraft) that will run with really low graphics. i have a decent gaming rig but i want to play with my friend who has a laptop with i3 intergrated graphics...

me and my friend want to play on minecraft survival TOGETHER we are on two different networks as we live in different houses. he uses wifi and i use ethernet. we can both connect to different servers like vikk craft but when i make a server, i can join but he cant. were on minecraft 1.8.9. how...

Hi, not sure if this thread really fits in the Tom's hardware forum I'm looking for a gaming headset and I don't want to pay any more than £100. I want a headset that will work with the Xbox one and PC for game chat and game audio. Any recommendations would be appreciated

hi, i just finished building pc second pc i have an i5 4690k cpu on an msi z97 gaming 5 mobo and a cooler master hyper 212 evo cooler. my cpu is at clock speeds. while my pc was installing a game from steam i was looking at the msi command centre and it says my cpu is in the mid to high 40...