Recent content by Diarmuidinskibb

Thanks for the quick response! On budget, not too sure how expensive a good upgrade for PSU would be worth. I'm willing to sacrifice some planned upgrades if this is really necessary. Would budgeting €100 be enough? Or am I looking at more? Current case: Sharkoon T9 Value Blue Edition Mid...

Over the past couple of years, I've been slowly adding and replacing parts in my gaming PC without ever doing a full rebuild just to keep it up to date. I'm at that point again and the one part that I have never really looked at twice was the PSU. The current PSU hasn't shown any visible issues...

It displayed from the MOBO after I removed the GPU so it's looking like one of those 2 issues. I would say the next step is to test the GPU but I'm half convinced this is the issue. Is their any other way to test the PSU to make sure?

Thanks for the response! So if I disconnect the GPU and their is an output from the motherboard after, it would safe to assume it's the GPU? Would their be any risk in testing the GPU in another system if it is broken?

Hi all, List of system components: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Corsair Memory Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz CAS 9 XMP Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB SATA III Performance Hard Disk Drive SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB Sata...

Perfect man! Will take a look at the benchmarks and see what I think will suit best. Thanks so much, you've been a huge help :)

Thanks so much for such a detailed response. Above is within my budget and I have seen that GPU's have been extremely hard to come by. If it's better off sticking with the 280x is best until stocks level out than I'll have a bit more time to save and see what I'm willing to afford or stick with...

Approximate Purchase Date: March 2015 Budget Range: Pretty flexible but looking around the 600-800 range for the upgrade. Willing to go over for compatibility issues System Usage from Most to Least Important: Primarily gaming Are you buying a monitor: No Parts to Upgrade: Want to switch...

Perfect, I will go ahead and try the steps above to retrieve some of my files. I have already ordered an SSD so I'll wait until it arrives before I go ahead with everything and reinstall windows in it (it is a joke I haven't installed an ssd yet). Thanks for all your help. I may respond in...

The drive is 1 TB HDD and is a good few years old. Stage 1 never lasts long, normally finishing within a few minutes and moving onto stage 2 where it gets stuck. It would stay on this until a blue screen error pops up and the PC is restarted. I would say the maximum I've left it on is about 8...

I've been away from my PC the last few days and when I turned it on yesterday, an automatic disk repair started saying "Fixing (C)Stage 1: X% (Y of Y); Total Z%; ETA: 0:02:00" I decided to keep it on over night just in the hopes it would do its thing but this morning the progress hadn't changed...

So recently I’ve been annoyed with how cluttered my PC has become with the amount of random stuff that has accumulated over the years and was thinking of completely clearing them. I have 2 internal 1TB hard drives. Mainly use my PC for gaming so I want to be able to keep all the save files but...

So I am having a very weird audio problem with my PC that I can't really explain in just the title but I will try to explain as best as possible here. I own a pair of EasySMX headphones. I noticed a problem when playing Rainbow 6 Siege. I joined a mumble server with my brother and all of his...