Recent content by EBarratt

Didn’t realise the HDD would have such an impact, it was my CPU spiking not anything else. Yes it’s a hard drive, and it’s a secondary one (i believe) as I put my system folders on my SSD. I can try reinstall the game on my SSD and see if I have the same issue.

CPU will be my next upgrade as I just upgraded to a 2070 super, but it might require a new motherboard as I currently have an ASRock B450M, unless I flash a new bios onto it. Memory never spikes and for all my games seems to stay around 8-9GB of memory use. I have plenty of storage at around...

Hi all, I'm sure that this is probably as my CPU isn't too up-to-date but using auto-set quality on Fort as well as looking at similar setups online I should be able to run rendering mode DirectX 12 at a reasonable FPS, even at low settings. I get a constant 60fps most of the time except when...

These are the upgrades I'm thinking of: PSU: Corsair CV650 (the one you recommended) GPU: GeForce RTX 2070 or RX 6600 RAM: 2 x 8 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8) (as it's on a prime day sale) Do you think a 2070 or a 6600 would be better, or is there minimal difference?

I'm looking for something which helps with overall performance and graphics, allowing me to play games at a medium to high setting with 60 plus FPS. At the moment I can hardly some shooters run on medium graphics at 60 FPS, let alone more intensive games. Would the 3050-3060 be better than...

Thank you for the help. I have updated the information with cooling, case and storage. The upgrade I did on the computer originally (2 years ago now?) was an upgraded CPU and motherboard (although the motherboard was free from a friend), which is surpising that you recommend those rather than a...

Hi everyone, would love advice on what to upgrade next. Looking to upgrade within the next month or so and my budget is no more than £300, so really one or two items. Would also be appreciated if I could know what to upgrade after this if I do wish to do so in the future. I did post earlier...

I believe it's this one: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/power-supplies/mwe-series/mwe-400/#specifications

1. The PSU is a 400W power supply so should have no issues there? Could be wrong. 2. I play a mix of strategy and shooters, but mainly the shooters which is the reason I would like a graphics card. I don’t think it’s the CPU as I upgraded that most recently and I struggle the most with...

This is where i’m not sure, or if I should go for a different card completely. The 20 series is obviously newer so has support for mesh shaders and ray tracing but looking at benchmarks the 1080ti seems overall better in terms of performance.

Hiya, I currently own a 1050ti which is quite out of date now and I would like something better. I'm looking at secondhand graphics card and the three options I've decided on are the 2070, 2080 or the 1080Ti. I understand that the 20-cards are obviously newer but don't seem to be quite as good...

Did a clean boot and disabled all startup processes (other than Microsoft) and I am still having the same issue, and so I assume it is something to do with windows itself?

I’ve recently upgraded to Windows 11 but when signing in I get this: View: https://imgur.com/a/dAZrutr Rainmeter works, but nothing on the taskbar loads. I have a feeling that it’s an issue with Taskbar X, which I did use when it was Windows 10. An error used to appear saying that the OS...

In the Storage Devices list it only shows the SATA HDD, not the SSD. The SSD looks like it’s secured to the motherboard fine, so i’m honestly not sure why it isn’t being detected. Let me know if you see anything wrong with how they’re plugged in. View: https://imgur.com/a/AkYoefn

Sorry, it’s a WD BLUE SATA M.2. Seems like the HDD is showing up instead of the SSD, as @DRagor said.