Recent content by Elliott Veares

Hi all; Had a Intel Core i7 computer from a well know reputable manufacturer go bad where I work recently that was still under warranty, so the manufacture sent an engineer out to diagnose it. Ended up being the CPU after he tried a CPU from a working PC. However the engineer did not replace...

Just want your guys opinions on what is the better laptop. Both are i5-6300HQ, 8GB RAM, have a 1TB HDD and 128Gb SSD, and have 2GB GTX 960M. Not keen one either keyboards, I prefer chamfered keys that but up against each other, like I have on my Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800, but does not...

Going to go for the AsRock E3C236D2I with a Xeon E3-1245 v5. Bit more than I wanted to pay, but it has a on board USB 3 header, as more SATA ports than the Asus and has Out Of Band Management/IPMI support.

Can anyone help me as I can't decide what motherboard out of the Asus P10S-I or the ASRock C236 WSI is better for a Server. Planning to use a Xeon E3-1240 v5 (or Xeon E3-1245 v5 for the ASrock as it has no on board graphics chip set) running Windows Server 2016 Essentials. Will be going in a...

I am using the built in sound card on my Asus Z97-P motherbaord what I know is not great for what I want, but will a better sound card sort my problem out where the speakers connected to my Hi-Fi amp and the speakers connected to my computer are out of sync by a small fraction of a second. I...

Why would I put different drives in a NAS enclosure? Simply because I can't afford to fully populate it with my desired drive of choice at the moment and So I use what I have for multiple volumes in non RAID configurations. This is my drive of choice...

I recently bought a 4 bay Asustor AS5004T NAS which I used a old hard drive that I had laying around to get the system up and running initially. The S.M.A.R.T info for the single drive currently in my new 4 bay NAS is below: S.M.A.R.T Info for ST10000DM000-9TS15E Would you say the drive is...

I have a small 6U data cabinet containing a old 2006 Mac Mini running as a server, two 8 port switches one of which is a PoE switch feeding IP cams, a single NAS drive, and a small USB printer server. The ambient temperature inside the cabinet is 38c/100f which seems high to me, but don't know...

I know how to dual boot and install windows 10 on my second drive; just don't want anything funky to happen to my main Win 7 drive as I install Win 10 on my second drive or use it to beta test the OS.

I plan to install and beta test Windows 10 as I want to experience it, and want to know whether it is best to go down the VM route or install it natively on my second hard drive. Just don't want Windows 10 to corrupt my main and primary drive where I have Windows 7 installed on. I have read...

Ended up killing my mother board when repasting the CPU! Think I may had broken a trace by applying to much force or shorted something out by forgetting to remove a unused standoff under the mother board. Ended up getting a Asus Z97-P MB , i7-4790K (OC to 4.2Ghz with vcore at 1.125v), and a...

Tried again with P95 v 26.6 and I stopped it at 89c as did not want to damage my CPU. Maybe upgrade my heat sink or redo the thermal bond? My CPU socket is LGA 1155, and heat sink is in the same orientation it came off, so how could I have miss-seated it?

Prime95: Version 28.5, Build 2 Only ran for a few minutes at 93c... Hope I have not done any damage. I was getting the temps from open hardware monitor. Can't see how my heat sink would not be seated properly/right, tightened the 4 springed screws up in a diagonal fashion to minimize...

Because I wanted to know how high temps would get if my all 100% of my system was under 100% load. Is my result anything to be concerned at?

Ended up getting a EVGA 850w Supernova G2 Fully modular power supply for £104 in the end.