Recent content by Feanor_

Thanks Tradesman. Can you explain, or link me to an explanation about, the relationship between memory speed and system/CPU speed these days? It sounds like the system recognises the speed of the memory and runs it accordingly, which I don't think it did in the past when FSB overclocks were...

Thanks both. I'm still a bit confused but have bitten the bullet and gone for the 3000MHz memory. The thing is that all the 2400Mhz memory was out of stock for 1-4 weeks so for the sake of a few quid I decided to go for the 3000Mhz stuff, especially if there's a chance it might mean I can run...

I'm ordering a Skylake i3 system. I'm not particularly interested in overclocking, and I anyway understand Skylake can't really be properly overclocked. I'm anyway a bit confused having read about faster memory effectively overclocking a system, seemingly without changing settings? (So you know...

Thanks Trafalgar! Thanks to you I've ordered a far better system for the money than I otherwise would have. I checked the gaming benchmarks and you're right, the Skylake i3 is much better value than the i5 - it hadn't occurred to me that a dual core processor would come close to competing with a...

With Sterling having dropped through the floor and a likely resulting surge in component prices, and with the free Windows 10 upgrade coming to an end, I want to build a new PC to replace my ancient Core2 Duo before things get more expensive. I want to keep the budget tight, but I don't want to...

I'm getting ping spikes of 60, 100 and sometimes 400 to my gateway on my 5Ghz network. Last night it was consistently over 100, now it's mostly around 1-2 except when it spikes. Ping spikes of 15? I DREAM of ping spikes of 15! :p

What ping are you getting to your default gateway from command prompt? How far are you away from your router? Wifi problems are complex - the simplest solution is to make sure you're on a channel not being used by others and make sure you're as near as possible to your router with a signal...

The obvious explanation would be interference. But I'm not getting any sign of unstable signal on my software wifi analyser and I can only see one other 5Ghz network which is on a different channel. I realise that doesn't necessarily mean interference isn't adding errors but the only way I could...

I don't mean to be unhelpful by saying this - I opened this thread with every intention of helping - but the stream-of-consciousness style post has made me almost lose the will to live. If you want people to take the time to help you, at least take the time to write your question in an...

I can't see anyone providing an answer to this as the question doesn't make sense, sorry.

I'm reluctant to go for 4x4 Gb as it'd mean that if I do need to upgrade I'll have to replace it all; I made this mistake with my old PC. I'm uncertain about the ASRock mobo - seems like VERY good value, almost too good as it's the cheapest Z87 I can find, and generally I've found you pay for...

Ahh I knew this was too simple and I was missing that option that's just a little better! :D I bought my last system with a view to overclocking when it began to slow down a bit but never got round to it, and then it wasn't really worth bothering. I don't think I want to overclock; I imagine...

Thanks! Regarding a GPU, hmm... background on this is here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1876393/broken-system-suggestions-economic-repair.html#xtor=EPR-8809 What GPU would you recommend with dual DVI? Many are way too expensive, some are too cheap to seem worth bothering with -...