Recent content by Garytaylor

Hello and thank you for reading, I am writing this on behalf of a friend that has recently build a new rig and is experiencing problems when trying to access the internet, the settings can't be changed and it seems to have changed to a classic OS with a grey UI. She also has no access to the...

Yes I did find a solution the next day after testing it outside of the case. turns out it was a power cable to the disk drive that was faulty and caused the power to cut as soon as it was turned on. Thank you for your reply as it turns out would have helped me greatly to find the problem. Also...

Nothing visable out of place, everything is plugged in, yes it is turned on, yes the it is plugged in... yes the wall socket is turned on... no I haven't been pressing my nose instead of the power button. Anyway... the burning smell was from my old PSU so that is gone. When I tried again after...

Today I spent my time upgrading my PC, but when I was done it refused to turn on. I thought the PSU was faulty so tried my older one only to have it give off a burning smell. Just before the smell I thought I heard a noise that was similar to 2 pieces of plastic sliding together, I thought...

Before I start, thank you all for your help. It's all greatly appreciated. I like the idea of going ahead and buying a 4690k and doing some light overclocking (as I'm terrified of breaking anything). Would it be beneficial to still purchase the MSI 797 for about £93 from Amazon or would I be ok...

sorry, I forgot to mention. I was considering overclocking the CPU and getting the Hyper 212 evo CPU cooler. Not sure if I should make a new question for this as I don't want to try anyones patience. I've never overclocked before you see and I'm unsure whether or not it would be worth it or...

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my issue. I have recently wanted to upgrade my rig that I built about a year ago now, I mainly play MMOs such as Archeage, but I'm not fully satisfied with the performance in such games. I can run the game on medium settings without any FPS drop...