Recent content by Joey Minnock

I am building a pc for a friend and it's been a few years, was wondering what would be the best decent motherboard at a budget price to go with an i5 7600 ? Thanls

If I manage to clean install windows 10 onto SSD and boot off SSD, do I just hook up the hard drive after installation and continue as normal ?

How would I go about a clean install with a USB ? Would I need a new serial code to install a fresh version of windows onto the SSD ?

Hello, My SSD will be here soon and I'm wondering after I clone my HDD onto it, will I be able to delete what I don't need off SSD (All I want on my SSD is the operating system and a few games and programmes I use often) After I change SSD to boot in BIOS, do I have to delete boot files off hard...

The colours on that monitor are pretty bland and washed out

Hello, I was wondering what the best gaming monitor with a frequency over 100HZ and with a maximum of a 2MS (preferably 1) response time would be ? I want to use it mainly for CS GO, DayZ SA, Arma 3 and upcoming titles such as Star Wars BattleFront etc... Since, I play a lot of DayZ I'd love a...

Well everyone, I believe I just went full retard mode recently. I think I fried my motherboard by not using any standoffs whatsoever, I was baffled by why my motherboard and replacement both had the same problem and now I realised why lol My replacement should be arriving soon and I was...

Yea, I'm gonna get it RMA'D

Here is a link to the exact model of power supply : http://www.komplett.ie/product/zkb-01com/80005674/fortron-source-fsp600-80bpn-85-600-watt/details.aspx

I mounted the motherboard with plastic screws that came with my case, the board sat properly but could the plastic screws have caused a problem ?

I am using an FSP 600 Watt power supply 80 plus bronze and ths smoke was coming from right below what I believe is a DDR3 Graphics card slot and is about an inch to the right of a capacitor , that slot isn't in use by the way, I have a ddr5 card Thanks

Well lads, I bought an MSI Z97 PC Mate motherboard about 2 months back and when I got it it was defective on arrival (Wouldn't boot at all, no leds or anything), then i sent it back and got a replacement I believe (not 100% sure, it could have been repaired) The replacement was working fine for...

I usually get the drops anywhere really, it can't be my ram, that's 8GB gaming ram @ 1866MHZ I'm using , and my CPU is grand and my GPU, I might optimise it a little in my cfg file and turn down anti-aliasing a bit until they optimise the game

Well lads, when I play DayZ standalone, I get random FPS drops to 0 or 1 fps that can sometimes last 10-20 seconds. I get about 50-60FPS in country side an 20-40 in towns . My specs are an i5-4690K @ 4GHZ MSI GTX 970 8GB HyperX beast ram I was wondering could my slow hard-drive be causing these...

Sorry I couldn't get a picture up lads , but I got thermal paste and installed the CPU and it is running perfectly !!! Thank You all very much for your answers