Recent content by Michaelgd

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Hi. I'm having some trouble with my Asus X99 deluxe. It's getting stuck on the boot screen where one normally presses f2 or delete to enter the bios settings. It's displaying a Q code 64 on the 7 segment led on the motherboard and sticks with this. Pressing f2/del don't do anything and...

Thanks Shaun o, I haven't been able to find a setting relating to external harddrive in the power scheme settings. I can change the sleep times but this only seems to work for the internal drives. I don't understand why they won't spin down, this happened automatically in Windows 7 or do you...

I have a few concerns about my new build or more specifically a number of 2.5" external hard drives (different makes and models) never spinning down/sleeping even when PC is turned off. Summarized the problems are. USB 3.0 external hard drives still spinning when computer fully powered off...

Thanks for your response g-unit1111. The extra 5TB hard drive is for an offsite backup. The only reason I picked this one is that it is better value than the WD 4TB and I can also use it to back up another 1TB harddrive. I was under the impression that the thermal compound was very...

Any opinions/suggestions? I am also wondering should I consider the i7 4790k and associated parts instead of the 5820k. My proposed alternative is here: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/michaelgd/saved/hsmhP6

Approximate Purchase Date: Within 5 days Budget Range: 1500-2200 GBP System Usage from Most to Least Important: Scientific Computation, Photo Processing, surfing the internet, light gaming Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS Preferred Website(s) for Parts::Amazon.co.uk...

Any advice on the best and most reasonably priced motherboard for optimal CPU performance with an Intel i7-5820K. Thanks, Michael

Hi Everyone, I am building my first PC soon and was looking for advice/tips and just to check that the following parts are all compatible. It's not a gaming PC but more of a scientific computation/photo processing PC hence the CUDA GPU. The larger case is to accommodate as many Hard drives...