Recent content by mowzeh

So recently I had a surge from a nearby lightning strike that came through the copper line and up my ethernet cable and fried my motherboard. Being an old z97 chipset meant I had to throw out my i7 4790k and 16gb ddr3 ram, well not literally, I sold them on and upgraded. I got myself an Asus...

I recently completed my Ryzen build and to my shock noticed that the CPU at stock was jumping up to 1.55V vcore. I decided to do a little research and noticed people were overclocking with 1.35-1.375V vcore :S This got me worried, I didn't want my CPU to experiences uneccessary degradation and...

I recently had a surge ruin my motherboard and have had to replace it which meant a new CPU and new memory. I don't overclock anything in my system except for enabling XMP overclock profiles on memory so I purchased the following: Motherboard - Gigabyte Z370 HD3 Memory - G.Skill 16gb (8x2)...

As a result of a surge frying my motherboard I now have to upgrade to LGA 1151 which means a new CPU and RAM (Not the best scenario considering I am coming from an i7 4790k). So I am able to afford either an ASrock z370 Extreme4 with an i5 8600k or an ASrock z270 Extreme4 with an i7 7700k, I'm...

Spoke too soon, I decided to turn the PSU main switch off then on to be sure, and it is doing the same thing as before. I don't think it's the motherboard though because when it was booting normally I was able to access the BIOS, does this sound like the PSU?

So I just had a huge surge from a passing thunderstorm and now my PC is not booting. Well not normally anyway. Initially when the surge hit everything in the house turned off then back on, so I immediately turned off the power point to be safe in case of another surge. After letting the storm...