Recent content by Nibbles48

Hi all, happy new year! Thought i'd provide a bit of an update. PC was running a lot over xmas, albeit not doing anything particularly onerous (acting as a media library for the Sonos system, mainly). With the door closed, the temperature stayed around 60C, even overnight when there was no...

Close. The pc is lying on its side, but the base of the unit is against the front side of the cupboard (next to the door space), with the top facing the back of the cupboard and the rear of the unit facing the left side of the cupboard (as i look at it face on. Im not sure the cables would...

Hi @Moonstick2 Yes, possibly - though I was going out so didnt want to leave it on unattended. Also, whilst i often game for much longer than that, i dont play anything that stresses the PC to the same extent - none of the games I play would be described as resource intensive. I would test it...

Perfect - yes the photo looks broadly like what we have (im assuming that the rear of that slot that the unit sits in is sealed, so air has to come out of the front? I did a log with HWiNFO as suggested above, running Heaven Benchmark for half an hour or so and the door fully open (my wheel and...

Yes, im coming around to that thinking. Would you mind sending a picture of that setup? This certainly gives credence to the possibility of it all working nicely with a fan to push the air towards teh front. The cabinet is i think mostly MDF, though the side seems to be a hardwood of some form...

Thanks, this is very helpful. The height above the unit is about half the unit height - probably about 20cm from memory. So it sounds feasible, possibly with a small fan running to help. It was stressed (using Heaven Benchmark) for about 20 minutes. I cant find temperatures for the GPU, but...

Well, i saw 79C temperature of one of the cores after an hour or so running a game (an old one, but one that tends to be more CPU than GPU intensive). GPU got up to about 68C during the same time. Im yet to test it with a benchmark for anything longer than 10 minutes. It has a fan at the front...

Hi everyone, Before i start drilling holes and wasting my time, i thought i'd ask the experts for some advice. We've just given our home office a makeover and have moved the PC tower, which previously lived on the floor by my feet, into a cupboard. The cupboard itself is about 50cm deep and a...

I had a budget PSU which I thought might have been the issue, backed up by comments here (see other thread I linked to). I replaced recently with a budget PSU (both Corsair) though one which was slightly more powerful. The issue remained exactly the same. I.e. it wasn't the PSU. The motherboard...

This is exactly the issue i had - albeit with a much older device (~10 years, though the issue had been happening for the last 6 (though got much worse more recently)). I replaced with a comparable mobo which i got for £20 off ebay, issue has completely gone away. Hence - mobo knackered. I...

By way of an update, i sourced a replacement motherboard off ebay of essentially the same spec (Intel rather than Gigabyte) and, after a bit of fiddling and moving of cables now works perfectly - with my random computer instant death no longer an issue (touchwood!). Happily, Windows 10 was a...

Morning all, Thought i'd provide an update - took the plunge and purchased a new (used) motherboard, not the one above but a similar one, from ebay. Ordered at 3pm, arrived the following day at 12. Removed the old one and put the new one in and, after a few minutes of fiddling with RAM errors...

Just to confirm, C, D, E and F are all partitions on 1 HDD, not on separate HDDs.

Thanks - i'd been looking at that separately actually - in which case i'll get a small SSD (big enough for the current windows partition) and do that - though whether it'll be ready for this or not is another matter.

Thanks for the link and confirmation re drivers - there seemed some ambiguity. That will wipe only the C drive, i presume? I.e. the D, E and F will remain as they currently are? I should point out that games etc., including all the install details and various related files (saved games, etc.)...