Recent content by olliesimmonds

Hello all, so i have a problem booting my pc. it takes me anything for 1-30 mins to turn my computer on. it will either go on straight away or it keeps give me the error messege "A dick read error occurred" and proceds to tell me to "press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" which i do and it takes a...

So i have build my first PC put everything together watched videos and stuff all seems to be in working order. apart from when i go to turn on the pc nothing happens at all no fans no sound no anything. I have used the other toms hardware advise including this link...

So i have an older graphics card which is the AMD 7970. Now its a good card runs most the games i need but not enough power for my liking. I want to upgrade to nvidia mostly because of shadow play and amd version is not to great. So obviously there is a big upgrade to a 980ti but i dont think i...

So only recently i have been playing cs:go and at a random point within the game the frame freezes and starts jerking almost disabling my pc. The game crashes starts jerking and then i cannot open it again and the only way i can carry on playing is to restart my pc. And it doesn't end there...

My Budget is £1040 please help -need it for gaming

so i am planing on getting a 970 soon and i came across this one: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-047-IN what are the benefits will it be quieter and will it improve performance or will it only count when overclocking as the 970 is normally quiet!

So i only have 8gb of ram in my set up and i have been told to upgrade in which i will but what does it directly do and what will the benifit be if i upgrade to 16gb or 32gb. I mainly game both demanding and not demanding. this is my set up to give you an idea: 5 4690k Devils Canyon 4.3ghz...

Want to upgrade my Gpu from from a 7970 to a 970. But I was wondering with my Corsair CS750M if I could sli the 970 with that psu

So I have a i5 4690k and im looking for a good Gpu should I crossfire my 7970 even though I would need a new psu or do I buy a 970 egt

Do i buy a GTX 690 or crossfire my 7970(+will need new psu) my current set up: i5 4690k Devils Canyon 4.3ghz Corsair H55 water cooling Gigabyte Z97X-SLI AMD 7970 OC 3GB Corsair CX750M 8gb Ram Crucial M500 SSD 256GB 500GB western digital

My Current Card is a 7970 i am looking for an upgrade preferably nvidia. Is a GTX 690 still viable, like is it a lot better, will i notice and big increase in performance and will it last for at least another 1-2 years. to give you an idea of what i am dealing with this is my setup: i5 4690k...