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I am a little Intel fanboy I wont be hiding that :D I dont want AMD even if on charts it performs better etc. I want an intel based PC. So what would you guys recommends ? is the Asus ROG-STRIX-Z490-F-GAMING any good ? Does anyone actually know for sure what's going to be good ? :D

I am looking for ATX board and no WiFi required I will be upgrading the mobo and cpu rest of my build is 2070 super and RM650 corsair psu I am looking at a mobo no more expensive than £250 And regarding the 1200 socket - well I have a 6700k right now and I never upgrade often than 4 - 5...

Hey everyone, So, I am looking to pre-order the new 10th gen Intel processor however, there are no reviews for it yet. Can anyone advise on what will be the best budget and mid-range mobo for the i9 10900k ? I am not looking at high end mobos for £1k etc. just a mid-range and budget...

hi so about a year ago when I bought my setup I was having the same kind of issue as you do today. I have the same cooler and at first I blamed it for poor performance. I use this evo cooler with my 6700k and the whole setup is installed inside NZXT h440 and back then my CPU was overheating to...

Ok great thanks

Hi everyone thank you for all your answers. I dd not wish to overclock my CPU. What I wanted to do is to boost my RAM speed from 2600MHZ to the advertised 2800MHZ. I noticed that the ram is just not workiing at its full potential and read somewhere online that to fix this problem i should...

Hi everyone I have recently discovered that my i7 6700k is running on a very high voltage. I have not changed any values in bios or did any manual configuration. What I did however is I enabled the XMP profile in BIOS on my asus z170 pro gaming in order to achieve the 2800 mhz speed on my ddr4...

Hi thanks for the answers I am not sure if I downloaded the correct bios. I downloaded the F13 from this website http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5209#bios

is there anyway to underclockit with bios update ? I cant use MSI afterburner without installing the driver and when I install the driver the PC is unusable because the screen freezes after few seconds

Hi My gtx 970 g1 gaming from gigabyte is showing some artifacts even on the desktop. This only happens when I install nvidia display drivers. Without the drivers (can't set it to 1080p) it runs just fine without any problems. When I install the driver the screen shows artifacts and freezes and...

Hi Ok thanks for the reply. I will swap the cards tomorrow and do some stress testing and ingame testing and will post the results here

Hi everyone I am having a problem with my 970 SLI setup. I recently bought second 970 g1 gaming and everything was working fine for around 3 days until last night when I encountered some blue screens while browsing internet I was thinking that it was due to the latest drivers that I have...

Hi everyone So I am having this weird issue where if I shutdown my PC and then press the power button to boot it up then the first time i do this the case fans are not spinning. I have to turn off my PC by either holding down the power button or just after it boots to windows I can then...

Hi everyone Ok, so I have replaced the thermal paste but its hard to tell if the temperatures are any better. I can run OCCT test for around 2 minutes and then it stops with a warning message that one of the cores has exceed the maximum temp of 85C. Here is the photo of how the paste looked...