Recent content by Rammy

Ever since the server switchover I've had a different issue more or less every month. Confusion over forum post times is December.

I learnt to drive in 2002 (originally) and it meant that all my friends' first cars were from the mid 90s - I didn't get that far but I did drive my dad's 7 seater which was awesome for taking your mates to things. Not so good at looking cool. The funny thing about cheap European cars from the...

I learnt to drive in a super quiet place with lots of soft verges and not a huge amount of trees to crash into. Somewhere in this view. I need to learn again though which I think at 29 is going to be a pita. When you are young it's pretty easy because everyone sucks at first and I had no worries...

The US seems to have a lot of crappy cars on the road, is there some sort of vehicle road-worthiness test at all? Ours is pretty thorough, and yearly. I suspect it does cut down on a lot of the "held together with tape/glue" scenarios. I think it probably does remove a lot of classics from the...

The 80Plus rating is entirely based on a power supply efficiency- ie. the difference between the input and output. The specific difference between the two depends on your load capacity and input voltage so it'll vary from person to person. Generally if you are looking at PSUs of the same...

The biggest issue you face is that you bought a case which is more or less tied to closed loop cooling. Various air coolers can fit, but almost none of them are suited to the case. At stock speeds, this isn't a problem at all and the stock cooler itself should manage fine. In an overclocking...

I'd raise the point that at some point in the relatively near future, electric/hybrid cars have the genuine potential to outstrip the performance of conventional performance cars. Right now there are probably three main drawbacks - cost, weight and the technology not quite being there as it's in...

Yeah the "favourite" fail here is having the HDMI/DVI cable plugged into your motherboard rather than your graphics card. Really easy to do, especially if you have used the onboard graphics previously and it's definitely the first thing to check. Then what Toxxyc said - try the onboard graphics...

There's a few odd things. ■ A Bitfenix Prodigy isn't exactly small. It's wider than most towers and generally pretty chunky. ■ You have a K-series CPU with a H97 board which does not support overclocking. One of these things should change. ■ The CPU cooler is probably a bit pointless. Not good...

Easily. There's very few "extras" on ITX systems which can present any kind of serious power draw which is why the very popular 450W Silverstone SFX units have been powering even top end graphics cards in compact builds. If you were overclocking the CPU or seriously overclocking the GPU then...

I'm currently phone shopping myself but struggling because most of the options are insanely expensive right now. I'm currently on a £26/month unlimited data plan and I had to pay nothing outright for my current phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note, which at the time was still £500+. If I'd upgraded...

The S12 is a solid pick, as are similar PSUs based on similar platforms (XFX Core, Seasonic M12, Antec HCG(M)). Don't worry if people suggest you need/want a modular PSU for a "small" case. The Prodigy has a surprising amount of room for cables despite having basically zero cable management and...

Quick answer - very few. It's actually very puzzling why multiple manufacturers are pushing "ITX" graphics cards on us as right now they make almost no sense. For a start, ITX graphics cards aren't a standard so there isn't any guarantee that an "ITX" card will fit every ITX case. If it was a...