Recent content by Realist81

Thank you very much Rolli, the advice is really appreciated :)

Firstly thank you for everyones advice regarding the components I picked over the festive period. They were easy to fit and the installation of a fresh OS went very well. I now have an SSD, my brother had a spare brand new one after he got sent 2 rather than 1 so he donated his spare one to me...

I've just acquired an i5 4440, an MSI B85-G41 PC Mate mobo and 8GB of DDR3 1600 RAM to replace an Intel E2180, a Gigabyte EP35-DS3R Mobo and 4gb of DDR2 RAM. Do I need to reinstall Windows 7? Normally I'd do it without any questions however i'll be getting an SSD in a month and will be...

Cheers guys. I was leaning towards the Intel but a few friends were recommending the AMD so I figured this was the best place to ask such a question :-) P.S. there's no preference in the solution picked as the answer was more or less the same from both of you gents

Hey guys I'm back, lucky you ;-) After following a few links and doing some more reasearch I've decided to get either an intel i5 4440 or an AMD FX-8320 and I've priced up the following 2 builds on pcpartpicker Intel Build: CPU Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core £133.53 Motherboard...

Hey guys. I've finally decided to upgrade from my ancient Intel 2180 2Ghz processor. It's served me relatively well for 5 years but it's finally showing its age. I've been looking around the last few days and while I think I have a handle on what I need I'd love some advice and/or any...