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Thanks for your help. I also see that Asus have lauched a cashback offer on new GPUs here. https://promotion.asus.com/en/uk/amd-cashback That means for an extra £20 I could get a brand new 7700XT which seems a good deal?

Firstly thanks for reading my post! I have recently upgraded some of my hardware and am currently looking at replacing my aging RX 580. I mostly play strategy type games (Anno 1800/ Total War games etc.) and indie games (which aren't particular graphically challenging on my current system). I...

Do you have custom fan curves? Try manually forcing to 100% and see if the temperature issues persist? Are you running Windows 10? Have you recently performed any windows update that have affected the power plans? A number of bloatware/encryption can cause additional workload for the CPU...

Thanks for your reply. I live in North East Scotland, so ambient temperature is usually 10oC!!! However the last few days have been warm so likely ~25oC. Sorry I didn't record ambient temperature when running the tests. The system fan is set quite low RPM for temperatures under 50oC and then...

Thanks for your reply. I'll look to run the Prime stress test disabling AVX. I had run the "Blend" test rather than the small FFT test before as it took alot longer to get to the thermal throttle temperature. I'll see if that makes a significant difference. The RAM is seated and detected by...

Hi all. Hoping yo can help me with whether I need to upgrade my cooling or not.... I am thinking of upgrading my Silverstone SG05 case anyway as this whole palavar has been a right chew with the (lack of) access in this case and the CPU cooler max height is limited to something like the Noctua...

Thanks all for your contributions. My current GPU (the 750 Ti) does have a Nvidia recommended PSU of 400W, which has run fine for me up to now. I am currently leaning towards the 450W Corsair 80+ Platinum unit as it only has a £7 premium over the Gold unit and a saving of £35 over the 750W...

I have a mini-ITX build in the Silverstone SG05 case utilising the built in PSU that the case shipped with (a non-modular 300W 80 Plus certified Silverstone PSU). I am now looking at upgrading my graphics card from the GTX 750 Ti I have been using to a newer modal with the AMD/Nvidia cards...

Thanks, I was thinking of going for the GTX 750 Ti as I was concerned about heat within a small case. Do you think the single 120mm fan included with the case will be sufficient with the stock CPU fan and the 2 fans on the MSI GTX 750...

Thanks, is the Silverstone SFX bundled with the case any good? http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=458&area=en My PSU knowledge is very limited, thanks for your help.

Thanks, I thought the PSU was decent in the SIlverstone case as a 80 Plus certified (SFX form factor). I don't really want to go any bigger case wise. Is there a big advantage of ATX over SFX? As I said in my original post I am not a experienced PC builder and PSUs are certainly away from my...

Thanks for your suggestion. I got a little carried away researching different cases and ended up looking at the StreaCom cases (FC7) with a low profile graphics card which would need the higher power picoPSU. Having contacted StreaCom I was informed that they would be in stock soon but alas my...

I am looking to build a PC for watch movies, TV shows etc. (using Plex/XBMC) and for gaming (Steam). I do a significant amount of travelling for work and would like a small form PC which I can put in my luggage to plug into hotel room TV so VGA and HDMI outputs are important in addition to small...