Recent content by Roger Bruce

so you thiink the only reall area to improve it, within its constraints, is in the GPU area? Sounds like a good plan :)

great replies guys. From what I am seeing, the recommendation is to save money on the CPU by going with the 9700X, and put that into a 5070Ti rather than the 5070. Also the Patriot 6000 RAM over the 6800 G-Skill. I see theres more money to be picked up cos most of you have included cases and...

Approximate Purchase Date: Before March 1 Budget Range: 2k per system System Usage from Most to Least Important: gaming, stream viewing, business (accountancy) Are you buying a monitor: No - runniing dual 32" 4k's Parts to Upgrade: CPU, Mobo, RAM, GPU Do you need to buy OS: No Please...

I intend to get the data I need off that other drive the fdisk and format it to death so it becomes a data drive. what I DONT want it doing is booting from the SSD. If I go into F11, it should tell me if boot manager is going off the NVMe shouldnt it?

I recently had a significant issue with an SSD that basically made my system unbootable. The only solution was to disconnect all my SSDs and do a clean windows 11 install onto my primary NVMe. Works fine. My question however is, if I plug the old bootable SSD into the machine, which drive...

there are a few undocumented tricks with the B450 Tomahawk Mobo. Firstly, without turning on A-XMP, memory speed will default to 2133. by default it is disabled. Enabling it is a bit confusing because you can do it from the front panel of the BIOS by selecting "1" or "2" in the XMP button...

Success!. while I was throwing (almost literally) stuff back into the shelving..what do I spy in the back....oh, a corsair power supply box....with...8-8 Mobo power plug in it..minor victory.....plug it into the 850w PS....post!...major arm pumping and cheering...all on the original parts.

and the 850..doesnt have an 8pin to 8 pin cpu power cable....grrrr

ok..I built this on the bench...then slowly subbed out parts....for the same result across 2 diff mobos, CPUs and DRAM....last thing left before a bios patch, is the power supply....which is of "unknown origins"...so switching out that 600 Thermal take for a 850 gold rated one

yup..did that...I am in the fortunate position of having another B450 and Ryzen 2400G sitting here in sealed boxes so will do a process of elimination and let yall know..I fear a dead mobo or APU (most likely the tomahawk tho)

Brand new Ryzen 2400G and MSI Tomahawk B450 Mobo, with 16G DDR4-3200 RAM and cryorig H7 cooler. CPU is installed correctly... RAM in A2 and B2 Dimms….650W Thermaltake Powersupply (way OTT). On power up, we get 3 solid EZ-debug LEDs.... CPU, DRAM (Flickering), GPU. No front panel switches or...

is it worth going to the extra expense of jumping to a GTX770, or staying the the 670 / 760 price bracket. My requirements involve heavy open GL apps with a lot of textures (numerically, rather than size), so I am thinking the 760 offering 4G is going to be an edge on the performance of the...

the GTX670 and GTX760 cards are both running pretty line ball for $$$ atm....which ones got the best grunt per buck in OpenGL gaming?