Recent content by russcraig

Thank you. I've been rediscovering the pleasure of Counter Strike : Source. I may venture further afield starting with CS:GO :) I'm also interested to see how Intel Quick Sync improves Handbrake encoding times.

So I bought : Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor ASRock - B360 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory Palit - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB JetStream Video Card and kept my Antec case and my Seasonic 550W PSU. I combined these with two old...

That PC PartPicker site is really cool. Thanks for the config that looks just about right and the price is pretty good too. I am tempted to try and use my current PSU and if it doesn't work out then buy the one above. My experience with SeaSonic is that they are excellent products. I had Win...

Thank you. I think that's just what I'll do. I've got two SATA SSDs lieing around all 240GB as well as numerous HDDs. I'll use the SATA HDDs and buy the stuff listed above. I'll have a look for a decent 300 series motherboard at a reasonable price.

I was thinking that the motherboard and CPU are ancient and therefore I need motherboard, CPU and memory to get decent performance. I'll need a new graphics card too. I can live with onboard sound. In terms of CPU I was thinking that a current gen i5 would work with a GTX 1060 just need a...

Thanks for all the input. The honest answer is that I hadn't planned on buying a PC but I tried a bit of gaming on my laptop and discovered that it is barely capable of gaming. So I kind of have no budget but expect I'll need to spend about £1000 although I'd feel a lot happier if the answer...

Hi, I used to know what I was doing but have no idea about current PC hardware. I have a 2007 vintage PC and want to build a 2018 gaming PC. I know the CPU, memory, graphics card, etc. are history but can the CPU and case be used with modern motherboards. Here's the old machine: Intel Core 2...