Recent content by Willium_Bob_Cole

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    2 year old HDD starting to fail?

    I bought this 3TB Seagate Barracuda, apparently on 7th Jan 2013 http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B006KCX0UE The last couple days, it has started to disappear from explorer until I reboot, one time requiring chkdsk at boot, where it found a number of bad sectors, but was able to recover the data...
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    Overclock help for i5 750 2.66GHz with new cooler

    An interesting read, thank, it seems like OC will only give minor returns in most applications, but as I said, I am preparing for watchdogs, so I will still like to increase it a bit, This part particularly caught my eye: "Maximum Result Without A Voltage Increase: 3.6 GHz The i5-750’s default...
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    Need help with RAM voltages etc

    ok thanks for the response, I'm sure they're all really good numbers ;P but what do they mean and where do they go, and how do i test to make sure its stable? I assume you know already but my old sticks don't have any kind of heat dissippation, would those values be safe under that circumstance...
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    Overclock help for i5 750 2.66GHz with new cooler

    Hi, I have ordered this cooler http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0068OI7T8/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 for my i5 750, so that I can overclock some, so as to prepare for watchdogs, I was wondering A) What is a good bet for overclock values and B) how do I go about doing the OC? I...
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    Need help with RAM voltages etc

    Hi, I just got help from here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2137349/prepare-watch-dogs.html I have just received this set of RAM: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/patriot-memory-pv38g160c9k And I just found out what my actual motherboard is: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P7P55M/...
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    Prepare me for Watch Dogs...

    Oh I know about steam, I had to transfer my library from my 500GB windows drive to my new 3TB internal drive. I now have a 500GB drive for windows and most programs and some games, I have a 400GB for miscellaneous files like films, downloads, ROMs of old games for emulation, and 3TB for pretty...
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    Prepare me for Watch Dogs...

    so is everyone in agreement that this is a good 3 things to buy for a decent increase in performance? and what sort of increase are we talking, considering also cpu etc? what settings can I expect to use and get around 30FPS (or more) in most games, like FarCry 3, Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed...