Recent content by Yeldur

It's hard to pick what the best answer is here in all honesty because all of them were very helpful and all could be best answer, so I opted to spin a wheel because I'm inherently bad at picking these things. Thanks to everyone who helped! All the information was very informative and helpful.

I gave SystemRequirementsLab a go but their info is actually just wrong, the specs they list are incorrect. Here's what the actual min and rec specs are: MINIMUM: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (1903 min)/11 64-bit Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core...

Ah gotcha, okay yeah, figured it might be that but wanted to be sure.

Yeah this was sorta my fear but was what I was thinking really. I think if he was likely to get a new rig, he would be buying a prebuild (He's not tech proficient at all, and would definitely not want to be putting a rig together) UK based, so it would be UK retailers of some kind. I...

Gotcha, the guy advises me his FPS hits rock bottom on Space Marine 2 the second he increases texture quality above the lowest level, so it definitely sounds GPU related more than anything. It's sounding like the best place to start will be: 1) Better PSU (Avoid CV, 550/600 W sufficient?) 2)...

WOMP WOMP That's unfortunate especially considering the board is I think limited to a max of 2666 lol

Hmm okay, makes sense for sure. I think with what he's noticing it likely is a GPU related issue for sure because his issue is explicitly related to him raising texture settings immediately bombing out his framerate. (Which makes sense, as his card is below the min required vRAM for the game...

1) Oh definitely, if he does a memory upgrade I'll make sure he knows not to mix and match. 2) 4 years on the PSU, when we're talking about pairings, is that mostly down to wattage or down to how the PSU is rated? The bronze rating did stick out to me for sure, but from what I can tell wattage...

Hi all, Looking to query a system by people with more experience than myself. Based on my knowledge, I think it's probable that this system is going to face bottlenecking, but I'm not 100,000% sure. This is the current system: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yCWJjH The owner is looking to...

Gotcha. I think of all the above this does sound like the best option to proceed forwards with; I liked the Newegg suggested PC's but with Newegg being the way they are (and the fact that they would ship from the US, which from memory has worse consumer rights than the UK, it's probably not a...

Thanks for that, I found the equivalent on the UK site and it was £449 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beelink-Windows11-Processor-Bluetooth-1000Mbps/dp/B09HGMQLPG/ - Which is in range of budget. Could cooling become an issue? I know SFF are likely to face the same problems as a Laptop in that they're...

Hmmm okay, noted. Would something like this work? It's on budget, but I can see we're 10th gen and the storage space is pretty low, I'd need to compare to his current system and see if that's a downgrade or an upgrade ;o...

Thanks for all the advice guys, definitely going to dump the original ideas I had above. This is again, a bit overbudget, but a possibility: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/desktop-computers-for-businesses/vostro-3910/spd/vostro-3910-desktop/n7519vdt3910emea01 But there's also this which...

Hi all, Looking at an Office computer for a friend, it's not something that he can build himself (nor can I, as we do not live close) - So am looking at pre-builds. So far this looks like the best candidate, but it's technically £79 over his budget. Realistically for a £500 budget, we're not...

Understood, okay, that's perfect then, just me overthinking things in that case. I'll install the new fans exactly how I was planning to before (Same direction as the front fans) - Thanks very much for your help!