Recent content by Zeuzzz

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    ARCTIC Freezer i30 Extreme not compatable with GA-Z170X-UD5 TH ?

    Bump ... anyone? I just want to know what new and cheap fan to buy for this mobo really
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    ARCTIC Freezer i30 Extreme not compatable with GA-Z170X-UD5 TH ?

    Been pulling my hair out just now with these two ... there seems to be enough clearance with the fan, but when I try to screw it in no matter what size spacer/washer (the plasic or metal) I use and no matter what direction I put the fan in the screws don't bite at the point where I should be...
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    Samsung NP300V5A Windows Seven OEM Driver Issues

    Ok thanks a lot for above advise, it did help, as he did indeed re-install a x64 version which explains why none of the drivers I tried to download for it worked. I've now found out that the samsung recovery partition is still there. As when I installed the x32 OEM windows version the HD drive...
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    Samsung NP300V5A Windows Seven OEM Driver Issues

    My friends version of windows had slowly slowed down to a crawl over the years on his Samsung NP300V5A-A05UK Laptop (http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/NP300V5A-A05UK) so he had the "genius" [not] idea of formatting the whole drive and installing windows Ultimate he got from elsewhere...
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    Rough value of this 3 month old system?

    Hey all I brought and built a PC for gaming a few months back based on the assumption that I was rich. Which later turned out to not be true. So It's now for sale, I will probably list it on gumtree. The total back then was 1200 GBP. The total specs for everything involved are as follows, but...
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    Question I've accidentally formatted a nearly full 1TB hard-drive in disk manager to blank, any chance of recovering the data? Some of

    So in disk utility instead of formatting my 16 GB USB drive called 'untitled' I formatted into ExFAT my other 'untitled' external hard-drive, which had nearly an entire terabyte of files on it. 80% just backups, but some files are really quite essential for my university course. I have not...
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    Fan blade snapped on 7990, ridiculously loud

    Ok things just got a whole lot worse; the fan that the blade has snapped on just stopped spinning completely :( This leads to one of the GPU cores overheating to over 100C as soon as I start doing the most menial tasks, even with an intensity of 9 for mining litecoins. Have I now completely...
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    Fan blade snapped on 7990, ridiculously loud

    Thanks for all the advise people. The odd thing I have just noticed is that the current noise when I have it mining litecoins at maximum hash's is dependent on the main motherboard cables position, if I apply the slightest pressure to the 20/24 pin connector so it gently presses on the mobo the...
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    Fan blade snapped on 7990, ridiculously loud

    Hey all, I recently snapped a single fan blade off my GPU when fiddling with the GPU, and now whenever I try to game or use my GPU under stress it starts a really really loud humming sound, basically my GPU starts vibrating like crazy as if the fan it constantly hitting against the edge of the...
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    Desktop perpetually turns off and on

    No-one has any advise, really?!
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    Desktop perpetually turns off and on

    Hey, I've recently run into a major issue. My Build: GA-Z77X-UD5H [rev 1.0] | Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz | 7990 Gpu | tm750x corsair Basically my motherboard/whatever.hardware somehow is recurrently causing my computer to perpetually restart pre-boot. My monitor doesn't even power on at the...