Recent content by Ash

What specs does your laptop have, for comparison? What resolution will you be playing at, and are you expecting to play on high or low settings?

What do you use your PC for? If it's nothing crazy or majorly important then I don't see why you'd have any problems on W11. The AMD issues were ironed out ages ago in an update. I've been on W11 since release and I've had 0 issues. It's estimated that W11 has as many users as Mac OS currently...

Depends what you will be using the PC for.

My 5900x gets to around 83c when gaming which is similar to my mates' so I think it's fine tbh, just makes you wonder when you see these big Xs people do that use like 3x as much paste as what I do.

But he won't be getting a 3080 in 2/3 years, he'll be getting something even better, so the bottleneck would be even bigger. The last 2 generations of GPUs have seen big performance leaps from the last, so if he ends up getting something like a RTX 5060 in 3 years imo the bottleneck would be...

I wouldn't say Windows 11 has no benefits over Windows 10. For me Windows 10 was hideous, the design of everything from the Start Menu to the System Settings made my eyes bleed. I use Windows 11 simply because it looks gorgeous compared to Windows 10. If that's something you care about (I know...

Could you squeeze your budget up to an i7/5800x at all? My only worry would be when you upgrade your GPU in 2/3 years to say a 4000 series or 5000 series RTX card that i5 might bottleneck it. I had an i5 9600k which is now 3 years old and I've just upgraded to an RTX 3080 from a GTX 980 and the...

No DDR4 and DDR5 motherboards and memory are not compatible with each other. The notch on in the DIMM slots and on the RAM modules are in different positions, so you can't physically put the wrong one in. What games are you planning on playing on your 970?

I put one blob in the middle, though reading this thread I'm now worried I don't put enough on.

I've never had any problems with Armoury Crate. The only hassle I've had with it is once you change a setting in AC it'll take ownership of your RGB away from iCue and the only way I could get it back under iCue was a restart. However once I got it all set up I've not had to touch AC since and...

Armoury Crate iCue integration only allows you to control certain aspects of the RGB and I don't think fans are one of them. From the look of yours it's just the RGB lights near the I/O at the back and whatever is plugged into the 4-pin RGB headers (not the 3-pin aRGB headers). I have an ASUS...

10 Home Edition.

Hi all, Wondering if anyone can offer any sort of advice. One of our PCs is struggling with connecting to the Internet. It's connecting to the network but the internet keeps dropping out (Windows shows "No Internet" in the tray). It has been plugged in via Ethernet since we bought it late...

Hi all. I've come across a weird problem recently. I have my desktop connected to my Dell monitor via DisplayPort and my Sony TV via HDMI. I have 3 sets of audio devices. A set of Logitech speakers connected via a 3.5mm port, a wireless headset connected via the Optical port and a Sony Soundbar...

I've recently replaced the stock fan on my i5-2400 with the Corsair H110 and put it all inside a new, much larger case. However since the install I've noticed a drop in PC performance. Chrome is disgustingly slow. Pages take ages to load. And opening the Start Menu on Windows 10 is laggy too...