Recent content by Big_Rich

It's definitely getting worse now. Powered off twice last night, and three times this morning already. Not managed to keep it on more than half an hour today yet.

Right, spherical's to this, I've put an RMA in. It's crashed three times this afternoon. Absolutely sick to death of it.

Wait a minute! When I google my RAM part number (cmh5x32g2b56z40a2), it comes up "Optimised for Intel mainboards" and is showing XMP Rev 3.0 in my BIOS. https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/p/memory/cmh32gx5m2b5600c40/vengeance-rgb-32gb-2x16gb-ddr5-dram-5600mhz-c40-memory-kit-black-cmh32gx5m2b5600c40...

PSU is plugged directly in to the wall. No splitter or extension. Only peripherals I have plugged in now are Corsair K100 keyboard, Corsair Ironclaw mouse, and one of my two LG 34GP950G Ultrawides. Oh and a LAN cable. Previously had another 34GP950G, a Samsung soundbar (can't remember the...

As I've already mentioned, I'm 110% positive it's nothing thermal related. I can game intensively for hours, only for it to power off sat on the desktop doing nothing or just watching a film or YouTube. Sometimes it powers off a few minutes after bootup before I've even had chance to do...

Idle on desktop: During 30 Minute looped Cinebench 2024 Run:

It's just done it again. Been gaming on it for 5 hours this morning no problems whatsoever, then *poof*, powered off. Took a few attempts to boot back up, and I had the following errors: Needless to say, I've never touched any of the AIO cables, it's definitely plugged in to the CPU_FAN...

Already had a key, got the ISO from here: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

Forgot to mention, the only error messages I've ever seen was something briefly in the iCue software about mixing EXPO and XMP RAM sticks, which obviously they aren't. They show up as a matched pair of EXPO sticks in the BIOS, HWINFO and CPUID. Plus I've only seen this message once or twice...

A couple of weeks after taking delivery of my computer, I had a few random crashes. Not BSODs or windows errors, full power off crashes. Cant reboot using the power button, I have to power cycle the PSU. The keyboard, mouse, motherboard and RAM RGB, AIO screen and power button all remain...

I've only ever bought gaming laptops from PCS, never a desktop, so apologies if this is a stupid question. If I buy a desktop, will I get all the packaging from the fitted parts (graphics card box, CPU box, motherboard box etc) to add to the the resale value when I come to upgrade later on?

I note that when you select an RTX4090, the configurator adds £1750 to your total. Given that Nvidia now has the reference 4090 back in stock on their website for £1579 and Overclockers are selling the Palit and Gainward models for £1589, will PCS be reducing the cost of adding a 4090 to builds...

What if they're the same MSRP as the current card for 10% more performance and the current cards drop in price? Glass half-full

I wouldn't be buying any graphics card until Nvidia does the "Super" 4000 series refresh, allegedly in mid-January.

Yes, assuming Windows doesn't manage core parking correctly by recognising games with the Xbox Gamebar, I'd have to set process affinity manually to make the game clients use the 3D v-cache CCD. Or use the high performance profile to stop the cores being parked and take a small hit to performance.