Recent content by ClarkF1

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Hi, I'm thinking of getting a bigger HD and upgrading from my Kingston SSD.NOW to a Samsung EVO. I was looking in Disk Management and saw this usual setup. If I cloned the disk to a bigger HD the curious 465MB would prevent me extending the C partition to the full size of the HD wouldn't it...

nVidia have released drivers to patch SPECTRE exploits. http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-latest-gpu-drivers-includes-a-spectre-fix-and-fortnite-optimizations/ Latest drivers released today: 390.65

You need special Blu-Ray software such as Cyberlink PowerDVD (don't let the name fool you). Be warned, the standard version doesn't play Blu-Ray, you need Pro or Ultra. There are other products out there too but I've haven't used them. A quick google search should find them. You also need to...

Had my build over a month now and I can't praise it enough. Spec is below. It arrived in just under a couple of weeks. Folks here gave me some great advice as I use it for gaming watching films. The Fractal R5 case and Noctua combo is great. I can barely hear it even when the front of the...

In the past I've renamed my computers in System Properties with names such as Jeeves and Wooster, the former being ever dependable and the latter a bit screwed up and absent-minded. :) I decided to rename my new system "Holmes" as it's highly intelligent compared to my previous ones. However...

Hi, Love the my new desktop. There was one minor snag regarding cable management. Some of the cables were tied to one of the HDD trays so I couldn't take it out to put my HDD in. Thankfully some careful snipping solved that. Tieing it to the cage containing the drive trays would have been...

Can attest to the i7-8700K, Fractal R5 and Noctua combo Can barely hear my PC even when fully at load. Temps max at about 60C under load and about 33C at idle. I didn't get the overclocked version and it seems to run at a min of 4.3GHz rather than the 3.7GHz advertised, which has been...

Hi there, Got a five year old rig that I'm planning to replace as there are a couple of games I want which require a much higher spec than my current one. This is what I've chosen so far Case: Coolermaster 690 III Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B250-PLUS Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2666MHz...