Recent content by lynnec

thanks! I found it, I enabled the switch.

At the beginning of the year I bought a new computer, with the advice of the great people here. It included a Gigabyte motherboard. I refreshed Windows recently, because of my stupid mistake, so it was easier to reinstall than fix. Anyway, on the restart, the motherboard installed its software...

It does seem to have worked! Thank you so much. It starts up much faster now.

I'll give that a try, thank you!

The BIOS is F4 PI Since I have DDR5 at 6000 hz, should I contact PCS? There seem to have been a bunch of BIOS updates recently.

I received my new PC from PCSpecialist and it's everything I could wish for - except for one thing. And I'm not sure whether it's a software or hardware problem. Here's the link to my spec https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/ZQ!SVPTwew/ Basically, it's a Gigabyte X670...

With the help of the experts here, I ordered this last night. Mainly for productivity and graphics work, a work machine, but with a little light gaming. But I'm thrilled. I altered very little from the recommended spec. It's my second tower from PCS, the first one has lasted 7 years, but it...

I think this is the way to go but - is there a better motherboard? If I try to configure it myself, I can't select the Corsair case, it's not on the list.

thank you so much! That sounds really great. I'll take a closer look. A Gigabyte motherboard rather than an Asus one?

I'm looking for a new tower, in anticipation of an upgrade to Windows 11. I got my last PC from PCS and it's worked flawlessly for 7 years (Skylake processor). But I'm ready to move on, especially since I want to donate this one. It's been a while. The following things are most important to me...

Very true. I bought my last tower here from PCSpecialist, and after 8 years I'm about ready to upgrade. This thing is solid, and the only reason I'm looking at upgrades is that my cpu is "too old" to get Windows 11. One gen too old. So, with the OS being retired in a few years, I'm starting to...

Thanks, I think I'll do what you say. To answer your questions: 1. I can't legitimately upgrade to Windows 11 with this CPU. I know I can do it with the ISO and my chip does have the security requirements, which I implemented just in case they changed their minds, but Microsoft has said that if...

You're so right. You've been really really helpful. I've been reading up on the chips and I don't know if it's FOMO or not, but the new Ryzen chips due out in September might be the thing. Or they might not. And the DDR5 chips just aren't worth it yet. I don't know how long it would take for the...

okay then! Here's my current setup which was the db in 2015, when I bought it from PC Specialist. I bought the Asus Xonar sound card which was installed later, and it's had new storage, the last being an nvme and SSD card which were installed last year. The processor has been great, but it...

My friend who is helping suggested this set-up https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-gen3-pc/sFvwJDpwyY/ I added the storage options after the suggestion above, because I really like that idea. My other storage is a 512 Evo SSD and a couple of HDDs which are only used for...