Recent content by Paul1964

I like the "Keep texting" gag as well.

Besides, PC Specialist are a good company in my experience. No need to remove their name from it. I'll take the more charitable line that the OP wants a 'clean' look, but yeah - difficult to tell people you built it yourself if it has PC Specialist printed in big letters down the side.

Yeah - they should probably try a different Recoil chassis and see if the problem persists.

Yep, upgrade the cooler. That's a must.

Also...don't apply any high performance or extreme profiles on the CPU otherwise it might cook as alluded to by Spyder. Motherboard manufacturers had the habit of pushing the CPU and with the issues with 13th and 14gen processors this caused a lot of failures. Run the CPU at stock intel speeds.

You could look at the XMP profiles for the RAM to get it to run at it's rated speed of 3200MHz rather than the default speed for the type which is 2400MHz for DDR4.

And what's with the objection to Windows 11? Windows 10 is about to go out of support then you'll be opening yourself up to security vulnerabilities the older it gets. Then there's Linux of course....you could go with Linux.

Thunderbolt works for eGPUs by carrying 4 lanes of PCIe so disabling it would have the effect of rendering the eGPUs invisible. Spider's advice was specifically about USB4 which can also carry 4 lanes of PCIe. Maybe this was to prevent any conflict over the similar (but not exactly the same)...

Have you seated the GPU correctly in its slot? That's worth checking.

Yep - especially on Weetabix.

So...which one did you get?

Yes, the 2024 model has the liquid cooling pipe going over BOTH the CPU and GPU. I run Linux Mint in a VM which works fine. I've not tried running in dual-boot mode.

I have the Recoil 17. The top left LED activates and deactivates the whole touchpad. The right hand LED only affects the right hand side. Not sure why you would want only half of your touchpad working but that's what it does.

It really depends on what your use case is. What will you be using it for? Knowing how you intend to use it the friendly chaps on here will be able to make a better assessment if it's suitable for your needs.

I don't think you'll find anything wider used than eBay. If you're on FaceBook you might try FaceBook MarketPlace. But then you would only use FaceBook if your happy to have your data hoovered up and are happy to be bombarded with toxic (and sometimes deadly) misinformation.