Recent content by philwil

Hi All, I'd be really grateful for some advice on the specs below, which pretty much hits my budget limit. I could stretch to a little more if there's significant gain/future proofing to be had. The only high end stuff I need is for gaming, things like the upcoming Total War Three Kingdoms...

Hi All, I'm putting together some preliminary specs for a new PC. It's a workhorse but with some high end single player gaming intended, such as: Endless Space 2, Elite Dangerous, Mass Effect Andromeda, and a few years of hopeful future-proofness. How do these specs look? No video card included...

The clue is in the title. From a performance/functionality point of view, what extras do I get for the £20 markup on the Pro?

Finally, somewhat later than I originally intended, I'm in a position to go ahead and buy my new desktop pc. Specs below. I may do a bit of tweaking before putting in the order, and I'd be grateful for any knowledgeable comments or observations etc. I very much need a quiet pc, so have gone for...

Just when I thought it was safe to buy a new pc, along comes Sandybridge! I'd pretty much decided my spec, with a view to buying maybe in April. But now I'm wondering whether to go for Sandybridge. So I'm questioning whether the integrated graphics unit is powerful enough for gaming and...

I'm buying a new desktop soon, from PCS, to network with my old PCS machine which, though still okay, is generally a bit slow these days, being four years old, and does struggle with gaming. I will be running two 28" monitors on (probably) an AMD Athlon II X2 265, with (probably) 8Gig RAM. So...

Slightly confused. If I buy a rig with the Asus M4A 87TD USB3.0 Mboard (or any other USB3 Mboard), does it come with two rear external USB3.0 ports or do I need to add an internal USB3 card?

Hi, I'm new to the forum and this is my first post, though I bought a great PC from PC Specialist just over three years ago, and am still very pleased with it. However, I'm looking to buy a new, more powerful base rig in the next few months, to network with the old one, so will have some...