Recent content by Randomthom

I've just received my new Cosmos 2 laptop, all appears to be working well. I ordered without OS and have put 8.1 Pro on it, all drivers are installed. My only issue, the battery is a 47% and doesn't seem to be charging. Yes, the cable is fully plugged in & on at the wall. It neither seems to...

Has anybody tried a configuration using the Z68 motherboard & SSD as a cache drive? I've heard good things & it looks like the ideal way to get SSD performance without shelling out on a large SSD drive but I haven't seen/heard of many builds utilising this yet so I'm wary. I'll be picking up...

Hi all, I'm experiencing some overheating issues in certain games on my Enigma II (i7 720QM, 8Gb (2x4Gb) 500Gb 7200RPM HDD, Blu-Ray). The games in question are Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Dragon Age II, Portal. Other games bring up the temp but not enough to trigger the problem... ...which is...

Ok, here's my desktop spec, I can't use it where I'm living now, not enough space but soon to be moving house where I will be able to go back to the wonders of desktop computers! Oh the joy! Intel Q6600 2.4GHz G0 Step (clocks comfortably on air at 3.06GHz) Gigabyte mobo, forget model number...

Hello all, I'm having some issues with my laptop & I'd like some other viewpoints, hopefully experienced ones but I'm willing to listen to all! When I connect my laptop via the Headphone jack to a sound desk input or even via the microphone jack to a sound desk OUTPUT I get a huge amount of...

Does anyone have any experience of running programs from a USB 2.0 external hdd? I'm using a frightening amount of space up on my laptop's 500Gb HDD and might need to start spilling over onto my USB drive but I'm reluctant to do so for speed reasons. I play games too but I expect that would be...

Hey, I was wondering, I bought my Enigma back in July/August time last year & there has been a BIOS update since then, I can't find any information on it except the files from the compal website itself. I'm hoping it will have some level of fix for the CPU throttling issue (under full load the...

Hey y'all, I've got the Enigma i7 here, I was wondering if there might be a BIOS update out for it. I'm in no great need of one, I just like to know that I have the latest updates to my hardware installed. How would I find out? Thanks

I have a question, one that I believe does not have an answer barring greed... Why have game prices stayed same/gone up (£40 for some new games) when the cost of distribution has dramatically decreased? I'm talking about digital distribution via steam/direct2drive and other such systems...

Hi all, been a while since I last posted here... Still very happy with my laptop (Enigma i7 Q740M 1.6GHz Quad-core, 4Gb DDR3 1333MHz, 1Gb ATi 5650, 500Gb 7200RPM HDD, Blu Ray) It's handling the games I'm throwing at it, I'm treating it like I used to treat my old desktop and it's handling it...

Hey all, I thought it would be good to see how many of us shared similar early gaming experiences... Name a title, give it a brief description and maybe why it lives well in your memory... Tyrian 2000 Arcade vertical scrolling sci-fi space-ship shooter, you control a ship with guns, BIG GUNS...

I was surprised to see that nobody here seems to have started a World of Warcraft thread so I thought I would. I'm a casual player these days but I used to be a semi-hardcore raider that almost cost me my degree! (whoops!) Got a few characters on (EU) Bronze Dragonflight Alliance side (main)...

Hi guys, Nice to find such a friendly lookin' forum & especially good to see the input of the pcspec guys. I'm Thom, 25 from near Bristol. General gamer & enthusiast & long time desktop user & tinkerer. It was actually my need to switch to a laptop that brought me here though! I'm also a...

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