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I am, apparently, very hard on my keyboard. I currently have a Corsair mechanical keyboard, brown switches, full size, and I am constantly breaking the left arrow key. (The only game I play is Trackmania, which uses the arrow keys a lot, so maybe that's the cause.) To illustrate the depth of the...

I have filled up my storage again. My hard drive is at 95% capacity now. There are two options: I can delete files, or I can add a new drive. Obviously the first isn't going to happen, so I need a new hard drive. It will be almost entirely for video and audio files. I want something 4TB or...

I find it really annoying that there's no "copy to clipboard" button on the "post to forum" page. This is particularly annoying on my phone, but it's also slow on a desktop. So I've made a quick TamperMonkey script to add it...

I was just doing a suggested build, and I noticed that you can have the following combination 4000D Airflow H100i cooler 7900 XTX but you can't have this one: 4000D RGB Airflow H100i cooler 7900 XTX As I believe the two cases have the same dimensions (which is backed up by their product...

The configuration tool says that the default ethernet port is gigabit: However, this is not true. Most (all?) current-gen motherboards offer 2.5Gb ethernet, rather than gigabit. I've seen several people unnecessarily add an unnecessary and redundant ethernet card to their PC, thinking they...

Corsair seem to have launched a couple of updates to their 5000 case lineup -- a blend of the 5000D Airflow and the 5000X RGB: the 5000D RGB AIrflow. Honestly, it looks like an absolute beast, especially in white: I mean, it's £250, which is wild, but it does look glorious. I think the fans...

I've spent the last two or so years with the only sound output on my setup being headphones. Now, I like headphones, but it would be nice sometimes to have some decent speakers. So I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations. My uses: Listening to music (primarily classical) Video editing...

This is one of the few times I've seen a case and immediately thought "I want that". https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/north/north/charcoal-black/ Between the mesh side panel, the wooden front panel, the brass accents, genuinely this is one of the most arresting and interesting...

I bought my PC from PCS 18 months ago now and it's great. I didn't know much about PC building at the time (I've learnt a lot since!) and the forum helped me to get it into decent shape. The fundamentals were: Corsair 275R Airflow 5600X on a Tuf X570 1660 Super TX550m 16GB 3200MHz RAM 500GB 970...

Hardware Unboxed recently released a "best 1440p gaming monitors" update video. They're a great summary, so here's what they say with some UK links, along with some of their reviews of individual displays. All prices current at the time of writing (17 February). Mid-range medium refresh This...

At long last we've had AMD's announcements of their new CPUs. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-teases-5nm-ryzen-7000-raphael-zen-4-cpus-unveils-ryzen-7-5800x3d-with-96mb-of-l3-cache The big news: The "Zen 3D" refresh will include just a single chip, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with an...

My home network is a bit of a mess. I live in a mixed-use building and use the general building's WiFi, from a router on the floor below. This is OK, but not amazingly secure. In my flat, the signal is inconsistent. In some places it's fine, but in others it's quite weak, especially on my laptop...

I've had my PC for a better part of a year now and I've always been a little confused by why the CPU didn't quite behave as marketed: it was stuck pretty constantly at 4.2GHz, without ever boosting up or idling down. Everyone talks about how AMD processors do all these exciting things, and mine...

I don't really know my way around PCS's offering of laptops. I have a desktop that does all the heavy lifting, so I don't need anything terribly powerful, but I do want it to feel very snappy essentially when using Office and browsing the internet. I may try to get Parsec working on it so I can...

Zen 3 APUs are now available in the configurator, which is excellent news. They are the 5600G (slightly lower performance compared to the 5600X, halfway decent graphics, £14 cheaper than the 5600X) and the unappealing 5700G (who's it even for?). The reviews are decent and they are clearly far...

I watched this rather interesting Hardware Unboxed video about budget motherboards and the extent to which they throttle/limit the performance of CPUs. Broadly speaking, the Intel platform performed terribly: inconsistent and significant problems on B560 boards with VRM overheating and...

I've just bought a Prime Day 500GB 980 Pro (£95!). I am going to add it to my system as my boot drive but... I want to know how to go about doing it so I don't mess everything up. Current storage setup: 500GB 970 Evo boot/project/game drive; 2TB HDD storage drive New setup: 500GB 980 Pro boot...

While I am pretty confident about most aspects of PC building, I don't really know my way around fans and RGB stuff. I have a PCS PC that I bought last year. The case is a 275R Airflow and, when I bought it, I didn't think I wanted any of that RGB rubbish. Six months or so later, I have repented...

I'm looking for a video-editing PC without going significantly over £1000. The video editing I do is 1080p, without anything terribly complex in terms of graphical effects. I don't do much in terms of gaming: I might do the odd bit of relatively undemanding RTS stuff. I do some programming, but...