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    PCSPECIALIST I have two questions. With some advice, please!

    I appreciate you need to do what's right for you, I'm not in any way dismissing your needs, simply highlighting the realities of business. PCS offer a service for an engineer to come with the PC and set it up. Yes it's chargeable, but hear me out. Any company offering that service has 3...
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    PCSPECIALIST Steam Replay

    Don't do outside, there be beasties out there yonder, I stay safe with my screen and my music. In all seriousness by the way, that is the way I live, I leave the house only if I absolutely have to. I'm not agoraphobic, I just get a lot of enjoyment out of everything I have built up at home...
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    PCSPECIALIST 2 RMAs in 7 months

    To do some basic maths That GPU without an overclock has a total board power of 355w. As you overclock, power usage rises exponentially but let's take it as 355w That CPU under load can spike up to around 300W IF it has the normal motherboard limitations in place. Asus was the worst though at...
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    PCSPECIALIST 2 RMAs in 7 months

    If you read the links it might make more sense. That cooler is not enough for the CPU, nowhere near. It will be heavily thermal throttling under any load (like gaming), as such, due to the defects on that architecture, degredation will be happening at a far accelerated rate, even for that...
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    PCSPECIALIST 2 RMAs in 7 months

    I'm willing to bet it's not a graphics issue, but again related to the CPU and PSU. That platform is structurally flawed, and the CPU will deteriorate over time, once degredation has set in, there's nothing you can do but replace the processor. One of the symptoms is graphics issues, others are...
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    PCSPECIALIST Advice for a novice parent looking to upgrade RAM

    If you bought it second hand the seller should have transferred ownership in which case they would have communicated to you about setting up an account. If they haven’t I’d strongly recommend going back to them and getting them to do that, otherwise you won’t be able to get any support through...
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    PCSPECIALIST Advice for a novice parent looking to upgrade RAM

    If you register it with PCS, then you can order RAM through them, that way you'll know it's compatible with the system. You just need to call them and have proof of purchase. You can't fit any RAM, it has to match the RAM you currently have, in frequency, timings and voltage (unless you're...
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    PCSPECIALIST Possible RAM issue?

    It's a BSOD, can be many things from drivers like chipset to hardware It's irrelevant unless you've done a clean install.
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    PCSPECIALIST Lockdown - What's Worth a Watch?

    I’m so looking forward to Nosferatu, but I think a lot of people aren’t going to get it, as it’s going to be very un-hollywood Eggers as director and writer, plus Nick Hoult and Willem Dafoe starring, you don’t need to read too much further to know it’s going to be very dark and a head twister
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    PCSPECIALIST Will this do for a basic home/gaming PC?

    So we can build something suitable, all we need to know is budget and use case. 9000 series is the series itself, Ryzen 9 is a model within the series. Is there any reason you chose 2 gaming monitors? Only one would benefit from high refresh, there's no such thing as dual monitors for gaming...
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    PCSPECIALIST RyanBeer

    So on the nose, so utterly true!
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    PCSPECIALIST Will this do for a basic home/gaming PC?

    It’s the whole platform, you’re on an old configuration, we’re now on 9000 series processors. Is that 2k including monitor then?
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    PCSPECIALIST PC Game Deals!

    So the current Epic giveaway is Vampire Survivors, an old school pixel platformer https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/vampire-survivors-f699a1 The new days titles normally get unlocked at around 16:00 I believe, so will update later today.
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    PCSPECIALIST Lockdown - What's Worth a Watch?

    Just in case you haven't watched it, Warm Bodies was his film I was referring to which I instantly saw him as something special. I wasn't aware of Skins actually, just grabbing that now, cheers for the pointer.
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    PCSPECIALIST Spec Check for a Newbie Please & TIA

    My god, when you put it in such a tangible way like that, it's just insane how much progress there's been even in the last 3 years!
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    PCSPECIALIST Lockdown - What's Worth a Watch?

    I'm so pleased about the Lex casting if who I'm thinking it is is correct. Since his first proper film as an adult, it was so left field, and so few actors could have pulled off that role. He's always played characters quite differently to how you'd expect most people would. I think he's HUGELY...
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    PCSPECIALIST Bluetooth Dongle doesn’t work

    You've already posted this here and we've advised 3 times on how to register the system, until you've done that we can't offer any support. https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/bluetooth-dongle-doesn%E2%80%99t-work.99264/#post-759728
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    PCSPECIALIST Looking for advice on ATX motherboard/CPU upgrade (Windows 11 inv=compatible CPU)

    PCS don't do platform upgrades (motherboard, Case etc), so if you wanted to update to a newer platform through PCS, your only option is to order a full new system. That being said you can transfer across some things like GPU / Drives
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    PCSPECIALIST Ahem - Hello! I'm effectively new here.....

    Is your overclock holding stable?
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    PCSPECIALIST One-liners

    God that looks pretty nasty!
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