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Hi, I'm looking for some advise on a new small PC build. The PC will be in the living room and hooked up to the TV and used for general web browsing and watching/streaming TV & movies. The PC will ideally be mini ITX so that it takes up as little space as possible, but micro ATX would also be...

I'll think it over with regards to the monitor but I think I have some good direction with the other stuff. Thanks for all of the advise :)

It would be idea to still have 2 monitors, although the 2nd is really only used for web browsing

Thanks again for the info This is what I have so far: 1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-00-40G) £359.99 1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98 1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply...

I could probably do with a new case as well come to think of it, this ones probably 12 years old now and doesn't handle the heat very well. Not looking for anything fancy just something efficient.

Ive just had a look inside and Its not the PSU I thought it was. Its actually a 550W. I believe its a PowerCool 550AUBA

Thanks for the replies My current PSU is quite old now I think Ive used it in my last 2 builds so its maybe 4 - 5 years old, perhaps a little more. The computer is used for gaming, mainly MMOs and screen resolution is 1600x900

Hi, Could anyone give me advise on whether I should upgrade my current PC or start again with a completely new rig? The primary purpose of my PC is gaming and in the newer games my frame rate is starting to suffer. This is my current spec: CPU: i5 2500k @ 3.3 GHz Mother Board: P8Z68-V...

I will give them a call tomorrow and see what they can do. Thanks to everyone who has helped. :)

Is it likely that I could get an engineer out from the alarm company to resolve this? or is it just something you have to put up with when using this kind of alarm system? We currently have an active subscription with them as it help to get the home insurance cost down.

I have a small cable plugged in from the wall socket to the router so I can't see a problem with that part, however It looks like 2 cables are going from the wall socket to a home alarm system, I'm not really sure how it works as it was installed when we moved in but could this be causing a problem?

I have moved all of the kit over to the wall socket and used some much shorter cables and the results are surprising. With the shorter cables and router plugged into the standard socket I am getting 6MB With the router plugged into the test socket I am getting 11MB This looks like good news...

Hi, I recently had a BT engineer at my house to investigate a problem with our broadband. The problem has now been fixed but the engineer claimed that we have an 8MB+ line speed coming into the house but that our setup (router, cables, etc) is only giving us 4.5MB. The engineer recommended...

Thanks for the links to the stress testing tools, it appears the CPU is overclocked and working correctly :) Anyone able to offer any further advise regarding the graphics card?

Hi, I assume you are asking me where i am reading the CPU speed from on my PC? I am reading it from Windows System Info and i it also appears to display as 3.30 on the main the BIOS Regarding the graphics card, i am currently using a VGA -> DVI converter on both monitors, from what ive read...

Hi, I have just finished building my new PC and i have a few question that hope someone here will be able to help me with. The components i am using are: CPU(+fan)/RAM/Mobo -> http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-063-OE Graphics ->...

Hi, I need to upgrade by PC as is not able to handle the latest games very well anymore. I am planning to replace my Mobo, RAM and CPU and I was just wondering if it would be worth replacing my graphics card. I currently have a GeForce GTX 280 I've had it for quite a while now but as...

Still looking for some help on this issue if anyone has some new ideas. Ive tested out a few new things but i still havent come up with an answer Ive tried 7 different SATA cables so im pretty sure its not a problem with those, ive tried 4 different power cables I have resset the BIOS...

The bios does not detect any of the HDDs Ive checked the cables several times and tried using different cables Im using Vista 32bit and the motherboard is Asus P5Q Pro Turbo Intel P45

ye there are definatly in the correct ports, like i said above it was working fine earlier i havent actually moved the SATA cables on the motherboard i only changed them to the other harddrive and then back