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Hi! So recently my RTX3090ti died on me, I sent it back for RMA. Today I received a confirmation email that they have detected a fault with the GPU. The issue is that due to low stock on RTX 3090ti's, Overlockers support has advised that they are unable to provide me a 1:1 replacement, and have...

I purchased an ASUS 3060 Ti and was hoping to get a £25 cashback from the "Rate My Gear" promotion ( https://www.asus.com/uk/campaign/RateMyGear/ ). However, while the model I bought (DUAL-RTX3060TI-O8G-V2) is in the eligible products list, it doesn't appear in the list on the form. When I...

Hello I have a RTX 3070 and one of my 3 fans is stalling and just starts spinning then it stops and then starts every 7 sec while the other fans work normally I have cleaned the fans and checked it there are sticky but there all normal no weird sounds coming from the one that is stalling I think...

I am after some advice or recommendations for a pre built gaming pc. I know I could get more for my money if I wanted to build it myself but I have absolutely no knowledge on how to do it and don’t want to risk damaging anything. I will mainly be playing world of Warcraft and other games such as...

Hello all, I’m planning on laying network cables while my flat is being renovated and would like a second opinion on my plan. Overview: I’ve got 2x PCs in Bedroom 2. There is a smart TV in the Sitting Room. My fiber entry point is on the back of the house. There is a risk this will need to...

I have a pre build from ocuk that is just shy of 2 years old; it has been bullet proof since I bought it until the last few months. The majority of my games have been crashing with errors relating to "amd wattman / amd drivers have detected a time out". So I rebuild windows, updated everything...

Hi, I’m thinking about getting a gaming PC, I’ve always played on PS4 but I don’t think it’s for me anymore. I don’t really know where to start, there’s soo much stuff that goes into a decent set up how do I know what’s good and what’s not? I still want to play popular games but I’ve always...

Recently built a new pc for the first time. Been getting occasion partial freeze of the computer where I can still move the mouse and minimise/maximise applications but not interact with them. The apps themselves mostly freeze up, videos stop playing and sound cuts out. I've tried updating all...

I have to travel a lot. I do a lot of digital art work, from 3D assets to motion graphics. Use Blender, Maya, Photoshop, and After effects, as well as using my system to play relatively heavy games. Now I'm currently hauling around my mid-tower everywhere I go, as a university student, I travel...

I've had this problem since I replaced my old mobo with this new one. I would have to either disable/enable the Ethernet port, or reinstall the Ethernet drivers for it to recognize the connection. I tried reinstalling Windows 10 Pro, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, and I've...

Hi All, Hope everyone well in these Covid times. Community always helpful with my PC builds, so was hoping you could do the same for my son 12 years old. My son put together this spec (from another site) for playing Fornite, Rocket League, Minecraft and school work: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6...

Son getting a gaming PC and wants to buy (himself) a SteelSeries Qck Prism pad. This is the desk where he completes homework which will more often than not involve written work. Should this be OK. No experience of these pads at all. Also which size is best? He has indicated that he would like...

Hi all, recently bought a 3070 tuf and have had it in my systen for roughly 2 and a half weeks. Had a issue wirh freezing/audio loops & did a clean install of the gpu/audio drivers aswell as windows which appears to have solved most of the problems. I am still however getting a bsod on...

please help im tearing me hair out with this problem, first i had an issue with my gpu drivers, it wouldnt detect my second monitor, and it was only decting the basic gpu drivers, i tried to install the lastest nvidia drivers, which kept getting to installed just need to restart to complete, on...

Hi, I build a computer for myself about a year ago and have recently been having some problems with it, when I boot it up after a shutdown it takes a very long time to boot up relative to what it should. I have an Intel i9-9900k, asus ROG strix z390-F motherboard, Gigabyte RTX 2080 Gaming OC...

Hi - I am thinking about purchasing a new desktop PC from HP. I am not an expert so just wanted to see if you guys think this spec is good or not. I will use the pc mainly for work/ browsing and occasionally gaming. My wife wants to use CAD (she is an architect) My friend said that building...

So I’ve just done putting together a pc for my brother. Everything was fine and it turned on first try, we used his SSD from his old computer. The problem is is that it won’t connect with a wired Ethernet connection, there is no network adaptor listed in device manager and attempting to...

Maximus VI Hero Intel i7-4770k Vengence LP 16Gb Ram Seagate 2Tb Hardrive Gpu...Not worth mentioning Corsair 850w Gold Little back story built this when I was 16/17 in bits and pieces as money was an object at the time. now obviously wanting to upgrade, need some form of direction as now I'm...

Hello all, My name is Karl and i am joining to draw on the wealth of water cooling skills and information found here. I have just become a farther and after getting to grips with the feeds and sleepless nights i have had an idea. The advice at present is if you are making up bottles to use...