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Hi guys.. I made a 7700k rig in 2016 but I am thinking of moving now to 8th gen. Need an entirely new pc because old board of asus z270a is only compatible with 7th gen only. So this is my budget. $2300 max. Want to build a gaming rig. My previous rig specs: Asus z270a board Intel 7700k...

Greetings all, followed this forum for many years whenever I've had concerns with components or setups. Just got into my first year at university. Now, beforehand I've already got a decent rig, gets through the new stuff easily enough and I'm happy with it but I do want to reward myself for...

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Hi, Looking for some advice for upgrading my PC. I have an approximate budget of £450 and I am looking to upgrade my CPU, as a result I will need an upgrade of motherboard and RAM. Current setup: i5 3570k Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H 8gb DDR 3 (1600MHz) GTX 1060 Corsair CX 600w (Bronze) Cooler Master...

Hi, I recently bought an i7 8700k and am trying to overclock it to at least 4.7GHz. Unfortunately I can not get it stable at anything past 4.5GHz even at 1.4v. This is using fixed voltage. I am using OCCT to test stability and so far I have only got to 4.5GHz using 1.3v. Another thing I've...

Hi, I recently bought an i7 8700k and am trying to overclock it to at least 4.7GHz. Unfortunately I can not get it stable at anything past 4.5GHz even at 1.4v. This is using fixed voltage. I am using OCCT to test stability and so far I have only got to 4.5GHz using 1.3v. Another thing I've...

Hey guys, So first post on here, have been following for years but never actually posted, so thought I'd make a start by showing my build. I used to be hugely into PC gaming and modding, up until the GeForce 660Ti era, but with work and general life I kind of drifted away slightly, casually...

Hi there Well with a heatwave, world cup and no new product releases for a very long time OcUK decided to look at ways to motivate the market, as such we came up with the idea to do "RED HOT FRIDAY" or "RED HOT SALE" and as such we've been able to get support from manufacturers to create some...

Hi Guys I just took delivery of my new gaming rig and its great. I thought i'd tamper with some Overclock settings ( I haven't done in a while ) I changed the Overclock setting to sync all cores and when I try to enter 45 (4.5ghz), I got an error about an N number and it wont go higher than...

Hi there SSD's have been coming back down the past few weeks and just had a delivery of Samsung and Teamgroup land at very nice pricing indeed: Samsung 250GB 860 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-76E250B/EU) @ £59.99 inc VAT MZ-76E250B/EU, The 860 EVO is...

Hi, here is my PC build for streaming gaming. I was wondering if anyone has any opinions. I'm not interested in overclocking and really want to stream 1080p with no lag. Do you think AMD is the way to go or Intel? **Competitor links removed** CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor...

Good day all, I've just invested in the i7-8086k processor after my 6800k failed and was causing freezing issues. I use my rig for gaming, and my main game is WoW (which I know is more CPU heavy than GPU). Now, I'm a complete novice when it comes to overclocking, and reading output and such...

Hello there, I have built my system back in february which includes i7 8700k, 16gb ram and GTX 1060 3GB. Occasionally I get random spikes / stutters while playing BF1 online. Solutions I have tried: -Fully updated graphics drivers (rolled back to december version too - didnt help)...

Hi there Freebies are never a bad thing and now purchases of Retail 8700K and Intel I9 processors shall also ship FREE with electronic codes: Intel Starter Pack - Final Fantasy XV & Warhammer Vermintide 2 @ £59.99 inc VAT Final Fantasy XV (Windows Edition) and Warhammer Vermintide 2...

Hi All, I have been wanting to upgrade my Processor for a while now, I was just wondering what is the best processor I can get for my specs below i.e that will fit my motherboard and case etc. I have and AMD but I would like an Intel processor, if you could suggest any intel processors and...

Hi I've recently just built a pc and I'm planning on overclocking everything but I've never done it before so if anyone knows the best and safest way to do this or has any tips or videos then that would be great. I'm planning on overclocking my cpu to 4.4ghz or higher if possible with my...

You know Intel is serious when it releases X-branded processors. Intel saves this designation for its beefiest chips, and some new parts have hit the market with a thud. These new chips used turbo-charged versions of Intel’s Skylake and Kaby Lake architectures to deliver fearsome levels of...

Hi All, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad E540 with an I7 4702MQ (it came with an i5). I have a problem whereby the laptop sometimes doesn't charge the battery and when it does (after I unplug the power lead and plug it back in again), the CPU is throttled to 0.79Ghz. I would add that the same problem...