Recent content by Clear Angle

Fair enough. In my experience portability is as much about the weight as the diagonal dimension. For content consumption and day to day work I'd not go personally below 15 inches but rather find a decent 15 or 17 inch machine that's nice and thin and light. The 256 Gb disk is not very big...

Will you be plugging it into an external monitor or TV?

A further development. After a metric ton of troubleshooting I came across an interesting discovery. If you plug in a USB hub and then plug the secure drive into THAT it works. So the support person at Startech had this to say: "Good idea to try that! Actually, this is something that I've seen...

Thanks, I was looking to close the old one but couldn't see how!

This may be a silly question but have you checked for any entries in event viewer? Also, a handy tool for checking usage and temps in-game is MSI Afterburner. You can use it to monitor system usage and temps in the OSD.

Hi all, so I have a brand new Defiance 15 that I bought with 3 other machines for our VFX business. I am having the strangest issue with it. We use Startech 2.5 inch encrypted secure cases for all our data transfer needs but for some reason this laptop is not recognising any of them. It doesn't...

I've had similar experiences, in the aforementioned Skyrim SE turn the grass slightly down to gain 10-15 FPS average. If one is looking at a well or normally optimised game (looking at you Horizon Zero Dawn) then one can reasonably extrapolate performance of different cards with a fixed...

Not hugely different, just underclocked to consume less power. There are games where I can get 100+ FPS (as I said, old or light games) but if I use up my VRAM then it doesn't matter what my clockspeeds are doing. Contrast that to a 2070 with 2GB more VRAM and you're laughing. If you're going...

To throw in my two cents: I have access to all the top end Nvidia graphics cards at work (VFX company) so I have hands on with 980tis, 1080tis and 2080tis. In terms of mobile devices my laptops run from full GTX 980 to RTX 2070 both full and max-q. For my own personal usage at home I went from...

I've done a little noseying around and found that 8GB of RAM is the minimum you want for gaming at the moment, but we're very close to 16GB being the minimum. One thing to take into account is although you may be tempted to get a single stick with the view of upgrading later you will leave a lot...

Thanks for the responses guys. I am going to close this thread now as the issue is by and large resolved (after disabling network boot it boots fine every time) and the external drives issue is a separate issue. But before I close it I will answer briefly your first questions first: I...

Yup. I even went into Disk Management thinking it was a drive letter issue....nothing. So I thought no it's time for diskpart. Nothing. It doesn't exist.

I do indeed. To sanity check I got a 4TB mechanical external drive and plugged it in. It came up, no problem. I went and fetched a second secure case SSD and plugged it in. Nothing. Plug it into another machine, works. I bought 4 new lappies from PCS and this one just for some reason seems to...

Ah, no. An external disk drive. Basically we use 1Tb SSD drives in a Startech secure case with a USB 3.1 cable to connect to machines to transfer data on and off. So a new laptop that cannot detect drives is pretty useless to me! Also thanks for the tip RE F2, I have disabled PXE boot at the bios!

Thanks for that. Strangely mashing Esc seemed to do the trick as well and Windows booted up normally. At first the keyboard wasn't working but a reboot and mashing Esc has got me to fully functioning Windows. So I am now sitting in Win 10 with the external disk issue still here. I can pick up...