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    PCSPECIALIST PC Game Deals!

    Amazon Prime Gamming, has kicked off its giveaways.
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    PCSPECIALIST My pc freezes when idle for hours/after hibernation

    I suffered the same issue, freezing after hibernation or idle. Tried many solutions, nothing helped. I had installed too many free pieces of software, for disk management, cleaners, driver checkers, etc. Eventually I did a clean install, and only installed what I actually needed. I did this...
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    PCSPECIALIST PC Game Deals!

    Got 2 of them this moring, already had Rise of the Tomb Raider - which I got free from somewhere else ealier in the year. I do struggle to understand Epic's business model. Do they think people will come back to them to get their next game, if they give away freebies?
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    PCSPECIALIST Need help selecting monitors!

    Finally managed to find some time to get them setup :) Gone have the 24" Hannes G 1080p: Arrived have the Dell 27" 1440p My laptop sees the full 2560x1440 from two HDMI ports. Using DP & HDMI from the GTX1660 Super from the Desktop. I took a punt and tried to use a DVI to DP cable I had...
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    PCSPECIALIST Need help selecting monitors!

    They’ve arrived, Mrs Claus has intercepted them 🤬
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    PCSPECIALIST Need help selecting monitors!

    Santa is bringing me, two nice new S2721DGFA Quad HD 27. Of course Mrs Claus, says I can't open them for 10 days:mad:
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    PCSPECIALIST Getting An Advent Calendar?

    His & hers versions
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    PCSPECIALIST Black Friday 2021 26th November- What are you after?

    Been waiting for the Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 to drop in price. Nice new home for my Games drive :) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GS7748F/?coliid=I1KCSQ240AE2G2&colid=2NPS3DSWGA4UF&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1 Just need a nice new pair of 1440p monitors and I'll have a very gamming XMAS.
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    PCSPECIALIST Looking to upgrade monitors, 1440 or 4K - Dual or single monitors

    I plan to upgrade my PCS system with a new graphics card, and monitors. The best card I can get for my 750W power supply is a RTX 3070 Ti. I currently have two 24” 1080p monitors, a couple of Hanns G screens. I play mostly FPS, Doom, Crysis, Fallout etc. Not sure if 1440 is a better sweet...
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    PCSPECIALIST Switched on TPM 2.0 - WiFi and Bluetooth No Longer Work

    I switched on TPM in my BIOS on Wednesday, I read it was in the firmware of AMD Ryzen Processors. I have the same Processor as you, but the board is TUF X570, I also have the AX200 card. Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Eight Core CPU (3.9GHz-4.5GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4) Motherboard ASUS® TUF...
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    PCSPECIALIST System freezes when idle

    Day 32 since re-install, no freezing............................. :):):):) I re-installed the other 16GB of RAM on Sunday. So far I've added: 11 June Pure VPN BiglyBT 17 June Steam Origin Games Reintegrated Outlook email archive from backup 20 June UBI Soft Games EPIC Games GOG...
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    PCSPECIALIST Windows 11

    My PC is less than a year old but their system checker says I can't run W11. I assume it's the TPM chip missing from my ASUS X570-PLUS Board, which appears to out of stock everywhere. I have to agree, poor start by MS - "Hey everybody, we've got a super duper new OS, best...
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    PCSPECIALIST want to add ram

    Just noticed, you are using Pro - with RGB e.g. I don't have PRO, no RGB on mine. Corsair webpage doesn't recognize "cm4x8gd3600c18w2d", you can find sellers with that exact code using google but I've never heard of them. I had the same issue when I got additional memory for mine, not sure...
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    PCSPECIALIST want to add ram

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FBVYFKH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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    PCSPECIALIST want to add ram

    I started off with 2x8 3600 MHz, then added an additional 2x8 from Amazon. The speed, voltage & Latency numbers should match.
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