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I've had my PCS PC for a few years now. I've made a few changes over the years with the most significant being a new graphics card (GTX 970). I was wondering how hard it would be to upgrade the mother board so I can get DDR4 RAM and a new CPU. Any advice? Would it be worth it or is there...

Hello, I recently updated my PC to windows 10 everything was working great however the PC randomly crashed and when I booted it back up it started the windows repair tool. No matter what I do when it resets it reloads the windows repair tool. I've done some googling and people refer to it as...

I bought a laptop in 2012 and I'm now looking to update to a newer machine. I have a maximum of £950 to spend but to be honest I don't know where to start. I would prefer a 17'3" screen and I use the machine predominantly for gaming. My desktop (also made by PCS) sits to the side now as I don't...

Hello all, hopefully someone can help me out here. So, I left my PC on for a fair amount of time as I was gaming, break, gaming, break etc. the last time I went back to the PC it had a BSOD. I thought nothing of it and rebooted, only for it to BSOD on boot up. After about 15 attempts of trying...

Hi all, I recenty treated myself to a new Tritton AX PRO+ headset which is awesome. However I am having to run it via the optical connector through the decoder, as when I plug it into my sound card directly via the 3.5mm jacks (Creative Sound Blaster) and into a USB port (the mic is USB) I all...

Hello all. I put this thread here as it only happens on my PC not my laptop. So... I treated myself to a nice new Tritton A Pro+ 5.1 headset the other day. For some reason, I get a really bad buzzing sound in the headset when plugged in using the 3.5mm jacks. Doing some research this sounds...

Hello all, I would have thought my Optimus 3 would have been able to run Black Ops 2 as it can run much more graphically intensive games. However, for some reason it doesn't. I installed it and booted up multiplayer. Initially it was on a low resolution so I changed it to 1920x1080. I put all...

So I've had no issues with my laptop since I got it 2-3 months ago. Tonight, just as I was about to finish some work and shut down I got a BSOD. I rebooted and noticed hat in my taskbar, the Nvidia symbol had a ! on it. The device manger says; "This device cannot start. (Code 10)." I...

Hello all, I bought my new laptop a while back (17.3 Optimus). Never had any need for the webcam until recently where I started to teach a friend guitar lessons via Skype. The camera doesn't work at all nor is there anything in the start menu recognising a camera being there. I wondered am I...

Received my new Optimus III laptop yesterday but I was so exhausted after a long day at work I barely had time to do anything more that set it up. So here's a review: Build Specifications: Chassis & Display Optimus Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) (£79) Processor (CPU)...

I'm after a new laptop cooling stand. What's the best one out therefor under say £80? Overclockers have a CM one which has great reviews but is out of stock and I can't find it anywhere else in the country. Thanks.

I bought my gaming rig just over a year ago and it is still going strong playing all games I have on the highest settings. I now have a need for a laptop and there was no other place to go than back to PCS. I have a post in the Laptop section but since making that order I have cancelled it and...

Ordered a new laptop last night, went slightly over budget by about £80-90 but was worth it. The only negative is this one doesn't have a backlit keyboard which would have been really useful, but by the time I got this spec on the Vortex III it put me over budget by £400. Hopefully it will be...

About a year ago I bought a gaming rig from PCS and now I'm after a laptop. I have £850 as a maximum budget. I don't know a great deal about laptops so I was hoping to get a little help on the build. The only real stipulation is that I would like a Bluray drive, at least 500GB HDD and prefer...

Got home from a long day at work to find my PC delivered after having to send it back for an RMA. The motherboard was faulty which was causing issues with the USB ports and overclock. The issue wasn't down to PCS themselves and can only assume it was faulty out of the box. Well once again I had...