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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading to Windows 10

    oh yeah sorry lol, should of thought of that. Where would be best place to get Windows 10 from that doesn't cost a fortune?
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading to Windows 10

    Lets say for example I want to get a new build from scratch, nothing fancy just the basics for web surfing, watching videos and gaming (but not advanced titles), how would this build stack up: Game Max Centauri Mid Tower Gaming Case - Black £28 AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz 4 Core £79 BeQuiet! Pure...
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading to Windows 10

    I've found the Windows Media creation tool that allows me to upgrade my PC to Windows 10. When you say clean install what do you mean exactly? I think my current windows 7 is installed on the C:/ drive.
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading to Windows 10

    I've changed a few things from the original order so specs posted are most recent. I'd still like to upgrade some parts, current hardware may support Windows 10 but running it is a different matter. Like you said the system will bottleneck so surely to stop this it's better to upgrade some...
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading to Windows 10

    I've had my custom made PC made by PC Specialist for about 5 years now, and want to upgrade some parts, but not sure what would be best. I'm looking to spend about £300. I use my PC for gaming, I do play games but mostly old emulators and some newer titles on Steam which runs fine on it. Mostly...
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading PC

    I want to upgrade to Windows 10, my Samsung TV can connect to PC but only with Win 10, useful for playing some games on and for display when people are round to view movies/images etc. I'm not looking to profit on having something new it's just something I want to do.
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading PC

    Cheers for reply. I should of mentioned that i'm looking to move to Windows 10 now that support for 7 is ending. When I went and installed 10 when it first came out for the free 1 year version, my PC crashed so many times in one day I reverted back to Win 7. Also want to upgrade as parts are 5...
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    PCSPECIALIST Upgrading PC

    I've had my custom made PC made by PC Specialist for about 4 years now, and want to upgrade some parts, but not sure what would be best. I'm looking to spend about £300. I don't use my PC for gaming primarily, I do play games but mostly old emulators and PES2019 which runs fine on it. Mostly...
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    PCSPECIALIST Transfering to a portable harddrive

    Hello This is probably a simple question to answer. I have recently purchased a portable hard drive and I want to transfer Steam and the games I have for it onto it which are currently installed on the harddrive in my PC . Would it be a simple cut and paste onto the portable hard drive to use...
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    PCSPECIALIST Buying new RAM for PC

    Hi all This is probably a very simple question that can be answered, but I currently have 8GB of RAM in my PC and I'm intending to up it to 16GB or 24GB of RAM. My motherboard is the Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AM3+ which can hold up to 32GB of RAM and the current RAM I have in the PC is KINGSTON...
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    PCSPECIALIST Installing Windows 7 again on different hard drive

    Hope someone can answer this. I had windows 7 32 bit installed on a old PC that I'm no longer using, which I purchased from an on-line site and verified using the keys that come with it, and the hard drive on that PC has now been removed and destroyed. I installed this same Windows 32 bit...
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    PCSPECIALIST PC Shut down issue

    Here are specs:
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    PCSPECIALIST PC Shut down issue

    I downloaded a program to view the minidump file, here is screenshot of it:
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    PCSPECIALIST PC Shut down issue

    Hi I haven't had my newly built PC for long and a couple of times now, when I have clicked to Shut down the PC, it goes through the shutdown process (displays shutting down windows screen), then goes black and then a blue screen appears for a second or so and then the PC boots up again rather...
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    PCSPECIALIST Which Pc is the best all round?

    Hi Just wanted to get some opinions on which of the following PC set ups would be best overall, or maybe what combination of parts from these would be best: 1. Computer Case Corsair Carbide Spec 01 (Red) CPU AMD FX 6300 (6 x 3.5 GHZ - Turbo 6 x 4.1 GHZ) - FREE GRID 2 GAME CPU Heatsink...
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