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  1. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST New desktop spec - any clashes? Quiet??

    Sorry, I've bought from PCS four times now, but I'm not sure what you mean. PCS will upgrade my PC for me??
  2. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST New desktop spec - any clashes? Quiet??

    Thanks for responding, SpyderTracks - and dang, that's a good question. :p tbh, I don't feel confident enough to mess with many of the components in my current build. I updated various components in previous builds, but find my current PCS system quite intimidating when I open it, and aside from...
  3. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST New desktop spec - any clashes? Quiet??

    Hi everyone, Updating from a Ryzen 7 3800X from 2020 with 16Gb RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, with water cooling and a nice, quiet case. There are two good drives (for music/video and games) in the current build, and will swap those into the new build. I have a 1440 monitor with 144Hz...
  4. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Excited about my new build - any thoughts?

    The configurator is flagging it and won't let me add a DVD drive... :-( EDIT - Damn, now it's letting me...
  5. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Excited about my new build - any thoughts?

    Hi Scott, I think you're right. :-) Have taken your advice and switched to the 3800X and the 1660 Super. Had to stick with the original case as your suggestion won't accommodate a DVD drive, which I need. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to recommend for me! Best, Stu
  6. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Excited about my new build - any thoughts?

    Thanks, Nursemorph - really appreciate your input. I may review my CPU choice...
  7. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Excited about my new build - any thoughts?

    Yeah, it's only a possible monitor update, and would be towards the end of this year, if at all. As I say, important this build is QUIET (for various reasons), hence the COOLERMASTER SILENCIO S600 and the Corsair 550W PSU. Interested why you've added the HDD - I have a 4TB HDD for all document...
  8. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Excited about my new build - any thoughts?

    Monitor is a 1080p 60Hz AOC - nothing special. Games right now are Doom Eternal, Nazi Zombies 4, some Minecraft and Fortnite...
  9. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Excited about my new build - any thoughts?

    Hi all, Budget was supposed to be sub-£1200, but PCS GPU prices seemed so good I decided to splurge on upgrading my GeForce GTX 1050 Ti now. System cost with GPU is almost dead-on £1500. If the wife finds out, I'm a dead man! It's only the regular 2060, not the Super. Plus, monitor is 1080...
  10. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Excited about my new build - any thoughts?

    I know it's overpowered for what I need it for (gaming, family workhorse, streaming, web work, etc.) but it's been 10 years since I last bought a new PC (also from PC Specialist!) so I wanted to make it worth getting excited about. ;-) Hoping for very fast load times and high level 1080p gaming...
  11. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST ASUS® P7P55D-E PRO mobo - slow starter??

    Hi guys, I've got a ASUS® P7P55D-E PRO motherboard with an i7 870 and 8gb of RAM, plus a separate SSD with my OS (Win7 x64) The "problem" is that my boot times are stuck at around 30 seconds mainly because the mobo takes ages to kick in. I estimate a good 20 seconds of that boot time is the...
  12. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Noisy new PC?

    Hi guys - got my new PC yesterday: COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE Intel® Core™i7-870 Quad Core ASUS® P7P55D-E PRO with 8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER CORSAIR 650W PSU (TX650) 80+ ULTRA QUIET which is very nice, but I was bit...
  13. StuPC

    PCSPECIALIST Is there such a thing as too powerful??

    Hi everyone, I'm a new boy on the forums here, but seeing all the incredibly helpful advice and comments given here I wanted to ask some opinions on my hoped-for new PC. I've currently got a two-year-old but quite heavily modified Dell Inspiron with a Q6600 processor, 60Gb SSD+1Tb WD Green...
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