Recent content by polycrac

Its really hard. I often read these threads and think posting the helpful hints link by itself can come across as quite passive aggressive to new forum users. It shouldn't - its an attempt to help them and I do understand that we have to balance the possible feelings of new users against the...

I'm on a Acer predator 1440p, 160 hz monitor, but if I was taking the plunge on a new PC, I'd probably get a new monitor, too - looking for around £3.5k including approx 700 for the monitor. I can be flexible on the price, I never regretted a penny of the money I spent on the last one, but I'm...

So after a long day of hard use (gaming, browsing and moving files), I heard a 'pop', and then briefly smelled burning. I switched it off and checked the case. I couldn't see anything amiss inside and my nose isn't sensitive enough to find the cause. The PC still works fine, one intake fan has...

I have a worse build than you in most regards - 16 GB of 3000MHz RAM, a 2700x CPU, 850W PSU and a 2080Ti GPU. I'm still playing pretty much everything at 1440p, but turning settings down towards minimum on newer games. I'm starting to see my specs line up with the 'minimum recommended' for the...

The Corsair coolers come with a really good quality paste applied by the manufacturer. Putting in the Arctic paste doesn't really add, in terms of quality and it brings in an additional (possible) failure point, in terms of someone scraping off the existing paste and adding the new paste. I'd...

This is opening up whole new build ideas for me - any problems with it? Like weird drafts on your desktop, that was my first though, as I'm often working with paper and PC at once.

I just saw this post from PCS: https://bsky.app/profile/pcspecialist.bsky.social/post/3lkdkbk7rpk2o I'd not considered putting fans on the base before, any forum members with this configuration? Seems counterintuitive to me, but I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff.

I think there's an opportunity here for AND. Just in terms of stock availability, they could really expand market share. If they could regularly release a 'good, not great' card at a decent price and with decent stock levels they'd become the go to option for a lot of gamers. Keep it on the...

Is Chainsaw warrior still available? I have the boardgame, squashed into my gaming box that's been moved the last two houses without being opened - Yet to persuade the wife to try a game! I'd love the chance to play on PC.

Sadly, I have to agree with Ubuysa here. What Trump is selling is very close to the real American dream - a superior country, a chosen people, a manifest destiny... Plus, they have a weird, Hollywood-fuelled fetish for a 50's/60's wonderland of endless growth and progress. There's little...

I would, but I already wrapped them some negative trustpilot reviews.

Merry Christmas from the alps, everyone. Like Tony, I'm bruised & blistered from falling down mountains (worth it for the white Christmas, though!)

32 GB RAM is the new normal for gaming, you were ahead of the curve there. GPU memory is increasingly what people are falling short of - some of the new cards are a bit stingy in that regard. PCIE speeds now mean the game loads BEFORE you purchase it. My 2700x/2080ti combo is now below the...

Hi, welcome back!

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