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Do you have the latest drivers for your graphics cards? Is there an OC on the cards?

I studied at Bath, and actually did a number of Computer Science modules as part of my maths course. The computer science lecturers are by-and-large very good and there are some real experts in their field. The CompSci course is fantastic and there's good job prospects. Definitely go for the...

Write a letter to whoever has left the computer clearly stating that you have had the computer for x amount of time, and you have made several attempts to contact them without any reply. State that your policy, as clearly displayed in the shop, is to sell items that have not been paid for 3...

Get a 560Ti and the 8 gigs of RAM. Leave out the SSD, it won't improve ingame performance significantly.

If a core is disabled, there's no guarantee it'll work. Some people get all four cores perfectly stable at high speed, other people get stuck with a duffer that won't unlock and overheats like a madman if you try to push it more than a couple hundred mhz. Foxconns are pretty awful, but bear in...

No. A motherboard upgrade would necessitate a CPU upgrade as well, and a £150 board plus a £170+ CPU would barely grant you anything extra, unless you spend your days trying to get good scores on benchmarks. If heat is an issue, look at a better graphics solution- those 480s are mini radiators.

Apart from the fact that your link doesn't work, yes that motherboard should support your CPU. That said, buying a motherboard to upgrade your CPU on the off chance the cores will unlock is more than a little stupid.

Yes, but you've picked some terrible choices there. What are you using it for?

Holy table breaking batman! The Q6600 is still a very capable CPU, even at stock, although I advise giving overclocking a go if you experience slowdowns. The 4870 is a very powerful GPU and you shouldn't be experiencing any lag, but if you're a "max twinklies" kind of guy, a 6950 2GB will do...

Yes- if it's a recent one.

So you want it for recording audio and accessing the internet? Primo 6000a £235 Donation to your fellow OCUK forumers for being so awesome £465 £700 build right there :D

Spend it on booze, narcotics or women of questionable morality. You're not going to get much of an upgrade for that out of £50.

Why not just buy the i5 2500K now? Realistically, a new Ivy Bridge CPU for the same purpose is going to be around the same price, maybe a little more due to the "just out" premium, and I doubt it'll last more than about a year longer. Why waste £90 on what you openly claim is a placeholder CPU...

I'm guessing you're talking about the i3-540. Your computer should be fine. Put a £20 aftermarket cooler on the CPU and overclock the i3 to >4GHz, everything will run like a dream.

As Ryan says, the i5-2500K performs identically for games, as does 4GB of RAM. It's generally accepted that anything over 1600MHz has very little bearing on RAM gaming performance, and timings don't really affect it at all. Get Corsair XMS3- 8GB if you like, but 4GB is honestly plenty. You need...

Stage 1: YOUR BASKET 1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99 1 x Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98 1 x XFX Pro 750W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £79.99 1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz...

AMD 3D is considerably worse than nVidia. Why the preference?

Have you tried playing on maximised windowed mode? It takes a fair bashing on the FPS because it keeps all the processes running in the background, but alt-tabbing is instantaneous and your system should be able to cope.

Xfire is quite popular around here, but I'm not convinced it's great value either. You need to spend an extra £20-£30 to get a motherboard that supports x8/x8 Xfire, and then another £30-£40 extra for a more powerful PSU that will support an extra graphics card, for when you upgrade. After...

I think the term 'budget' gaming card is a misnomer for the £130 price point. Sure, it's £50 odd less than we were paying for them about a year ago, but they're still incredibly capable cards in the gaming spectrum. Most of us play games at 1920x1080 and want details as high as possible, but...