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    Rate these Potatoes - Buying best of the worst pc to get friend back online

    Thanks for your input. I also saw that one as the best option hardware wise, but taking in to account the price, would you say that the i7 is the next best option?
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    9700K or 3700X

    Its nice to se a few threads popping up on here of other people going through the brain fk that is trying to pick between Red & Blue. Years back the re was no contest, but now team red have stepped it up...... Im in the position where i think im going AMD. 3800x 2070 Super some form of b450...
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    Rate these Potatoes - Buying best of the worst pc to get friend back online

    Hi all, i need some guidance on this as it is a unique situation. I have a friend in the US (2 actually, husband & wife) who's pc (which is an old rental office one from HP) has pritty much given up the ghost. I have been looking all over a number of sites (which i wont mention by name) for...
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    The Sandy, Ivy and Haswell (Hazzy?) Upgrade Thread

    2500k soldier here. Its never skipped a beat, had a brief time running it clocked @4.5Ghz (about 2 months) air cooled. Had a random BSOD and rather than investigating i clocked it back (didnt really need to be running it that fast and was conscious of life span too) Now running at 4.2Ghz. I...
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    AMD Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) - *** NO COMPETITOR HINTING ***

    Made me LOL, also i assume this person has never used Chrome..... absolute RAM monster of a browser
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    Bulding a New pc to replace existing - advice needed on parts (especially GPU)

    If i am very honest. I used to have Nvidia cards, 8500gt 8800gtx's etx. I put them through a whole world of sh!t (overclocking the balls off them with direct 12v fans stuck all over them etc) they never skipped a beat. The R9 280x i have , i have had nothing but problems, its a factory OC card...
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    Bulding a New pc to replace existing - advice needed on parts (especially GPU)

    Ok so grand plan is as follows. I have been trying to keep my proposed costs at no more than £1000. With a £450 GPU and £400 ish CPU that was almost impossible. So for now i will build everything above but retain the R9 280X i have until black friday sales and see what i can get then =) (wifes...
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    Bulding a New pc to replace existing - advice needed on parts (especially GPU)

    So aside from holding out for super 2070 and screen ata later date, can you see any possible issues with my build spec?
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    Bulding a New pc to replace existing - advice needed on parts (especially GPU)

    My plan is to build this as a platform as "futureproof" (dirty word) as possible. Once i have enough money some months down the line im planning to look towards a better main screen and gpu. but for now i want a good foundations and the ability to play all my current games. Will probaly go for...
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    Bulding a New pc to replace existing - advice needed on parts (especially GPU)

    Monitor is 2x Samsung S22F350 22-Inch HDMI LED Monitor - Black Screen Size 22 inches Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels Maximum Display Resolution 1080p Full HD Response Time 5 ms Refresh Rate 60hz
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    Bulding a New pc to replace existing - advice needed on parts (especially GPU)

    Its been a long time since i last posted here (maybe 8-9 years), it was when i build my current pc - Below (all bought from OCUK back in 2011 ish) Krypton Z68 TURBO Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.20GHz TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit x2 PC Power &...
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    Fan replacement - Need help - R9280x

    Hi all, its been a while since i was last stumped like this, thought i would turn to OCUK for help =) Cutting to the chase i have this card GV-R928XOC-3GD-GA (rev. 2.0) Always had high ish temps so fans were wound right up. They started to get rather noisy so i ordered replacements. could...
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    Spec me a R9 280x Gigabyte bf4 edition watercooling setup

    Erm.....reference? This is my card https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-122-GI Sorry for being a newb
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    Spec me a R9 280x Gigabyte bf4 edition watercooling setup

    Hi guys, ive never watercooled before but im seriously thinking about cooling my gpu as temps are getting higher than i would like, peaks at about 65c. I've had Nvidia cards that run at 80c with no problems but im finding this card is very temp sensitive. Please can you help spec me a water...
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    Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 - PROBLEM

    I will try the above and see what happens, im just a little concerned that it may actually be hardware relaited & that if i dont let OC know soon enough i wont be able to get it fixed or replaced. I rather new to the OC scene so not 100% sure on T/c
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    Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 - PROBLEM

    Ive found a pic thats similar, the lines on mine are not full top to bottom and some sections of my desktop are clearly visible behind it, i have read something about the 79xx series cards throttling back memory when switching between mem frequencies for 3d & 2d rendering. maybe something to do...
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    Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 - PROBLEM

    I have a strabnge problem with my new 280x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card on random occasions, sometimes when im in games & even when im on my desktop i get rainbow vertical lines over my whole screen, they fade in untill the whole...
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    BF4 Crash (Transitioning) ? :S

    I had the very same issue, i could view the game map, but would stick in transitioning, the solution i found was to completely disable my AV, not the safest method, but it did resolve all my connection issues with connecting and transitioning into games
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    looking for a 6970 msi twin frozr 3

    I can find a number of 6970's but i have an MSI twin frozr3 2gb, im looking for another card to make a perfect pair, would it matter much if i got another 6970 that wasnt an MSI twin frozr one?
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    Spec me a case £100 ish

    cheers, i was looking at the 500r, similar case to the Ronin size wise, what do you think?
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