Moz-LJP

As mentioned above, if your PC did crash during a BIOS update, and there is no BIOS flashback, often the only way back to any functionality is using a BIOS programmer. These can be picked up for like $15 on amazon, so it's usually worth a go. There is a techquickie video outlining this process but you will be able to find a more detailed guide elsewhere on youtube. Just be careful whilst doing so as you will have to directly hook up the programmer to pins on the motherboard. It should be manageable though and could save you a lot of money if you can get it working. Best of luck

Hi, whilst I understand that you're probably eager to get into building a PC, unfortunately now might be one of the worst times to actually be trying to do so. GPU's are basically impossible to come by currently at any semi-reasonable price point meaning buying one for reasonable money is incredibly hard. Building the rest of your PC may not be so bad, most other components have not really suffered too much and still have reasonable pricing for you to follow. Anyhow, with your price point you will not be looking for the best of the best but can still get a good pc and easily accomplish your goals. Whilst i'm not going to push any specific suggestions, i'd be looking at the following: - An AMD Ryzen CPU as AMD seems to be leading in the CPU market these days with Intel struggling more and more to keep up. AMD also can sometimes offer cheaper bang for the buck performance. - A motherboard with a good upgrade path, that is to say a motherboard that supports PCIE gen 4 and has good RAM capabilities. - A powerful power supply (1000+W) to ensure that you can upgrade components later on - at the moment it may be a good idea to pick up a cheaper, previous gen GPU from a site like ebay where you might get a 970 for £100 (UK) and then upgrade later on. A 970 will run almost any game, you'll just need to crank down the settings a fair amount on games like cold war. The modern Nvidia graphics cards are pretty power hungry. - 16-32GB of RAM (3200mhz+) which you can achieve for between £100-250 Like I said, it is the worst time to be building a PC due to the current price of GPUs but either way I wish you the best of luck and I hope you manage to get what you're after.

Fair enough, I wouldn't imagine it would be an issue just thought i'd check. What about your power supply? What power supply do you have and how many watts?

Yeah I did the same, 650Watts isn't ideal but it should be fine for this PC tbh.

If your PC still crashed before adding the new RAM, I doubt its due to that, just sometimes mixing RAM modules can cause instability but its probably not the key source of the problem if it was happening before anyway. Have you been watching your temps during gaming? Do your PC fans get super loud or anything prior to the crash?

Yeah give it a go with the RAM at base clock and do whatever normal gaming you do

What is your RAM's base clock? Did you overclock them yourself?

Do you know the individual speeds of the new corsair vengeance RAM and the speed of the old RAM? If theres a difference this could be causing some instability?

When it comes to RAM, you'd expect the higher clocked RAM would just lower its frequency to match the other RAM modules but sometimes that just isn't the case. If you open up your bios, you may have access to more options where you can attempt to set the frequency manually though do not go over 1600Mhz as that will either cause it just not to work or for your RAM to attempt to clock up to match the new speed (which is pretty unlikely).

The I7 is mildly better due to the higher core count (for some applications anyway) but to be honest the odds you'll notice any difference is slim. I5 is probably the way to go if you're looking to save a bit of cash.

Heyo, sorry to hear about your issue. Have you installed Geforce Experience and checked your drivers are all up to date? Also, when you say you have 95.91GB RAM, what do you mean? Are you mixing different modules or?

Hi all. I've been having this problem a while, for some reason Warzone sometimes just drops to 15-20 fps for 10-20 seconds, almost as if the game thinks its not currently in focus etc and really damages the gameplay. I normally get around 80-90 fps regardless of where I am in the game. RTX 2070, I7-8750H, 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz RAM, Hybrid SSHD Drive. Any ideas? This problem makes the game near unplayable. Thanks in advance, Moz

Just realised that for whatever reason, Armoury crate auto sets power plan back to high performance whenever I change modes. Cheers

Hello! When my laptop is not plugged in, the CPU does not really turbo at all, hovering around 1.9Ghz, however, when plugged in, the CPU just sits at 3.9Ghz all the time for no apparent reason (same profile on Armoury Crate). How can I prevent my CPU from turboing up its clock speed when plugged in as it is really murdering my temps (50 degrees idle on battery, 70-80 idle plugged in). Yes, I understand why it does this, but at this point I'd prefer good temps to the constant annoying fan noise. Thanks! Moz

Gonna go with kryonaut, cheers boys

Hello! My laptop is running way too hot, idling CPU and GPU at about 70 degrees celcius. Needless to say, I think its time I repasted them, but I'm not too sure about which thermal paste to go for (this is my first gaming laptop), I usually just use desktop PC's and don't know if there's any considerations to take. I'm looking to get my idle temps as low down as possible because the fans are driving me crazy. And yes I've cleaned out the fans for dust and updated bios / drivers etc. Cheers! - Moz

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07598VZR8?tag=userbenchmark-21&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1 Go for the 8700k, only slightly more expensive but overall a much more powerful CPU

No worries, didn't think you would have as AMD chips typically don't. Can you send screenshots of your settings in BFV, both advanced and none advanced graphical.

Yep, seems like a good way to go.

If you upgrade your GPU, your performance is obviously only going to get better. The extent to which your CPU will be able to cope and keep up with your GPU you cannot really be sure, however an i5 6600 be able to keep up with most modern games whilst running your 1080. My old gaming PC was running the i5-6600k with a gtx 970 and I could run modern games at medium-high 99% of the time, and the K version of this i5 is only a marginal improvement. To put it simply, you should be fine to upgrade your GPU, but you won't feel the full benefit until you upgrade your CPU too. You will be able to run 1080p and maybe 1440p, but just tone down the CPU heavy aspects a little to compensate for the lacking of power there. Best of luck

Yes A long time - almost certainly > 5 years at which point you'll want a new one anyway

Yeah it will be, didn't think about that. Try maybe, if you have onboard graphics, running it off of that instead of your dedicated gpu. (Find .exe for BFV and then right click > run on integrated). Set everything to as low as possible and see if stuttering continues, may help us determine if its a gpu issue.

GSync will perform better, whether you need it or not is sort of up to you.

So you said that the second monitor returns to desktop, can you ALT+TAB out of the game and just bring the relevant programs back onto the TV screen?

M.2 970 EVO is a pretty decent SSD, and any SSD for OS will be fine to be fair, unless you need super fast performance. Check firecuda SSDs too, they're pretty nice: https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/ssd/firecuda-ssd/ Otherwise, I see no real reason not to go for the 970 EVO,