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    Thank you everyone for your feedback, much appreciated just doing some close research and I am going more towards AMD due to their power consumption and thermals and the fact that I will not really be doing any productivity work, pretty much just gaming. I have got three builds with different cpus, 13700k, 7700x and 7800x3d The 13700k is £400 or £350 for F Variant whereas the 7700x is £300, is it worth the slight bigger price for the F Variant /K if you take for account the power and thermals? They both have near same performance in terms of gaming. Then you have the 7800x3d for £437 what is a bigger jump. Both motherboard between Intel and AMD are around the same price so all builds come between £2000 - £2200. I will list the builds here: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZHkR2m https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/FTXdKp https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/LhQMLs Hopefully I link the right ones, long day at work and I wanna go bed! (Just realised that I didn't change the PSU on 2 of the list, doesn't matter
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    If you do not want to attempt to find the drivers, transfer them on your windows USB and load them; then yes you can install it on a different system and swap the drive out.
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    Hello, On my laptop I run into a simillar problem when installing windows. This is because within the windows installation media it doesn't include certain intel drivers that are needed to detect some storage. The way to bypass this is to get the drivers on a laptop or pc and copy them over to the windows installation media USB (create a new folder and place them in). If it is something like mine you will need these drivers: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19512/intel-rapid-storage-technology-driver-installation-software-with-intel-optane-memory-10th-and-11th-gen-platforms.html You can download them and run this within PowerShell to extract the drivers: Create RST folder under C:\ run SetupRST.exe from Powershell using: .\SetupRST.exe -extractdrivers C:\RST Place the folder within your installation media, cannot remember the exact one needed so just try them all I guess, one will work (should). Then load into the USB Stick to install windows click > load driver etc and navigate to it, then you can load the drivers and see if they appear. Hopefully this works and if you have any questions I will be happy to help if I can.
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    Budget (including currency): £2000 (GBP) Country: England (United Kingdom) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: pretty much 100% gaming and the odd tinkering with my servers, Pis, etc., nothing that warrants massive changes in components for producivtity work. Other details I am looking to buy as soon as possible. I will be playing at 1440p at 144 Hz. I play a wide variety of games, nothing specific. I currently already have a case that I will be using for this build; it is the Lian Li: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/vs2WGX/lian-li-lancool-ii-mesh-c-rgb-atx-mid-tower-case-lancool-ii-mesh-c-rgb-s I have currently been going between the 13700k /kf, 7800x3d and 4080 or 7900xtx. I am able to get a few of these builds for around this price point (£2000 - £2200). I am not a fan of AIOs, even though they do look good, Air Cooling has just as good performance for a significantly cheaper amount. No need to bother with window licences, got that sorted from my old PC. Any information will be great. Here are some builds I made a bit ago with some help from others: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4FcB2m 7800x3d + 4080 https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/8d8PRv 7800x3d + 7900 xtx I did have an Intel build somewhere, but it has disappeared. I am open to any suggestions or new builds; that is why I am here ! Thank you, and have a good day!
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    Hi, looking for a new laptop with a £700 budget. I have been doing some looking recently and the majority of the laptops I am seeing are RTX 3050 4gb and 1660ti 6gb with either 5800-h, 11400-h and 10300-h. The laptop will be used for college/work etc as well as gaming. It would be nice to have 16gb RAM but at this price it is unrealistic so I will most likely add 8gb ram in a few months for £30 - £40. I will also be running Linux as well. Most other features I want within the laptop are standard across all for this price range (needs ethernet port!) Another thing I have come across as well is the fact that the 1660ti 6gb and 3050 4gb perform very closely to each other and that the 1660ti is still a great GPU for gaming with more VRAM what you can get the around the same price. You do miss DLSS along with the fact that manufacture pair them with older CPUs however they are still a good option. The ASUS TUF Gaming F15 is the laptop has mostly caught my attention but I am not sure. I can go over £700 to £750 but only if it is worth it. I have found: https://www.box.co.uk/FX506HCB-HN144T-ASUS-TUF-GAMING-F15-Intel-Core-i5-8GB-RA_3855955.html https://www.box.co.uk/top-gaming-laptops https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-gf63-thin-nvidia-rtx-3050-8gb-15.6-fhd-144hz-intel-i5-11400h-gaming-laptop-lt-2ep-ms.html Would be great to have some recommendations or some of your thoughts
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    Yes BT does allow the use of third-party routers to replace the Smart Hub 2. I have done a fair amount of research and the Smart Hub 2 cannot be converted into bridge or passthrough mode. However I do have an spare Smart Hub 1 what apparently has a modem mode. I still need to test this though. I have tried the router in all sorts of places but I am seeing no signification change. It used to decent but in the past few months it has gotten very bad. I did have some access points but they seemed to stop wanting to work with the hub not too long ago as well. I am also wanting to setup vlans within my network. However a lot of routers I am seeing do not have the best support for that. I did come across unifi edgerouter what has vlan support and is about £50ish. I was then thinking of buying some APs or what a lot of people have suggested is buying some cheaper wireless routers what have AP mode and use them instead since the edgerouter doesn't have wireless capability. But I am new to this world so I have much to learn. Thanks for the response btw
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    Hello, good day. I am looking for a new router to buy as BT smart hub 2 is driving me crazy. It isn't fast, and the UI is a total mess + the range is fairly poor. I have a budget of around £150 and have seen have few routers what have peaked my interest. I am looking for at least dual-band and gigabit speeds. We have a decent amount of smart devices within the house and need the range to be a decent amount better so it can do the far corners of the house better. I do have some extenders somewhere I can use to reach outside buildings. Also WPA3 Some I have been looking at are: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-RT-AX58U-Dual-Band-throughput-Aiprotection/dp/B099ZLY9SC there was a few tp-links (nighthawk was one i think idk). There is just a __ ton of routers out there, I find one what I think is good but then I find a different Any information and recommendations will be great. (Please make sure you use UK sites and pricing GBP). (need any more info just ask )
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    Is this good for the price, there are so many laptops to choose from idk what to go for. https://www.ebuyer.com/1142740-asus-tuf-gaming-fx506lh-core-i5-8gb-512gb-ssd-gtx-1650-15-6-fx506lh-hn004
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    Hi, looking for a new laptop around the price of £700 - £750. I am looking for something that has dedicated graphics and can run modern games at moderate settings, I will also be planning to put linux on it and some laptops don't work the best with it e.g., Lenovo I have found problems with. I will also be using it for many VMs and I am looking for something at 8GB, but I will upgrade to 16GB unless it is cheaper to buy with 16GB straight away. From what I have seen 1650 gpus are very common at this price range as well as 4600h, 5500U, 11300h, 10300h. It will also be nice if it came with a Num pad and stuff like backlight are fairly common now a days. £700 - £750 Dedicated GPU quad core < hexa 8GB ram with upgradeability (or 16gb but will make it more expensive) 120hz < 144hz 15.6" Screen If I have missed anything just ask, most likely missed something. Thanks
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    At the time I had a MSI Motherboard where I downloaded Dragon Centre, but within this software there is a mode called scenario what sets the fan speeds at certain levels but the way it does that is by changing the clock speeds to help perform such action, the only way I got it to stop was to reinstall windows and not too download the software again, if you do to change lights you can but just don't click that section or it will mess everything up. If this is with something different then check your bios settings, and if nothing seems wrong reset you bios (search YT for help if needed) and see if that helps. if you annoyed by noise just change the fan speeds within your bios in hardware monitor or something like that very simple.
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    Yeah, I was thinking something a long those lines, I know the chipset ran hot most of the time underload and through testing so do the vrms. Thanks for the info tho', do you have any recommendations for a new motherboard?
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    I have tried my CPU in a different system with my ram as well, I just double checked my ram without my 3700x and works fine as well, I agree that a socket dying is very unlikely but it can happen, the motherboard is known for being very hot underload what could be the possible cause to the socket dying but I am not sure, I don't run into this that often so I am bit in the dark.
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    Thanks for the response, I will look into the mobo. Not really interested in Wifi - I was looking into upgrading my CPU or GPU in the near future when stuff came back in stock but looks like it might be delayed a bit nw xd I could wait until further releases like am5 etc but I am not looking for anything SUPER POWERFUL like the latest amd cpus and very good and will be for years and also I believe it is to be ddr5 only meaning I will have to upgrade even more what means moreee money, but idk haven't kept up lately with the news
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    Motherboard Suggestions will be nice (£200 GBP aroundish can go higher if needed - planning on upgrading to 5000s in future) CPU:3700x Motherboard: MSI MPG x570 Gaming Edge Wifi (Known to run hot, got it for like £60 of a friend who never used it tho). Hello, today I was just playing some games while watching netlix and my computer suddenly black screens, I looked inside the computer case and noticed that on my motherboard in the EZ Debug LEDS that the CPU was lit meaning it isn't detecting or it is dead (something a long those lines). At first I thought it might of Overheated but normally there is a Blue screen for that (I think). I left it to cool down and tried it about 10 minutes later and still nothing, just the Red LED, then I started to think if the mobo is dead or the socket at least as all fans are moving, gpu fans are on, (also chipset fan). I moved my CPU to my second PC to see if it was the CPU or mobo and it worked fine on my 2nd pc. I went back my main put it back in (reset bios/cmos as well) and still nothing. Is this due to a dead Socket? or could it be something else? If it is the motherboard and it has died, any recommendations? I can spend around £200 (GBP)(can go a bit higher if needed) Any information will help, if I am wrong about something please say as learning about these problems are very interesting to me. Edit: Also the case power buttons do not work (power button and cold restart).
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    Thanks for the recommendation, I will keep a look!
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