6 series chipsets do work with Ivy Bridge processors, but I wouldn't recommend trying it. The board has to have a suitably recent BIOS loaded (you're screwed if it doesn't and you can't borrow a...
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6 series chipsets do work with Ivy Bridge processors, but I wouldn't recommend trying it. The board has to have a suitably recent BIOS loaded (you're screwed if it doesn't and you can't borrow a...
Damn but that case has all the design inspiration of a wheely bin.
PSU or graphics card going bad. Finding out which one isn't easy unless you have spares to swap it.
What graphics card do you have?
Monitors are always a matter of personal preference, and I normally lean toward big screens and VA panels anyway. But one reason I recommend the BenQ over a budget IPS model is simply that almost all...
Doesn't CS6 have OpenCL support? If it does an AMD card should pretty much destroy an Nvidia one because the GeForce 600 series is notorious for having very weak compute performance.
I think most people who pirate books do also buy loads of them. But the publishing industry sometimes just makes it so damn hard to actually buy shit. Ebooks that come out in the US well in advance...
An i7 in a £1000 build with a decent monitor is too much, really. It means major compromises elsewhere, like the SSD.
It's not a popular choice these days but on your budget I'd almost always go...
Try another power adaptor. I've seen a few cases where wall warts supplied with those things go bad and supply enough juice to put the lights on, but not actually enable the router to boot up...
There's two versions of the DGND3700, the first one has serious stability issues so it's possible VM's derphub hardware is based on that design. The second version is apparently quite good, though.
We're not missing something that's blindingly obvious. The problem is that Windows 8 is acting like an injection of poison to the markets that keep MS in business and their revenue from tablets and...
There's two reasons why MS didn't see a big drop in Windows earnings last quarter; all the revenue from those special cut-price deals on Windows 8 was counted in that quarter, thus inflating the...
tbh, there's not much wrong with Win 8 that Start8 and a few minutes of fiddling around won't cure, but the critical issue is that 99% of people won't know how to do any of that and will be using the...
Agree pretty much about Windows 8 not being a factor at Enterprise level. Most of those large companies that haven't already moved from XP to 7 will be well into planning the transition. But Win 8...
It depends on what you'd have to pay. Generally I'd say stick with Windows 7. The low-level improvements in 8 are not enough to make it worth paying much for the upgrade, even before factoring in the...
SM2 has serious limitations that make it a lot harder to deal with than later versions, targeting it actually increases the work the devs have to do unless their shader code it very simple. I don't...
That's pretty depressing, SM2 is something like 11 years old. I guess they're aiming for smartphone level graphics.
Microsoft's strategy has already failed because it is fatally flawed in so many ways I can hardly count them. But the biggest one is simply the lack of any compelling reason for developers to write...
I think that's a major understatement. I checked the sales figures from our retail shops and Windows 8 machines are basically not selling at all, there is close to zero interest in them. Hilariously...
£150 - HD7850 2GB
£250 - HD7950
Yep, and it's highly likely MS is leaning very, very hard on Intel and AMD to stop them from producing the necessary software to add even basic support for new hardware features to Win 7.
The...
Confirming this. I wouldn't even consider building a system without one now. Hard drives are just for bulk data storage.
Only item on that list I'm really dubious about is the SSD. The 840 isn't particularly quick and the TLC flash is uses has in theory much shorter life span than the usual MLC stuff. I think paying a...
Don't buy the 8150, it's one of the original Bulldozer core FX chips. The 8350 is only £13 more expensive and a much better processor.
And yes, an equivalently priced i5 will deliver better gaming...
Use the phone activation system, it's usually much more lenient than the internet one. If that still fails phone again and use the option to talk to customer service monkey and tell them the...
I don't think any desktop type VM systems will let you do that as none of them support PCI passthough. VM platforms that do support it are ones (like VMware ESXi or Server 2012/Hyper-V) that would...