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My sons PC has been delivered today (thanks PCS). He won't be getting it till the 12th though (his 18th). He now needs a good monitor on a maximum budget of £200. He would like a 27" LED if possible. We have looked at this one. Any recommendations you may have would be very welcome...

We have a maximum budget of £750 for my sons 18th birthday present (includes a contribution from my son). We have specified the following as a gaming machine for games such as Battlefield 4, Dayz etc. His thoughts not mine..... As a bit of a novice we have specified this between us and any...

I have Intel Rapid Storage Technology on my PCS machine. It is V 11.0.0.1032 on a Win 7 64 bit PC. I think there is a newer version available and wondered: 1) Is it worth updating, 2) Which version do I need, 3) As a technophobe will I have to set anything up again afterwards (in which case...

Been at this for several days now and failing. I want to use a program on my old XP Machine to back up the 'D' Drive of my Win 7 machine. Whatever I use READYNAS V2 or EASEUS TODO they both seem to want a password to access the drive. I have 'shared' the drive on the WIN 7 machine but cannot...

I ran a back ip from Win 7 Pro yesterday which skipped some files that it could not find. These sat in the users/administrators folder which on checking I cant find ether. Should i have one? or do i tweek the back up to exclude the folder? or simply ignore the error? Thanks for any assistance...

Got this error a couple of times tonight: The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period. With two SSD's in Raid 1 (Mirror) seems a little odd. the second event when the PC was switched on and left idle for about 30 mins before the error message. Any suggestions...

One quick question... The Disk activity light seems to be very active on my new PC with no additional programs running, I would estimate one or two flashes per second. Is this normal and would it contribute to read-writes of the SSDs? Thanks Martyn

Thanks for this, I think they based unlucky Alf (Fast Show) on me. Current photos. Existing PC (DELL 9150) Location for new PC (under desk on RHS of curved desk) Attached slotted trunking below desk for cables. Post new photos when PC arrives.

My proposed PC has now entered the testing stage, hope they give it what for to make sure it functions on arrival. I am one of those guys where if anything will fail, it will fail on my machine and it will not start or show error message everywhere.:eek: I am no expert and am in awe when...

Virgin Media 60Mb package, can't wait till the upload seeds are increased.

With my new PC due sometime next week I would like to ensure that I load my software sensibly so as to make the most of the internal SSD and HDD strengths. I had proposed the following initial installations: SSD Photoshop Lightroom HDD Antivirus (Avast probably) Printer Software (Canon 9500...

Following advice from this forum and friends here is my new PC spec. which I finally plucked up the courage to buy. Thanks for all comments. Martyn:sweatdrop: Case CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 400R MID TOWER CASE Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3770 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache...

Not being completely computer savvy :( I drew up this spec based on numerous articles I have read and using the PC Specialist web site. I will be editing large RAW files and even larger TIFF files. My old Dell machine (XP, 4GB, RAID 1, 246graphics) just wont cut the mustard and their new...