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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Tower PC for young guy - £1,000 budget

    Ah I do apologise, I wasn't aware of the policy on that. Is it okay if I just post some of the components as a guide, rather than referring directly to the build from that provider?
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Tower PC for young guy - £1,000 budget

    Hi guys, I'm posting here as a favour for a friend. She is looking for a tower PC for her son. Her total budget is £1,000 max, including screen and peripherals. I had a look on the PC specialist site and found some good prebuilds and then I found this spec that actually looked quite good, with...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New PC not starting up.

    Is it possible your PSU isn’t enough? Just a cursory check of the CPU and GPU and the bare minimum is 450W - https://www.whatpsu.com/psu/cpu/AMD-Ryzen-3600/gpu/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-2060 I wonder if that plus the power draw from the HDD and the Cooler might just be pulling more than it can offer?
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST BLUE SCREEN CRASH!!! (Playing games)

    My apologies on the event viewer stuff - I gave you the wrong instructions (I'm still in training!) Could you rather "Save All Events in Custom View As..." and save them as a CSV file please? My apologies.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST BLUE SCREEN CRASH!!! (Playing games)

    Also you'll need to create shareable google drive link that gives anyone with access the ability to download your event viewer files, otherwise I can't get access to it :)
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST BLUE SCREEN CRASH!!! (Playing games)

    Might as well just tell us temperatures your CPU & GPU are reaching. You'll need to open File Explorer as an administrator if you want to do anything with it, as it's a file that's written with admin permissions. The MEMORY.DMP file is quite an important one for us as it tells us what was...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST BLUE SCREEN CRASH!!! (Playing games)

    There are also some things that people are inevitably going to ask for when you're talking about BSODs. You'll need to look in C:/Windows for a file called MEMORY.DMP - This is a memory dump from when the crash happened and helps people on this forum to identify where the issues are. You can't...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Random Crash during Gaming - Happened consistently

    Something of an interesting development. I had another google about and found someone recommending disabling the "performance core boost" feature in the BIOS, which ups the voltage in a core to handle additional load. Since disabling that, the game hasn't crashed all day (previously it was...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Random Crash during Gaming - Happened consistently

    @SpyderTracks - Memtest complete without errors, which I sort of suspected to be honest.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Random Crash during Gaming - Happened consistently

    Hi Carlos, thanks for this. Definitely something I was considering last night - just clean install Windows. Is there some sort of test I can perform to check the integrity of the nvme drive?
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Random Crash during Gaming - Happened consistently

    Yeah, when you google for this issue it's all AMD Ryzen 9 5900x CPUs, so it's not a coincidence. It's a bit of a pain, but it's not the end of the world. The PC is still pretty functional for the time being anyways. Been a bit of a saga though! Chris
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Random Crash during Gaming - Happened consistently

    The ram is set at 3533, down from 3600, as originally that removed the crashing issue. I've also ran it at 3200 in the past to no avail :(
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Random Crash during Gaming - Happened consistently

    Unfortunately, this is back and I suspect that @ubuysa was right all along - there's something hardware related going on here. Multiple games from multiple vendors, happens intermittently. The new behaviour now is that it no longer writes out a memory.dmp file, so I can't show much there...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Slow wifi - Distance from Router

    Hi folks - worked it out! The puck in my wall was on the bottom shelf of a little hall shelf thing, I moved it to sit on top after reading advice that it should be in a wide open space. After that, the wired connection between the puck in the office and my PC is now running at 280mbps, which is...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Slow wifi - Distance from Router

    OKAY, thanks for the pointers here. I checked my router settings and looked online and some other people reported that bridging from a BT Hub to a mesh network shaved off some speed, so now the puck is going right into the wall. That's got me up to 225mbps which is awesome! However, based on...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Slow wifi - Distance from Router

    Thought as much!!! The setup app didn't need the router to be set in Bridge mode, just plugged into the back of the router. The router still works fine as a wifi access point - do you think this could be impacting the speed? The app also didn't really mention anything about how far or how...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Slow wifi - Distance from Router

    Hello everyone, and apologies for the penny pinching! I've been on a bit of a mission, picked up the TP-Link Deco M5 AC1300s and got them set up. Well it's been a little interesting - I've set them up wirelessly around the house, including one selfishly in my office room, and the speed was...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Internet connection

    Is it possible your new swanky PC boots a lot faster than your older PC?
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Slow wifi - Distance from Router

    Apologies, missed that! I've noticed two models: https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-Ultimate-System-Satellite-Extender/dp/B01KVRRSNI?th=1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-Satellite-Extender-Coverage-Devices/dp/B08FT6NWZ8/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=B08FT6NWZ8&psc=1 One of them costs a tenner more but...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Slow wifi - Distance from Router

    I'm a northerner you can't blame me trying to save a penny or two!! Is there one you'd say hits the best value for money?
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