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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST 27" Gaming monitor <£200

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST ** Gaming Machine for sons 18th **

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Intel RST

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Back up Win 7 'D' Drive

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST No User/Administrator account.

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Error Message IaStor

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Disk activity lights

    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
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New PC status report

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Software install with SSD and HDD?

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Finally ordered my new PC

    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...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Photoshop and Lightroom Spec

    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...
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