Category: Computing
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Corsair MP600 NVME M.2 SSD 66% Performance Loss After 6 Months of Use - Benchmark Tests / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Corsair MP600 is a PCIE4.0 SSD drive with advertised read speeds of upto 4950 mb/s and write speeds of upto 4250 mm/s. Whilst that may be achievable when first bought however many users report a huge loss of performance after using the drives for some months. So here I test an 1tb MP600 drive after 8 months of regular use to test the loss of experience that exposes a potential issue with these drives that FAIL to live up to customer expectations and advertised performance after using the drives.
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
How to Jump Start Your Motherboard Without a Power Button With Just a Screwdriver / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Building or upgrading your computer can be scary, but with some research and some guidance you can do it easily! In this series of videos I walk you through how install an AMD AM4 based processor, The Ryzen 5 5600x into the Gigabyte AORUS Elite AX V2 B550 ATX motherboard which supports the AM4 socket Ryzen CPUs. And in this video I show you how to power on your motherboard to make sure it works before you install it into your case so that you know the components work before you commence work on an installation.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2021
How To Install AMD Zen3 AM4 Ryzen Processors - 5600x, 5900x, 5950x Motherboard Socket CPU's for Beginners / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Building or upgrading your computer can be scary, but with some research and some guidance you can do it easily! In this guide I walk you through how install an AMD AM4 based processor, The Ryzen 5 1400 into the Gigabyte AORUS Elite AX V2 B550 ATX motherboard which supports the AM4 socket Ryzen and Athlon processors.
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Friday, October 29, 2021
How to Install Hard Drives into Your Desktop PC - Move Drives From Another Computer / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
In this video I show you how to install desktop SATA hard drives into WIndows PC . Installing a 2.5" or 3.5" hard drive or SSD isn't difficult as all it requires is a hard drive, a desktop computer with at least one empty 3.5" bay and possibly a screwdriver. I also show you how connect the drives to your system and what to expect when you boot up your system. So if you want to move your hard drives form one PC to another then watch this video and find out how to do it.
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Saturday, October 23, 2021
Easy PC Upgrades with Motherboard Combos - Overclockers UK Unboxing - MB, Memory and Ryzen 5600x CPU / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
A motherboard combo, the cost effective way to get your new built built with the added bonus being that the supplier will have pre checked that the parts actually work. Here we unpack a Motherboard combo from Overclockers UK, a 5600x, Aorus B550, 16gb of ram, find out exactly what you get in the box when buying an Motherboard combo.
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
Overclockers UK Custom Built PC 1 YEAR Use Review Verdict - Does it Still Work? / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
It's now Over 1 year since we bought a Custom Built PC from Overclockers UK for £1,000 for a student to hopefully study hard with, though with the specs to game in spare time. Anyway the desktops been used for a whole year now, does it still work? any issues, where the student who used it gives their 1 year real customer use verdict.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
How to Get 6 Years Life Out of Your Overclocked PC System, Optimum GPU, CPU and MB Performance / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
How to maximise your desktop computers life without sacrificing performance, how to achieve that sweet spot of overclocking your processor without shortening it's life due to over heating, watch the video and you too can get a full 6 years use out of your system before the silicon starts to fail.
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Friday, October 08, 2021
Scan Computers - Custom Build PC 6 Months Later, Reliability, Issues, Quality of Tech Support Review / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Here's what to expect when ordering a custom built PC from Scan Computers UK, where in this video in our series we evaluate how the system has performed over the past 6 months, how reliable is the build, what is the quality of tech support and what to look out for after suing our scan computers 5950x, RTX 3-80, 64gb £3300 monster for over 6 months.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2021
Fractal Design Meshify S2, Best PC Case Review, Build Quality, Airflow etc. / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Fractal Design's new Meshify 2 case is not the same as the S2 Meshify! This $140-ish airflow-oriented Meshify 2 featured plenty of space for even the most massive of GPU's, good component arrangement options for 360 mm rads and plenty of hard drives location options, topped off with a tempered glass panel
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Corsair iCue H150i RGB Pro XT FULL Review! Software, Failed Firmware Update Unbricking Fix! / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
This is my comprehensive review of a Corsair H150i RGB PRo Xt Water Cooler, it's their top of the line Triple fan 360 Radiator too cool the likes of the 5950x as is in this system so as to enable overclocking by some 10% to get optimum performance out of onces system without letting the CPU temps under load run too hot, i.e. I would not want to see the CPU under load at over 84c, as I want the 5950x to last a good 5 years, as CPU's that are run too hot over time will degrade and tend to eventually require under clocking for stability.
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Friday, August 27, 2021
How to Drop Temps on a HOT WD My book Duo External Hard Drives Cooling to Prevent Data Loss / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Western Digital External Drives Run HIOT! They are not really designed to be under constant load, so if you are using them under constant load then they will overheat, thermal throttle and risk the loss of data!
So what is the solution if one wants to keep a drive attached permanently? We'll COOLING, and so here's an example of how to Cool HOT WD drives where in this example I am seeking to quickly cool a HOT 28tb twin drive My Book DUO.
If you are looking for a My Book DUO then check out these Amazon pages to grab a potential bargain for instance I paid just £550 for these at the time of purchase (amazon affiliate links).
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US - https://amzn.to/3cKaErq
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Corsair MP600 NVME M.2 SSD Review, Crystal Disk, Atto Benchmarks, How Hot Does it Get? / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Corsair MP600 is a PCIE4.0 SSD drive with advertised read speeds of upto 4950 mb/s and write speeds of upto 4250 mm/s and in this video we benchmark a couple of these drives to see if real world use matches the sales pitch. Furthermore given the high access speeds it's good to know how hot these SSD drives get! As usually the hotter the drive the more likely it is to fail earlier, especially when SSD temps approach and pass 60c! So find out in our latest video of what to expect with MP600 SSD's
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
URGENT! ALL Windows 10 Users Must Do this NOW! Windows Image Backup Before it is Too Late! / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
A disaster is waiting to strike in the background for all windows users! The day when you start your windows desktop or laptop PC and are confronted with the dreaded blue screen message "your device ran into a problem and needs to restart. We'll restart for you" and so begins your decent down the Windows recovery rabbit hole where no matter what you do, what options you select, many, many hours later you still have not managed to get back into Windows because Windows 10 is LESS robust, LESS forgiving them Windows 7 was before it! THUS every Windows user must follow the steps in this video to avoid this inevitable disastrous outcome or risk facing the final solution have having to format and perform a clean install, all of your data and software WIPED! When all you needed to do was follow the steps in this video that ensure that no matter what happens there is a way back into a working system with all of your software and data intact!
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Sunday, July 18, 2021
Dell S3220DGF Unboxing and Stand Assembly - 32 Inch 165hz Curved Gaming Monitor Amazon Discount / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
The price of the Dell S3220DGF Monitor has CRASHED first to £305 and now as I write at just £290! A bargain on Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn). down from a range of £400 to £450. We love these monitors, that's why we already have 2 of them and so last week I bought a third monitor delivered today, unboxed and stand assembly. This video shows exactly what you get in the box and how to easily attach the monitor to the stand. After watching our video then do follow the link to Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn) to grab yourselves a bargain good monitor while you can!
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Friday, July 16, 2021
Dell S3220DGF Price CRASH to £305! 32 Inch 165hz Curved Gaming Monitor Amazon Bargain / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
The price of the Dell S3220DGF Monitor has CRASHED to £305 as sold on Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn). down from a range of £400 to £450. We love these monitors, that's why we already have 2 of them and now taking advantage of the price crash to buy a third! So if your looking for a GOOD monitor in terms of price and specs then watch our video and follow the link to Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn) to grab a bargain while you can!
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Saturday, July 10, 2021
WD MY Book DUO Drives Lottery - What Disks are Inside - Red or Blue - 28tb Model / ConsumerWatch / Computing
By: HGR
What Drives are inside a Mybook DUO is it a red or blue find out as I open up a 28TB My Book DUO enclosure and find out.
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Friday, June 25, 2021
How to Fix Windows 10 Boot Startup, Log on Problems Nightmare PC Needs to Restart Message / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
NIGHTMARE when your windows 10 fails to start instead your met with the dreaded @Your PC Needs to Restart@ blue message screen. And were automatic system repair fails. We'll here are the steps I went through to get back into Windows when I experienced such a failure and so can too can quickly get back into windows as well as taking further actions to make disaster recovery even more certain by means of making system images, even going as far as cloning ones system disk so in case of an even worse nightmare you can just swap out your system drive for the cloned one and be up and running.
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Friday, June 18, 2021
Youtube Upload Stuck at 0% QUICK FIXES Solutions Tutorial / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Here is a tutorial of what to do if ever you encounter an upload problem on your youtube videos with the dreaded stuck at 0% message or 95% processing. I hope they work for you and this video is able to help you. Please let me know in the comment section below.
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Friday, June 04, 2021
Scan Computers - How to Test New Systems CPU, GPU and Hard Drive Stability With Free Software / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
New Computer, just delivered? Here's what to do to quickly test your system to make sure it is working properly before you start transferring valuable data onto it as we did with this new system bought form Scan Computers UK, a custom built PC that cost £3,300, will it pass the tests? Utilising free download off the net software, Cinebench, ATTO disk, MSI Kombuster, 3D Mark and Passmark as well as helpful utilities such as Hardware Info and Crystal Disk Info.
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Monday, May 31, 2021
How to Unbrick Corsair Radiators After Failed iCUE Firmware Update - H150i Pro, H100i, H115i Fix / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Press the firmware update button in Corsair's iCUE buggy bloat ware software and you can likely say bye bye to your CPU radiator cooler as the fans ramp up to 100% and that's where they will remain forever on top of which your CPU RGB lights go off! Well it happened to me and it has probably happened to you which is why you are here watching this video, not to worry here is the fix for how to get your Corsair radiator working again! After watching and fixing your rad do leave a like and comment below.
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