Category: Computing
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
How to Install AMD Ryzen CPU and Wraith Prism Stock Cooler - Step by Step Guide / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: N_Walayat
Here's how to install the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 7 3700X and other AM4 CPUs and stock Wraith Cooler included with some of the higher end AMD processors. In this video I am using the ASUS Prime X570-P motherboard.
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
WD 14tb My Book External Drive Unboxing, Testing and Benchmark Performance Amazon Buy Review / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Here's the unboxing of a 14tb MONSTER WD MY Book external drive for media and to get your system and data drives backed up before inevitable disaster strikes! Find out exactly what you get in the box and how the drive performs when plugged in and benchmarked for the first time using Crystal disk and Atto Disk benchmarking software so you know if it's a good buy or not from Amazon - https://amzn.to/3rlWXF3
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Sunday, January 09, 2022
WARNING Failing NVME2 M2 SSD Drives Can Prevent Systems From Booting - Corsair MP600 / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
NVME drives are supposed to herald greater speeds coupled with greater reliability over traditional platter spinning drives. However clearly the technology has yet to mature. And worse than mechanical hard drives when they go they tend to go fast! As illustrated by this 1tb Corsair MP600 drive which despite being listed as being 93% Good died within minutes, with the failure resulting in preventing the system from booting from it's good boot drive. So a sign that your NVME2 is on the verge of dying is if you experience failure or slow boot times.
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Sunday, January 09, 2022
NVME M2 SSD FAILURE WARNING Signs - Corsair MP600 1tb Drive / ConsumerWatch / 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. After some 8 months of usage had already dropped in performance to about half advertised, well that should have been taken as a warning of worse to come as one of the two 1tb MP600 drives in my system FAILED within a few hours of first showing warning signs. Find out why you NEED TO BACK UP YOUR MP600 DRIVES ASAP because when you first get a warning you may not have much time left to start backing up as transfer speeds drop! It also illustrates why it's wise to have multiple drives in case one fails.
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Tuesday, January 04, 2022
Corsair MP600 NVME2 1tb Drive Sudden DEATH Failures - Back Up NOW! / ConsumerWatch / 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. After some 8 months of usage had already dropped in performance to about half advertised, well that should have been taken as a warning of worse to come as one of the two 1tb MP600 drives in my system FAILED within a few hours of first showing warning signs. Find out why you NEED TO BACK UP YOUR MP600 DRIVES ASAP because when you first get a warning you may not have much time left to start backing up as transfer speeds drop! It also illustrates why it's wise to have multiple drives in case one fails.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Computer Goes BANG! Disaster Recovery, What to Check - PSU, Motherboard, Capacitor / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Disaster strikes! Computer goes bang! Trips the mains, and strong smell of burning electronics! Time to diagnose what's gone wrong, best case scenario it's the PSU, worst case the motherboard and other components have been fried! Find out what to do your computer goes BANG in the night!
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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).
UK - https://amzn.to/3sK5ZLH
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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