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Recent content by fireblade77

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    Triple monitor gaming with slightly different monitors ??

    he is looking to play project cars 2 and maybe battlefield 1. I was thinking about will he need more power cos I don't know how it works. so if he uses all 3 is it like running in a higher resolution so he will need to turn graphics settings down to keep fps up ? or does it not work like that ?
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    Triple monitor gaming with slightly different monitors ??

    Hi guys my friend has an nvidia GTX1060 and an LG 24GM77 monitor which is 1080p with 144hz and 1ms refresh rate and he wants to add 2 more for surround gaming but the price of this monitor hasgone up to around £300 if you can find one. you can find the newer version of this which is the...
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    Help with sound (external dac/amp or soundcard)

    one thing I have noticed is that if I plug my headphones into the external volume controller that has the built in mic I lose bass in my headphones compared to plugging them into the back of the soundcard ????
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    Help with sound (external dac/amp or soundcard)

    thanks guys I think I will stick with what I have then and tell my friend to buy the same sound card as I have.
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    Help with sound (external dac/amp or soundcard)

    hi all I have a creative soundblaster zx with some Logitech z500 5.1 speakers and a pair of sennheiser pc360 headset and a pair of beyerdynamic DT770 pro 80hm headphones. I'm reading things that say I should ditch the sound card and use external dac/amp via usb so is this right ? I use my pc...
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    Dual Boot Over 2 Hard drives Advice Please.

    All is good, last time I installed win7 1st on 1Tb hard drive then win8.1 on ssd and it wouldn't dual boot it just defaulted to my ssd as it was set in my bios to ssd but this time I had win8.1 on ssd and installed win7 on 1TB hard drive and I now get the question do I want win 7 or win8.1 the...
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    Dual Boot Over 2 Hard drives Advice Please.

    it will cos the 1TB is already formatted with nothing on it just waiting to be filled :) it doesn't matter how much I search I cant find anything that tells me how to dual boot from 2 different hard drives. all I get is how to partition a hard drive and dual boot which I already know how to.
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    Good Enough PSU?

    I had a corsair HX620 for years running a GTX680 with intel 2600k 3 hard drives 2 dvd drives and a sound card all in an antec 1200 case with 6 fans with no problems at all but I did run out of cables when I wanted to change to the GTX780 I now have. im just wondering as I do make quite a few...
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    Dual Boot Over 2 Hard drives Advice Please.

    Hi there, I know how to partition a hard drive and do a dual boot with wind 7 and win 8.1 but I would like to know how to do a dual boot with each windows on a different hard drive if this is possible. I already have win 8.1 on my ssd hard drive and I would like to install win 7 back on my 1TB...
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    Z-5500 breakdown

    i have those speakers and i had 1 speaker go on me so i contacted logitech and they sent me a whole new set out (all 5 speakers and sub and control box) give them a ring u might be in luck :)
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    Help me choose a soundcard please

    ok this is my own thoughts.... ive had a auzentech x-fi forte for the past 2 years with no problems and before that the creative x-fi fatality with some problems. I did want to upgrade my sound and from what people were saying the Asus Xonar Essence STX was the one to have so I ordered one and...
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    Creative Introduces the Sound Blaster Z-Series Sound Cards

    i love the way you make it sound like creative is so bad and asus make great sound cards and update their drivers very often which is a joke as well. to me it looks like asus and creative are very bad at updating drivers but i dont think creative are as bad as you make out as ive had a creative...
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    Dire need of help with graphics choices!

    im no expert but i have built a lot of pc's over the past 15 years for me and friends and im quite sure u cant have an onboard graphics card and a graphics card that fits into the pci-e or agp slot working together cos if u want the other graphics card to work u need to turn the onboard one off...
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    Best Anti Virus and Firewall help plz

    thx guys ive got some idea now and yes i know about not buying nortons through them cos they charge too much but i always find in pc world of all places when its on offer for about £25 for upto 3 pc's so me and 2 other friends always pay and bring the cost down even more :) but right now its...
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