PC Tech Thread

I played a game which stresses my PC for the first time in a while last night, I've missed the warmth it gives to a room!

Intuitively, I absolutely agree with that. However, the fan only goes on the one way and that's the way it came, so maybe they know something we don't...

rear case fan is blowing out. Front case fan sucks in towards back of CPU (cooling heat sink I guess). CPU fan blows away from heat sink towards another fan blowing out.

That's what I assumed, I'll need a drawing to explain...

Don't add that top fan there, it'll be stealing cold airflow.

What that PCI vent does to your airflow:

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Our WIFI is working fine. My Mac connects fine. Mrs Sacreds PC connects via cable but wont via wifi. When I click on the wifi network it says 'cannot connect'.

I know nothing about PC and I'm not too computer literate. I tried updating the wireless driver from Toshiba website, that hasnt changed the situ.

Any suggestions?

^Now sorted woo!

You should be routing your cables behind the motherboard tray where possible or up and along the side of the hdd stack. Any spare power cables can sit in the lowest part of the hdd stack out of the way.

Day of getting a new computer, I already got some stupid adware on Google Chrome goes by Fatal-xxx-dangerous-windows.pcerror1108 dot com.

Any recommendation of an malware software?

Try Malwarebytes. Then re-install chrome. Did you download anything or was it a drive-by?
Maybe use ad-block too.

Meh

I should clarify. I can't face taking anything back apart. Lazy.

Thank, reinstalling Chrome does the trick, 12 hours later it came back via LFGSS.

Downloading Malwarebyte.

Is there much of a market for second hand PCs?

I built this modest gaming machine about 9 months ago but now it sees no use and I'm considering switching back to a laptop.

• CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor
  
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard
  
• Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
  
• Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
  
• Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
  
• Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card
  
• Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case
  
• Power Supply: Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
  
  

It cost me about £750 last year, PC Part Picker reckons it'll be just over £600 to build now. What kinda price should I be looking to sell at?

Looks like I do need windows 8.1 not 10 due to, you know, stuff.

Anyone have a spare copy for sales or where to get one/upgrade from 7. I might need discs to use with bootcamp...

There are webpages that can help with this. I installed off a USB thumb drive a week ago.

Why do you need 8.1? I'm trying to get 10 but it doesn't want to open the "get window 10" app. It must know I'm running spotter edition or something.

Maybe pm a link please? I'm dead daft with windows.

lolz. 8.1 is just more stable and doesn't have any issues with egpus.

Dom, that looks like a killer home media PC or Plex server. But PC parts depreciate faster than bike parts, you'll get somewhere around 1/2 of what you paid for it... so you're looking at £375.

Dead serious about it's application as a home media PC running a Plex server... it woul dbe perfect if someone already has NAS storage for their media.

It'd make a killer home media PC / server indeed - and this small case has 6 drive bays! Keeping it solely for such purpose is very tempting, however, a media PC is not something I need and it'd probably get less use than it does now. :)

I guess I'll advertise it as a HTPC and take the 50% depreciation hit, as whatever it does sell for would hugely help contribute to a new laptop.

Recommendations for free/cheap antivirus for a pc running Windows 7?

Used to use AVG but Avast is on the laptop I'm using. Mainly just want something that works and doesn't interrupt everything I do.

Also does anyone use outlook for personal use? The reason I ask is I have it, but am migrating to Android for all my mobile stuff and I'm not sure how things like the calendar and to do lists, etc. Will interact. So wondering about whether I'm better off using a different système before I spend lots of time organising things.

Thanks.

I've found the least intrusive (on actually doing stuff on the PC) is ESET antivirus.

It's about £25 per year.

I reconfigure mine to not do the web stuff (and to avoid it complaining I actually just tell it that the web exists on port 8080).

I also let it do a full scan, and then configure it to only scan on write, and on execute. This prevents it from scanning on every file read.

It's very fast, it uses very little resources, it does the job.

That said, Windows Defender is free.

Avira