Thankfully both Scan and Overclockers will honour the German 6 year warranty on the Arctic Cooler that was the only issue, all the rest of the build I am getting the best prices from other places after price comparisons with Amazon but am not bothered about delivery charges for honoured warranties. ...

OK then looks like I will keep it NTFS but below 1TB if I only ever plan to have Windows on the thing plus any apps that refuse to install anywhere other than C-drive, which according to Steam doesn't appear to be a problem at least not with Crysis anyway and whether I go above a SATA SSD depends on...

Ordered my PC a few days ago, thanks again for the help guys. It isn't super-duper top of the line, but I'm hoping I've found a good sweet spot between cost vs performance. Ended up going for: Fractal Define 7 Black case AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4) ASUS® STRIX B550...

Right OK Pew maybe I am mixing up the way USB key sticks work - which are FAT32 until you choose otherwise - with SSDs but I thought only FAT32 let you treat a SSD like a mechanical drive with freedom to format and reclaim overwritten space on the drive to make it ready to write new data (but still ...

Why do you have so many drives? :lol: Are they all small capacity drives? I use an external 2 TB seagate 'passport' drive. It's fine. The transfer speeds aren't particularly great, but it's OK for the occasional backup. I think your best bet is to just have a good size internal HDD backup and one d...

Any questions about backup I'll put in the other thread but someone just put me out of my misery and tell me that any type of SSD can have any NTFS preformatting unmounted with any enclosed HDD software and replaced with FAT 32 for conventional writing and rewriting like a giant USB Flash Drive - ev...

I'm not sure what you mean about crippled RAM speeds with AMD, it's not really a problem as far as I'm aware - even with the previous gen. PCI-E 4 is also supported on the latest gens of motherboards, so that's not an issue either! e.g. the x570 mobo I bought a few months ago supports it, as do B55...

Train To Busan? [EDIT] PM'd you with all the links, the Ratuken rental stream for £2.49 is cheapest unless you're on Amazon Prime and then the SD is the same but the HD is £3.49, and £5.99 to buy the licence to view on Amazon. If you stream it that way then you get to watch it as intended without br...

All I know is if someone had told me that Nvidia update their drivers between weekly to monthly if you stay at or near the top of the range I would've snapped up a GeForce card years before these shortages but at least the GPU is the one part of this build that's not in doubt, compared to the shifti...

Peninsula Basically this film is Zombie Baby Driver Panic Source with a bit of Fast and Furious and a homage to GTA thrown in as well not to mention a visual homage to elements from one of the World War Z novel's interviews crossed with Survival of The Dead but as before, with a different angle. Th...

...and that's it, mathematically it's over the champs are the champs and all three in the drop zone are gone with three games to go, all the more reason to check out the Polish football overnight with three matches starting 10.30pm on Freesports before the English playoffs and finals that are just g...

...and after that match at Leeds I'm not even bothered, we're not getting relegated and that suits me just fine, if it's the Europas only next season then fine, one extra per week separate to the FA Cup isn't a team-breaker, best just wait until the end of the season and see who ends up where and th...

...and they are closing my nearest branch leaving the last one in the area on a trading estate, so snapped up another headset before they finally close up after the next bank hol, not good news at all

It's a bit of an understatement to say I've missed loads going on but we can discuss the ESL properly when the season's over and everyone prepares for the Euros and Olympic Football, although being out in Japan with the time difference I'm not sure how much Olympic footy the BBC will decide to show....

PM tennis at Gamers Arms! :) but it's so nearly sorted. Wikipedia's just as great as Google, fully up to speed with what's out there and am not paying the premium for PCI-E 4.0, happy to stay on 3.0 and that was the last worry I had about standards motherboard-wise. So back on track, nothing wrong w...