The latest 12th gen Intel CPU’s and supporting mainboards are now available to buy as parts or bases now. They use a new socket format called Socket 1700 and support DDR4 or DDR5 ram, the new chips and boards also support the new PCI x5 architecture.
We have just completed a build for a customer of a pc for Photo and Video editing duty’s and a little bit of game playing. This rig differs from most in that the chassis a Corsair Crystal Series 680X RGB was one of the dearer components. The customer chose the white model of case to …
Our latest high-end build for a local architect firm has been completed and delivered. The machine was built into a BeQuiet Pure base 600 chassis which still has a 5.25” drive space as this customer likes to have a DVD-RW drive still. The power supply is a Be Quiet! 700W Pure Power 11 which has …
We have just supplied 2 pc’s to one lucky household, one is for gaming and the other is for Professional photo/video editing and a bit of gaming. This came about when father and son bought the i7 base to share for gaming and the photo work. The Dad soon realised he won’t get a chance …
We have just completed a new base unit build for a customer wanting the best Flight Sim experience he can get for a sensible budget. I gave him a quote for an i7-9700k with 32gb ram, 512gb NVMe ssd 1 tb disk, and a RTX2080 base and also just to show whats possible a 2nd …
I have just finished the build and setup of our first i9-9900k based tower for a customer. The customers’ needs are not for gaming but he wants power for multi-tasking and audio production. I used the Asus Tuf series Z390 Gaming WiFi chipset board with 2 x 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX sticks of DDR4, for …
Intel have recently announced that there could be a shortage of there CPU’s for as long as 6 months. This has in turn caused prices to rise as distributors get there new stock. We can at the moment still get 7th and 8th gen cpu’s if you want a system build so don’t worry about …
This machine was brought into the shop by the customer for us to look it over and advise if it was built correctly. I found just a few small things which i advised them on how to fix before turning on and recommended giving the cabling a refit to tidy it just for neatness and …
We have just completed a fairly basic Mini-ITX build for a customer that just wants a fast machine for general surfing and email duties and storing his digital photo collection. This machine is using the Riotoro CR280 Mini-ITX chassis with the included front and rear 120mm fans. I fitted an Asus Strix B360-i Gaming board …
A customer brought in there old Mesh pc which had an Intel i7-920 16Gb Ram and a Samsung 500Gb SSD and Seagate 2TB Hard drive powered by a Corsair AX1200i power supply with a GTX970 Graphics card. His trouble was lines on the screen and random crashing which turned out to be the GTX card …