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 …
Well today marks the end of the long process of building and setting up 15 base units and delivering them along with 30 monitors and 22 Lenovo laptops to the customers office. All the bases were the same spec Matx tower with Intel i7-8700 cpu with Adata 8gb ddr4 ram, Adata 256gb m.2 SSD on …
I have this morning upgraded all our Intel gaming systems that are listed on the site to the new 8th generation cpu’s and mainboards with the exception of the 2 systems that are Socket 2066 based which do not yet have an 8th Gen version. Also the demand by the Crypto mining people has caused …
We have just built an i5-8600k based system for a customer and I can tell you they are a fast CPU. When running Cinebench R15 to test the cpu performance against other models the new 8th Gen i5 cpu beat the 7th gen I7 7700k. There scores were 1019 for the 8th gen and 976 …
The new Intel 8th gen cpus have now been released. They need an Intel Z370 chipset mainboard to run which Asus has a good range of so far. The improvements are mainly a higher core count through the range with the i3 cpu’s having 4 cores and no hyper threading, and the i5 cpu’s having …