Category: Computing
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, August 27, 2021
How to Drop Temps on a HOT WD My book Duo External Hard Drives Cooling to Prevent Data Loss / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Western Digital External Drives Run HIOT! They are not really designed to be under constant load, so if you are using them under constant load then they will overheat, thermal throttle and risk the loss of data!
So what is the solution if one wants to keep a drive attached permanently? We'll COOLING, and so here's an example of how to Cool HOT WD drives where in this example I am seeking to quickly cool a HOT 28tb twin drive My Book DUO.
If you are looking for a My Book DUO then check out these Amazon pages to grab a potential bargain for instance I paid just £550 for these at the time of purchase (amazon affiliate links).
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Sunday, August 15, 2021
Corsair MP600 NVME M.2 SSD Review, Crystal Disk, Atto Benchmarks, How Hot Does it Get? / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Corsair MP600 is a PCIE4.0 SSD drive with advertised read speeds of upto 4950 mb/s and write speeds of upto 4250 mm/s and in this video we benchmark a couple of these drives to see if real world use matches the sales pitch. Furthermore given the high access speeds it's good to know how hot these SSD drives get! As usually the hotter the drive the more likely it is to fail earlier, especially when SSD temps approach and pass 60c! So find out in our latest video of what to expect with MP600 SSD's
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
URGENT! ALL Windows 10 Users Must Do this NOW! Windows Image Backup Before it is Too Late! / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
A disaster is waiting to strike in the background for all windows users! The day when you start your windows desktop or laptop PC and are confronted with the dreaded blue screen message "your device ran into a problem and needs to restart. We'll restart for you" and so begins your decent down the Windows recovery rabbit hole where no matter what you do, what options you select, many, many hours later you still have not managed to get back into Windows because Windows 10 is LESS robust, LESS forgiving them Windows 7 was before it! THUS every Windows user must follow the steps in this video to avoid this inevitable disastrous outcome or risk facing the final solution have having to format and perform a clean install, all of your data and software WIPED! When all you needed to do was follow the steps in this video that ensure that no matter what happens there is a way back into a working system with all of your software and data intact!
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Sunday, July 18, 2021
Dell S3220DGF Unboxing and Stand Assembly - 32 Inch 165hz Curved Gaming Monitor Amazon Discount / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
The price of the Dell S3220DGF Monitor has CRASHED first to £305 and now as I write at just £290! A bargain on Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn). down from a range of £400 to £450. We love these monitors, that's why we already have 2 of them and so last week I bought a third monitor delivered today, unboxed and stand assembly. This video shows exactly what you get in the box and how to easily attach the monitor to the stand. After watching our video then do follow the link to Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn) to grab yourselves a bargain good monitor while you can!
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Friday, July 16, 2021
Dell S3220DGF Price CRASH to £305! 32 Inch 165hz Curved Gaming Monitor Amazon Bargain / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
The price of the Dell S3220DGF Monitor has CRASHED to £305 as sold on Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn). down from a range of £400 to £450. We love these monitors, that's why we already have 2 of them and now taking advantage of the price crash to buy a third! So if your looking for a GOOD monitor in terms of price and specs then watch our video and follow the link to Amazon (https://amzn.to/2Io4MHn) to grab a bargain while you can!
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Saturday, July 10, 2021
WD MY Book DUO Drives Lottery - What Disks are Inside - Red or Blue - 28tb Model / ConsumerWatch / Computing
By: HGR
What Drives are inside a Mybook DUO is it a red or blue find out as I open up a 28TB My Book DUO enclosure and find out.
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Friday, June 25, 2021
How to Fix Windows 10 Boot Startup, Log on Problems Nightmare PC Needs to Restart Message / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
NIGHTMARE when your windows 10 fails to start instead your met with the dreaded @Your PC Needs to Restart@ blue message screen. And were automatic system repair fails. We'll here are the steps I went through to get back into Windows when I experienced such a failure and so can too can quickly get back into windows as well as taking further actions to make disaster recovery even more certain by means of making system images, even going as far as cloning ones system disk so in case of an even worse nightmare you can just swap out your system drive for the cloned one and be up and running.
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Friday, June 18, 2021
Youtube Upload Stuck at 0% QUICK FIXES Solutions Tutorial / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Here is a tutorial of what to do if ever you encounter an upload problem on your youtube videos with the dreaded stuck at 0% message or 95% processing. I hope they work for you and this video is able to help you. Please let me know in the comment section below.
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Friday, June 04, 2021
Scan Computers - How to Test New Systems CPU, GPU and Hard Drive Stability With Free Software / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
New Computer, just delivered? Here's what to do to quickly test your system to make sure it is working properly before you start transferring valuable data onto it as we did with this new system bought form Scan Computers UK, a custom built PC that cost £3,300, will it pass the tests? Utilising free download off the net software, Cinebench, ATTO disk, MSI Kombuster, 3D Mark and Passmark as well as helpful utilities such as Hardware Info and Crystal Disk Info.
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Monday, May 31, 2021
How to Unbrick Corsair Radiators After Failed iCUE Firmware Update - H150i Pro, H100i, H115i Fix / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Press the firmware update button in Corsair's iCUE buggy bloat ware software and you can likely say bye bye to your CPU radiator cooler as the fans ramp up to 100% and that's where they will remain forever on top of which your CPU RGB lights go off! Well it happened to me and it has probably happened to you which is why you are here watching this video, not to worry here is the fix for how to get your Corsair radiator working again! After watching and fixing your rad do leave a like and comment below.
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Sunday, May 09, 2021
Yaheetech Mesh Best Cheap Computer /. Gaming Chairs on Amazon Review / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
In our quest for a couple of cheap but useful computer / gaming chairs at under £60 we settled on the Yaheetech Mesh ergonomic Mesh chairs available in multiple colours, find out in our video review if the chairs lived up to our high expectations or not once delivered, assembled and put through their paces..
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Monday, May 03, 2021
Why Ryzen PBO Overclock is Better than ALL Core Under Volting - 5950x, 5900x, 5800x, 5600x Despite Benchmarks / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Ones overclocking game likely starts with Ryzen Master PBO, soon progresses to auto overclocking and then a deep dive into All core overclock's with under volting where the aim of the game is to maximise the cinebench scores. However, maximising cinebench is NOT the same as maximising real world performance. In this video I demonstrate why PBO is probably the best setting to optimise system performance as per utilising settings that those who designed the processor suggest. Whilst everything else may boost ones cinebench scores but actual real world performance will likely be noticeably worse!
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
AMD Ryzen Overclocking Guide - 5900x, 5950x, 5600x PPT, TDC, EDC, How to Best Settings Beyond PBO / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
How best to overclock your Ryzen 5000 series processors such as 5900x, 5950x and 5600x beyond PBO so as to maximise performance whilst minimising power used and temperatures produced through fine tuning PPT, TDC and EDC settings either in the Ryzen Master software or from within bios. Find out how you can boost your systems performance at a lower power consumption and temps then through use of Ryzen Precision Boost Overdrive.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Corsair H150i Pro iCUE Firmware Update Says Bye Bye - H100i, H115i, Bricked Jet Engine Fans Fix / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Corsair's iCUE software is buggy, you soon realise this when you install it on your system and see cpu usage jump as it hogs the processor. You can test this for yourself ny monitoring CPU temps by exiting the software and see the CPU temps drop a few degrees! So software that's supposed to keep your CPU cool actually results in an increase in temps! BUT, that's not the worst of it! The ICUE software alerts users of pending updates such as a firmware update for your water cooler. And as was the case for my H150i triple fan cooler. So thinking, this MUST be safe, one clicks the button to start the firmware update, fans ramp up to 100%, and that's basically where one is stuck! Having an irritating jet engine blowing at full speed makes it very irritating to work. So REBOOT, and your stuck! as corsairs software not only fails to update the firmware but BICKS the cooler! So your stuck with fans at 100% with no way of changing anything, not from iCUE not from Bios.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Easy 10% to 15% Overclock for 5600x, 5900x, 5950x Using AMD Ryzen Master Precision Boost Overdrive / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
If you have got a AMD Ryzen process er be it a 3000 series or the newer 5000 series such as the 5600x, 5900x and 5950x then if you are using stock settings you are leaving a lot of performance on the table, anywhere from 10% to 15% that can be easily achieved following the easy to follow steps in this video.
EASY overclocking within a few minutes. So watch the video, follow the steps and get your 10% to 15% boost! As an example I managed to boost a new system at stock settings by 14.5%! All without doing any fancy time consuming overclocking but easy quick overclock.
So what are you waiting for? BOOST your Ryzen processor now by 10% to 15%!
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Monday, April 12, 2021
Overclockers UK Build Quality - Why Glue Fan to CPU Heat sink Instead of Using Supplied Clips? / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
So during the unboxing of a £1000 student gaming machine from Overclockers UK we straightaway noticed that the fan had been glued onto the CPU heat sink, why would they do that? After all Raijintek the manufacturer will have supplied clips to do that (CPU Cooler Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm ). So in this video we contemplate why Overclockers would do that as that is not the intended why the fan is supposed to be mounted onto the heat sink, watch the video and share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Friday, April 02, 2021
WD My Book DUO 28tb Unboxing - What Drives Inside the Enclosure, Reds or Blues Review / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Here's the unboxing of the 28tb MONSTER WD MY Book DUO external drive! Find out exactly what you get un the box and what drives are in the enclosure! Are they Red or Blue? Find out now! And also how not to get the drives out of the enclosure!
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Monday, March 29, 2021
Building 7 Desktop PC Systems in 14 Hours for Charity in 2001 for Shipment to Cuba / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Once upon a time when 2001 was supposed to become a Space Oddessy reality Pentium class cpu computers were deemed to be the gold standard in desktop PC systems, and in that time those who had the knowledge and skill to rapidly assemble such machines were in high premium demand. And so I gave up my time to a local charity that asked me to build 7 working machines from a collection of donated parts, old machines and components that I had bought so that they could be shipped off to a collective in Cuba who were in much need of desktops given the trade blockade that Cuba was under from the US, so that this developing nation could start to join the information age.
Here's the video I made during my 14 hour ordeal, vowing NEVER AGAIN would I agree to build more than 1 computer in any one day, still this was for charity where the container ship was destined to leave Britain's shores for Cuba virtually as soon as the 7 or 8 machines were built and transported off to port during the morning.
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Friday, March 26, 2021
Scan Computers 1st Time Switch On of Custom 3SX System Build 2021 - Scan.co.uk Review (5) / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Ordering a custom built PC from Scan Computers UK, this is video no 5 in this series where we connect up the cables and switch it on for the first time! Will it boot? Will windows start? Is windows activated? What to check on first use, find out in our latest video in this series as we put scan computers 5950x, RTX 3-80, 64gb £3300 monster throuigh it's paces.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Scan Computers UK Quality of Custom 3SX System Build 2021 - 5950x, RTX 30380 - Scan.co.uk Review (4) / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
Ordering a custom built PC from Scan Computers UK, this is video no 4 in this series which is on quality of system build for this 5950x, RTX 3-80, 64gb £3300 monster, the components used, installation layout, the cabling, have they made any obvious mistakes, let's find as we check the the system before powering up. and do check out my previous videos in this series on ordering a custom built systems from Scan Computers UK.
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