Recent content by Darren S

I use this at the side of my seat and frame. Looks a bit conductor('ish) and is silly expensive for what it is - but maybe there's a cheaper one on the likes of eBay?

I did - and then switched back to a wired K&M with USB extension leads. I was getting pissed off with the power saving of the wireless devices that sometimes wouldn't come out if sleep mode.

Same here - learn something new every day!

Welcome aboard! So, that comment - "or that the gearbox oil hasn't been changed at all." As there's written evidence of a leak from the transmission - the above would be my absolute 1st port of call. In the grand scheme of things, replacing the gearbox oil isn't expensive or time consuming...

Is that the 9800X3D? Makes a big difference on games that can utilise the v-cache onboard the CPU.

With my previous 6700K - I went from a GTX1080 which was a good combo in terms of balance @1440. Then, I upgraded the GPU to an RTX3070Ti and it absolutely battered the CPU. It simply couldn't keep up and the cooling for the CPU was way more active than previous. Ended up going down the Ryzen...

Absolutely this. Easiest thing to check & replace. Relatively cheap to do and getting a new battery is never really false economy - unless you bought one last week! A multitude of weird happenings can occur through a dying battery.

Bought an R36S 128GB last year, thinking it would be great. Played it for about 15mins and realised that I don't have the hands of a 6-year-old. Can use a keyboard and mouse or XBox controller for ages - yet the inputs on this thing are awkwardly placed and actually tiring to use. Sat on the...

The classic Mini in Wales at night is a lot of fun.

Noticed on mine that the graphics started to stutter a bit. Once every 10 seconds or so - went down to 9fps for the briefest of moments. Downloaded nVidia Inspector and enabled Resize Bar globally - as for some strange reason the nVidia drivers don't always apply this, even when they say they...

Runs very slick on my system - a Ryzen 7 5800X3D with an RTX3090 at 1440 resolution. It looks smoother than what DIRT 2.0 is in a number of places and I've not seen any evidence of texture pop-in yet either from poorly optimised draw distances, either.

I know this was mentioned in one of the other AC threads - but I thought it might be worthy of its own thread. Early access of v0.1 has been released today and I have to say that first impressions are very good. It looks great, sounds good too - but the biggest plus point is the lack of that...

That is a good deal. I just went for the bobby basic Amazon one with Mario Kart. £406 I think it was - which does make the Very one in comparison, good value indeed.

Bought a Switch 2 to arrive tomorrow. I feel dirty. Like I've cheated on the PC. I hope the PCMR will forgive me....

I'm still receiving counselling for refitting my door cards! Shitter of a job - hated it.