Recent content by OnTheOrme

Just to finish the story... I've now swapped the motherboard to an ASRock 970A-G/3.1 (£70) to give me a bit more "everything" - SATA-3, more RAM capacity, more PCIE slots, onboard USB 3.0 & 3.1/C, an m2 NVME slot. It turns out the RAM was only 8gb after all - not sure why the old motherboard...

Yes it’s a normal 24pin ATX power connector, and a 4pin CPU connnector. Next step for me would be a motherboard/CPU/ram bundle now that I’ve got my confidence back - did not want to trash a £1k set of components on my first outing! That being said, I’m an XBOX gamer so it should last me a...

Sorry (not sorry) to reply to an ancient thread but just thought I'd share my Covid-lockdown adventure :) I had an old Acer X3400 kicking around so decided to use it as the basis of a new desktop PC build - a cheap way to see if I still remember how! Firstly I transplanted the motherboard in...