Recent content by paulpicks21

Ok, just spoke to him, sorry to waste everyone's time, thankfully he didn't order it as he does not have an OS to upgrade from. He is used to using windows 7 on his laptop so I have recommended buying a copy of Windows 7, that way I can install it tomorrow and he can activate next week when he...

It looks like it was an upgrade we were looking at. I am gonna have to speak to him.

Thanks theog, I will give it a good read. ATJ, I am not too sure, I was not with him when he ordered it and won't be speaking to him until tomorrow. But he is a student and we were looking at the official Ms student site where they do 8.1 pro for £49.99 iirc. I didn't look to see if that was...

Hi guys, I am building a new PC for my partners Brother tomorrow. All the parts were delivered today but his copy of Windows 8 will not be delivered until next week. He really wants me to build it tomorrow and hopefully have him up and running. I know with Windows 7 you can install it and use...

I take it they have done away with WEI in 8.1 Preview altogether? Cos it certainly ain't there no more!

Thanks bud :) Really this is the wrong place to ask that kind of question. But previous experience tells me that I should install all the motherboard drivers so I am gonna go ahead and do so.

Bonjour guys/gals. Been around for quite some time but not had reason to post in a long time as I didn't have any form of Windows 8 since an early beta. Well I just installed 8.1 Preview on an old SSD I had to give it a good testing out. Dare I say it, I actually quite like it so far, I have it...

Just to say, BF3 works fine for me on CP.

Of course not:) They both boot in around the same time and both run programs in around the same time, I am sure the M4 is faster, but only in benchmarks. Both run well in the 2 rigs I have them in.

Ok for comparison, got windows 8 running on my M4 now.

Ok, I connected my old sata II Corsair F60 SSD up to run windows 8 on my main rig. Everything is as in my system specs apart from the M4, the cpu was running at 4.8

Just installing it now. :D

:ditto: lol

Hi winstontj, Passmark Performance Test is a very good bit of software, it tests every part of the system and gives individual in depth scores for each part. I am pretty sure it works on Windows 8 as well as 7. PassMark PerformanceTest - PC benchmark software There are also sections which...

Lol, depends what you class 'budget' as. My main rig owes me around £1300 Seeing as I managed to use some old spare parts on the new build it cost me a total of £230 and that included a new monitor:D It's a fantastic PC for the money for sure.