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How reliable is your computer?

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As above- how reliable is your comp in term's- how long you can go without it crashing/locking/freezing up?, and is there any one thing that seems to reliably cause your comp to lock- or switch itself off effectivley due to supposed "fatal errors!"

Mine is patchy at best!- sometimes it can go for day's without hassle- other time's it will fall down/crash maybe 1-3 times per night! :sad:

One thing that does cause it to spaz out and freeze up within about 5 mins without fail is if im playing- even the most basic games online- or indeed- a mate o mine lent me tiger woods 2006, and that would'nt play for more than about 3 mins at a time without causing my comp to crash!, and the ONLY way round each time it happens is to turn the comp off at the power button- and restart it! :bh

Anyone else have problems like this? -or is it just me!???????? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

I've only been trying to play a simple 2d puzzle game as o latley- but as i say- i can't play it for more than 5 mins without the comp crashing/locking up! :bh :bh :bh :bh :bh :bh

I can see the comp suffering death by shotgun/sledgehammer & fire if this keeps up!- it's nearly been out the window a few time's- i can tell ya! :frust

Computers! :sad: - great WHEN there working- a royal pain in the arris when there not! :bh :bh :bh
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bigfella
They have 2 buttons now, well, the actions of 2.

I prefer Macs to use at home, as I work with Windows all day. The joys of being I.T!
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Keosk
Talkingcars said:
My 5 year old HP PC is good except ie8 keeps jamming and locking up! :(
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HP make decent desktop machines. For laptops, I go to Dell. As for IE8...ffftttt.
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Mine is playing up at the moment so not been on here for a while. BT Voyager router with a Belkin USB adaptor. Keep losing internet connection and when I search for available networks, loads come up except for mine?? I'm guessing that the router and or the adaptor is faulty? The router gets really warm.
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bigfella
Yeah those Voyagers are quite old now. Suprised they haven't swapped it out for a Home Hub or something, although they aren't very good either.
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I changed the voyager for another supposedly new voyager a couple of months ago courtesy of ebay but it's now doing the same thing. My guess is, that if my computer/ usb is picking up all my neighbours systems, then it's a fair bet that the router is faulty?
However since this time yesterday it's been working fine. Sods law as I have another router & usb on their way to me.
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In answer to the original question- very!

Hand built, i7 975x, Rampage 3 mobo, 12GB DDR3 1600 RAM, ATI 5900 2GB.
Running Win7 and no problems to date.

I love pc's and building them.

And also hi, I'm new here. Picking up a MG ZS 180 on saturday so thought I'd do some homework on it.

Thanks
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bigfella
Nice, what you getting?

That PC is some piece of kit.

I used to be into it, I had nice watercooled PC before. Ran a 1.2ghz overclock!

Was a few years ago now, I had 2x 8800gtx in SLI and watercooled.
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bigfella said:
Nice, what you getting?

That PC is some piece of kit.

I used to be into it, I had nice watercooled PC before. Ran a 1.2ghz overclock!

Was a few years ago now, I had 2x 8800gtx in SLI and watercooled.
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The car? MG ZS 180, Trophy Blue, 02 plate, 77k, 1300 quid. Not bad really


I have had a few setups before. This one is watercooled on the CPU only, can get 4.0ghz stable from each core. The ATi 5900 is a dual GPU card (one of the fastest dual GPU's on the market). I have to supplement it with and 8 pin and a 6 pin power. I used to have a 4870 Vapor-X, which was brilliant. Before that I had a SLI setup of 2x nVidia 260. Heat was a massive problem, and they were very loud.
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Bloody computers. Belkin G Router with built in modem was bought off ebay hopefully to have replaced the BT Voyager. No good though as the Belkin has to be ethernet wired from a phone socket to the computer where as I was expecting wireless. So that's back on ebay for sale. Installed a newer and more powerfull usb adaptor though and that has improved things.However, there was no installation disc etc. Took me a while to sort a driver out. Then I couldn't get rid of the old adaptor by removing programmes. I tend to learn things the longer way these days !
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RaptorUK
Belkin G . . .. sounds like wireless 802.11g to me . . . they usually have to be connected via LAN for the initial setup but then all PCs that use it can be wireless.

Maybe I am confused about what you mean . . .
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