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BTW... Child no 2 is after a switch 2. Child no 1 has a switch 1 plugged into the TV which they share. Not convinced it's that much of an upgrade and it seems bloody expensive for what it is.

Interesting thread. Nice bit of nostalgia... I've been exposed to computers as long as I can remember. When I was about 3 we had a BBC micro system with a cassette deck. I remember some kind of side on flying game and we had a game called JCB Digger where you had to dig holes and shove aliens...

I aim to live forever or die trying. If you've got something to hide, hide it!

Interesting (and very timely) thread. Just in the process of setting up my new desk in the new office after our extension earlier this year (no chance of an office before that!) I was hoping to connect my recently ish repaired NAD D3020 to my desktop via USB so I can use it for speakers or...

We stream on demand and also use a Freesat box to record. The big benefit to me of the Freesat recorder is that you can fast forward through the adverts. The ads you have to sit through for the on demand services do my head in!

Problem is that they all get a bit bloated and slow after a while. With the Intel i7-8700 and 256GB m2 PCie x4 SSD it should be a le to run pretty quickly. As some have said you're unlikely to be able to run top end games at crazy frame rates with the processor and graphics card you have...

By the way, I meant to say a bit about the manufacturers. The panels tend (like TV panels I believe) to be made by a handful of manufacturers and sold to different companies. I think (and I don't know this for certain) that the one in my Gigabyte is actually an LG IPS pannel. It may well be...

Interesting pair of monitors. Both really quite different. One is a curved 21:9 VA panel and the other is a flat IPS 16:9 IPS panel. VA panels tend to have higher contrast and deeper backs. Colours can be punchy but not necessarily accurate and they have a narrow viewing angle so the...

I'd forgotten about Mesh. Fortunately I avoided Time computers ("it's not a computer, it's a Time machine"). One of my friends had a Time Machine. It really was made of absolute cheese.

I too have ridden the wave from 3.11 to 95 to98 then to XP, Vista, Windows 7, Window 10 and now Windows 11. Our first PC, after BBC Micro system, Amstrad (not sure of the model but it had a 5 1/4 inch floppy disc drive) and Amiga 500 was a Viglen with a Pentium 90. It was one of the first...

But I'm sure you'll agree that nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Sometimes this can be due to a cache issue where your web browser stores older versions of the website so it no longer meshes with what is actually now there. You could try accessing these sites using private browsing / incognito mode and see if you still get the issue. If its all working fine...

Isn't it a case of the more you add, the faster the computer runs?

Good question. I honestly have no idea. I dismantled it a lot further than the brief looks I've had in the past. Everything inside seemed fine and there didn't seem to be any breaks in the circuits when tested with the multimeter. When disassembling the boards have to be prised apart as there...