Does anyone else own the mighty Samsung 2333HD and run HDMI on it?

Games seem to be running nicely. Shogun is pretty gorgeous almost maxed out with the latest shaders and what-not. However it did seem to stick around 75-80c with all the graphical gubbins. Saints Row 4 usually went up to 67c. I assume these are safe temperatures? At what point should I knit my brow with concern?

Irritatingly my computer refuses to recognise a few of the .tiff film scans I imported, and even went to BSOD when I tried to fiddle with them. No biggy though, at worst I can just rescan the negatives. Baffling though as the other computer didn't have a problem.

Bugger! Spoke too soon, just had another BSOD.

Dodgy RAM deffo number one suspect.

I guess it could be a HD error, then, with a bad sector or something? I'll run a check on that next. Half way through the second test pass and no problems flagged yet. :/

I know it's a hassle, but one of the reasons why buying a ready made system is a good idea is that you don't have to worry about diagnosing this crap. Just give them a bell and tell them it's broken and they need to fix it.

As an aside, I was wondering about my graphics card t'other day. Is there any point in my upgrading it? It's a 6970 and I play stuff on a 1920*1080 monitor. I expect i'm missing a few of the latest DX bells and whistles, but how much would I need to spend to notice a serious difference in performance?

I've only skim read the above so apologies if this is totally irrelevant, but could the overclocked cpu be causing the bsod? My computer started blue screening a couple of years ago but once I reverted the cpu back to stock it has worked fine since.

CPU-Z will give you the same information from within Windows.

Next time you get a BSOD of death go here on your PC C:\Windows\Minidump

You should have a file with a .dmp extension. Get the one with the latest date and post it here

I can have a look at it in the debugging tools and maybe give you a clue as to what the issue is

Will also need to know what OS you are running and if its 32 or 64 bit

WoW and Hearthstone are the primary reasons I've not upgraded my PC in yonks, although GTA5 may tip me over into new computer territory, depending on how it runs on my existing setup.

I don't need much encouragement to spunk cash on shiny new PC stuff, but when WoW and Hearthstone are accounting for 95%+ of my gaming, even I baulk at dropping £250 on a new graphics card or a few hundred quid on a new mobo/CPU/RAM, or maybe a grand or more on a whole new PC.

Mrs Hearthly's new PC has been a bit of an eye-opener as well, it's very much what you'd call 'midrange', and yet it absolutely kicks the shit out of everything I've chucked at it at 1080p with all the pretties turned on whilst comfortably maintaining 60FPS (and remaining whisper quiet at all times).

The thing is though, XBox One and PS4 just haven't moved things on in terms of the power on tap, being comfortably outgunned by even a modest gaming PC. Their CPUs in particular are turning out to be very weak (with those 8 horrible AMD cores), and as they're effectively PCs stuffed into little boxes, it stands to reason that you're not going to need much of a mega-PC to run whatever game you want to at very nice settings.

GTA5 will be one to watch though, I'm awaiting that one with keen interest.

Dear god stop beating the PC v console drum. No one cares.

One sentence in a single post, and must be the first time I've posted anything on the subject in months, plus it was contextual, and in a thread called 'PC gaming hardware thread'.

Your definition of 'beating the drum' is a fairly unusual one.

Yup, but still one one cares.

I've bitten the bullet and ordered a GTX960, which seems to be the right card for my 1080P projector. It's twice the speed of my HD6970 according to the stats, so it should make a noticeable difference and mean I don't need to faff around with video settings as I currently do to get stuff smooth

It's a pretty remarkable card TBH, which variant did you go for?