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Motherboard Repair

Motherboards are the main component of any device, not just computers and tablets. It exists in cars, washing machines, TV’s etc.

We repair all types of computer motherboards, where relevant diagrams are available. Sometimes not everything can be repairs, and must be replaced. Either way, we will try to fix it first to reduce cost for you.

Stability

Stable computers are are often slower than their counterpart “performance/gaming” computer. But you can get the best of both. Consider brands such as Alienware, Asus, MSI, NVidia, AMD, ATi, Intel

Gaming

Gaming computers are high performance and are fairly expensive. Some even have liquid cooling to keep the temperatures low. Consider brand such as Alienware, Asus, MSI, NVidia, AMD, ATi, Intel.

You don’t have to buy the top model of everything, you can make small sacrifices, and improve performance by replacing your standard Hard Drive with an SSD drive with approx 530mbps+ Read/Seek time. For example, try using a brand called Silicon Power found on Amazon for approx £50. It easily outperforms brands such as Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk, and others.

Macbook and Laptops

We regularly repair Apple Macbooks, Windows PC & Laptops. Ranging from Desktops, laptops, all-in-one, gaming consoles. We’ve even come across the odd boiler PCB and a diabetes monitor. Our skills and services are more than just repairing computers and consoles. We will try to repair almost anything electronic if not too large or has high voltage.

Brands

Everybody loves branded items. When we say Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Toshiba, or Samsung we think “Oh yes I love them”. That’s because they have a good reputation – mainly for busineses. But for home use, they are very slow because they install lots of their proprietary software on it (bloatware), which uses up majority of the system resources.

Buy alternative brands from companies who are top of their league for performance. Buy brand such as Alienware, Asus, MSI, NVidia, AMD, ATi, Intel.

Protection

Stay safe, stay protected. Install antivirus on your computer. We recommend ZoneAlarm Antivirus & Firwall. We DO NOT recommend Norton or McAfee because they do not perform very well compared to the Free ones. Everyone believed Norton and McAfee are very good….but that’s because they are very heavily marketed by their partner company Curry’s PC World. Take any computer from Curry’s PC World and you will find either Norton or McAfee on it…along with bloatware (reducing real performance).

Download the Free Antivirus’s available.  But there’s lots of others – have a look in our Software section.
Avast, Avira, AVG, BitDefender,  Malwarebytes, Malware Fighter, and more.

Performance

Performance matters above all in any computer or device. Buy brand such as Alienware, Asus, MSI, NVidia, AMD, ATi, Intel, as opposed to Dell, HP, Lenovo, and other typical market brands. Those typical market brand will most often have slow performance. Consider a Mercedes and Lamborghini. Both very good cars, but Mercedes will be far slower than a Lamborghini, at the same time with a higher price tag. Same goes for computers. Performance comes at a cost.