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/facepalm ..... It turns out that the problem was a WIFI dongle antenna I purchased from Amazon a couple of years ago, it's worked fine for my 2500k . I used drivers that were auto installed by windows 10 and then drivers that came with the dongle, same issue with both. Anyway, I received new...

I will give this post a *bump* in a week when the new parts arrive, if that's ok. I would think, fingers crossed, that I will be issue free at that point !

I bought the CPU and RAM through Amazon UK. I actually just spoke to them and they are sending a courier out to collect them tomorrow, a refund when they receive items. It feels kind of strange sending both items back and then buying the exact items from Amazon once I receive a refund. Oh well...

Yeah after two brand new mobo's, I think that isnt the prob........... I did 24 hour memtest86 with both sticks of ram = no errors. I then did each stick by itself, 12 hours each = no errors. From what I read, even that may not be a long enough test! .... As I say I dont really know what I am...

Yeah the stand offs are ok... I have tried two new mobo's. The first mobo I tried was a MSI Intel Z270 PC MATE and I had all of the problems listed above. After that, a friend helped me out with a new ASUS PRIME Z270-A, same issues as with the MSI board. The Asus board has less the sound lag...

Yep, a few fresh installs lol. Thanks for your reply.

So I decided to upgrade CPU, mobo and ram as my old I5 2500k started running hot and seemed to be at the end of it's life. Please bear in mind that I dont know a huge amount about PC stuff. My problems are. 1. When opening any program/app it takes from 15 to 30 seconds for anything to...