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SterlingArcher wrote: »

Looking on adverts at gpus was enough to put me off selling mine yet think I'll wait till I have a gtx 1080. Don't care about the loss not worth it dealing with timmys.

Buying or selling?

I bought a second hand 290 last year for what I felt was a good price, think it was like €220. If I was selling it to fund a 1070, probably look for €150 for it.

Adverts can be frustrating, but then I don't get that annoyed just telling people no. Some people feel the need to entertain every outragous offer they receive.

TheDoc wrote: »

Buying or selling?

I bought a second hand 290 last year for what I felt was a good price, think it was like €220. If I was selling it to fund a 1070, probably look for €150 for it.

I bought my 290 second hand last year on Adverts for 210. Sold it 13 months later for 230... Definately dont take less than 200 for it because there fetching that and upwards even for reference models.

And on another subject I got sorted from my earlier post. Dude was trying to power the 290 off the molex pins using an Artic or other cheapo 700W PSU. His friend tested it using an Evga Supernova PSU and card was fine. Thanks for the advice guys

MarkAnthony wrote: »

O.M.F.G... HOTAS on the chair... great idea!!!

More pics please!

Hold your horses! I've a lot on my plate. Waiting for my Rift, purchasing and building my VR PC, purchasing and building my media server, planning buttkickers for the chair and all the cabling, inset breakout panel for all the cabling and my Rift cabling built into the desk, etc etc blah blah.

My brain is buckling under the mental load!!

Heres google images of where I got the idea.

In a lot of those examples the Vesa brackets are orientated differently with the HOTAS velcro'd to the VESA mount plate itself. However, I found that the clamp parts projected into the seat/leg space and I worried I'd scratch my thighs off them if I didn't sit down carefully. Instead I rotated the clamps compared to most which actually meant they clamped around this chairs metal arms perfectly. The clamps no longer projected into the seat space, and the new orientation compared to those others means the articulation of the 'arms' of the Vesa mount and rotatability of the 'plate' are not rendered moot. They are now usable and I can swing the Hotas away to the sides and also rotate the plate and pivot the HOTAS down so the chair can now be pushed under the desk. All I need to do to enable all this is make a little platform for the HOTAS that bolts to the mounting plate rather than affixing the HOTAS directly to the plate like all those photo's.

Hard to explain in words. Pictures are better. Heres a crappy Paint diagram though.



The benefit to the way I have orientated the Vesa clamps and how I will mount to the plate is that I get to have the HOTAS in line with the armrests when in use which is the most ergonomic position, but I also get to be able to swing them out of the way to the sides when not in use, and also get to rotate them down so I can push the chair arms under the desk. The way others have these mounted the can either have them ergonomically at the end of the arms but can't swing them away or rotate them or they can rotate them but they are not positioned ergonomically for actually use. You may notice the angle would be slightly tilted towards the floor. I did initially articulate the mount to have the HOTAS level but when I sat in the chair I realised that when I tilt the chair back to a comfortable position with my feet on my footrest, the HOTAS is now level. Basically, the HOTAS mount looks tilted when the chair itself is level when not in use, but when I actually use the chair for Elite Dangerous, I tilt the chair back which levels the HOTAS....if you get me. This matches the pilot in ED much better as far as I can see.

Heres a photo of them articulated such that I could have mounted the hotas directly to the plate. However this was not ergonomic in practice as my arms were splayed outwards and with hands on the HOTAS my elbows are pushed into my torso. Having the HOTAS at the end of the arms and inline with the armrests is the ideal. Arms are suported and neither over extended or bunched up against your torso.



Bonus Pic

MarkAnthony wrote: »

My Rift is in Tamworth at the mo! Any news on yours?

Ah Tamworth. I know you so well. Never been there but lots of my Amazon stuff tracks through there

I've been very ZEN about the whole 2 month shipping delays. Sure I don't even have my VR PC purchased or shipped yet (Waiting for Pascal info that might affect component decisions)

However, Tuesday saw a flurry of European shipment emails before they stopped again. Lots of those emails were for orders very close to mine and even later. I'm a 41 minute XXXX31XXXX 30/05/16 - 09/06/16 pre-order. Started seeing a few european 45-50 minuters orders ship. So My ZEN is gone and I've started checking and F5 ing my order page several times a day and am now gutted each time when it hasn't changed to 'Processing'.

TLDR. Who bloody knows!!

Hi guys Im in the market to building a new pc but I just noticed dabs is pretty much gone for the normal consumer so is there any other site that is decent in prices? in the market for a nice Radeon R9 390 DC3 OC Strix

http://www.hydra-shop.com/en/shop/hydra-desk-case actually thinking i might get one of these being able to pay it off in 4 stages might help haha

i knew i worded that wrong really cool company, responds instantly on facebook to any queries, desks can be customized from 1500mm length to 2000mm, wonder how hard it will be to build in it though

ED E wrote: »

No proof reading there, tut tut.

they start production tomorrow as far ive read, 30 days waiting time after order is placed.

Yeah was looking at a 900d and a nice new desk, spotted the smaller version hydra desk for 550 and was like wow, wonder would setting up a desk case be more fiddly than a regular tower though

Guess I'll just have to own two computers god I can't wait to tell herself of this revelation haha

well if its a limited run i am goosed anyway as i wont have funds for another 2 months, suppose because they are such a new company that reviews will be few and far between......how bad can it be sure if your a 3d designer and you cant design a desk your probably in the wrong business.

In comparison this Lian li just looks so meh

In desk build is potentially the must unappealing fad that has cropped up in PC Building in recent times. I don't see the appeal at all.

Moving into a new house end of this week, and top of the list is an IKEA trip to build a new desk. I'm a freak, get as hyped for a new PC desk as I do with new Pc parts.

I lose the will to live anytime I have to suffer ikea. Walking for miles, usually slowly cos you're stuck behind all the other shoppers who have no idea what they want until they see,passing through all the sections until you get to the one you want, then walking for miles to the warehouse to collect it. Does my head in.

I just ended up building my own desk! :pac:

Redfox25 wrote: »

Could be the most expensive case fan replacement price ever !!

Like needing a new tyre and deciding to replace the engine while you're at it

Something very important missing from this photo

Xenoronin wrote: »

Did you really completely remove the monitor in favour of the rift? :O Dunno if I'd like that tbh. I can see why with your setup though. Looks sweet

The missing component is an actual PC to use the Rift with.

Nah, Gen 1 VR isn't high Res enough to replace the desktop monitor for everyday productivity just yet. Maybe gen 2 or 3 if AR doesn't beat it to the punch. That said I can't wait to play around with Virtual Desktop.

I'll be picking up an LG 34UC98 21:9 curved 34" 1440p monitor soon. I've spent €600 on PC's in the last 11 years. The last 'uber' PC I bought was a Dell XPS and 2405FPW monitor in 2005. (I'm still using the monitor 11 years later.) 2016 is the year I balance the spending out by going absolutely MAD!!!

Calibos wrote:

Something very important missing from this photo

Beer?