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Doge wrote: »

Theres the Datavac ED500, but at £85 it`s quite pricey consider the U.S. version goes for $60.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Datavac-Electric-Duster-ED-500-220-240V/dp/B003BZCOKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1435604960&sr=8-1&keywords=ed500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXx7UtzckEc

A lot of people worry that a static charge will build up from the dust blowing around, and could destroy your motherboard.

But a good few people on overclockers.co.uk bought them and there has yet to be 1 report of a motherboard failing after cleaning it with one.

Its a gadget I`d love to own someday but can`t justify the price.

I use a small compressor, its perfect. Has a moisture trap and ESD isnt really a thing with metal components, just a plastic hoover nozzle and even then not really.




This yoke is really common on massdrop. IMO is priced at twice what most would reasonably pay, even with the group buy discount. Nice idea though.

ED E wrote: »

I use a small compressor, its perfect. Has a moisture trap and ESD isnt really a thing with metal components, just a plastic hoover nozzle and even then not really.

Hey ED E, where did you get it?

Why don't shop maplin?

Opening box containing new monitor as we speak

marko93 wrote: »

IS there any decent alternate to buying compressed air to clean out my PC?

Bought an inflatable mattress and it came with an electric pump. With a tight nozzle (provided) it's pretty impressive.

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Bought an inflatable mattress and it came with an electric pump. With a tight nozzle (provided) it's pretty impressive.

Do you find it gets rid of all the dust?

This coleman air pump looks impressive:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Coleman-UK-Quickpump-Red-230/dp/B00QTWL5X4



Anyone want to take a punt?

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

How can someone be so clueless as to what a computer is worth? Guy on adverts selling a 1st gen i7 PC with 6GB Ram, a Geforce 8600Gt (:eek:) and Windows XP (:eek::eek:)...

Asking price 1K.

because people who have no clue will go and buy it off adverts

Doge wrote: »

Do you find it gets rid of all the dust?

No, but it's much better than nothing and we were buying it anyway.

Would anyone have a few sticks of dead DDR3 RAM and PCIEx4 and PCIEx16 modules they'd allow me to paint?

Want to do a full build mod, case painted, motherboard painted, ram, gpu, HDDs, SSDs, the whole shebang.

I'll be using spray paint for most of it and don't want to fill the PCI and RAM slots, so I figure the easiest way to solve that is fill them with broken parts.

It's going different colours if anyone is wondering why I'm not using my own stuff, and yes I will do a build log here

@Digital Solitude

You can get plastic slot covers if that's any use to you.

Digital Solitude wrote: »

BitFenix are a serious brand, Prodigys are supposed to be fairly good cases so I'd say they'd be a good shot



That is a lot of use, wasn't aware of that. Thanks

I may actually have some old DDR3 around the place if you still need it, I'll have a look and send you a PM if I find it.

I was actually looking at the case for my own build a few months back, but went with the NZXT H440 instead. Heard good things about the case but want to know if it's worth the money, this is an oddly big deal for her :P

Sonics2k wrote: »

Anyone got or used the Bitfenix Prodigy M (2014) edition?

Other half is looking at changing her case and I wanted to check few things about it first. Namely how is it for airflow and cooling? Her current case is fairly shocking for cooling having only one fan aside from the CPU and pretty poor ventilation.

i have the phenom m same case inside as the prodigy , very strong heavy case, once keep your cables tidy and flip the sides around its easy enough to get good air flow

Anyone know much about 120/144hz monitors? I got a new job and have been saving for a while, so I'm going to treat myself :P

Can't think of any other component worth upgrading in m build, my two oldest ones are my PSU and monitor, both 5 years old now So I'm gonna grab myself a nice shiny new one. My current one is a nice 21.5inch Samsung 1080p (can't be arsed checking model, lying in bed now :P).

So I was thinking of going 1440p, but don't see the point as it would mean forking out for another GPU for crossfire probably, or going for a 980ti.

High refresh rate monitors are supposed to be one if those mechanical keyboard "once you getone you can't go back things".

Any thoughts? My current GPU is a 290 Vapor X, clocked highly if that matters. Budget is flexible but I don't wanna spend much more than 300 euro.

I think this looks nice


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HZF2JWA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_sfl_title_1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

24 inches will be a bit bigger than my current monitor which might be nicer, but not too much bigger so that it doesn't give up pixel density. It seems pretty fully featured too.

Thanks

Danger781 wrote: »

Might have some DDR memory (As in DDR1.. 333Mhz), and one or two PCI cards. It's from my very first PC and I'm getting rid of it.

DDR1 won't fit but I'll take the PCI cards if you don't mind?

Danger781 wrote: »

Why won't DDR1 fit? Looks to be the exact same dimensions, not that I inspected it..

Yeah my parents were supposed to be getting rid of it today but I'll see if I can intercept them!

The slot is in a different place for each generation of ram chips.