Hardware Discussion Thread

Procrastastudy

I have a dock - also for sale - you can have both for €35 if you like. But only as your a boardsie and oonly if he comes to my gaff - I'm lazy. Not far from town I'm on Ushers Island (near Guinesses)

freeze4real

Sending you a pm on adverts.

Monotype

Benzino wrote: »

Thanks, they are a bit cheaper alright Will go with the Samsung in that case. Has been a while since I last got a SSD, I assume they don't come with a SATA cable? Will need to pick one up otherwise.

They don't come with a cable unless you get a desktop version.

freeze4real wrote: »

Motherboard is a p8p67 LE.

That's good to hear that you got a more modern board.

freeze4real

Monotype wrote: »

That's good to hear that you got a more modern board.

It was a tough bargain, I'm almost wiped out.

I sold my GTS 450 for an ATI 4890 and I also got an i3 2120.

Atleast I should notice some improvement from my old pc.

Tar.Aldarion

Do ebuyer ship to ireland?

Tea_Bag

not anymore no.

Monotype

You'll have a good upgrade path anyway if you do need to upgrade the CPU. The 4890 should be a reasonable bit better than the 450, 10% anyway, aside from not having DirectX 11. You can overclock it too and get more out of it. Quite a decent card in fairness.

freeze4real

Hi all,

So I got a dock to transfer files from my IDE drive to a new sata drive.

The problem is that the IDE drive when connectedto my pc is not being detected.

Maybe it's becaue my pc, a laptop is runing on 32 bit.

Or accidentally my files has been wiped out.

Or I am doing some thing wrong, any ideas

thanks

Procrastastudy

I should add he's using one of those all in one Docks which I sold him :eek:

http://www.adverts.ie/other-hardware/all-in-1-hdd-docking-station/1931887

freeze4real

I have started copying, I will testit on my bro's pc if it works or not .

freeze4real

I might actually cancel it, it's taking forever.

so it seems the hard rive has been wiped clean.

ED E

freeze4real wrote: »

I might actually cancel it, it's taking forever.

so it seems the hard rive has been wiped clean.

If f you havent written to it much then you could quite well recover a lot.

freeze4real

ED E wrote: »

If f you havent written to it much then you could quite well recover a lot.

I dont get you.

What do you mean ?

I had about 100GB of data in there.

Procrastastudy

When you wipe information from a hard drive it actually stays there.

try http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Hence why I low-level formatted the drive I sold you :eek::

freeze4real

GCDLawstudent wrote: »

When you wipe information from a hard drive it actually stays there.

try http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Hence why I low-level formatted the drive I sold you :eek::

And will I be able to restore the drive how it was originally ?


I already started to use paretologic, its about 65% done, hopefully I get something out of it.

Procrastastudy

nope but you might get some of the data off it

Procrastastudy

Guys an Intel 320 160GB (OEM) virtually brand new - €140 ish? Is that a good deal. Any idea if Intel would give the guarantee from the manufacturing date?

How does it stack up speed-wise against the current gen drives?

Thanks in advance

Oh wow - looking at the benchmarks these things are pants.

ShadowHearth

160gb is space before format I presume. So it's 145gb in real life.

I would just throw extra few quid and get brand new 256gb m4 or Samsung. That's going to be brand new with warranty and 245gb of real storage.

Eboggles

The 660ti looks like it's going to cost between $299 and $349 according to some cards already available online. That's between the 7870 ($299) and 7950 ($329 after MIR).

Also, the charts are in; looks like it's Nvidia's generation :pac:

ED E

Anyone know if there's a specific orientation that HDDs last longest in? Most cases put them flat, while rack servers(greater than 2U) usually have them on their side, and many externals have them on their end? Does it matter?

glynf

Orientation has no affect on modern drives, used to years ago with older models IIRC.

thewheel2.0

Eboggles wrote: »

The 660ti looks like it's going to cost between $299 and $349 according to some cards already available online. That's between the 7870 ($299) and 7950 ($329 after MIR).

Also, the charts are in; looks like it's Nvidia's generation :pac:

Argh I thought that it would be closer to the €200 price point. That midrange market needs competition!

Monotype

Have people seen this?
http://www.leapmotion.com/

Pretty cool - not sure how practical but nice nevertheless.

glynf

Saw a pre production preview video about it somewhere, more here.

It looks good though and now they're taking pre orders, works out at €66 shipped to Ireland.

Every time I visit this forum its costing me money:D

That angry birds level was an easy 3 stars as well..

ShadowHearth

so lets make gaming even with more ****ier controls then touchscreen! AWESOME!

looks cool, but useless. imagine how tired your hands would be after few hours with such desktop.

glynf

Agreed, no doubt rubbish for fps'. Still, tech like this can only get more accurate.
In fairness there's worse things done in front of a PC that would
give one tire hands. XD

Procrastastudy

Similar is vein - has anyone tried a Track IR? What did you think of it?

pandaboy

It provides a great alternative for Tablet work. Some adjustments would need to be made for the ergonomics but I could definitely see the positives of the Leap in the media industry.

RTE's OB trucks for live broadcasts use touchscreen technology, so something like this would be extremely advantageous.

Tea_Bag

GCDLawstudent wrote: »

Similar is vein - has anyone tried a Track IR? What did you think of it?

I think pogmothoin uses a track ir5. looks sweet in arma2.

Brian

Wouldn't you end up looking away from your monitor though? Does it only work if you have a huge monitor and sit very close? I had access to a TrackIR last year for a research project but never got to use it.