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Lu Tze

NTMK wrote: »

what designer thinks that is a good idea? do Lian Li still have their fanboys that still buy this stuff?

No i think theu are ridiculous, but im seriously considering the train case for the sitting room media centre. Pity it would more than double my outlay on the entire thing!

Serephucus

Could do with some help with this one guys.

Looking to wall mount my speakers, and I have the mounts up, but I'm finding it impossible to source the bolts for the speakers themselves.

They use 1/2" long, 1/4" wide, 20 teeth-per-inch screws.

Being imperial are very hard to come by here. The closest metric equivalent will screw in about 1/2 turn, then jam. I haven't been able to find them anywhere. Amazon have them, but the seller doesn't ship to Ireland, and they're €3 per bolt anyway.

Anyone know anyone that might be able to find them? I only need four.

glynf

For any kind of non standard (read imperial) bolts or fixings, I go to Dublin nut & bolt, they have a great selection of stuff. They're on the Ballymount Road lower, give the a call before you head in to be sure.

BTW, disregard the crap website, there is an old boy in there, and he's like the yoda of the fixing world

BloodBath

Have you tried some local hardware stores?

Serephucus

Thanks for that glynf, I'll definitely give them a call in the morning.

And yeah, tried two hardware places near me, neither stocked imperial bolts.

glynf

Burgo wrote: »

Lian li with another interesting mini itx design. No Train this time :P

anandtech did a build in one, interesting case. The Noctua fan sticks out like a sore thumb..never understood why the bizarre colours they use..

NTMK

Lu Tze wrote: »

No i think theu are ridiculous, but im seriously considering the train case for the sitting room media centre. Pity it would more than double my outlay on the entire thing!

I like the train case though because its kinda cool this just looks stupid

BloodBath

I think it's quite nice. There's not exactly a huge selection of nice itx cases.

bucks73

Been keeping an eye out for decent new ITX cases with decent storage space and the two I'm waiting to get more details on are the Cooler Master Elite 130 and the Silverstone Raven. Hoping one or two more come out by the end of year too.

NTMK

just after doing some cable management in the 350D before hardware starts to be put in and i didnt curse at it one which is a first for a thumb screw case. the 24 pin is a bit of a tight fit to get in thought the grommet but other than that im impressed loads of room behind the mobo tray

beno619

Okay so just realised I don't have any kettle leads lying around, where could I acquire one in town ?

BloodBath

Call over to a friends house and offer to make them a cup of tea. Make your excuses and leave. Result.

Gumbi

beno619 wrote: »

Okay so just realised I don't have any kettle leads lying around, where could I acquire one in town ?

Any hardware store will have them for 2 quid. A coop or something.

Serephucus

BloodBath wrote: »

Call over to a friends house and offer to make them a cup of tea. Make your excuses and leave. Result.

Excellent advice right here.

(On an unrelated note: I'm never letting you in my house)

beno619

Already asked them so my offer to make tea could raise suspicion

marco_polo

About time AMD

https://twitter.com/AMDRadeon/status/347803712930070529
AMD Radeon Graphics
‏@AMDRadeon

Big news for CrossFire! We plan to release our driver that delivers improved multi-GPU frame pacing on July 31. More info soon.

deconduo

On the topic of kettle cords, I have about 20 German ones lying around. Any idea on what to do with them?

Also I quite like that Lian-Li case.

Serephucus

Buy UK plugs, cut the ends off the leads, and stick new plugs on is about the only thing I can think of. The plug is the expensive bit though, so it might work out just as cheap to get new leads.

Genghiz Cohen

Burgo wrote: »

Lian li with another interesting mini itx design. No Train this time :P



http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-q30/

If you could mount a VESA bracket to the front of that you'd be in business.

Gbear

marco_polo wrote: »

About time AMD

How pronounced are the latency issues? What would you notice in practice with Crossfire?

It would be far easier and cheaper for me to be able to get another 7950 in 6mths to a years time than going for a brand new expensive card from the next generation.



On another note, does anyone else have a problem with their PSU that the cables aren't long enough. Mine just about reach from the bottom of my case to the top, where the cable plugs into the motherboard slot.

I had to disconnect one of my fans to get it to fit.

marco_polo

Gbear wrote: »

How pronounced are the latency issues? What would you notice in practice with Crossfire?

It would be far easier and cheaper for me to be able to get another 7950 in 6mths to a years time than going for a brand new expensive card from the next generation.



On another note, does anyone else have a problem with their PSU that the cables aren't long enough. Mine just about reach from the bottom of my case to the top, where the cable plugs into the motherboard slot.

I had to disconnect one of my fans to get it to fit.

On paper at least the figures look plenty grim, but alot of people have said they haven't noticed much in practice.

That said there is a slowed down comparison video of crysis 3 going around with the prototype driver and its like night and day to my eyes, and I wouldn't consider myself overtly sensitive to such things. Just have a single card myself but might pop in a second HD7850 at some point in the future.

tuxy

Gbear wrote: »

On another note, does anyone else have a problem with their PSU that the cables aren't long enough. Mine just about reach from the bottom of my case to the top, where the cable plugs into the motherboard slot.

I had to disconnect one of my fans to get it to fit.

A common problem in cases where the psu is at tha bottom and the motherboard at the top

Cheap

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Akasa-AK-CB8-8-EXT-extension-cable-30cm/dp/B000TV7M7E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371838971&sr=8-2&keywords=8+pin+extension+psu

Or a nice black braided one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Akasa-AK-CBPW08-40BK-Flexa-ATX12V-Extension/dp/B004ZKXUS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371838971&sr=8-1&keywords=8+pin+extension+psu

beno619

So went out looking for a kettle lead in town today and the brinks and mortar shops were of no use.

€10 - Peats
€17 - Maplins

In general the hardware in peats was pretty reasonably priced they had a 660ti for just over €300.

Maplins are a joke tho €99 for a 320gb HDD I feel terrible for the people that wouldn't know and better, they also has some interesting cases Corsair 300R was €99,Zalman Z11 €75 and Z9 for €65.
They did have the Cooler Master Elite 120 ITX for €41 which is the same price as Hardwarevesand charge for it but that as good as it gets.

I wouldn't mind paying a 10-15% premium but most of the items were double the RRP bit of a joke.

So ended up pulling the kettle lead out of the aul PlayStation.

ShadowHearth

Lads. How cheaply I can build a small PC, for just netflix, movies, streaming TV in a browser. No need for windows. Might just be a small SSD as I got 120gb portable ssd for data etc.

My buddy wants to buy my old dell for gaming, which would do him fine, but I dont really want to sell it as It is always handy to have spare PC. This dell is Overkill for entertainment pupose needs.
So if i can sell him cheaply my oldy and make him happy, so he can finally switch to darkside, then I could build a small cheap PC for bedroom.

Tij da feen

You'll need to change the motherboard for whatever output you need and also no Sata 3 ports but should do nicely for watching movies.

Item|Price
Intel Celeron Dual-Core G1610 Box , LGA1155|€36.99
ASRock H61M-VG3, Sockel 1155, mATX|€37.79
4GB Kingston ValueRAM PC3-10667U CL9|€27.87
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse Core 1000 black|€29.56
be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 350W|€36.57
Crucial M4 64GB SSD 6,4cm (2,5")|€64.88
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€252.65

Monotype

Or get a raspberry pi.

ShadowHearth

That build looks cool, though does it have hdmi?

marco_polo

ShadowHearth wrote: »

That build looks cool, though does it have hdmi?

I make this out to be the cheapest HDMI option

http://www.hardwareversand.de/DDR3/72970/Gigabyte+GA-H61M-DS2-B3%2C+1155%2C+mATX.article

Propane Nightmare

What generally happens when you overload a PSU that has insufficient wattage? Looking to know as I did a calculation online, and if I was to add another fan and HDD, I would be 10 watts below the max wattage, so getting close. Would the computer just not start or restart itself, or something more sinister such as the PSU catching fire? Its a corsair PSU if it matters.

Headshot

Lads any where I can get somthing like this?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Large-Plastic-Syringe-plastic-tubing/dp/B009LEEOVW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371850716&sr=8-1&keywords=syringe+tubing

Handy for draining the WC res

would a pharmacy have this or a veterinary?