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BobbyPropane

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You might save a few quid by waiting, but to be honest, for the sake of a tenner or even twenty euro, did that ever stop us getting what we wanted sooner rather than later?

The 6870 is still OK enough to make hanging on relatively painless though. At the same time, what better time to sell the 6870 and upgrade. You should get about 90 for the 6870, making the upgrade less than a hundred for a huge increase in performance.

Oh well too late now lol, I'll sell the 6870 after XMas and pick up the 270x thanks for the help

Brian

All these gaming headsets are terribly upsetting

Danger781

Brian wrote: »

All these gaming headsets are terribly upsetting

It's okay.

Here's a song with your name in it

ShadowHearth

Damn it. Amazon took money of CC, but still no package today. 99% it will be here tomorrow.

I HATE WAITING FOR DELIVERIES!!!

Gumbi

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Damn it. Amazon took money of CC, but still no package today. 99% it will be here tomorrow.

I HATE WAITING FOR DELIVERIES!!!

What you waiting for?

ShadowHearth

Gumbi wrote: »

What you waiting for?

MP3 player for misses and Asus O plus for me. When I will get that I will be sorting out my old pc for my buddy as surprise, because Asus O plus will free up old pc and take over its current function - watching movies etc. My buddy cant afford **** at the moment due to baby and he is working flat out, so I am going to make him happy . I am going to buy him BF4 too. As poor fecker cant even afford it for 360. A little xmas surprise!

alex1997123

ShadowHearth wrote: »

MP3 player for misses and Asus O plus for me. When I will get that I will be sorting out my old pc for my buddy as surprise, because Asus O plus will free up old pc and take over its current function - watching movies etc. My buddy cant afford **** at the moment due to baby and he is working flat out, so I am going to make him happy . I am going to buy him BF4 too. As poor fecker cant even afford it for 360. A little xmas surprise!

You sound like an awesome friend!

ED E

ShadowHearth wrote: »

MP3 player for misses and Asus O plus for me. When I will get that I will be sorting out my old pc for my buddy as surprise, because Asus O plus will free up old pc and take over its current function - watching movies etc. My buddy cant afford **** at the moment due to baby and he is working flat out, so I am going to make him happy . I am going to buy him BF4 too. As poor fecker cant even afford it for 360. A little xmas surprise!

Fair play to you Shadow.

ShadowHearth

Well, I am sort of a Dick :pac:, but when I know that a person is a "good person", I will try to help out as much as I can. Though it only takes one time for someone to **** on my doorstep for me to complete take that person out of my life.

I had some free time, so I managed to sort out PC today. Completely took out all personal stuff ( there was not much in the first place ). Everything was so out of date that I even needed to update netframe 4.0 manually! :pac: Updated GPU drivers too. So it looks like the old girl is in full working condition and ready to take on young peasant and show him the true light of gaming glory!

Tomorrow after work ill pop in to gamestop and pick up BF4. I think I sow it only for 36.99eu. I was thinking of taking digital version as it would be cheaper, but then I decided it would be a lot more fun just to wrap up physical PC BF4 in nice xmas paper and gift it to him, then tell him: Well lad, you need a PC now finger out. :pac: When I will get bored of taking a piss Ill just give him the my oldy girl.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Anyone with a samsung 840 pro SSD should download the latest magician software, Samsung have enables the RAPID mode that was previously only on the EVO. Double performance for free (for short periods)

http://www.techpowerup.com/195593/samsung-840-pro-gets-rapid-mode-support.html

Headshot

damn iv the Samsung 840 Series 120GB, no RAPID for me it seems

Headshot

so ****ing cross my external hard drive is dead. Only bought in Sept

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00C9TEOCA/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Everything gone, game saves etc etc etc

Squaredude

Have you tried putting the drive into a different enclosure or hooking it up as an internal drive?

Headshot

Squaredude wrote: »

Have you tried putting the drive into a different enclosure or hooking it up as an internal drive?

Its a drive that has its own power cable. Id like to open the enclosure but its a tad difficult. I dont see any screws and i might void the warranty

Danger781

^How would you open the enclosure on drives? They all seem pretty damn solid..

Squaredude

I've managed to open any external drives I've owned. Granted you probably wouldn't want to do it if you're going to be returning it.

Danger781

Squaredude wrote: »

I've managed to open any external drives I've owned. Granted you probably wouldn't want to do it if you're going to be returning it.

No, mine are a few years old. Just picked 'em up and they're pretty solid all the way around.

Looking at the Hitachi I could probably pop the top off



But the WD is a different story..

Squaredude

May just have got lucky with the drives I've had. Usually just have to find a few hidden screws or find a point that looks like it can be pried open.

bluestripe93

I got the Sapphire 7870 GHz edition from Amazon earlier, €151 delivered, as my first proper graphics card its really good

I was using a GeForce G210 512MB (with everything on low settings) before so this is a good upgrade I'm playing at 1280x720 now and I've tried Bioshock Infinite and Arkham city both work on on ultra settings:)

and my windows experience score went up from 4.1 to 5.9, the primary hard disk is the lowest one so it should go up a bit more when I get a SSD

Gumbi

Good stuff man You only have a 720p monitor?

You can probably overclock that graphics card a nice bit you know

bluestripe93

I'm using a 6 year old 20" TV that does 720p at 60Hz or 1080i at 30Hz but it was flickering at 1080i so I left it at 720p, I'll be buying a 24" monitor in a couple of months anyway so I'm fine with 720 for a while

It's a huge upgrade graphics card from what I had so I might not need to now but I prob will eventually

Gumbi

bluestripe93 wrote: »

I'm using a 6 year old 20" TV that does 720p at 60Hz or 1080i at 30Hz but it was flickering at 1080i so I left it at 720p, I'll be buying a 24" monitor in a couple of months anyway so I'm fine with 720 for a while

It's a huge upgrade graphics card from what I had so I might not need to now but I prob will eventually

By any chance are you using a VGA cable? They can't carry high resolution signals properly and will will have flickering when you go higher than 720p.

bluestripe93

I'm using HDMI, I think its just the age of the TV

rd1izb7lvpuksx

Danger781 wrote: »

But the WD is a different story..

I had that WD external drive. You can open it by using a plastic tool to separate the base plate from the surround. It's only held in by clips. You can Google it if you ever want to try, although obviously you'll be saying goodbye to your warranty.

Gumbi wrote: »

By any chance are you using a VGA cable? They can't carry high resolution signals properly and will will have flickering when you go higher than 720p.

That's not true at all. Up until HDMI 1.3, VGA was a superior connector standard, capable of 2048*1536 at 85Hz while HDMI was only capable of 1080p60.

Bazzo

^^Yup.
Was about to say I've opened a very similar WD drive to that before. That whole black part is one piece of plastic, but it's somewhat flexible and it pops away from the edge that runs all the way around. Getting it back together was more annoying than taking it apart, but it still wasn't TOO difficult.

deceit

Gumbi wrote: »

By any chance are you using a VGA cable? They can't carry high resolution signals properly and will will have flickering when you go higher than 720p.

I use a vga cable on a spare monitor I have which is 1920*1200 and its crystal clear with no flickering.

chewythefirst

Gumbi wrote: »

By any chance are you using a VGA cable? They can't carry high resolution signals properly and will will have flickering when you go higher than 720p.

a vga cable can display 1920x1200 perfectly well, only time it starts to lose quality is if you are using a cable longer than 25 feet.

ShadowHearth

GOD FECKING DAMMIT!

Misses MP3 player came in and my Asus O play did not! Both dispatch at the same time, but in separate packages. GRRRRRRRrrrrrrr......

xtal191

That seems to be happening a lot more with amazon.

nesf

xtal191 wrote: »

That seems to be happening a lot more with amazon.

I know people working in the Irish and British postal services. They're extra days being put by loads of people at the moment to try and deal with the amount of parcels etc that they are dealing with.

I'm really unsurprised that any non-courier option from anywhere is slow at the moment.