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wotzgoingon · 14-10-2016 10:14PM

tadcan wrote: »

Update: so I just checked and a 850 evo SSD is £149.99 and the M2 drive is £144.45 on offer.

Oh right so the M2 is cheaper. Tbh I wasn't always keeping up to date on SSD prices. I know M2 were more expensive one time due to their small form factor.

On the topic of will the M2 fit your motherboard just look to see if it has a M2 socket.

Edit: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z170M%20Pro4S/index.us.asp

Is that your motherboard? It does support M2 sata and NVMe M2 drives.

tadcan · 14-10-2016 10:57PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Is that your motherboard? It does support M2 sata and NVMe M2 drives.

Yes that is my M/B. Samsung NVMe 256GB is £119.19 or £219.99 for 500GB. I had heard there were different types of of M2 drives, thanks for clarifying that. Will have to check how many of my sata ports are currently in use, since the non-NVMe M2 drive takes up two sata ports. Hmm a 1TB 850 is £335.56. I should probably be Mr Sensible and buy in the January sales, or wait until my desire for a shiny new toy goes away.

wotzgoingon · 14-10-2016 11:50PM

tadcan wrote: »

Yes that is my M/B. Samsung NVMe 256GB is £119.19 or £219.99 for 500GB. I had heard there were different types of of M2 drives, thanks for clarifying that. Will have to check how many of my sata ports are currently in use, since the non-NVMe M2 drive takes up two sata ports. Hmm a 1TB 850 is £335.56. I should probably be Mr Sensible and buy in the January sales, or wait until my desire for a shiny new toy goes away.

I'm no expert on SSD's. But the NVMe is way faster than a normal sata one but will you see a benefit day to day I do not know as I never owned a NVMe drive. Yes if you install windows on the drive it will boot and load programs faster. Do you play games?

tadcan · 15-10-2016 12:05AM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Do you play games?

A few, but they are not AAA games, basically I have have what I need.

BelovedAunt · 17-10-2016 09:23AM

Lads I recently upgraded to a 980ti but I'm still using a 550W PSU, instead of the recommended 600W. Could this damage my pc or should I get away with it?

Digital Solitude · 17-10-2016 09:32AM

Should be fine if it's a decent PSU, what's the other specs?

BelovedAunt · 17-10-2016 11:38AM

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Should be fine if it's a decent PSU, what's the other specs?

Thanks!

MOBO - MSI Z87-G43
CPU - 4690k
GPU - EVGA 980ti Acx 2.0
Memory - 8GB Corsair Vengeance
PSU - Corsair VS550
Storage - Crucial 250GB SSD
Sound Card - Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD

Digital Solitude · 17-10-2016 12:09PM

Yeah should be golden

Serephucus · 18-10-2016 09:11AM

Some interesting info on Kaby Lake stuff:

http://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/intel_kaby_lake_cpus_have_been_pictured/1

Interesting bit: There's a 4GHz i3. No pricing for anything listed yet though.

.G. · 18-10-2016 01:41PM

Hi folks. What's the modern day equivalent of the GTX750ti in price to performance terms?

Digital Solitude · 18-10-2016 01:46PM

RX 460

.G. · 18-10-2016 01:50PM

Digital Solitude wrote:

RX 460

Thought so. Ta.

tadcan · 18-10-2016 10:14PM

The Samsung M.2 NVMe 960 pro has been released.. I want so much, Do I need it, Sure I .... have ... my .... reasons.

ED E · 18-10-2016 10:40PM

tadcan wrote: »

The Samsung M.2 NVMe 960 pro has been released.. I want so much, Do I need it, Sure I .... have ... my .... reasons.

Damnit, pushed my 950 down to second place. HAVE to upgrade now

ED E · 18-10-2016 11:01PM

If anyone has a broken Logitech G510 that they'd like to donate for parts please drop me a line, old reliable is in need of some TLC.

AlmightyCushion · 18-10-2016 11:52PM

ED E wrote: »

Damnit, pushed my 950 down to second place. HAVE to upgrade now

Second place, also known as first of the losers. It's practically useless now, may as well just throw it in the bin.

dunworth1 · 19-10-2016 12:05AM

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Second place, also known as first of the losers. It's practically useless now, may as well just throw it in the bin.

I'll dispose of it for you.

I'll even collect

Hal1 · 19-10-2016 07:36PM

Nvidia 1050 and 1050ti announced to rival amd's rx460. Expected to be similarly priced.

ED E · 20-10-2016 06:22PM

Keep on digging EA...

dunworth1 · 20-10-2016 08:35PM

ED E wrote:

Keep on digging EA...

I can't stand him

Cuddlesworth · 20-10-2016 08:44PM

dunworth1 wrote: »

I can't stand him

Hes the mar-mite of the games industry

ShadowHearth · 21-10-2016 09:00AM

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Hes the mar-mite of the games industry

True, I personally love him. Hate his friend, Jessy Cox or what's his name.

K.O.Kiki · 21-10-2016 10:17AM

dunworth1 wrote: »

I can't stand him

He does make many candid points though.

I got bored from watching the BF1 campaign gameplay he showed - it really looks like a charmless, braindead corridor shooter, with none of the flair of Wolfenstein/DOOM 4.

TheDoc · 21-10-2016 05:36PM

Never in the history of ever, has anyone, given two ****s about Battlefield single player.

I've played every iteration since 1942, you know, that game that was MP only, and I've never once played the Single player. Last few games I've given a mate my account details as he likes playing SP, but I've never once stepped foot into SP.

Taking issue with a BF single player mode is like saying Counter Strike with bots is really ****, its a totally irrelevant scenario, that no one cares about

K.O.Kiki · 21-10-2016 05:54PM

TheDoc wrote: »

Never in the history of ever, has anyone, given two ****s about Battlefield single player.

I've played every iteration since 1942, you know, that game that was MP only, and I've never once played the Single player. Last few games I've given a mate my account details as he likes playing SP, but I've never once stepped foot into SP.

Taking issue with a BF single player mode is like saying Counter Strike with bots is really ****, its a totally irrelevant scenario, that no one cares about

It's not that "Battlefield single-player must be good" he's taking issue with.

It's all the reviews lauding the SP campaign as great, when it is (objectively) a boring, worse-than-formulaic piece of trash; a mindless shooting gallery with none of the values exhibited in the multi-player.

DICE/EA hyped it up to be this grand thing, and it's worse than games from 5-10 years ago.

TerrorFirmer · 21-10-2016 07:29PM

Haven't tried it myself yet but most people are speaking positively of it. As someone who thought BF4 and BF3 single player campaigns were very playable, the fact that most people consider BF1's campaign the virtual worlds Citizen Kane by comparison makes me think I'll be very happy with the BF1 campaign.

Personally I thought the Bad Company games had worse campaign's than either BF3 or BF4. Haven't played Hardline's.

BelovedAunt · 22-10-2016 02:53AM

Lads I got a Rog Swift PG278Q but it's not picking up my pc. I thought I might have been using a DP 1.1 cable and that was the reason, but I read online that any DP cable should work. Anyone else have this issue?

Digital Solitude · 22-10-2016 03:00AM

Windows Anniversary build doesn't like SSDs, just a warning to anyone going to update

AlmightyCushion · 22-10-2016 03:36AM

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Windows Anniversary build doesn't like SSDs, just a warning to anyone going to update

It's fine on my laptop and desktop both of which have SSDs. What problems are you having?

q2ice · 22-10-2016 04:00AM

Digital Solitude wrote:

Windows Anniversary build doesn't like SSDs, just a warning to anyone going to update

AlmightyCushion wrote:

It's fine on my laptop and desktop both of which have SSDs. What problems are you having?

It has problems when the OS is installed on an SSD and there is not a large amount of space available on the disk.

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