Off-Topic Thread V3.0

Headshot

Ugh. I think I have image retention on my monitor after playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Pretty worried, turned off the monitor and will leave it off for some time

Any advice?

Luna84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123142319#Comment_123142319

What monitor is it?

Headshot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123142325#Comment_123142325

GIGABYTE M32U

Luna84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123142347#Comment_123142347

IPS I honestly thought it was going to be OLED. I have a OLED Tv as my monitor and do not have burn in.

I have no idea what you can do regarding the problem but that was wise to turn it off.

I'm not sure of the game you were playing is it one of those games where there is a a large portion of a image that is static while you play like menus and stuff?

Icyseanfitz

Whats the Amazon Germany return window for GPUs? Recieving my 7900xtx Friday and if 9070xt reviews release within the window and are good I might be cheeky and send it back. Something tells me there will be no point (performance/price) but good to know my options either way.

Edit: 30 day return if doesn't meet expectations, perfect, we should hopefully know more on the 9070xt before march release

Lu Tze

Any one have any experience renting a virtual private server for a month or so? Just something I'm working on in my own time that might need a chunk more than the 64Gb of ram in my desktop. Anyone done it before? They start off cheap enough for the low end, but looking at hetzner maybe ~200 for a month for 512gb ram with an epyc cpu

Coyler

Been using this site recently to move some services over to European ones. The are not ordered alphabetically but appear to be by market size. They have page on all the VPS providers in Europe.

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/vps-virtual-private-server-hosters

But to answer your question Hetzer is the leader here but I'd shop around as you know what you really want here (hour or month pricing, how many cores, storage, bandwidth etc.). Might at least get the best value for your money. But €200-300 isn't wild by any means.

Lu Tze

Cheers for that, I'll have a look through at different options. If there are hourly or daily rates available they might be an option!

Coyler

Guys, anyone recommend a third party Apple laptop repair shop.

Background: Have a M1 Macbook that is 2 and half years old (6 months beyond Applecare) and the display is acting up. Goes from partially corrupt image to fine and back again. Looks to me as a loose/worn ribbon cable as the output to a external monitor works fine. Apple are saying its €550 to repair which is basically replacing the full display assembly. I do it myself but my wife is not comfortable with me doing it. So hear I am :)

edit I’m in Dublin.

Coyler

Going to go with ExpressTech. Keep you all posted

K.O.Kiki

Amazon.ie launch…

Coyler

Coming here to say almost the same thing. I assume they are keeping sales low deliberatly to see how much they have to scale up. Can't think of any other reason.

Slutmonkey57b

Their sourcing model already integrated all their warehouses anyway. It's just as likely that something you order from .co.uk comes from Germany or Ireland as it does from a UK warehouse.

Coyler

True but now that it's actually in country the SLAs change a little and that will take time to measure and scale up. I don't for a second think that they are not prepared to creep in on Tesco/Dunnes market share for example.

K.O.Kiki

Good video on price-to-performance in the real world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGx_T8zCkWc

ironictoaster

Instant regret moving my amazon prime to Ireland anyways. Looking to make a build for a friend, half of the parts I am interested in don't appear in search, yet they are availiable on co.uk/.de/.fr

Makes me wonder if this is some sort of soft launch?

Icyseanfitz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123291404#Comment_123291404

Tried buying herself a pair of slippers, Amazon Ireland delivery was over a week away and 6 euro more than UK which will be delivered in 2 days, can't see it being all that successful if everything is like that

Headshot

Im absolute shocked

I bought the Razer DeathAdder V2 Pro (wireless version) back in 2021 for £64.99

It's showing wear and tear so decided to get another one

You're looking at over £133

How the **** has it gone to that price

I'm really not sure can I justify that price for a mouse

Icyseanfitz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123291739#Comment_123291739

Seems like everything is just gone mad doesn't it

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123291404#Comment_123291404

You can still buy from the other sites though, and any non UK site wouldn't have had any prime benefits for you anyway?

K.O.Kiki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123291739#Comment_123291739

DeathAdder V2 Pro was a 130-eurobucks release.

In addition, it is also EOL since being replaced by DeathAdder V3 lineup, 2 years ago.

DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed is 100eur.

Razer Viper V3 HyperSpeed is ~70 eur.

You can still find the old, slightly heavier, battery-operated DeathAdder V2 X is 82eur.

And there are literally DOZENS if not HUNDREDS of budget options available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuouz4ThOwU

Revoker88

Gonna be selling the below soonish, what do people think would be a fair price?

i7 9700K

Corsair H100i Pro RGB AIO

Gigabyte Aorus Elite v1 Z390

Corsair LP 16GB 3200MHz DDR4

RRTX 3080 FE 10GB

Corsair HX750W Gold PSU

Coolermaster H500 ARGB Case

1 x 1TB SATA M2 SSD 500mbps

Edit: Got the case model wrong

Murt2024

selling, up for 700, let go for 600 a fair price?

Going for a new build for around for around 1800. PC has served me well For over three years. Only reason I went prebuilt was card shortage during Covid and cost me 1200 which was good for the time.

Legion T5 PC, specs below.

3060TI

Amd 5800 non x version

2*8 GB DDR4

512GB NVME.

Coyler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123294437#Comment_123294437

General rule of thumb is look at the price you'd get for the CPU and GPU at CEX and add another €150-200 for the remaining parts. Case is give or take €50, PSU is give or take €50, RAM is give or take €10 per 8Gb and storage is give or take €20. Everything else is of debatable value. So, in the €650 to €750 range. Lash it up for €800 but be fully prepared to do a deal.

Coyler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312079#Comment_123312079

Put it up for €500 and take anything north of €400.

Murt2024

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123312525#Comment_123312525

that’s a little too low I reckon.

Inviere

Lads am I imagining it or do Overclockers deliver to Ireland? Just browsing their site for a monitor and see they have RoI available as a delivery option, but I could have sworn they stopped shipping here...

bennyx_o

I think a few on here got 9070XTs from them so they seem to be back delivering here

K.O.Kiki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123324599#Comment_123324599

OCUK & Scan both ship here, AFAIK it's also VAT-free but you'll get taxed at delivery.

buzzerxx

First ever order from overclockers UK delivered today. Only place in Europe i could find white reverse blade 140mm sl uni infinity fans.Nice touch with the free haribo jellies.