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Serephucus · 26-09-2016 11:10AM

Old-ish news at this point, but in case anyone hasn't seen it:

Saitek has been bought by Logitech

As an X52 owner, the next couple of years could be interesting. I'd love an X52 with better build quality, QA, and Logitech's software.

challengemaster · 26-09-2016 11:29AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Fair play to you for finding it! I hadn't a clue where I'd seen it, I spent the entire day on Ebay looking at billions of things, so no way I was going to be able to work out where I found it!

Google reverse image search + "eBay" = ez

ED E · 26-09-2016 12:23PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Old-ish news at this point, but in case anyone hasn't seen it:

Saitek has been bought by Logitech

As an X52 owner, the next couple of years could be interesting. I'd love an X52 with better build quality, QA, and Logitech's software.

Logi have seen the SC cash coming down the road.

K.O.Kiki · 26-09-2016 02:13PM

dreamers75 wrote: »

went for the logitech, generally get good value if i dont spill beer on them.

I think this would be a good investment too:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hundred-Million-LTD-Hangover-Beker/dp/B01B0RT7IM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1474895563&sr=8-2&keywords=adult+sippy+cup

Venom · 26-09-2016 04:00PM

ED E wrote: »

Logi have seen the SC cash coming down the road.

Will need to up their game in manufacturing and QC first. Madcatz and Saitek gear has a pretty dire rep as a quality brand.

Serephucus · 26-09-2016 04:33PM

Venom wrote: »

Will need to up their game in manufacturing and QC first. Madcatz and Saitek gear has a pretty dire rep as a quality brand.

Can confirm. €200 for something that feels more than a little like a Fisher Price toy, and software that's pretty lacking (though not quite as bad a Thrustmaster's stuff)

Gehad_JoyRider · 26-09-2016 07:42PM

Hey folks, quick question I've got a full ssd, does any one know the name of the program that scans your hard drive, windows 10 did a poxy update, and now i have a full ssd

Metric Tensor · 26-09-2016 07:46PM

Do you Spacemonger?

Serephucus · 26-09-2016 07:51PM

I use Scanner. Old, but simple, and I prefer the UI over whatever the more popular thing is called. WinDirSat, I think it is.

ED E · 26-09-2016 07:56PM

Venom wrote: »

Will need to up their game in manufacturing and QC first. Madcatz and Saitek gear has a pretty dire rep as a quality brand.

Serephucus wrote: »

Can confirm. €200 for something that feels more than a little like a Fisher Price toy, and software that's pretty lacking (though not quite as bad a Thrustmaster's stuff)

Quality of this

And features of this

26-280-021-TS?$S640$

Is a very appealing combo I have to say. IF they can pull it off.

From memory I've never had a logitech device fail on me.

SickBoy · 26-09-2016 07:56PM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Hey folks, quick question I've got a full ssd, does any one know the name of the program that scans your hard drive, windows 10 did a poxy update, and now i have a full ssd

Run disk cleanup and select the option to scan for system files(bottom left).

Gehad_JoyRider · 26-09-2016 07:56PM

yeah something like space monger, but it was a bit different in how it looked any recommendations?

dunworth1 · 26-09-2016 08:02PM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote:

yeah something like space monger, but it was a bit different in how it looked any recommendations?

I use treesize

Gehad_JoyRider · 26-09-2016 08:20PM

It's got a tree as it's shortcut launch but I can click but it allows me to see the cells, and right click and go into the folder.

Venom · 26-09-2016 10:00PM

ED E wrote: »

Quality of this

And features of this

Is a very appealing combo I have to say. IF they can pull it off.

From memory I've never had a logitech device fail on me.

The Warthog is from Thrustmaster so expect something more like

Screenshot_2015-10-15_10.06.54.0.png

Will be interesting to see if Logitech invest the cash in the manufacturing process or just add different copyright text to the package and carry on as business as usual!

Shlippery · 27-09-2016 01:25PM

A quick question here - anyone know if it's possible to pickup a motherboard for 2500k anywhere these days? Or just a matter of trawling adverts for one to appear.. I don't trust the ram slots in my current mobo and it's acting the bollocks with fan speeds / not allowing me to overclock my 2500k anymore, (multiplier won't go above 37.)

I mean it's not urgent as such, and I could probably get another few months out of 2500k , before splashing out with a 2017 pay cheque..

But I'll be pulling the trigger on a NXZT S340 tomorrow, so will end up transplanting everything into new case so will get a good opportunity to adjust things and make everything look nicer.

xtal191 · 27-09-2016 01:33PM

Amazon still sell 1150 motherboards

Shlippery · 27-09-2016 01:35PM

2500k was 1155 though which seem a lot harder to track down!

Lu Tze · 27-09-2016 01:55PM

Shlippery wrote: »

2500k was 1155 though which seem a lot harder to track down!

And expensive for any that I have seen, especially if you intend to overclock, as you are limited to the z68 and z77 chipsets. If you aren't overclocking h61 motherboards pop up from time to time relatively cheaply.

Setup an alert on adverts maybe,

K.O.Kiki · 27-09-2016 02:23PM

Shlippery wrote: »

A quick question here - anyone know if it's possible to pickup a motherboard for 2500k anywhere these days? Or just a matter of trawling adverts for one to appear.. I don't trust the ram slots in my current mobo and it's acting the bollocks with fan speeds / not allowing me to overclock my 2500k anymore, (multiplier won't go above 37.)

I mean it's not urgent as such, and I could probably get another few months out of 2500k , before splashing out with a 2017 pay cheque..

But I'll be pulling the trigger on a NXZT S340 tomorrow, so will end up transplanting everything into new case so will get a good opportunity to adjust things and make everything look nicer.

eBay from USA seems to be your best bet.

Shlippery · 27-09-2016 03:33PM

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

eBay from USA seems to be your best bet.

Spotted that too, but will probably end up adding shipping fees and likely customs tax lumped on too,I may be best holding out another month or two and getting 4670k/mobo or else move to Skylake.

Xenoronin · 27-09-2016 03:35PM

Skylake, or even Kaby Lake would be the better options available to you.

twinsen · 27-09-2016 03:55PM

Shlippery wrote: »

A quick question here - anyone know if it's possible to pickup a motherboard for 2500k anywhere these days? Or just a matter of trawling adverts for one to appear.. I don't trust the ram slots in my current mobo and it's acting the bollocks with fan speeds / not allowing me to overclock my 2500k anymore, (multiplier won't go above 37.)

I mean it's not urgent as such, and I could probably get another few months out of 2500k , before splashing out with a 2017 pay cheque..

But I'll be pulling the trigger on a NXZT S340 tomorrow, so will end up transplanting everything into new case so will get a good opportunity to adjust things and make everything look nicer.

I had this issue on my asrock motherboard after updating bios. Multiplier wouldnt go over 37. Had to flash it again, and issue was resolved.
So my advise is maybe flash your bios first before getting new mobo?

Shlippery · 27-09-2016 04:29PM

twinsen wrote: »

I had this issue on my asrock motherboard after updating bios. Multiplier wouldnt go over 37. Had to flash it again, and issue was resolved.
So my advise is maybe flash your bios first before getting new mobo?

I suspect this is what happened, I updated the BIOS to a newer version a few months back and it may have upset the multiplier. I'll see if I can contact ASRock for ideas. Thanks lads, don't want to bring this off-topic thread any more on-topic :pac:

wotzgoingon · 27-09-2016 07:20PM

Decided to download that steam VR performance test and my old PC stands up fairly well.

Specs:
X58 motherboard
Xeon X5660 @ 4.2GHz
R9 290 overclocked.

ShadowHearth · 29-09-2016 11:34PM

Guys, food for thought.

I played around a bit with Microsofts surface 3 and 4 in pc world and I have to admit. I love it.
Tablet with full win 10 os and can turn to a laptop if needed.

Now I really like surface 4 with i5 cpu, but price is a bit.. High... Pc world doing some good deals on surface 3 though.
So I was wondering, would surface 3, be enough to run some indie games? Stuff like transistor, prison architect, darkest dungoen? Nothing triple A.
Still have my pc, but would be nice to have a decent tablet, when I am in bed and misses snoring away. Plus streaming xbox one to it?
Could be a nice Xmas present for myself.

Or any of those 2 in 1 alternatives?

Serephucus · 29-09-2016 11:41PM

I actually used a Surface 3 for a while, and it's a great little tablet.

However, it really isn't that powerful. You could probably run indie games on it well enough. I tried a couple, but it was quite a while ago at this point, and unfortunately I can't remember what they were.

Asus have a Core M Surface clone. Don't know what it's called, but it gets decent reviews.

Out of interest, what sort of deals have they got? I remember I got a 4/128 model with keyboard and pen for... I want to say around €850, maybe €800?

ED E · 30-09-2016 12:23AM

The aul fella has a SP4, its lovely. For work.

As an entertainment device they suck, 4:3 is no good for media consumption.

Serephucus · 30-09-2016 12:25AM

ED E wrote: »

The aul fella has a SP4, its lovely. For work.

As an entertainment device they suck, 4:3 is no good for media consumption.

Depends. It's really nice for feck-about-but-not-video things. Reddit, news, Facebook, browsing, etc.

Venom · 30-09-2016 12:34AM

Serephucus wrote: »

Depends. It's really nice for feck-about-but-not-video things. Reddit, news, Facebook, browsing, etc.

It's a serious amount of cash just to surf the web and post on Facebook tho. An Nvidia Shield tablet would do the same at a quarter of the price and still let you stream games from your PC if you have an Nvidia GPU.

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