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SterlingArcher · 09-12-2016 10:24AM

Keplar240B wrote: »

Whats the experts consensus with (CPU + motherboard + RAM) bundles in general?
Is there savings to be had or what?

I have seen one or two that offerd savings.

But mostly you will find you could make your own bundle for cheaper or a better higher quality selection of parts and still come in cheaper than the offered bundles.

kevovek · 09-12-2016 11:55AM

Anybody have trouble with the instant replay aspect of ReLive? Didn't work for me on two separate games last night.

MRTULES · 10-12-2016 05:02PM

Hi all,

Now I know there are other dedicated place to ask these questions but I trust the opinions of the folks from the B&U forum like no other, especially when it comes to tech and gadgetry.
Looking at buying two Christmas gifts; A drone and an action camera (go-pro). I was thinking about the €100 mark for drone and €50 mark for camera. They are not intended to be used together. Are there best bank for buck go to items in these categories?
Currently looking at THIS drone & THIS camera. Would really love any help, thoughts or advice.
Thanks in advance

Robert ninja · 10-12-2016 05:32PM

kevovek wrote: »

Anybody have trouble with the instant replay aspect of ReLive? Didn't work for me on two separate games last night.

The icon was flickering so I thought it wasn't working and went back to using OBS. Might try again with some other games tonight.

kevovek · 10-12-2016 09:02PM

Yeah mine was flickering too didn't record a thing, I have two monitors in my set up 2nd ones in portrait mode I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Robert ninja · 10-12-2016 09:10PM

Same setup here with secondary in portrait. I tried with Warframe and it had the same flickering as Arkham Knight. Live preview showed glitches all over the place. Here's the twitch archive for reference https://www.twitch.tv/mrdaylight/v/106544005

Back to OBS I go.

Headshot · 10-12-2016 10:07PM

Im building a new PC early next year.

When do we expect to see the new CPUs and GPUs out?

wotzgoingon · 10-12-2016 10:15PM

Headshot wrote: »

Im building a new PC early next year.

When do we expect to see the new CPUs and GPUs out?

Zen supposedly January, Kaby Lake January as well. This is not gospel either but according to different site January.

ShadowHearth · 10-12-2016 10:17PM

Lads, is this the best bang for the money racing sim cockpit? I would prefer one which would have ability to put screen on it too. If to go with this one, I would need an extra stand for around 100eu.

http://www.gtomegaracing.com/gt-omega-racing-driving-simulator-cockpits/art-racing-simulator-cockpit/gt-omega-art-racing-simulator-cockpit-rs6

Another thing I was wondering:

What size screen would be good for such sim setup? 32inch full HD TV would do it?

.G. · 10-12-2016 11:32PM

Playseat have cheaper ones than that.

ShadowHearth · 11-12-2016 12:55AM

superg wrote: »

Playseat have cheaper ones than that.

I sow those and they are not that cheaper and the biggest issue is that their design has a bar between legs. I would just hate it.

Calibos · 11-12-2016 05:33AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Lads, is this the best bang for the money racing sim cockpit? I would prefer one which would have ability to put screen on it too. If to go with this one, I would need an extra stand for around 100eu.

http://www.gtomegaracing.com/gt-omega-racing-driving-simulator-cockpits/art-racing-simulator-cockpit/gt-omega-art-racing-simulator-cockpit-rs6

Another thing I was wondering:

What size screen would be good for such sim setup? 32inch full HD TV would do it?

You won't need a monitor stand if you buy a VR Headset

ShadowHearth · 11-12-2016 05:09PM

Calibos wrote: »

You won't need a monitor stand if you buy a VR Headset

Would love to, I tried dk1 ocolus with my g27 and it was epic. Sure resolution was so low I could not see a corner 200M in front of me, but it was awesome concept.
Cv1 and vive is still not there. I won't pay that kind of money for it with that spec. Cv2 or new Microsoft one should be better deal. For now I need to decide what screen I can use. 32inch tvs still very expensive and I won't spend 300eu on one when you can get 40inch one for a bit more.
34inch 2560x1080 screen would be perfect for it, but those are still very expensive. Can't really use my 34inch 3440x1440 as I use it all the time.
Got 2x23inch monitors laying around, but I don't want 3 screen setup for it. Too much mess.

frozenfrozen · 11-12-2016 06:52PM

Wish I had learned this the other day when trying to redownload csgo to play a quick match with someone but it took too long... if you add a second network connection steam will download over both.

House internet = 10mbit

phone = 2 bars of 4g+

After everything obviously being very slow with 100% usage on steam, I was attempting to use the phone 4g to just browse boards while the other network was downloading a game... I looked back at steam and this was happening

I suppose those numbers seem small / normal to people with good internet but over 1MB is shocking for me haha.

Turned it off after probably 5 minutes so apologies to everyone on that mast who had awful speeds for the few minutes lol and don't worry about my data quota it was grand.

I was considering getting a proper midband connection to supplement the slow internet here, now that we have a 4g signal but I'm doing a relatively large amount of downloading these days, usenet alone is on 200GB this week and tbh I would actually feel a bit bad being a massive bandwidth hog on the new 4g mast near here, as well as the data caps anyway, so I'd have to be using it for just fast uploads and general browsing and have long slow downloads stay over the copper line.. but then I'd be getting into either strange router setups or link aggregation to a vps or something?

My idea of the microwave link to the place the few KM away that I posted about on here before didn't work out after my reccy where I realised there was no place I could mount an antenna high enough without it being an issue with permission etc. as there were a lot of things in the way that would need to be cleared. But the link to someone down the road on the eircom blueline is still on the cards depending when they get connected and if they still remember being OK with the idea

Haven't played any game in months :eek:

I also just got a new hdd, toshiba x300 4tb, I like it so far and well priced becuase there was 20% off or something good on amazon for drives that day.. It's getting to the stage now when I next run out of storage space I'm going to have to get hba card or else start retiring the couple of 500gb hdds left

ED E · 11-12-2016 07:01PM

Frozen IIWY I'd go for a proper Midband setup.

B593: €100ish one time payment
3AYCE Phone plan: €20/mo

Even rural cells can manage 100Mb while everyone is asleep, urban ones that are double stacked do a bit more.

If most of your traffic is NZB/P2P of some kind its trivial to schedule it nightly. Have your clients kick in from 1.30AM to 7.30AM. You'll wake up each day to a lovely present.

During the day you won't really be that much of a bandwidth wh0re as the BBU will divy out what it has *roughly* equally (If you use many side by side connections you may cheat this).

frozenfrozen · 11-12-2016 07:59PM

ED E wrote: »

Frozen IIWY I'd go for a proper Midband setup.

B593: €100ish one time payment
3AYCE Phone plan: €20/mo

Even rural cells can manage 100Mb while everyone is asleep, urban ones that are double stacked do a bit more.

If most of your traffic is NZB/P2P of some kind its trivial to schedule it nightly. Have your clients kick in from 1.30AM to 7.30AM. You'll wake up each day to a lovely present.

During the day you won't really be that much of a bandwidth wh0re as the BBU will divy out what it has *roughly* equally (If you use many side by side connections you may cheat this).

That's food for thought with 3 ayce, if there no issue with it being in a modem rather than a phone then it's perfect.

I'll look into that b593, I was looking into using a hg556a on openwrt with a usb modem like a e355 or whatever the newer 4g version is and any little antenna I could find cheap, as I already have the hg556a being used as a second wireless AP on openwrt. It was looking like it could be a very low startup cost.

I think the e355 is usb eithernet so it 'just works' when plugged into basically anything?

All traffic would be nzb, I'm collecting a lot of bd50 linux isos at the moment to replace the web-dl linux isos

ShadowHearth · 13-12-2016 03:04PM

Okay lads. Needs some help.

I got g29 steering wheel as xmas present from misses and to go with it I ordered GT omega wheel stand and threw in 525gb Crucial SSD. I finally plan to replace my 60gb ssd and upgrade to windows 10, the sneaky free version.

So plan is:

Replace 60gb ssd with 525gb and make it steam library.
Keep 256gb ssd and use it as OS drive.
Keep 1tb and 500gb hdds.

I would like to sort out my pc now, before ssd comes in, so when it arrives I just replace it and move on.

I am going to back up photos and other small things on external hdd now. I want a clean install. Then I need to set drives to AHCI as I stupidly never did that when putting together my pc.

There was a guide somewhere for the whole free windows 10 thing? With making usb boot drive?

In a nutshell my steps will be:

1. Back up what I need.
2. Make bootable usb drive.
3. Go to Bios and change to ACHI ( Now if I understand right, everything I had on hdds will be lost at that point? )
4. Set boot order to usb, pop in drive and do whole windows 10 installation,
5. ?????
6. Profit?

Is that right?

What do I need to know about this windows 10 that is unactivated? As I sow before a good few using it here full time, its all down to watermark?

frozenfrozen · 13-12-2016 03:23PM

I'm not sure on the windows 10 part, I didn't do a clean install for it so it just did its own thing, there might be something a bit weird that needs to be done when doing a fresh install, unless you do the upgrade first, then do a fresh install with the new key it makes when you upgrade, that might work? But I do remember someone posting a good set of steps for doing a clean install when it came out.

but for the clean install/ moving drives around:
Back up everything, clear the ssd for os drive, remove all drives except the ssd you want as OS drive, set ahci in bios, then do your fresh install of windows, then add your other drives after. windows can do weird stuff with multiple drives when installing like having some necessary stuff put on a random other drive for no reason.

ShadowHearth · 13-12-2016 03:33PM

Damn, ran in to my first issue lol... Need 8gb on Drive C: to make damn boot usb key... Why it cant use other drive.

Backed up my stuff now. Reseting to factory settings misses laptop as its riddled with crap and she asked me to sort it out ages ago. Looks like it might take longer then I planed and might not get everything done today.

ShadowHearth · 13-12-2016 04:27PM

Okay, got misses laptop sorted. Jaysus, hp loves it's bloatware!!!
Doing USB key now. Will disconnect hdds and ssds. Leave only 256GB one. Change achi and try install. Will see what's going to happen. I got 1h30min until I need to pick up my little rat.

frozenfrozen · 13-12-2016 05:25PM

did you figure out if you would be ok doing a fresh install of windows 10 and not doing the upgrade first? I think the upgrade changes your windows key into a windows 10 one.. so you might not be able to install otherwise

dreamers75 · 13-12-2016 06:04PM

Only put games on the SSD that need to be on the SSD, most games do not benefit from being on one.

ShadowHearth · 13-12-2016 06:30PM

Ah lads, no need to tell me about those things. Few years ago I was doing specs for people here too, when we had grid script. I know my ssds stuff.

And now to look like an idiot by saying this:

What stuff do I need to turn off on Windows 10 for ssds?
On Windows 7 was page file and windows recovery. Any nice article or list of what to do for fresh SSD install on 10?

I presume you figured out that I got it done. Installed it and basic drivers up. Cheers for advice about disconnecting drives before switching to achi. I reconnected them after and everything still there, but I just purged it anyway, just to have that new windows smell. At least I don't Need to take photos back from external.
So it's not activated windows and I see how far I can push it. If it will start to annoy me ill buy key off reddit.
Install went pretty much straight forward. One thing annoyed me, but it's issue with all damn windows installs since 95. While installing it will restart, but on boot it will load up USB and try to install again, not continue. I always forget amd windows don't really notify you.
Hadn't time to play around with it yet, but it looks sleek. Might be the very very first windows I will actually officially buy :pac:

frozenfrozen · 13-12-2016 06:36PM

I still can't restart this current windows 10 install without it wanting to do the 'continue your install' half way through rebooting.. can't be arsed fixing because it only happens on reboot not on shut down then start again..

For changing stuff on windows for ssd I don't think you have to do anything before. I know I had to turn off trim and all that kind of stuff before but now nothing. It won't try defrag ssds anymore lol

.G. · 13-12-2016 06:46PM

Windows 10 thinks my NVME SSD is a HDD. True story.

Cuddlesworth · 13-12-2016 07:17PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

What stuff do I need to turn off on Windows 10 for ssds?

Nothing. All that stuff was for 1st gen SSD's and old OS's to try minimise writes. Its not required now.

ShadowHearth · 13-12-2016 07:22PM

Okay, looks like its up and running well. Installed steam too.

Cant wait for my 525gb ssd to come. For now will have to be like peasant on hdd :pac:

madcabbage · 13-12-2016 07:28PM

Lads, sorry if this is the wrong room for it but looking to sell my 960 2gb soon and just want to know whats a realistic price to set it at?

Cuddlesworth · 13-12-2016 07:46PM

madcabbage wrote: »

Lads, sorry if this is the wrong room for it but looking to sell my 960 2gb soon and just want to know whats a realistic price to set it at?

Take a 1050ti price. Then subtract for all the negatives of a second hand part like a lack of warranty, lower vram, higher risk of failure and lack of specific advanced features.

ShadowHearth · 13-12-2016 08:38PM

Okay, noticed some weird stuff with win10.

It randomly freezes for good few seconds and then comes back with no issues at all. Only happens in desktop, never in games. Kind of really annoying.

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