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yoshiktk · 09-11-2020 02:43PM

errlloyd wrote: »

Where is the best place to buy compressed air for cleaning a PC. It's always cheap on amazon, but will never ship to Ireland.

Powercity? But dont remeber the price.

Overheal · 09-11-2020 02:48PM

ED E wrote: »

Listening to your man from STH while working, got this craving to build an EPYC monster now. I have ZERO need for one but those CB points are calling to me.

Do QS/ES chips exist on the AMD side of the aisle?

So many acronyms I don't quite follow because I'm not from the server side

Squidgy Black · 09-11-2020 03:20PM

Dealz normally have cans of it, think it was 1.50 a can the last time I grabbed a few

GHOST MGG · 09-11-2020 03:35PM

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Dealz normally have cans of it, think it was 1.50 a can the last time I grabbed a few

Just be careful buying that compressed air in deals..i had a few of them a while back and the cans tend to leak liquid whilst spraying from the nozzle...bad idea if you are blowing out inside your case

Jacovs · 09-11-2020 03:47PM

Not directly PC, but somewhat related.
Changed our virgin media tv box for the new type and they advised us to just take the old box to a WEEE recycling centre.
Is the harddrive out of this at all removable/usable to use as a regular harddrive?

wotzgoingon · 09-11-2020 03:52PM

Jacovs wrote: »

Not directly PC, but somewhat related.
Changed our virgin media tv box for the new type and they advised us to just take the old box to a WEEE recycling centre.
Is the harddrive out of this at all removable/usable to use as a regular harddrive?

It would be but it would be pointless what would it be worth 20 euro.

Overheal · 09-11-2020 03:56PM

GHOST MGG wrote: »

Just be careful buying that compressed air in deals..i had a few of them a while back and the cans tend to leak liquid whilst spraying from the nozzle...bad idea if you are blowing out inside your case

all dustcans do that, you have to be gentle with them. Too much shaking, usually trying to overwork one can.

It honestly pays to just grab a multipack, since they freeze over quickly, use a bit of each and rotate them.

Overheal · 09-11-2020 03:57PM

Jacovs wrote: »

Not directly PC, but somewhat related.
Changed our virgin media tv box for the new type and they advised us to just take the old box to a WEEE recycling centre.
Is the harddrive out of this at all removable/usable to use as a regular harddrive?

wotzgoingon wrote: »

It would be but it would be pointless what would it be worth 20 euro.

Ah but eWaste. Recycle. Reduce. Reuse.

Jacovs · 09-11-2020 04:04PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

It would be but it would be pointless what would it be worth 20 euro.

Cheers. I would just rather use it than let it literally go to waste.

yoshiktk · 09-11-2020 04:05PM

Jacovs wrote: »

Cheers. I would just rather use it than let it literally go to waste.

Just maybe use hddtune or something similar to check health/errors

Squidgy Black · 09-11-2020 04:06PM

Jacovs wrote: »

Cheers. I would just rather use it than let it literally go to waste.

Might be a bit of a pain and not worth the hassle, here's a forum on overclockers but for one of the older boxes https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/re-use-of-hdd-out-of-virgin-tivo-box.18786493/

yoshiktk · 09-11-2020 04:13PM

This Year should be called Year of a Scalpel.
PS5
5600x

Overheal · 09-11-2020 04:18PM

yoshiktk wrote: »

This Year should be called Year of a Scalpel.

I mean you gotta do what you gotta do.

TBF to the Ryzen launch it benefitted from all the lessons learned from the Nvidia launch

I was cloudflared and everything to buy my 1 CPU. I guess if I wanted to sell it back off yeah I'd do it at a profit, and it would almost make sense to since I'm waiting on a GPU either way - though, those will be out soonish.

Overheal · 09-11-2020 04:28PM

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Jacovs · 09-11-2020 04:28PM

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Might be a bit of a pain and not worth the hassle, here's a forum on overclockers but for one of the older boxes https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/re-use-of-hdd-out-of-virgin-tivo-box.18786493/

Thats if I can even get it out of the box to begin with. Think it has security torx screws and i only have a regular torx head.

Gumbi · 09-11-2020 04:55PM

Anyone here have experience ordering from computeruniverse.net in Germany? Thinking of making a big order in preparation for a new Ryzen system soon (will probably grab the CPU from wherever it's next available). Hoping for a well priced 6800 as well, but that's all up in the air too what with the potential supply issues.

Skerries · 09-11-2020 05:11PM

yoshiktk · 09-11-2020 05:13PM

Add beer and titties to that

Overheal · 09-11-2020 06:10PM

bargain alert

https://www.newegg.com/xpg-16gb/p/N82E16820246050?Item=9SIAJNUBJZ2909&cm_sp=Homepage_SS-_-P0_9SIAJNUBJZ2909-_-11092020&quicklink=true

Overheal · 09-11-2020 06:12PM

Skerries wrote: »

I thought oh maybe he'll do something cool with the force to help them survive a drastic hyperspace ju- WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!!!!!!!!

yoshiktk · 09-11-2020 06:13PM

Overheal wrote: »

bargain alert

https://www.newegg.com/xpg-16gb/p/N82E16820246050?Item=9SIAJNUBJZ2909&cm_sp=Homepage_SS-_-P0_9SIAJNUBJZ2909-_-11092020&quicklink=true

Out of stock

Overheal · 09-11-2020 07:16PM

Photos don’t do this board justice.

yoshiktk · 09-11-2020 07:19PM

Overheal wrote: »

Photos don’t do this board justice.

Taichi?

Overheal · 09-11-2020 07:26PM

Mm. Yes. Fit for an engineer.

There’s some caps and a MOFSET in the corner that are at bit crooked rotation from north-south square. Other than that, enamored.

Yeah it’s the Taichi

yoshiktk · 09-11-2020 07:35PM

Overheal wrote: »

Mm. Yes. Fit for an engineer.

There’s some caps and a MOFSET in the corner that are at bit crooked rotation from north-south square. Other than that, enamored.

Yeah it’s the Taichi

Dont temp me...
I did narrow my mobo list to two but damm, that looks sexy ðŸ˜Ž

Overheal · 09-11-2020 09:41PM

Class.

These RGB stay on even when the system is “off.” Like regular status LEDs would. So rave.

My HD 5770 got to play a role in this setup as my strap on VGA because the EZ flash button was not helpful

bios flash is working fine with the same file and USB in UEFI though.

You can see what used to pass for bling in 2010, lol. One blue LED. Ya know what though my case came with blue LED so dang it if this wasn’t going to be the card. 2 of them in fact! Did limited good in Skyrim though. Instant buyers remorse.

...and that post filled the BIOS flash time. Nice.

Overheal · 09-11-2020 09:43PM

Potato pic. This is better. Sorry on touch so can’t add to my last post.

Overheal · 09-11-2020 09:52PM

yoshiktk wrote: »

Dont temp me...
I did narrow my mobo list to two but damm, that looks sexy ��

It’s nice. Tipping point was the power and reset buttons lol I knew I would be bench tweaking this before it goes into use, I have weeks before I have a new GPU anyway and this dx10 card isn’t going to do me anything.

Just knowing that I'm migrating to an NVME SSD that is *literally* more than one thousand times this transfer speed (synthetically anyway), this is a stellar exercise for anticipation.

Andrew76 · 09-11-2020 10:32PM

So the last component I need to get for my build is an SSD, for the time being I'm just going to have a single NVMe drive and was originally planning on getting a 500GB PCIe 4.0. After watching the below it seems there's bugger all difference between PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 in terms of game loading performance? Actually not much difference between any kind of SSD it seems. So for an extra £30 or so I think I'll opt for a 1TB PCIe 3.0 instead.

Is this Sabrent 1TB a decent brand? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07LGF54XR/?coliid=IA62UOUS75TMV

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

Overheal · 09-11-2020 11:24PM

I have the 1TB Gen 4 of that same stick.

Man perks of being a university student used to be better. The Dreamspark program used to be way better. They're so smart and 2020 with their licensing now. I can't even download the Consumer ISO for Windows without it realizing the key it gave me was for the education edition and then it yelling that my IT department hasn't specifically cleared me to install that. Bugger all. I haven't had to pay for Windows in years.

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