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M00lers · 11-04-2012 02:52PM

Ordered one of these today, fan noise from my HX850 was driving me cracked and it was complete overkill for my needs.

Better stock up on the oul bananas!!:D

SP-S460FL_06.jpg

VenomIreland · 11-04-2012 02:52PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Nifty project.

http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=31401&agid=1199

13cm.

Nice, thanks, might bump the processor down/up to the 35W i3, from the 2100, so as I can put more power to a GPU.

Serephucus · 11-04-2012 02:57PM

moolers2000 wrote: »

Ordered one of these today, fan noise from my HX850 was driving me cracked and it was complete overkill for my needs.

Better stock up on the oul bananas!!:D

SP-S460FL_06.jpg

Nice! I was looking at those the other day as a "what-if" type upgrade.

M00lers · 11-04-2012 03:00PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Nice! I was looking at those the other day as a "what-if" type upgrade.

Wanted the Super-Flower Golden Silent in a bad way, but after a few calls to HWVS this morning I couldn't pay via Paypal on my first order or summit

Should be more than enough power for my PC and no fan means no noise.:cool: Hopefully no coil whine.

Serephucus · 11-04-2012 03:04PM

Hopefully. Let me know how you get on with it anyway.

M00lers · 11-04-2012 03:05PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Hopefully. Let me know how you get on with it anyway.

Will do, thanks.

Eboggles · 11-04-2012 03:33PM

Why bother with a catleap :cool:

http://www.techpowerup.com/163980/EIZO-DuraVision-FDH3601-On-Display-at-NAB-2012.html

ShadowHearth · 11-04-2012 03:47PM

Eboggles wrote: »

Why bother with a catleap :cool:

http://www.techpowerup.com/163980/EIZO-DuraVision-FDH3601-On-Display-at-NAB-2012.html

this makes fact, that PS3 will have 4k resolution support even more retarded. :rolleyes:

35k $ for this beauty, so sony thinks, average household will have one of those by next year... no wonder they got loss of 4 billion...

M00lers · 11-04-2012 03:50PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

this makes fact, that PS3 will have 4k resolution support even more retarded. :rolleyes:

35k $ for this beauty, so sony thinks, average household will have one of those by next year... no wonder they got loss of 4 billion...

4K TVs will not be anywhere near that price though in fairness.

FlyingIrishMan · 11-04-2012 03:53PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

this makes fact, that PS3 will have 4k resolution support even more retarded. :rolleyes:

35k $ for this beauty, so sony thinks, average household will have one of those by next year... no wonder they got loss of 4 billion...

Perhaps Sony is planning on releasing a 4k res tv around the same time as the PS4 launch? A cheaper one of course.

game4it70 · 11-04-2012 04:08PM

deejer wrote: »

I nice TJ07 case for a WC build maybe..........

I'm in the middle of painting my one atm

deejer · 11-04-2012 04:26PM

game4it70 wrote: »

I'm in the middle of painting my one atm

Quality! Be sure and throw up a few pics when its done.

Thats what I am planning on doing as well. I was trying to buy one second hand even in case it all went wrong! There was one in the UK and he was going to swap for my FT02 but postage was just too much.

game4it70 · 11-04-2012 05:26PM

deejer wrote: »

Quality! Be sure and throw up a few pics when its done.

Yeah will do next week,stilling waiting of a few bits to to arrive.

sosmyface · 11-04-2012 05:55PM

Lads thanks for the help on graphics card, I am happy enough to get a hd7750. Just got a few more things running through my head.

I made a htpc a few weeks ago buying an Intel Core i3-2105 which i think was overkill. I was thinking about replacing it with a g530 and using the i3-2105 in my new computer. Although I see almost every processor for a new build now is the i5-2500. What would i be missing if I went with the i3?

probably silly question but why is it better to get an expensive processor with hd graphics when you are gonna be using a discreet graphics card anyways? The other features that come along with it I assume?

In the bios (asrock h61m) on my htpc should I have the cpu fan set to full or automatic? Its full at the min and i dont think its too stressed.

thank you:D

Pangea · 11-04-2012 08:06PM

Think Il go for these two, not a gamer so the dearer stuff is probably unnecessary..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001ASHO46/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001QT6V7A/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3KAD1JF9HFBYW

FlyingIrishMan · 11-04-2012 08:13PM

That black model is the exact one I have.
Does the job, nothing special about it really.

Osmosae · 11-04-2012 08:18PM

*face palm* was just taking a look at my c drive n wondering how i had used up so much space .... started going through some settings n realised my paging file was taking up 32 gigs ..... now things make much more sense, resized and moved to my other hard drive

Skylinehead · 11-04-2012 08:51PM

Pangea wrote: »

Think Il go for these two, not a gamer so the dearer stuff is probably unnecessary..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001ASHO46/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001QT6V7A/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3KAD1JF9HFBYW

Never underestimate a comfortable keyboard/mouse, gaming or not.

Pangea · 11-04-2012 10:14PM

Skylinehead wrote: »

Never underestimate a comfortable keyboard/mouse, gaming or not.

Are they so much better though, for general use?
Spending triple the price for extra gaming buttons on a keyboard and extra settings on mice isn't really appealing to me.

Skylinehead · 11-04-2012 10:42PM

You don't necessarily need extra buttons, I said comfort for a reason. I don't game on my laptop (about to change in a month), but I find it much better to use a proper fullsize, form-fitting mouse. Your hand will be on the mouse most of the time you're on the PC regardless of whether you're gaming or not. As for the keyboard, if you barely type there's probably no point in getting a good keyboard but otherwise look around a bit.

Serephucus · 11-04-2012 10:44PM

What laptop are you getting? I've been debating whether or not to sell my Android tablet and move back to a laptop for months.

Skylinehead · 11-04-2012 11:24PM

Badly worded. I'm not, building a 1300 quid PC :pac:

Serephucus · 11-04-2012 11:26PM

Ah, I see. Happy days.

Headshot · 12-04-2012 01:04AM

So lads can any ye recommend an SSD for me

Osmosae · 12-04-2012 01:38AM

how much ya looking to spend, and what size ? Samsung 830 series, Crucial M4 and Mushkin Chronos jump to mind as brands

Headshot · 12-04-2012 01:47AM

I'm not sure on price Osmosae but I do know they cost Fair bit. Can I ask how do the work? Is it they work inconjuntion with normal hard drives or are they suppose to replace them?

FlyingIrishMan · 12-04-2012 02:00AM

Headshot wrote: »

I'm not sure on price Osmosae but I do know they cost Fair bit. Can I ask how do the work? Is it they work inconjuntion with normal hard drives or are they suppose to replace them?

Most people use them as an OS drive as it boots up Windows in a matter of seconds, that takes about 20GB if you disable hibernation.
Then with the rest you could install most your programs, browsers, word, photoshop stuff like that.

Then if you have a larger hard drive, you can use that for games, movies, music etc.

A 64Gb Crucial M4 (most recommended one around here) is 75euro on hardwareversand.
But you can get a 120Gb Petrol OCZ drive on Dabs (or Pixmania, can't remember) for around 125euro.

Headshot · 12-04-2012 02:04AM

So I can use lets say 64gb Crucial M4 for windows and games and my Samsung SpinPoint F3 1000GB for videos, movies. music etc, that right ?

_AVALANCHE_ · 12-04-2012 02:17AM

Headshot wrote: »

So I can use lets say 64gb Crucial M4 for windows and games and my Samsung SpinPoint F3 1000GB for videos, movies. music etc, that right ?

http://lifehacker.com/5626931/steam-mover-relocates-applications-to-free-up-space-on-your-primary-drive

FlyingIrishMan · 12-04-2012 02:18AM

Headshot wrote: »

So I can use lets say 64gb Crucial M4 for windows and games and my Samsung SpinPoint F3 1000GB for videos, movies. music etc, that right ?

Yes. If you have lots of games there is a program called steam mover you can use to have some games on the solid state, and the rest on the larger hard drive.

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