Off-Topic Thread

It used to be €30 but they reduced that price to €18.99 earlier this year.

And yeah it's a flat rate, case & monitors included in that.
Not sure about 50" TV's though, don't know of anyone that bought a TV from there so can't help with that.

To check you could run an order through as they don't ship orders until you actually pay for the order and if you don't pay within 2 weeks the order is automatically deleted, so you won't lose out :P

I'm poor. I hope this is a painless transaction...

Looks like TimeToLiveCustoms has a bit of competition. Has anyone seen TastyPCTV, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV6rM8iGYzs&feature=relmfu
Apart from the fact that she is hot, the reviews aren't that bad. Not as detailed as Toms, but they are shorter.

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

Sounds too scripted. Although I do like the idea of shorter reviews, Tom's reviews are just way too long for me most the time, 5-10mins is the most I could handle.

Doesn't matter if it's scripted dude. She's hot! :P

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

Looks like TimeToLiveCustoms has a bit of competition. Has anyone seen TastyPCTV, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV6rM8iGYzs&feature=relmfu
Apart from the fact that she is hot, the reviews aren't that bad. Not as detailed as Toms, but they are shorter.

Clever girl, luring me in with those low cut tops. Im subscribed . Im certain that if I had breasts I would be running this country by now.

That Tom fella pisses me off. Does he really think Im going to sit and listen to him for 45mins talking about fans. And I keep thinking of Ricky Bobby when he is sitting there with his hands going everywhere.

His case reviews are great, because he spends 45 mins looking at it and really does let you see for yourself what the case is like and get a feel for it. I'm not sure a fan requires the amount of time looking at it :P

But he talks some amount of ****e during the reviews it's hard to listen to him sometimes.
And I think we all do appreciate reviewers like him, I know I'd love to do his job

I just discovered that speefan has a nifty hard drive analysis tool.

Here are my results for my samsung spinpoint f3 bought back in December 2010.

DaleHyland wrote: »

Just a few questions as I have a few concerns regarding my order from Hardwareversand. Ordered today, paid immediately with Paypal, received conformation email of payment , should it be here by Monday?

Also, what's their policy regarding returns/Doa's?

I highly doubt it will be here by Monday unfortunately . Once its dispatched, it will take anywhere between 3-5 days. Once it reaches Ireland, it will be delivered to your door by anpost. HWVS policy regarding RMA's is quite good usually. You can print out a prepaid UPS label and the turn around time is usually less than 2 weeks.


I did a bit more investigating into the values I was getting with that hard drive tester. Although I never once got a HDD related crash error, it looks like my sata controller on my motherboard is fecked up. I was getting some crashes when I was installing a game (mass effect 2) when I used my sata 3 port off the games DVD. When I used the sata 2 ports, no crashes occurred so It kind of would make sense if it is my SB causing the issues (also, when I used another HDD, I was getting a few errors transferring data using the same sata port)

Is there a possibility that this could be caused by the power supply I am using (super flower amazon 550w)? Everything seems to be stable, minus a few random crashes in bad company 2 (buzz noise crash) and even then, the system never powered off unexpectedly. I am going to be getting a new motherboard tomorrow so I guess I can compare the values.

Screen shot of what HDDtune reports:

DaleHyland wrote: »

Thanks, I chose DHL at checkout so that won't make a difference? Many thanks or the information., I'm dying with the excitement.

Every delivery from HWVS to Ireland uses DHL economy (kind of like our standard mail) so it won't speed up the delivery times I'm afraid. When it reaches Ireland, you will be able to use the codes HWVS provided you with on the an post track and trace page. It will take roughly 1 day after its on the anpost system to be delivered. Good luck on the build

N64 wrote: »

She puts no/very little enthusiasm into her reviews. Although she is hot, I would still watch linus tech tips over her reviews :P

Ah it doesn't matter how much enthusiasm she has got i love her reviews they are very nice on the eye ;)

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

There is plenty of places on the internet where you can watch good looking women.

When I want to watch reviews I want the reviewer to be relaxed, know what he/she is talking about and not sound like a damn robot.

But are they into PCs :P:P

Well after talking sh!t about BOI and international transfer times the payment actually went through today, when they said it'd be monday!

Like a furnace in my room with the computer and the tv. Computer probably being the worse