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Tea_Bag · 07-07-2012 02:27AM

Headshot wrote: »

I dread to think of the price on that :pac:

it'll be cheaper than the 690 though!

GCDLawstudent wrote: »

My trousers just got tight

man I'm pitching major tent.

deconduo wrote: »

Also the 7990 is coming soon, including a 12GB version :eek:

http://videocardz.com/33771/amd-radeon-hd-7990-coming-in-july-including-12gb-version

Love it.

I think AMD is going to do well here, if they play their cards right.

if they could be €100+ cheaper than the gtx690, maybe in the low €800 mark, then they'll dominate the market.

looking at the pics, it says Ghz edition on the fans. if they throw the Ghz 7970's into it, ie 1000Mhz, it'll be much faster than the 690, being slightly crippled 680's, who get well beaten by the 7970 Ghz edition. and having 6gb of RAM. there will be no reason to get a 690, or 680SLI. even a 670SLI comes close to €800.

also, for the first time ever, AMD has taken notice of aftermarket/card resellers cooling solutions. it might actually be decent enough having 3 large fans. being the owner of a 6990, my housemate can't sleep while I game

thewheel2.0 · 07-07-2012 10:42AM

Well that was lucky... My order yesterday when I sent off payment.

Item|Price
BitFenix Shinobi Midi-Tower USB 3.0 black, ohne Netzteil|€54.03
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€40.99
ASRock Z77 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€89.23
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€36.53
LG GH24NS bare schwarz|€16.49
LogiLink Wireless LAN 300 Mbps PCI Karte 802.11n 2T2R|€14.36
Logilink Aluline externes USB 3.0 Gehäuse 2,5" S-ATA|€7.77
Thermalright HR-02 Macho|€34.89
Samsung SSD 830 128GB SATA 6GB's NB Upgrade Kit|€99.90
Enermax T.B.Silence PWM 12cm|€7.99
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€421.17

And this morning:
Item|Price
BitFenix Shinobi Midi-Tower USB 3.0 black, ohne Netzteil|€55.99
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€40.91
ASRock Z77 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€89.75
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€35.94
LG GH24NS bare schwarz|€17.12
LogiLink Wireless LAN 300 Mbps PCI Karte 802.11n 2T2R|€14.36
Logilink Aluline externes USB 3.0 Gehäuse 2,5" S-ATA|€7.77
Thermalright HR-02 Macho|€34.89
Samsung SSD 830 128GB SATA 6GB's NB Upgrade Kit|€120.65
Enermax T.B.Silence PWM 12cm|€8.84
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€445.21

All samsung 830s seem to have taken a price hike. Other components went up a euro or two aswell!

ShadowHearth · 07-07-2012 11:29AM

That's interesting. Samsung jumped by 20eu! That's damn a lot!
I have already placed order with komplett on 256gb version of Samsung. If they are increasing the prices of Samsung ssds I wonder if they will keep the low price on my one.

Skylinehead · 07-07-2012 11:43AM

http://www2.hardwareversand.de/Solid-State-Disk/56866/Samsung+SSD+830+128GB+SATA+6GB%27s+Paper+Box.article

This one doesn't seem to have gone up much, if at all. Still, going to order mine off Scan (€98 offer for the desktop kit) before they might go up.

Tea_Bag · 07-07-2012 01:29PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

That's interesting. Samsung jumped by 20eu! That's damn a lot!
I have already placed order with komplett on 256gb version of Samsung. If they are increasing the prices of Samsung ssds I wonder if they will keep the low price on my one.

the 256gb is ~€186 from Amazon.co.uk

edit..
just seen its €180 on komplett. I could have sworn it was €200 the other day!

ShadowHearth · 07-07-2012 01:34PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

the 256gb is ~€186 from Amazon.co.uk

edit..
just seen its €180 on komplett. I could have sworn it was €200 the other day!

It's 179eu on komplett for ages. I was always looking at it and thinking about all that dirty stuff I will do to it! I finally ordered, but does not look like they got any stock yesterday

.

ShadowHearth · 07-07-2012 10:46PM

lads, a super random one:

i got 2 monitors and i love to have WMP on secondary monitor while i am playing games on main.

problem is some games force second screen to go off or just go blank black screen. if i play a wee bit with alt+tab i can get second monitor working properly, but it is really annoying... would there be some option to force both monitors always on?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 07-07-2012 10:51PM

if you can run the game windowed have a look at shiftwindow, it stretches the window and forces a borderless fullscreen windowed mode like sc2 has

doesnt always work perfectly but it works for me for a coupleo f games and dual screen problems

Tea_Bag · 07-07-2012 10:57PM

try using the igp of your 2500K. that's what I do and never get that problem.

you could have a dodgy setting in your power options too, so have a look through them.

and cudos on using wmp. I thought I was the last person on the planet using it. it does everything I want. I do use vlc for movies and winamp on my phone though.

Skylinehead · 07-07-2012 11:17PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

try using the igp of your 2500K. that's what I do and never get that problem.

you could have a dodgy setting in your power options too, so have a look through them.

and cudos on using wmp. I thought I was the last person on the planet using it. it does everything I want. I do use vlc for movies and winamp on my phone though.

Pff, Winamp on PC rules all still :cool:

Was very disappointed with the Android version, track gap is terrible for sets.

RUCKING FETARD · 08-07-2012 01:07AM

First Preview of Gigabyte's Radeon HD 7970 With 5 Fans

gigabyte-7970-soc-windforce-5x,M-L-344253-13.jpg

Headshot · 08-07-2012 01:10AM

looks like a aircraft carrier

RUCKING FETARD · 08-07-2012 01:59AM

Procrastastudy · 08-07-2012 02:04AM

Hard work pays off in the future laziness pays off now - or words to that effect

N64 · 08-07-2012 02:08AM

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

I'm f****d

RUCKING FETARD · 08-07-2012 02:54AM

Achievement Hunter (Maybe NSFW

) Funny though.

ShadowHearth · 08-07-2012 10:02AM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

try using the igp of your 2500K. that's what I do and never get that problem.

you could have a dodgy setting in your power options too, so have a look through them.

and cudos on using wmp. I thought I was the last person on the planet using it. it does everything I want. I do use vlc for movies and winamp on my phone though.

igp? what you mean?

i check power saver option at it is all set to " enviromental prick " settings so all cool.
WMP works fine for me, so why i change it? i got all the family guy/south park/american dad/top gear/ cleveland show going on it on shuffle. works perfect.

funny enough that annoying thing happens only on few games. for example diablo 3 woriks fine and i can use second monitor for everything, but BF3 or blacklight retribution always get that problem.

Tea_Bag · 08-07-2012 10:12AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

igp? what you mean?

i check power saver option at it is all set to " enviromental prick " settings so all cool.
WMP works fine for me, so why i change it? i got all the family guy/south park/american dad/top gear/ cleveland show going on it on shuffle. works perfect.

funny enough that annoying thing happens only on few games. for example diablo 3 woriks fine and i can use second monitor for everything, but BF3 or blacklight retribution always get that problem.

integrated graphics processor

onboard on your CPU)

I'm unfamiliar with your spec, but if you have a z68/77 or H61/67 which has outputs for your onboard GPU through the IO shields, try plug it in there instead of on your GPU.

are you using a TV as your second monitor by any chance? I can vouch for BF3 never turning off my monitor.

ASUS%20Visual%20IO.jpg

ShadowHearth · 08-07-2012 10:49AM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

integrated graphics processor onboard on your CPU)

I'm unfamiliar with your spec, but if you have a z68/77 or H61/67 which has outputs for your onboard GPU through the IO shields, try plug it in there instead of on your GPU.

are you using a TV as your second monitor by any chance? I can vouch for BF3 never turning off my monitor.

aha, on board gpu lol. i will try that, because currently i got them both on my gpu. its 2 monitors btw and z68 board.

bf3 is not the worst, usually just few alt+tab and it is back to normal. black light is really bad with it though.

anyway, steam sale announced on 12th and my ssd wont be here by that time ffs

Tea_Bag · 08-07-2012 12:25PM

Christ, Ulster bank better have their **** together by then. and arma2 better not go on sale, cause I just paid full price for it, again...

Nazata · 08-07-2012 12:37PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

Christ, Ulster bank better have their **** together by then. and arma2 better not go on sale, cause I just paid full price for it, again...

I feel your pain, was meant to have my rig parts delivered and built by last week at latest and fully prepared for the Steam summer sale.
Haven't even been able to order most of it due to goddamn Ulster bank

ShadowHearth · 08-07-2012 01:02PM

hmmmm komplett.ie took the money for ssd from my account. i wonder if that means that it was shiped on friday?

Procrastastudy · 08-07-2012 01:34PM

LOL we really are a load of huge man children. I'm still waiting for my miniDP to DVI adaptors to arrive live a 5 year old waiting for santa.

thewheel2.0 · 08-07-2012 04:40PM

Will Software for Students email you the code for Windows? My lecturer isn't getting back to me about free windows for students so I may have to do an emergency buy this week as my build arrives! Either that or install Windows 8 preview or go down a dark road of a certain Warez site (which as a programmer I'm not too comfortable with!).

Skylinehead · 08-07-2012 04:42PM

Or, as a programmer....Linux?

Monotype · 08-07-2012 04:47PM

thewheel2.0 wrote: »

Will Software for Students email you the code for Windows? My lecturer isn't getting back to me about free windows for students so I may have to do an emergency buy this week as my build arrives! Either that or install Windows 8 preview or go down a dark road of a certain Warez site (which as a programmer I'm not too comfortable with!).

You could install windows on trial for 120 days? You might have to reinstall again to get an upgrade to work.

Headshot · 08-07-2012 04:51PM

hardwareversand down again? :rolleyes:

frozenfrozen · 08-07-2012 05:32PM

You can use the 120day trial and just activate it with the serial the same way you would normally do it with an upgrade serial

VenomIreland · 08-07-2012 05:53PM

My internet's been down since friday night, pain in the ass because I'm itching to play some games with my friends and get back into playing EVE.

EDIT: Just thought that if I was to go ahead and sell my U2711 and buy 3 Catleaps at christmas, I'd need to get a new graphics card setup, Only two ports on my graphics card setup support resolutions higher than 1920x1200.

ZeroThreat · 08-07-2012 08:32PM

VenomIreland wrote: »

My internet's been down since friday night, pain in the ass because I'm itching to play some games with my friends and get back into playing EVE.

EDIT: Just thought that if I was to go ahead and sell my U2711 and buy 3 Catleaps at christmas, I'd need to get a new graphics card setup, Only two ports on my graphics card setup support resolutions higher than 1920x1200.

ughh lol eve, I've quit recently due to boredom. More interested in playing bf3 amongst other things when my new rig arrives.

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