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Headshot · 27-10-2012 11:08PM

Royal post, tea bag

they are that cheap they wont use a courier

cherryghost · 28-10-2012 03:15AM

Anyone in the city centre got a Molex to 6 pin pcie cable I can take off them? Just want to confirm the total wattage on the gts450 I was considering swapping

Brian · 28-10-2012 12:24PM

Headshot wrote: »

Royal post, tea bag

they are that cheap they wont use a courier

Much rather Royal Post -> An Post than DPD

Tea_Bag · 28-10-2012 12:33PM

still BS considering it costs £18 postage. anyone know what it costs to the UK?

Eboggles · 28-10-2012 12:51PM

http://www.adverts.ie/other-computers/engtx550-ti-di-1gd5/2250945

What a bargain

.

Seriously, what is wrong with some people? First of all, it's a marketplace where people buy goods for under the RRP (they are mostly second-hand, after all) so why do people like this guy try to sell a GTX 550ti for nearly €300?!?

Monotype · 28-10-2012 01:11PM

"Very massive graphic card". Umm,... yeah.

Surely that's a typo. The 2 isn't supposed to be there. Yep, that makes sense. Offer €50 for it.

If these people are concerned about time wasting, they should have more reasonable prices. Or maybe it's too much time and effort.

Eboggles · 28-10-2012 02:17PM

Monotype wrote: »

"Very massive graphic card". Umm,... yeah.

Surely that's a typo. The 2 isn't supposed to be there. Yep, that makes sense. Offer €50 for it.

If these people are concerned about time wasting, they should have more reasonable prices. Or maybe it's too much time and effort.

His reputation is 100%, how did that happen?

Andy!! · 28-10-2012 02:41PM

Eboggles wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/other-computers/engtx550-ti-di-1gd5/2250945

What a bargain .

Seriously, what is wrong with some people? First of all, it's a marketplace where people buy goods for under the RRP (they are mostly second-hand, after all) so why do people like this guy try to sell a GTX 550ti for nearly €300?!?

Judging by his ramshackle tense usage I would say he is one of dem dodgy immigants taking our jerbs and trying to rip us off. No offence meant to the non-dodgy variety of course

glynf · 28-10-2012 05:20PM

cherryghost wrote: »

Anyone in the city centre got a Molex to 6 pin pcie cable I can take off them? Just want to confirm the total wattage on the gts450 I was considering swapping

Had a root about and all I can are the following bits:

The pin outs are wrong, as I used one of the female molex' that came with it for something else when I was sleeving my cables, but I also have a spare molex connector and a few other bits that you can use to make a proper Molex > 6 pin connector from.

I'm in Dublin cc tomorrow afternoon, and you're more than welcome to the above bits & pieces.

cherryghost · 28-10-2012 05:27PM

glynf wrote: »

Had a root about and all I can are the following bits:

The pin outs are wrong, as I used one of the female molex' that came with it for something else when I was sleeving my cables, but I also have a spare molex connector and a few other bits that you can use to make a proper Molex > 6 pin connector from.

I'm in Dublin cc tomorrow afternoon, and you're more than welcome to the above bits & pieces.

Cheers man, really appreciate it, but I took the dive and bought one in... Maplin

glynf · 28-10-2012 05:46PM

No probs, and I just made one out of boredom

marco_polo · 28-10-2012 05:49PM

cherryghost wrote: »

Cheers man, really appreciate it, but I took the dive and bought one in... Maplin

Ouch, I had to buy a 3.5 to 2.5 inch drive bay adapter there in an emergency once and I can still barely talk about it.

cherryghost · 28-10-2012 08:49PM

marco_polo wrote: »

Ouch, I had to buy a 3.5 to 2.5 inch drive bay adapter there in an emergency once and I can still barely talk about it.

They really are the most gormless bunch of 'tech' staff I've ever encountered.

On a plus note my 200 euro Steambox is up and running now

Intel Celeron G530 2.4ghz - €36
Asrock H61M-HVS - €42
4GB Patriot RAM - €14
380 Chieftec PSU (had no damn PCIe conn) €20
Palit GTS450 (it's an energy efficient one!) €65
LB 2019 mATX case €20

Topped with a spare 250GB HDD I had. I'm not intending on using a DVD drive as I want to use it as a Steambox next to my TV, for Steam big picture. I made some scripts that will autolaunch ROMs from emulators and such, so it should be quite awesome. Only doing benchmark testing on it this evening, so happy days.

Will post up benchmarks during the week for anyone interested.

Brian · 28-10-2012 09:56PM

Where could I get a desk-top cheap in town? I have a 2m one from IKEA in Cork but don't have a car big enough to transport it so looking for something I can lug home (Dublin city centre).

ED E · 28-10-2012 10:10PM

Brian wrote: »

Where could I get a desk-top cheap in town? I have a 2m one from IKEA in Cork but don't have a car big enough to transport it so looking for something I can lug home (Dublin city centre).

Argos. The bigger ones stock furniture like that and as long as you arent too weedy you'll be able to hoof it home no bother.

Headshot · 28-10-2012 10:25PM

lads intel site doesnt tell me but im hoping can advice me there
the cpu is intel Pentium® Processor T2370 1.73 GHz

how much ram can that support?

ED E · 28-10-2012 10:31PM

Headshot wrote: »

lads intel site doesnt tell me but im hoping can advice me there
the cpu is intel Pentium® Processor T2370 1.73 GHz

how much ram can that support?

Its based on the chipset, check your motherboards manual.

Headshot · 28-10-2012 11:01PM

ED E wrote: »

Its based on the chipset, check your motherboards manual.

why i asked is because in the manual it says up to 2gb but iv read on other forums of people have 3gb in theirs so im wondering

the mobo is Hewlett-Packard 30ED 83.21

its my fathers laptop and its dreadfully slow and needs more ram badly

Andy!! · 29-10-2012 07:35AM

Uh oh

I am starting to get hangs; lots of little green rectangles appear on screen and whatever I am doing hangs/crashes. It first happened when I tried following this guide while playing RAGE to make it look better http://segmentnext.com/2011/10/07/rage-tweak-guide-graphics-and-performance/ I booted up the game, noticed no difference but when I went to talk to an NPC the green rectangles appeared and the game froze so I deleted the config file I made. Unusually one of the extra options that it enabled within RAGE has not dissapeared in the menus. But today, the same green rectangle crash happened when I was just using Steam Big Picture. What has happened?

Is it a hardware or software problem? Is it fixable? I'm not overclocking, and am running an i7 with a 2GB 660ti.

Monotype · 29-10-2012 10:30AM

Update your drivers anyway. You may need to reinstall the game.

Could be the card getting faulty.

ShadowHearth · 29-10-2012 12:35PM

I presume we are talking about artifacts in game?

I won't say anything to to what mono said:

1. Update drivers
2. Reinstall game.
3. take out gpu check for dust, pop sucker in.
4. Check all games and environments to roll out specific program's where it happens. If not you will know that gpu itself is acting out.

Andy!! · 29-10-2012 01:11PM

I'll get new drivers but since it also happened in an unrelated program (Steam Big Picture) I dunno if it's just RAGE. God I hope it's not a hardware issue

Only put the unit together last week but I'll have a check for dust anyways.

Monotype · 29-10-2012 02:25PM

Double check the connections on the PSU as well, that they're secure.

Your Monitor too.

thewheel2.0 · 30-10-2012 02:53PM

Wheres the cheapest and qucikest place to get a SATA 3 cable? (might as well get SATA 3 even though I dont need it)

ED E · 30-10-2012 03:09PM

thewheel2.0 wrote: »

Wheres the cheapest and qucikest place to get a SATA 3 cable? (might as well get SATA 3 even though I dont need it)

Arent they interchangeable? As in any SATA cable will do SATA3 speeds?

marco_polo · 30-10-2012 03:16PM

Yep there is no such thing as SATA I/II/III cables its all the same.

In my experience Peats would be the one of the few places in town where you won't get overcharged at least a fiver extra.

ShadowHearth · 30-10-2012 06:27PM

Okay.... My old 60gb corsair boot ssd is acting up like a twat... Put on food to cool and when I am back to my pc it's says: please insert boot drive... Okay.

Fast check in bios says there is nothing plugged in. No 60gb ssd at all... Opened the case, checked all the cables and turned sucker on. Booted up nice and lovely...

How much are 256gb m4 or Samsung now? I might drop that sucker out and do a clean install on on new boot ssd. My steam and stuff is on other drives, so the only thing I will need reinstall is bf3.

Serephucus · 30-10-2012 06:40PM

You should be fine with a 128GB drive. I have all my non-game applications on it, as well as BF3, and I've got ~45GB left. More space is always good however, so maybe the 256GB version couldn't hurt.

Cheaper on Dabs if you're only buying the one item. ~€100 for 128, and ~€180 for 256.

ShadowHearth · 30-10-2012 06:59PM

Serephucus wrote: »

You should be fine with a 128GB drive. I have all my non-game applications on it, as well as BF3, and I've got ~45GB left. More space is always good however, so maybe the 256GB version couldn't hurt.

Cheaper on Dabs if you're only buying the one item. ~€100 for 128, and ~€180 for 256.

well i got 256 already as my steam one, but another 256 would be handy... though i am stuck with cash and i plan to get a new phone this year so i am a bit tight on cash. 128gb sounds handy.

Monotype · 30-10-2012 07:43PM

I've noticed that this seems to be a problem on some Intel chipsets- disappearing SSDs. Try one of the other ports - i.e., if you're on the 3Gbps, try the 6Gbps ones.

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