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Mod Note: In all of my benevolence (and the fact I'm tired of cleaning gag posts out of the BA thread) I have created a new (did we ever have one??) Off Topic thread for all your randomness and IT-related humour! The rules are: there are no rules. Although posting on-topic stuff here or stuff that belongs in Hardware Discussion etc. better may be moved randomly with extreme prejudice!! It will also make you look silly

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Tea_Bag

that shuttle board is back in the books again.

i can get it for $117 but thats posted within the US. now ive to try find a cheap way to get it to Ireland. any ideas?

Gbear

Tea_Bag wrote: »

that shuttle board is back in the books again.

i can get it for $117 but thats posted within the US. now ive to try find a cheap way to get it to Ireland. any ideas?

Trained sea otters can swim it over.

Andy!!

Gbear wrote: »

Trained sea otters can swim it over.

Thats true they actually can. Had that done for around 17 quid last year. The url is transatlanticseaotters.com.

Serephucus

Tea_Bag wrote: »

that shuttle board is back in the books again.

i can get it for $117 but thats posted within the US. now ive to try find a cheap way to get it to Ireland. any ideas?

MyUS.com. $10 registration, then shipping based on weight, then possibly import crap after that. Cheapest solution I found when I was looking a while back.

Burgo

Tea_Bag wrote: »

that shuttle board is back in the books again.

i can get it for $117 but thats posted within the US. now ive to try find a cheap way to get it to Ireland. any ideas?

No relatives, long lost or otherwise you could ask to ship?

Genghiz Cohen

JackieChan wrote: »

Then I got an email from dabs yesterday that they are selling the XFX 7850 2gb+ 2 free games(Dirt Showdown and Sleeping Dogs) for 179. Again I thought great price but they charge €14+ for postage which is pretty freaking steep considering the charge is £2 to the north

If you get it delivered to Parcel Motel in the North, they will ship it to a depot here for like €3. You have to pick it up yourself but the first 2 are free.

Tea_Bag

Thanks everyone.

I just realized, i dont think i can turn my gtx690 into a single slot bracket, so I wouldnt even be able to use the extra PCIe lane for my sound card anyway. any advice? stick with the Z77e-itx?

Eboggles

Hey guys,

has anyone here played The Witcher 2 in the last while? My HD6850 is having a really really hard time running this game. It's getting about 30fps at 2560x1440, which seems pretty good, but I have everything at an absolute minimum. I'm talking extremely downscaled textures, console-like quality.
Is the game an absolute dog to run, or is my HD6850 malfunctioning?

Slightly off-topic, but I feel I should mention it: The Witcher 2 is REALLY graphic, isn't it? I've only played the prologue, but I certainly wasn't expecting to see as much as I saw :eek:...

ShadowHearth

Eboggles wrote: »

Hey guys,

has anyone here played The Witcher 2 in the last while? My HD6850 is having a really really hard time running this game. It's getting about 30fps at 2560x1440, which seems pretty good, but I have everything at an absolute minimum. I'm talking extremely downscaled textures, console-like quality.
Is the game an absolute dog to run, or is my HD6850 malfunctioning?

Slightly off-topic, but I feel I should mention it: The Witcher 2 is REALLY graphic, isn't it? I've only played the prologue, but I certainly wasn't expecting to see as much as I saw :eek:...

Witcher 2 ( and 1 ) are one of my favorite games ever. It is very demanding on pc resources, though my q6600 3gb ram 6870 could run that game almost maxed out at 1650x1050.
at 1440p i would expect a low performance. Just check in options if ubersampling is turned off. i cant get normal frame rate with ubersampling even on gtx 680.

Headshot

Never heard of that "Potalion 2710PW" monitor Eboggles, why did you pick it over the likes of catleap etc?

marco_polo

Eboggles wrote: »

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Slightly off-topic, but I feel I should mention it: The Witcher 2 is REALLY graphic, isn't it? I've only played the prologue, but I certainly wasn't expecting to see as much as I saw :eek:...

Post reported for dragging the off-topic thread off-topic. :pac:

indough

Tea_Bag wrote: »

that shuttle board is back in the books again.

i can get it for $117 but thats posted within the US. now ive to try find a cheap way to get it to Ireland. any ideas?

i dont suppose you saw the x79 board for sale anywhere during your investigations? all i could find were out of stock listings on australian websites

Eboggles

Headshot wrote: »

Never heard of that "Potalion 2710PW" monitor Eboggles, why did you pick it over the likes of catleap etc?

Only reason was the slightly better stand, and the fact that it was about $30 cheaper when I bought it.

Eboggles

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Witcher 2 ( and 1 ) are one of my favorite games ever. It is very demanding on pc resources, though my q6600 3gb ram 6870 could run that game almost maxed out at 1650x1050.
at 1440p i would expect a low performance. Just check in options if ubersampling is turned off. i cant get normal frame rate with ubersampling even on gtx 680.

I guess it's just another reason for me to upgrade my GPU

ShadowHearth

Eboggles wrote: »

I guess it's just another reason for me to upgrade my GPU .

Witcher 2 was the reason why I upgraded from 8800gt, to 6870!

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This game looks amazing and deserves to be seen on high settings. I just stopped playing it until I got my 6870. I need to get back to it and see the other part of the game as I did only one side of it. I sort of envy you now as you get a chance play it now from a zero!

Eboggles

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Witcher 2 was the reason why I upgraded from 8800gt, to 6870! .

This game looks amazing and deserves to be seen on high settings. I just stopped playing it until I got my 6870. I need to get back to it and see the other part of the game as I did only one side of it. I sort of envy you now as you get a chance play it now from a zero!

Thanks, it's been great so far

Tea_Bag

indough wrote: »

i dont suppose you saw the x79 board for sale anywhere during your investigations? all i could find were out of stock listings on australian websites

I could give you the email address of the woman I was dealing with in the states if that helps you? they won't post internationally, and will only accept payment with an American credit card.

I know that no one stocks the boards, it all has to be ordered in from Germany and the US.

I spoke to shuttles regional manager, who gave me companies that would sell it, who had to reconfirm shuttle would sell it to them, then they lash on their cut, and send you a quote. I didn't ask much about the x79, but its the same deal.

it also explains why the 2 Irish companies added €160 for their 'services'.

indough

Tea_Bag wrote: »

I could give you the email address of the woman I was dealing with in the states if that helps you? they won't post internationally, and will only accept payment with an American credit card.

I know that no one stocks the boards, it all has to be ordered in from Germany and the US.

I spoke to shuttles regional manager, who gave me companies that would sell it, who had to reconfirm shuttle would sell it to them, then they lash on their cut, and send you a quote. I didn't ask much about the x79, but its the same deal.

it also explains why the 2 Irish companies added €160 for their 'services'.

if you could pass her details onto me id be eternally grateful, just trying to figure out shipping and credit card workarounds

Tea_Bag

pm sent.

what build are you planning?

EVGA just launched their new itx board, the stinger. no reviews yet. €177 on their own website.

also, I was pimping this forum in bargain alerts as an alternative to ordering the Dell xps 8500 a newbie was trying to order, and my comment was deleted along with a slap on the hand. :rolleyes:

Serephucus

Tea_Bag wrote: »

also, I was pimping this forum in bargain alerts as an alternative to ordering the Dell xps 8500 a newbie was trying to order, and my comment was deleted along with a slap on the hand. :rolleyes:

dafuq? Perfectly legitimate post gets deleted? And you get a smack?

PseudoFamous

Serephucus wrote: »

dafuq? Perfectly legitimate post gets deleted? And you get a smack?

Same happened to me for saying inthread that a deal on some "gaming" computer was actually rubbish, and even with the "discount", it was still twice as expensive as building it.

ED E

BA is moderated like Adverts, AKA badly. They treat that kind of advice as thread spoiling.

Maybe we could give some feedback on this if other people were willing to contribute? Somebody start a thread in boards feedback?

Tea_Bag

its a bit silly. i posted another comment saying the B&U forum is a free service.

indough

Tea_Bag wrote: »

pm sent.

what build are you planning?

EVGA just launched their new itx board, the stinger. no reviews yet. €177 on their own website.

also, I was pimping this forum in bargain alerts as an alternative to ordering the Dell xps 8500 a newbie was trying to order, and my comment was deleted along with a slap on the hand. :rolleyes:

hmm, that board is interesting.

i had planned on throwing the shuttle x79 into the prodigy so that i could have 32gb ram in there and the 6 cores would have been handy as im mostly going to be using it for adobe premiere pro and after effect, which i believe are built to use multiple threads pretty well. also a gtx 680 for the cuda even though i hear conflicting reports about whether id be better off with a 580 for those programs.

but maybe im getting a bit carried away, all those us postal forwarding companies seem a bit dodgy and i could always use the saved money to upgrade later on if i just go with a z77 setup instead.

i was out of the hardware loop for a couple of years and it honestly seems to have gotten a bit confusing lately

thewheel2.0

Tea_Bag wrote: »

its a bit silly. i posted another comment saying the B&U forum is a free service.

And a damn good one too. I lurk here everyday just to consume the vast knowledge here

RUCKING FETARD

Tea_Bag wrote: »

and my comment was deleted along with a slap on the hand. :rolleyes:

Were you called a scum_bag again?

lol, don't know why but it has popped into my head a few times since that was posted, always start laughing to myself.:D

Tea_Bag

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

Were you called a scum_bag again?

lol, don't know why but it has popped into my head a few times since that was posted, always start laughing to myself.:D

ive been meaning to say this for ages, youre pretty much my stumbleupon. i always come across your random links all over boards.

Andy!!

Serephucus wrote: »

dafuq? Perfectly legitimate post gets deleted? And you get a smack?

Welcome to boards.ie!!

NTMK

Tea_Bag wrote: »

ive been meaning to say this for ages, youre pretty much my stumbleupon. i always come across your random links all over boards.

lol i remember that you were angrier that scum_bag was the best dig he could think of:pac:

in other off-topic news thq are doing a humble bundle which has
darksiders
metro 2033
red faction Armageddon
company of heros and two epxos(tales of valor and opposing fronts)

and if you pay over the average ($5.69) you get saints row 3 as well

also ive got 2 dota 2 invites if anyone wants em pm me your steam id

papu

NTMK wrote: »

lol i remember that you were angrier that scum_bag was the best dig he could think of:pac:

in other off-topic news thq are doing a humble bundle which has
darksiders
metro 2033
red faction Armageddon
company of heros and two epxos(tales of valor and opposing fronts)

and if you pay over the average ($5.69) you get saints row 3 as well

also ive got 2 dota 2 invites if anyone wants em pm me your steam id

It's an awesome deal , heres the link
https://www.humblebundle.com/