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Bloodwing wrote: »

I'd love to have one of these sitting in the living room.

That looks AWESOME. :eek:

I can also see those being the future of photography studios... particularly for tethered shooting.

Bloodwing

ED E wrote: »

The all but announced steambox looks interesting, though the 1000dolla mark will have to be subsidized heavily.

Remember drooling over them as just modular server gear at last years coverage.

It looks interesting alright but it's still too early for me to get excited about it. It's looking like the Project Shield is going to have a fairly hefty price tag too.

challengemaster wrote: »

That looks AWESOME. :eek:

I can also see those being the future of photography studios... particularly for tethered shooting.

The novelty would probably wear off after a week or two but it looks great and could come in handy when you need the john while watching a livestream!

You mean you don't have one of these?

Looks like Metro Last Light will be at CES too...

Link NSFW

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=563912836970519&set=a.220692181292588.68214.212634978764975&type=1&theater

Bloodwing

challengemaster wrote: »

Looks like Metro Last Light will be at CES too...

Link NSFW

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=563912836970519&set=a.220692181292588.68214.212634978764975&type=1&theater

Don't do Facebook so I can't view it. The NSFW tag has me curious!!

ED E

Bloodwing wrote: »

Don't do Facebook so I can't view it. The NSFW tag has me curious!!

Very much barely NSFW

http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/530591_563912836970519_632013546_n.jpg

Bloodwing wrote: »

Don't do Facebook so I can't view it. The NSFW tag has me curious!!

Sorry about that, should have linked the actual pic - figured a link to the page + conversation going on would be better!

just did the final touches on my prodigy build. after bootlooping, i noticed the asrock z77e-itx has no dr.debug ive come to rely on, or a bloody internal speaker header to help find the error!!

anyway, i started on the ram, cause its the most likely, and lucky enough they werent in properly. only one side clicks in and youve to push pretty hard to get the other side in. pop it in and happy days.

RAID0 setup was easy enough, except for the catleap initializing too late to see what key to press to get into the config (Ctrl+I), so had to use my second screen. settled on the recommended 16kb stripe size.

windows7 install from USB -> SSD = fast
from USB -> RAID0 SSD's is bloody amazing. i swear it took no more than 5 or 6min before i hit the desktop. next time ill time it for sure.

ill get up pics soon.

Deano12345

Tea_Bag wrote: »

anyway, i started on the ram, cause its the most likely, and lucky enough they werent in properly. only one side clicks in and youve to push pretty hard to get the other side in. pop it in and happy days.

I've those same single sided latches on my board, an invention only matched by push pins in the amount of force thats needed

Glad to hear the rest of the build went well though

http://www.overclock.net/t/1347445/confused-more-vram-offers-no-improvement-whatsoever-even-in-surround

Something that Bloodwing in particular might find interesting, given his recent purchase. I was quite surprised by the results myself. Apparently larger framebuffer doesn't help at all in 2560x1600, or surround.

Bloodwing

Serephucus wrote: »

http://www.overclock.net/t/1347445/confused-more-vram-offers-no-improvement-whatsoever-even-in-surround

Something that Bloodwing in particular might find interesting, given his recent purchase. I was quite surprised by the results myself. Apparently larger framebuffer doesn't help at all in 2560x1600, or surround.

Makes for interesting reading. I haven't had the chance to check out my performance yet as I'm stuck in limbo waiting on FedEx to find my parcel! I would have expected to see some sort of difference with the higher vram.

Question for anyone who's interested:

If I were to place a link in the Selling PC Gear thread to a 600T and Z77 Ex4, might anyone be interested?

Eboggles

Serephucus wrote: »

Question for anyone who's interested:

If I were to place a link in the Selling PC Gear thread to a 600T and Z77 Ex4, might anyone be interested?

The 600t would be what colour?

Silver

Eboggles

Serephucus wrote: »

Silver

I was actually looking for white, sorry

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That EVGA 670 looks really nice, by the way.

if it were cheap :P

I'll give you €1 (yes, a whole one!) off. How's that sound?

Yeah, the 670 is quite nice looking. I'd go so far as to call it "cute" with the cooler off and waterblock installed. It's adorably tiny. You sort of look at it and just think "aawww..."

Squeaky the Squirrel

Serephucus wrote: »

Yeah, the 670 is quite nice looking. I'd go so far as to call it "cute" with the cooler off and waterblock installed. It's adorably tiny. You sort of look at it and just think "aawww..."

images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpyf6fKdG5edb_TU7zoO9et6Fg09aZm-pPiEk6UgvTwB6g5VZqmFM99WuK

:pac:

ED E

So many linus tech tips videos to watch!

N64

When in this day and age is not having X64 video drivers acceptable? F*ck intel :mad: :pac:

ED E wrote: »

So many linus tech tips videos to watch!

On this topic, am I the only one that really wants to see a 27" OLED monitor any time soon after watching a bunch of those videos?

ED E

I want the Xperia Z and a 4K Camera kthanxbai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81iiGWdsJgg

id love OLED or AMOLED jizz

NSFW not safe for wallet. build log on OC.net

www.overclock.net/t/1266202/build-log-the-big-budget-boomer-box-aka-the-bbbb/2740

pics half way down the page.

ShadowHearth

lads, would it be possible that mobile phones wireless network become weaker?

I could get wireless connetion with my phone anywhere in the house, not it only works inside the room where rooters is. strangely enough all other devices still work at the same range... could my phone be fecked?

glynf

ShadowHearth wrote: »

lads, would it be possible that mobile phones wireless network become weaker?

I could get wireless connetion with my phone anywhere in the house, not it only works inside the room where rooters is. strangely enough all other devices still work at the same range... could my phone be fecked?

Could be the network. You could stick your SIM into another phone to see if it's the handset.

edit:

Just got my 256gb crucial m4, a day early too, well done that postman

H
as anyone here setup two different sized SSD's (128 &256) in raid 0? how does it work with the different capacities?

Andy!!

Any way to strip a soundtrack from a movie file that has another language play by default? Or, is there a way to choose which play by default in VLC? How dare there be other languages in the world, totes annoying...

indough

you can chose a default language for audio in vlc's preferences

ShadowHearth

glynf wrote: »

Could be the network. You could stick your SIM into another phone to see if it's the handset.

edit:

Just got my 256gb crucial m4, a day early too, well done that postman

H
as anyone here setup two different sized SSD's (128 &256) in raid 0? how does it work with the different capacities?

What your am by network m8? Surely that should be device side only? Misses in on O2 network too and her phone get wireless everywhere. That's really weird.