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Fluffy88 wrote: »

HWVS use the national postal service.

It happens that UPS is the German national postal service so while in Germany UPS handle the package and once it arrives in Ireland it is then handed over to An Post.

Mine was definitely delivered by a ups courier the last time I ordered.A previous order came via An Post but that was when my order was shipped via DHL.

Squaredude wrote: »

Mine was definitely delivered by a ups courier the last time I ordered.A previous order came via An Post but that was when my order was shipped via DHL.

TBH I'm a little confused now ....

I made a mistake in my earlier post, DHL are the national postal service in Germany and hwvs used to use them. Which meant packages were passed on to An Post when they arrived in Ireland.

Looking at my order history my order was shipped via DHL for €30.
The shipping options on the site now I can only choose UPS costing €18.99.

So I'd imagine hwvs switched to UPS to get the cheaper delivery price. So it seems that any orders since this change was made use UPS all the way?

There won't be apart from the software you might get with them. You're looking at around €100-150 for a decent soundcard.

PSU will be plenty. I personally love dedicated sound, and the Vengeance 1500 is no slouch either, so I think it would be worth while investment.

http://hardwareversand.de/7.1/29792/ASUS+Xonar+DX+7.1%2C+PCIe+x1+%2890-YAA060-1UAN00Z%29.article

Woops. I got confused there apparently. The 2000 is their wireless USB one, I thought both the 1300 and 1500 were analogue, but they're not. In that case don't bother with one, OP.

Yeah, you're right, they do nothing at all, my bad.

Pretty sure he said he already has the 1500. If not, then I'd go for the 1300, definitely.

Well, you could spent it on some Gentle Typhoons or something. Much better performing, and quieter case fans than anything you'll get with a case.

Post 5000, do I get some sort of prize?

Please, carry on..! :cool:

Get a 670 or 660 Ti. The 680 is horrible value. Either of those two cards (particularly the 670) will perform to within about 95% of the 680. No joke.

Wow there really is a big price difference for not much of an increase in performance.Which would be the best 670 to go for in your opinion?

Serephucus wrote: »

If you're going to look into watercooling it at any point, or adding a third-party cooler or something, then you'll want a reference design one (a normal, non-overclocked one) otherwise, ASUS' DirectCU2 cards are pretty good by all accounts (GTX 670-DC2).

This may betray my ignorance, but whatever. Technically speaking, wouldn't reference cards be lower binned as compared to ones with non-reference coolers? Making the water cooling less worthy of being applied to them?

Gumbi wrote: »

This may betray my ignorance, but whatever. Technically speaking, wouldn't reference cards be lower binned as compared to ones with non-reference coolers? Making the water cooling less worthy of being applied to them?

You're right. That's not to say you couldn't get an overlocked version with a reference PCB, I just didn't want to confuse the issue.

Squaredude wrote: »

Probably going to go for one of the evga ftw 670s.My only question now is 2gb or 4gb?I assume 4gb would only be necessary if I'm using multiple monitors,which I may do in the future but at the moment I'm not.And as for water cooling it,me and plumbing of any description do not get along well together.The only thing I'll be water cooling is my cpu.

GPUs benefit a lot more from being watercooled than CPUs generally speaking. That said, it's quite a bit of money to invest in a custom loop for a CPU and GPU, so it's not for everyone. As far as I'm aware, EVGA's 670 FTW uses a 680 PCB, so a 680 block would work with it if you ever wanted to watercool in the future.

That's the main reason I watercool. The 670 is decently quiet for a high-end card, and a bit quieter than a stock Intel cooler, but it's still miles too loud for my tastes.