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kevovek wrote: »

Just a quick question, my parts form hardwareversand should be here Tuesday and the only keyboard I have in the house at the moment is a cheap wireless one will this function well enough to set up windows? Also this has probably been asked to death but all I've found online are conflicting opinions I haven't got an anti static wristband, can I ground my self by touching the metal part of the case or the pipes of a radiator?

I think the keyboard will be ok. Not sure though.

You are totally fine without a wrist band, touch a radiator and try to avoid working on a carpet. I was scared ****less of touching anything but the very corners of my motherboard when I first build a computer over 2 years ago!

Noticed two hdds 'disappear' from my system last week and have had glandular fever so didn't have the energy to bother what's gone wrong. Both old 500gb seagates

That's how old we're talking >>

One of them still shows up in crystaldisk and disk management, but I can't access any of the info on it. Anyone have any idea what I can do to try get it back? Might plug it into a different controller on the board just in case something suddenly isn't playing nice.
Hasn't got much of value on it at all, just be a bit inconveniencing as it's all my movies and pictures on it. Now that I think about it, it's mostly every digital image I've ever taken of value. Yeah probably do want that drive back now that I think about it!

Really? had to roll back to the last beta from the whql release as it was causing ctd for me constantly.

This looks pretty cool:

BloodBath wrote: »

Pretty cool alright. Probably takes a high end gpu just to render it in real time though.

We just need the hardware for this advanced physics now.

Nvidias strangle hold on phys-x is holding back serious physics development though. All 3 new consoles will be using amd graphics and processors and nearly half the pc dedicated graphics market. Having a physics engine that only works on Nvidia gpu's or very limited on cpu's isn't good for the market.

I don't understand why developers can't just make an engine that works for all cpu's and graphics cards.

Maybe with AMD controlling large chunks of the console market (or did they do that already?) there'll be a move towards more standardisation?

I know right.. I'm surprised Razer are honouring it.
Any other company would have cancelled all the orders without a second thought.

Gbear wrote: »

I'd feel a bit guilty to be honest.

Not for microsoft or a super giant company but for what is, I assume, a normal business, that represents a fairly substantial loss I suspect.

I can't imagine their markup is 1000%.

Don't get me wrong, they're still more than likely making a large loss, but considering that they specialise in selling "gaming" peripherals, their markup is probably fairly significant.

I might have felt guilty, I would still totally have ordered a few bits and pieces for myself. :pac:

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/4/22/the-2013-nvidia-lineup-gtx780-is-titan-le2c-gtx770-is-gtx6802c-gtx760ti-is-gtx670.aspx

NVIDIA's 700 series details. 780 will be a cut down Titan, 770 will be an overclocked 680, and 760 Ti will be an OCed 670. 5, 4, and 2GB of memory respectively. Expected to launch sometime in May. Pricing unknown, but expected between $5-600 for the 780.

Looks like I'll be stepping up to a 780 after all!

Well looks like I will be skiping 7 series generation completely so. Good!

Still waiting for a decent upgrade from my 2 6950s, want to get out of a dual card setup into something better, hopefully the 770 will be cheap enough.

I'll be going for Haswell, but only because I'll be changing boards anyway. (And that my 3570K isn't a great one for OCing) otherwise I'd just stick with it. Haswell is only really going to bring laptop benefits. It's main focus is on power consumption and delivery.

Serephucus wrote: »

I'll be going for Haswell, but only because I'll be changing boards anyway. (And that my 3570K isn't a great one for OCing) otherwise I'd just stick with it. Haswell is only really going to bring laptop benefits. It's main focus is on power consumption and delivery.

I have work placement in Intel over the summer so I should be able to avail of a 10% discount (or more) :P If Haswell overclocks really well this might make it a worthy upgrade over my 3570k.