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thewheel2.0 · 16-05-2013 07:38PM

marco_polo wrote: »

A HD7870 only uses about 12W idling in 2D mode so isn't not really worth the hastle for power reasons, for noise you could probably just change the fan profiles to get the desired effect.

Found it: Lucid Virtu Doesnt seem worth the effort according to AnandTech. Also its expensive enough. Ah well, seemed like a good idea.

ShadowHearth · 16-05-2013 09:33PM

It all nice and shiny, but ill stick to my 680. It works perfect so far and another 500-600eu wont give me that much of an upgrade. Though I would love to see 680 to drop in price so I could pop second one later this year.

deejer · 16-05-2013 10:03PM

Delivery from HWVS yesterday. Ordered last Friday so no complaints with time.

The 2 boxes you can see are a Corsair VS350 and CX430M power supplies. Have a CX430 already and no complaints so happy to go again.

One question I have is I want to put one of them into a homeserver and I wondering if the VS350 would be able for it? At the most it will be booting 4 hard drives but for the foreseeable future there will only be 2.

Prof Nincom Poop Ph.D · 16-05-2013 10:05PM

Serephucus · 16-05-2013 10:07PM

VS350 would be plenty for the server, yeah.

NTMK · 16-05-2013 10:23PM

M-atx is becomming more and more tempting

Asus ROG boards

Serephucus · 16-05-2013 10:25PM

Hooooorrible slot layout.

But yes, I really don't see a reason why 9/10 people couldn't get by with mATX, and ITX if you're looking at business/home stuff.

NTMK · 16-05-2013 10:33PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Hooooorrible slot layout.

But yes, I really don't see a reason why 9/10 people couldn't get by with mATX, and ITX if you're looking at business/home stuff.

is there something up with the slot layout im missing?

that 350D case looks great and it seems like i could wc 2 780's in it

Serephucus · 16-05-2013 10:36PM

I guess it's not that horrible, come to think of it. It's just that if you wanted to run dual cards, and a sound card, you have to water cool. That said, there aren't many cases out there with a fifth PCI slot, so motherboard manufacturers aren't going to do their slot layout that way.

NTMK · 16-05-2013 10:52PM

Serephucus wrote: »

I guess it's not that horrible, come to think of it. It's just that if you wanted to run dual cards, and a sound card, you have to water cool. That said, there aren't many cases out there with a fifth PCI slot, so motherboard manufacturers aren't going to do their slot layout that way.

In fairness we'd be asking a lot. not many people would be going sli and soundcard. With the prodigy build i would've been using a DAC so not much is changing for me going M-ATX as i already own the DAC

Asus also unveiled their Thermal armour Boards
Link

Can they not just make black boards:mad:

Burgo · 16-05-2013 10:53PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Hooooorrible slot layout.

But yes, I really don't see a reason why 9/10 people couldn't get by with mATX, and ITX if you're looking at business/home stuff.

Im happy with matx, would have gone itx if only they had a pcie 1 slot! Would make me a very happy man.

Serephucus · 16-05-2013 10:56PM

ASRock just need to stop dicking around, and use matte black PCBs on their boards, then they'll be awesome.

That said, a couple of Gigabyte's Z87 boards look awesome. There's an red and black one that's great. (The white is actually chrome)

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gigabyte-GA-Z87X-UD4H.jpg

NTMK · 16-05-2013 11:01PM

Serephucus wrote: »

ASRock just need to stop dicking around, and use matte black PCBs on their boards, then they'll be awesome.

That said, a couple of Gigabyte's Z87 boards look awesome. There's an red and black one that's great. (The white is actually chrome)

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gigabyte-GA-Z87X-UD4H.jpg

I like the colouring of the board is class but that Ultra Durable print ugh

as for asrock they've come along way from this beauty

Serephucus · 16-05-2013 11:03PM

Have a look at TTL's overview of it, looks a lot better with the right light.

Point taken, though in that day and age, all the kids were fingerpainting motherboards - Gigabyte an ASUS were at it too.

Burgo · 16-05-2013 11:08PM

Serephucus wrote: »

ASRock just need to stop dicking around, and use matte black PCBs on their boards, then they'll be awesome.

That said, a couple of Gigabyte's Z87 boards look awesome. There's an red and black one that's great. (The white is actually chrome)

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gigabyte-GA-Z87X-UD4H.jpg

Gigabyte moving away from the blue it would seem!

NTMK · 16-05-2013 11:09PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Have a look at TTL's overview of it, looks a lot better with the right light.

Point taken, though in that day and age, all the kids were fingerpainting motherboards - Gigabyte an ASUS were at it too.

Asus are still at it. TTL said the only way he could make the new colour scheme work is if he used leopard-print and shag carpet:pac:

and iirc Me and tea pulled a board very similar to that out of a case and it wasn't that old (i could be wrong)

Serephucus · 16-05-2013 11:12PM

Yeah, ASRock nailed the black and gold theme. ASUS... need someone who is not colour-blind to glance at the boards before they go into production next time.

NTMK · 16-05-2013 11:18PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Yeah, ASRock nailed the black and gold theme. ASUS... need someone who is not colour-blind to glance at the boards before they go into production next time.

i think they just bought a massive bin of mismatched pci slots and have now ran out of Blue and light blue slots:pac:

Ya that Gigabyte board looks nicer on TTL's video, also Gigabyte have done a decent job with colouring all their boards

TerrorFirmer · 17-05-2013 12:02AM

Got a sweet deal yesterday, an Fx-4100 machine with 8gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive for 170, got home and swapped the parts around for an old G620, 4GB of ram and a 500gb hard drive, had it built, advertised and sold again within a few hours - total cost to me to upgrade PC 2 to Fx-4100, 8GB ram and a 1TB hard drive....€30. :cool:

Gumbi · 18-05-2013 11:05PM

How long does dabs take to deliver generally? I can't track Royal Mail packages, and I think An Post takes charge of those once they reach Ireland. I ordered on Saturday and they dispatched Monday morning. I expected the package on Thursday, or Friday at worst

Hopefully it'll come by Monday.

I emailed dabs and they said it can take up to 28 days. Wtf.

Serephucus · 18-05-2013 11:07PM

I've never had anything take a month from them, if that helps. Probably Monday. I've never had anything take longer than a week.

Gumbi · 18-05-2013 11:12PM

Serephucus wrote: »

I've never had anything take a month from them, if that helps. Probably Monday. I've never had anything take longer than a week.

Sound. The 28 days thing sounded like a copout to me. To be honest I probably wouldn't accept it and and ask for my money back. Hopefully Monday then

ED E · 18-05-2013 11:14PM

Gumbi wrote: »

How long does dabs take to deliver generally? I can't track Royal Mail packages, and I think An Post takes charge of those once they reach Ireland. I ordered on Saturday and they dispatched Monday morning. I expected the package on Thursday, or Friday at worst Hopefully it'll come by Monday.

I emailed dabs and they said it can take up to 28 days. Wtf.

Its just them covering themselves for when An post lose stuff. It can really vary, sometimes 3 days flat(more like 2.5) but other stuff has been a little over a week. Is it a big item? Small stuff from jersey has always been super fast for me.

Had a good chuckle to myself just there, my old 8800 GTS has died again, finally. Its been baked at least twice, probably 3 times, and spent the last while mining a cryptocurrency. Tempted to try bake her again just for the laugh. Its mainly just a fileserver so I can throw any old card in there but it'd be hilarious if it could be revived once more.

NTMK · 18-05-2013 11:32PM

Gumbi wrote: »

How long does dabs take to deliver generally? I can't track Royal Mail packages, and I think An Post takes charge of those once they reach Ireland. I ordered on Saturday and they dispatched Monday morning. I expected the package on Thursday, or Friday at worst Hopefully it'll come by Monday.

I emailed dabs and they said it can take up to 28 days. Wtf.

My 600T took about 2-3 weeks getting from dabs (bolton) to cork

My rule of thumb is a week from the point of dispatch normally

indough · 18-05-2013 11:56PM

lads is the 20th pin on a 20/24 pin atx cable supposedto be blank, as in no cable going in? sorry for having to ask but i can only browse mobile at the moment and ive no second psu to check against

Monotype · 19-05-2013 09:34AM

No.

Pin 20 (i.e., upper right with clip on top) should be red/5V.

indough · 19-05-2013 11:33AM

ah okay thanks mine are lablled a bit differently, this is the third in from the left at the top (clip side). im not even sure such a defect is even possible but ill check anything to avoidhaving to rma the board at this stage

edit: found a pic and the cable is okay thanks for your help

gavmcg92 · 19-05-2013 10:02PM

EDIT: Found what I was looking for.

Serephucus · 19-05-2013 10:03PM

Windows Media Player? You can just add music/whatever to your libraries, and it'll auto-scan and add it. I don't know if that's where iTunes pulls stuff from as well or not though.

gavmcg92 · 20-05-2013 01:00AM

Serephucus wrote: »

Windows Media Player? You can just add music/whatever to your libraries, and it'll auto-scan and add it. I don't know if that's where iTunes pulls stuff from as well or not though.

Does WMP pull the files onto your main drive like itunes? It's ok anyway. XBMC is working for me know. It's a fantastic piece of software.

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