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NTMK · 06-11-2013 05:34PM

BloodBath wrote: »

We should be seeing affordable mainstream 1440p monitors already. Pc hardware is not ready for 4k. Not unless you don't mind spending 3-5k on a pc.

Ya the rig I was playing on had titans and I'd imagine textures look like ass on other games as they weren't fantastic on bf4

We hopefully will see some mainstream ones but it seems that oled is the Koreans manufacturers main focus now (in non 4k stuff mainly)

brianblaze · 06-11-2013 05:40PM

Waiting on my parts from Hardwareversand... Watching UPS like it's a horse race... Left Germany last night, left Barking UK today, should be here Friday apparently!

tuxy · 06-11-2013 05:41PM

NTMK wrote: »

We hopefully will see some mainstream ones but it seems that oled is the Koreans manufacturers main focus now (in non 4k stuff mainly)

I'm happy with this, I really hate LED backlit monitors. If OLED can provide much better contrast and colours it's more important to me than extreme high res.
It would be a visual update with out having to spend extra on expensive graphics cards.

NTMK · 06-11-2013 05:51PM

tuxy wrote: »

I'm happy with this, I really hate LED backlit monitors. If OLED can provide much better contrast and colours it's more important to me than extreme high res.
It would be a visual update with out having to spend extra on expensive graphics cards.

Oled does look amazing if I had to drop back to 1080 I would Choose oled over anything else atm

If only it was half the price it currently is :pac:

BobbyPropane · 06-11-2013 08:22PM

So why does everyone on Boards recommend hardwareversand? I bought my parts about 2 years ago now from Scan.co.uk and Amazon.co.uk . Found both of their prices and websites to be much better than hardwareversand

BloodBath · 06-11-2013 08:30PM

Because it's convenient to order everything from 1 place. You might find a couple of parts cheaper elsewhere but full builds tend to always work out cheaper on HWVS. I'm not going to go traipsing through every site looking for the best prices when recommending a build to someone either.

brianblaze · 06-11-2013 08:58PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

So why does everyone on Boards recommend hardwareversand? I bought my parts about 2 years ago now from Scan.co.uk and Amazon.co.uk . Found both of their prices and websites to be much better than hardwareversand

Insanely cheap delivery... 35kg of stuff for e19 from Germany in 3 days... That's impressive

McSasquatch · 06-11-2013 09:05PM

Of course, when HWVS first became popular here on boards, the likes of Scan and Amazon weren't delivering components to Ireland at all. I still recommend people shop around though.

cherryghost · 06-11-2013 09:39PM

Scan.co.uk has good daily deals but generally their stuff is a little more expensive. Their delivery is unbelievable though. I've had next day deliveries twice last month from them!

papu · 06-11-2013 11:43PM

brianblaze wrote: »

Insanely cheap delivery... 35kg of stuff for e19 from Germany in 3 days... That's impressive

Their RMA is good too when I've had to use it.

ED E · 07-11-2013 12:09AM

Mantle will only be RXXX cards right?

Nolars · 07-11-2013 12:17AM

Is it would selling a 7870 for a new card? how much would ya be looking to get for a 7870 Powercolor myst edition on adverts

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Morf · 07-11-2013 12:42AM

cherryghost wrote: »

Scan.co.uk has good daily deals but generally their stuff is a little more expensive. Their delivery is unbelievable though. I've had next day deliveries twice last month from them!

I had that with a completely non-tech related company. Shipping was on the expensive side but next-day delivery from Barcelona definitely seemed worth the extra.

game4it70 · 07-11-2013 01:18AM

ED E wrote: »

Mantle will only be RXXX cards right?

I read a while back that the 7970/7950 might make use of it too.How true that is i dont know.

marco_polo · 07-11-2013 02:27AM

I am grudgingly gaining new levels of respect for Windows 8, tonight I took the ssd from the AM3 board I got rid of a few weeks ago, having uninstalled any hardware specific drivers I could think of beforehand, popped it into a z77 Pro 3 tonight and was looking at the login screen after only about 60 seconds of hardware reconfiguration.

No repair/fresh installs required, and the OS appear to be in pretty good shape so far.

alex1997123 wrote: »

Hows the cable management space?

Bazzo wrote: »

Helped a friend with his build using a deep silence II a while back and have a deep silence I myself. Cable management space can be fairly tight on both of them, took the pair of us and a little bit of manhandling to get the side panel back on.

The overall cable management layout seems very well thought out, but very tight at the back as Bazzo says, there can't be much more than about 1.5cm to work with.

Still think the side panels are a bit flimsy, if it wasn't for the ample noise insulating material on the inside you'd think they belonged to a case half the price. That minor quibble aside its a very fine piece of kit indeed.

Also the 5.25" bays are tool-less but not the 3.5" ones, come on off it Naxonia :pac:

McSasquatch · 07-11-2013 02:29AM

game4it70 wrote: »

I read a while back that the 7970/7950 might make use of it too.How true that is i dont know.

AFAIK Mantle can be implemented on all GCN (Graphics Core Next) cards, which means everything from 77XX series up.

ED E · 07-11-2013 03:20AM

McSasquatch wrote: »

AFAIK Mantle can be implemented on all GCN (Graphics Core Next) cards, which means everything from 77XX series up.

I can hold onto my 7870 so, maybe double up

Headshot · 07-11-2013 01:21PM

Pretty damn sweet

http://www.legitreviews.com/250-hard-drives-will-make-one-epic-f1-car_127581

Serephucus · 07-11-2013 03:10PM

Post man just dropped these off. Guess I know what I'll be doing this evening.

brianblaze · 07-11-2013 03:12PM

I'm still watching my delivery.... UPS packages left Tamworth this morning, so hoping they get to Irish Depot today and I can go get them tonight!

marco_polo · 07-11-2013 03:20PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Post man just dropped these off. Guess I know what I'll be doing this evening.

Hard drive Jenga?

Serephucus · 07-11-2013 03:20PM

marco_polo wrote: »

Hard drive Jenga?

Just 'cause I can, yup.

WhiskeyGoblin · 07-11-2013 03:21PM

Thinking get of getting a MBP for college and I was just wondering is there compatibility issues with USB Memory Sticks? Like if I was writing programme on the Mac, could I throw it onto my computer or a college computer without any issue?

Serephucus · 07-11-2013 03:23PM

As long as it's not NTFS formatted, yeah. Mac's will read FAT/32 fine. (Most sticks are FAT32 by default)

WhiskeyGoblin · 07-11-2013 04:00PM

Serephucus wrote: »

As long as it's not NTFS formatted, yeah. Mac's will read FAT/32 fine. (Most sticks are FAT32 by default)

Oh sweet!

Thanks for the help!

Are those HDDs for a NAS or something? Looks like a fun evening!

Serephucus · 07-11-2013 04:02PM

They are yeah. Upgrading from 2x2TB, 2x3TB to 2x3TB, 3x4TB.

WhiskeyGoblin · 07-11-2013 04:23PM

Serephucus wrote: »

They are yeah. Upgrading from 2x2TB, 2x3TB to 2x3TB, 3x4TB.

18TB of storage?

Sweet jesus, there's me surviving off a 120gb SSD

ED E · 07-11-2013 04:30PM

marko93 wrote: »

Thinking get of getting a MBP for college and I was just wondering is there compatibility issues with USB Memory Sticks? Like if I was writing programme on the Mac, could I throw it onto my computer or a college computer without any issue?

Starting a Comp Sci degree? As above FAT is supported by everything, but your IDE and code may not be portable cleanly between OSX and Windows depending on what youre doing. But you can always run windows on your MBP

WhiskeyGoblin · 07-11-2013 04:38PM

ED E wrote: »

Starting a Comp Sci degree? As above FAT is supported by everything, but your IDE and code may not be portable cleanly between OSX and Windows depending on what youre doing. But you can always run windows on your MBP

In my 2nd year of the Comp Sci, and oh how a laptop would be so convenient!

Just absolutely zero experience with MAC! They seem pretty nice though!

BloodBath · 07-11-2013 04:38PM

Thinking about getting one of these. Has anyone got one? Reviews are positive apart from cooling performance which i'm sure would be sorted by filling out the fan slots.

I hate the way reviews base the cooling on stock performance. Add some bloody fans and test again.

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