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heffsarmy · 20-01-2014 08:45PM

brianblaze wrote: »

Tried that... Upload and download are find, just stream and it's off to craptown

Just to b 100% do you have wifi adaptor disabled when you tried the Ethernet nic.

brianblaze · 20-01-2014 08:55PM

Yup... Honestly have no idea what is up!

marco_polo · 20-01-2014 09:03PM

brianblaze wrote: »

Yup... Honestly have no idea what is up!

Bit of a long shot but there is nothing limiting maximum cpu usage in the power options?

http://superuser.com/questions/565347/how-does-windows-limit-the-cpu-power-options-battery-saving

heffsarmy · 20-01-2014 09:06PM

Have you tried different browsers. If you could get a usb key and install a linux distribution on it, then boot up from that, this would prove out your hardware if the streaming works fine. Maybe the best thing would be to do a fresh install win 7.

heffsarmy · 20-01-2014 09:09PM

Just diable your firewall and try it,

heffsarmy · 20-01-2014 09:19PM

It could be bitdefender, a quick google reveals streaming problems.

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=42131

brianblaze · 20-01-2014 10:20PM

heffsarmy wrote: »

It could be bitdefender, a quick google reveals streaming problems.

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=42131

Installed bit Defender to try fix the issue. So it's before bitDefender showed up

Bit of a long shot but there is nothing limiting maximum cpu usage in the power options?

http://superuser.com/questions/56534...battery-saving

Will check this now

brianblaze · 20-01-2014 10:21PM

heffsarmy wrote: »

Just diable your firewall and try it,

Tried that

heffsarmy wrote: »

Have you tried different browsers. If you could get a usb key and install a linux distribution on it, then boot up from that, this would prove out your hardware if the streaming works fine. Maybe the best thing would be to do a fresh install win 7.

Can't really fresh install as she has loads of old **** on that laptop and licensed programs etc. Tried the Ping test for hardware and seemed okay.

Wossack · 21-01-2014 12:12AM

so the dell u2713hm went back to amazon (the usual; back light bleed) - will I gamble on another? twas a very nice bit of kit, and amazon are so good to deal with on returns.. I dropped into post office ~midday Sat afternoon, refund authorization email from amazon 23:00 Sun night

or will I hold out and see what the 4k fella looks like? /ponder

WhiskeyGoblin · 21-01-2014 02:59AM

Decided to hold off on the 1440 gaming for a while and went for a 280x and a nice new monitor! Should both arrive soon

Blitz17 · 21-01-2014 03:07AM

marko93 wrote: »

Decided to hold off on the 1440 gaming for a while and went for a 280x and a nice new monitor! Should both arrive soon

Nice which 280x did you go for ?

Im waiting to pick up a 290 but I got the urge to mod the case quite abit and go watercooling

WhiskeyGoblin · 21-01-2014 03:20AM

Blitz17 wrote: »

Nice which 280x did you go for ?

Im waiting to pick up a 290 but I got the urge to mod the case quite abit and go watercooling

Went for this one;
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-324-SP

I had it ordered with dabs, but they wont have it back till sometime in Feb, so I went with the extra bit of cash and got it from these guys! Looking forward to it, it'll be some jump from the HD5850!

Baked.noodle · 21-01-2014 03:21AM

brianblaze wrote: »

I'm baffled, and I hope someone can help. I'm fairly tech my not great but built my PC and can generally fix most silly pc issues! I know this is PC building, but I'm active on here, so I'll put this here amongst the brain trust!

My girlfriends laptop craps out when streaming. YouTube, netflix, BBC, you name it! Just goes as slow as all hell and craps out. I've pinged YouTube with CMD and no issues, she has bitdefender on there, and has no issues with viruses, malware etc. I've cleared caches, temp files, updated drivers etc, but nothing! Silverlight and Java, same problem. laptop is on Win 7 Home premium and is only 3 years old. Ideas anyone?

Some time ago I had problems streaming YouTube videos out of the blue. Virus scanned and examined Task Manager for rouge programs etc. Nothing worked, so eventually I did a system restore and it worked. Haven't had an issue with streaming since. It wont delete any files, so you have nothing to loose trying it. Just make sure you restore to a time before any issues. Good luck.

Blitz17 · 21-01-2014 03:48AM

marko93 wrote: »

Went for this one;
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-324-SP

I had it ordered with dabs, but they wont have it back till sometime in Feb, so I went with the extra bit of cash and got it from these guys! Looking forward to it, it'll be some jump from the HD5850!

Nice , The Toxic is the best 280x available :cool:

Cant wait to get my Tri-X 290 , now that will be some jump from integrated Intel graphics

:D

ED E · 21-01-2014 09:59AM

Subs broken on youtube for anyone else? My feed wont "load more" for the last few days.

raymix · 21-01-2014 10:54AM

ED E wrote: »

Subs broken on youtube for anyone else? My feed wont "load more" for the last few days.

works like a charm

try launching cmd as admin and use

ipconfig /flushdns

see if that helps

deceit · 21-01-2014 11:29AM

Anyone rma with sapphire? Just wondering how long it takes as my graphics card was sent to sapphire for repair.

Kur4mA · 21-01-2014 02:18PM

Wossack wrote: »

so the dell u2713hm went back to amazon (the usual; back light bleed) - will I gamble on another? twas a very nice bit of kit, and amazon are so good to deal with on returns.. I dropped into post office ~midday Sat afternoon, refund authorization email from amazon 23:00 Sun night

or will I hold out and see what the 4k fella looks like? /ponder

I had the EXACT same issue with this monitor. Unfortunately older revisions of this monitor are notorious for backlight bleed and it's not well documented anywhere the best revision to go for. IMO, they older revisions should have all been recalled full stop, but Amazon seem to have quite a lot of the older revisions with all the problems.

The entire bottom left quarter of my monitor had extremely bad yellow bleed, so it went back to Amazon. In fairness, they were fantastic. I dropped it into the post office just before 4pm on a Friday afternoon, and the refund authorization was sitting in my inbox before 9am the next day.

I decided to give 1440p a miss for a while, and invested in Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X instead along with a lovely new PSU.

Wossack · 21-01-2014 02:24PM

it was actually a recent post by you saying you had RMA'd yours that reminded me to do mine as well (before the end of the month cut off, I'd been putting it off)

think Im gonna need a another unfort - Im back to an old 22" LG at the mo

Kur4mA · 21-01-2014 02:37PM

Ah, that sucks man. I'm back to a 24" and gonna keep it that way I reckon until 4k shenanigans.

Wossack · 21-01-2014 02:55PM

yea gonna hold off till end of this month and see how this 4k from Dell looks. Not sure I cant hold much longer then that though!

Lu Tze · 21-01-2014 04:34PM

Anybody tried emulating a wii and using wiimotes on their PC? Does it run well?

brianblaze · 21-01-2014 05:17PM

http://www.ted.com/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html

Blitz17 · 21-01-2014 07:11PM

deceit wrote: »

Anyone rma with sapphire? Just wondering how long it takes as my graphics card was sent to sapphire for repair.

This *may* help

WhiskeyGoblin · 21-01-2014 07:52PM

Blitz17 wrote: »

Nice , The Toxic is the best 280x available :cool:

Cant wait to get my Tri-X 290 , now that will be some jump from integrated Intel graphics :D

So I heard, and for 1080p gaming it'll be perfect. The wait is killing me

Bazzo · 21-01-2014 08:37PM

My mech keyboard arrived today, this one for anyone that missed my earlier post.

I've only been using it for about 15 mins and I'm already getting accustomed to it. Much more comfortable to use than the old domed one and finding the clicks oddly therapeutic.

I'll upload a couple pics in the pictures thread if anyone wants a gawk!

EDIT: Meant to say, I was surprised by the weight of it. It's got a very sturdy, well-made feel to it. Might sound small but was very reassuring taking it out of the box for the first time.

Headshot · 21-01-2014 09:30PM

what are those external blu ray players like these days? Great picture quality I presume and quiet?

deceit · 21-01-2014 09:34PM

Blitz17 wrote: »

This *may* help

I actually seen that picture and that's what has me worried by how low down on it sapphire is.
I always presumed sapphire would have a good rma/customer service until I seen this.

Monotype · 21-01-2014 10:29PM

Lu Tze wrote: »

Anybody tried emulating a wii and using wiimotes on their PC? Does it run well?

Absolute pain to try and get it to work with Windows 7. Tried it a few times. Think I nearly had it the last time as there were so many people trying to get it working. Haven't looked around for any updates recently. The older solutions won't work unless you use XP. Let me know if you try it and have success.

Lu Tze · 21-01-2014 10:38PM

Monotype wrote: »

Absolute pain to try and get it to work with Windows 7. Tried it a few times. Think I nearly had it the last time as there were so many people trying to get it working. Haven't looked around for any updates recently. The older solutions won't work unless you use XP. Let me know if you try it and have success.

Yeah ill likely have a go at some stage. Just need to get a cheap bluetooth adaptor and a controller!

Very impressed with dolphin on its own though, sank a good amount of time into windwaker, looked awesome scaled up

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