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Serephucus · 17-06-2014 08:46PM

Could do with a hand on this one guys...

Blue switch keyboard, backlit, UK layout. Ideally less than around €100 (so the Corsairs are out). Find me one in stock anywhere and I'll be amazed.

For the life of me, I can't find one.

Yeti Beast · 17-06-2014 09:08PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Could do with a hand on this one guys...

Blue switch keyboard, backlit, UK layout. Ideally less than around €100 (so the Corsairs are out). Find me one in stock anywhere and I'll be amazed.

For the life of me, I can't find one.

You'd have to raise your budget methinks. Cheapest I can find is the Qpad MK-80.

Serephucus · 17-06-2014 09:22PM

Which is annoying, because I'm currently using an MK-80 with Browns. I'm looking to pick up a temporary keyboard until Corsair's RGB, but I'd rather it not be quite the same one I have now.

Gumbi · 17-06-2014 09:50PM

Not sure if this is backlit but I have the brown version of the keyboard and it is backlit, I picked it up for only 60 pound (or 50? I forget) a year ago.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00E5YRL5Y?cache=12a7631fb2d247f7098fb3b7efc957a2&pi=SX200_QL40&qid=1403041660&sr=8-3#ref=mp_s_a_1_3

Yeti Beast · 17-06-2014 10:10PM

^I was going to post that except it says "Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 months".

Serephucus · 17-06-2014 10:11PM

Yup, that. For some reason almost all of CM's keyboards are out of stock everywhere. (Which is really annoying, because they're usually the cheapest. The only things left are Corsairs and QPads).

Gumbi · 17-06-2014 10:29PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Yup, that. For some reason almost all of CM's keyboards are out of stock everywhere. (Which is really annoying, because they're usually the cheapest. The only things left are Corsairs and QPads).

For the record it said the same when I bought my own Quickfire TK brown, but it was delivered within 3 weeks. From what I've read it seems to be a generous timeframe, but of course if you want to be sure of having it before that I couldn't guarantee that.

Serephucus · 17-06-2014 10:31PM

I have a white LED XT on order with Amazon at the moment. 1-3 week timeframe. Hopefully ships soon, was just hoping I'd missed something.

Yeti Beast · 18-06-2014 11:27AM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 coming this fall.

(still on 28nm)

ShadowHearth · 18-06-2014 11:27PM

Yeti Beast wrote: »

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 coming this fall.

(still on 28nm)

God bless. Really looking forward to it. I might not get up to 880 this time, but 870 sounds right up to my alley.

raymix · 19-06-2014 01:39PM

Any idea what time it starts today?

Serephucus · 19-06-2014 01:46PM

Usually 18.00 GMT.

Monotype · 19-06-2014 02:43PM

More like 18:10, by the time you get access. The first day gets hammered by servers. Subsequent days are usually never anywhere near as bad and usually have no problem seeing the deals immediately.

IrishStuff09 · 19-06-2014 05:15PM

Aaaand we're live

ED E · 19-06-2014 06:22PM

Search on the store appears broken.

Far cry3 + BD is all gaben is getting me for today.

Monotype · 19-06-2014 06:53PM

Hope they put Left 4 Dead 3 on discount.

Competition is fierce these days in the PC market so I'd be surprised if I buy much given that there's been many good deals in the past year.

Sarz91 · 19-06-2014 07:40PM

Looking to pick up a new GPU. Sold my R9 290 a while back and I'm looking for something in or around £200. The problem I have is should I buy something like a 750ti to tide me over until the 880/870 or should I go for a 760/770/280x now?

ShadowHearth · 19-06-2014 10:38PM

Sarz91 wrote: »

Looking to pick up a new GPU. Sold my R9 290 a while back and I'm looking for something in or around £200. The problem I have is should I buy something like a 750ti to tide me over until the 880/870 or should I go for a 760/770/280x now?

880/870 most likely going to be in a region of 600eu anyway. I would wait and see whats going to happen as when 880/870 lands, the 780 and 780ti will drop in price a lot.
You could just buy something on adverts to do you for now and save up some quid for October.

glynf · 20-06-2014 10:53AM

If anyone is interested, I'll be selling two EVGA 780's soon as the 880's are available.

Serephucus · 20-06-2014 11:21AM

glynf wrote: »

If anyone is interested, I'll be selling two EVGA 780's soon as the 880's are available.

Might just take you up on one (or if you catch me on a really good day, two) of those.

Rebel Rebel · 20-06-2014 11:45AM

Hi gus, I need a little help, lately my PC has some times refused to start the first time i start her up. it could take a few goes at pushing the on/off button even on the MB itself. Yesterday we had a power cut and to took me an age to get it back running, this morning the same thing.

While i had the side cover off the case checking thing everything looks to be ok and contented, power was going to the the led for the power and reset button on the MB. After awhile of checking the 3pin plugs and not getting it to work, i got frustrated and started to flick the on/off switch on the PSU, then suddenly it kicked into life. Now the system is on, every thing is running ok but the MB is showing a 80 code.

Any idea what could be causing this or is there something failing in the system.

System

ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
i7-3930K @ 3.2GHz
16GB Corsair RAM
H100
GTX 660Ti
Corsair AX650 PSU
120GB Samsung 830 SSD boot drive
240GB Samsung 830 SSD drive for work
2TB WD Caviar Green storage drive
120GB SAMsung 830 SSD to cash the 2TB HDD
Running Windows 7 HP

I built the system in Sept 2012

ShadowHearth · 20-06-2014 11:48AM

looks like Club3d droped another fantastic card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DQYp6VU58Y

..Brian.. · 20-06-2014 01:42PM

Rebel Rebel wrote: »

Hi gus, I need a little help, lately my PC has some times refused to start the first time i start her up. it could take a few goes at pushing the on/off button even on the MB itself. Yesterday we had a power cut and to took me an age to get it back running, this morning the same thing.

While i had the side cover off the case checking thing everything looks to be ok and contented, power was going to the the led for the power and reset button on the MB. After awhile of checking the 3pin plugs and not getting it to work, i got frustrated and started to flick the on/off switch on the PSU, then suddenly it kicked into life. Now the system is on, every thing is running ok but the MB is showing a 80 code.

Any idea what could be causing this or is there something failing in the system.

System

ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
i7-3930K @ 3.2GHz
16GB Corsair RAM
H100
GTX 660Ti
Corsair AX650 PSU
120GB Samsung 830 SSD boot drive
240GB Samsung 830 SSD drive for work
2TB WD Caviar Green storage drive
120GB SAMsung 830 SSD to cash the 2TB HDD
Running Windows 7 HP

I built the system in Sept 2012

Can you try another PSU?

ED E · 20-06-2014 02:08PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

looks like Club3d droped another fantastic card.

Tempting me to dump my Club 7870...

frozenfrozen · 20-06-2014 02:13PM

I get that same thing sometimes also running socket 2011. Only way to fix it is flick the psu on and off a few times. Doesn't effect anything else, just sometimes a delay between pressing the on button and the boot, or else it'll just not turn on until it's been plugged out and switches flicked and randomly messing about with it.

3930k, h100, samsung 830 in common with you. Different everything else. If you find out a fix let me know because it's fairly annoying!

glynf · 20-06-2014 02:20PM

..Brian.. wrote: »

Can you try another PSU?

Rebel Rebel,

I had a similar issue before and as Brian suggested a new PSU sorted it.

ZeroThreat · 20-06-2014 03:29PM

Sarz91 wrote: »

Looking to pick up a new GPU. Sold my R9 290 a while back and I'm looking for something in or around £200. The problem I have is should I buy something like a 750ti to tide me over until the 880/870 or should I go for a 760/770/280x now?

why did you sell the r9 290?

It's somewhere between gtx 770 and 780 in terms of performance. Was it a reference card with too much noise/heat produced?

Rebel Rebel · 20-06-2014 04:06PM

It was my first build so it is my only PSU, am i right in thinking it is not worth risking running the system on what could be a faulty PSU.

Surprise to hear it is a common problem.

glynf · 20-06-2014 05:15PM

As its a decent brand PSU, it has over & under voltage/over current protection your motherboard etc. should be OK, though if its acting up best to get rid of it-its not worth the risk. You could check the 12V output from the PSU and also mains voltage in case. Brownouts can easily fry electronics, especially in rural areas due to supply issues. This from the lazy bollox with a UPS in the shed for the last 6 months I've not bothered to hook up.:o

Sarz91 · 20-06-2014 06:15PM

ZeroThreat wrote: »

why did you sell the r9 290? It's somewhere between gtx 770 and 780 in terms of performance. Was it a reference card with too much noise/heat produced?

Ye it was reference. Noise and heat just got the better of me. Was also looking for an entry level gaming pc at the time for my brother and swapped the 290 for one.

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