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L wrote: »

It should be (it was when I did it).

Thanks!

HWVS, assuming no issues, really are on point when they deliver (no pun intended). I ordered a PSU, SSD, case, motherboard and a stick of RAM last Monday. Some items had to be delivered to them first. no problem. I already received the SSD, and will be receiving 3 more packages (2 of which are already en route!). They are still waiting on the PSU delivered to them so they can deliver it to me.

Seems inefficient, but I'm not complaining. I wouldn't have minded if they had held them back for 2 (or even 1) delivery(ies). Not bad for 13 euro delivery charge!

I have some cash this christmas and all other presents are accounted for, so I wanted to spend some money (about 400 eur) on upgrading the pc my brothers use. Currently it has an AMD Phenom II X2 550, which is seriously bottlenecking the PC (They have my HD6950s in crossfire). Should I be looking at maybe a second hand 2500k and motherboard or something else?

Digital Solitude wrote: »

LGA1155 boards are pretty expensive, an i5 4460 and board wouldn't be much over €200

Where's a good place to look for second hand computer parts? Adverts is pretty shite.

Ebay maybe? Adverts is the best round here I would think

Adverts is a buyers market. If your a seller you have to put up with ridiculous offers or the good auld swaps

john the one wrote: »

I haven't had a problem with mine. How long did you have the board before the key became unresponsive and did the key totally die?

I've had this one 3 months and the previous 2 i sent back where approx 3 months also.
The faulty keys either work right or double press/non responsive.

So we are talking about unplugging a wireless adaptor to plug in a graphics card to a laptop with an extra power cable and which is hooked up to a monitor.

Em......

Doge wrote: »

So now you can finally enjoy desktop graphics on a laptop....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_8EYQ-2RA

A more "elegant" solution here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WjorHr4uz8

Wow. such graphics. very framerate. so fast. :pac:

Asus had a version of this out a while back, died a death though. The fact that you can get a 970m on lower end gaming laptops (still stupid money) and you can now get a GTX 980 on higher end gaming laptops, external GPU solutions most likely won't gain much traction.

Nice. Once you go wall/arm mounted going back just feels wrong

glynf wrote: »

Wow. such graphics. very framerate. so fast. :pac:

Asus had a version of this out a while back, died a death though. The fact that you can get a 970m on lower end gaming laptops (still stupid money) and you can now get a GTX 980 on higher end gaming laptops, external GPU solutions most likely won't gain much traction.

A laptop with a GTX980 is not a portable laptop. The point of external GPU's means you can have desktop-like performance/limitations with netbook portability/limitations.

Headshot wrote: »

I got a new monitor desk mount and boy its bloody awesome

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001IWOBGI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

did you put it through the arm of your jumper and pretend to be terminator? I dont think I could get one and not do that

Squaredude wrote: »

Look fairly portable to me

World of difference between those laptops and something more ultrabook styled.

While exaggerated here is a clear example.

https://youtu.be/WrPIqYpq1E0?t=176

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

A laptop with a GTX980 is not a portable laptop. The point of external GPU's means you can have desktop-like performance/limitations with netbook portability/limitations.

IMO a decent onboard GPU (plenty of gaming laptops <2/3Kg with GTX 960M/970's about) is still a lot more convenient than an external dock setup. Cost of the adapter, GPU & PSU (unless you have same already) could easily hit the 300-400 mark; if it was me I would put same twoards a better laptop. If you had the parts floating about, it would be definatley worth a try.

From what I can see, only two ways to connect a decent GPU to a laptop would be an ExpressCard slot/ spare mini PCI-E which all seems very reliant on the laptop's hardware/firmware for same.

I can vouch for Ergotron. They're expensive, but they're also pretty much the industry standard. I'm using the LX version of the arm. Slightly different in that it mounts to a pole which gives you a lot more height options.

I've used three different models. Their first LX, their side by side LX, and their newer LX. All of them are absolutely solid. They're expensive, but each piece has the feel of something you could easily use to bash in the heads of a swarm of zombies and it wouldn't have the slightest blemish.