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You dont even notice the curved after a while. Regarding the Ultrawide, its the future for me. It just so damn cool for playing games. It annoys me that devs dont have it as standard at this stage

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Headshot wrote: »

You dont even notice the curved after a while. Regarding the Ultrawide, its the future for me. It just so damn cool for playing games. It annoys me that devs dont have it as standard at this stage

ie fallout 4

There's a lot of things that should have standard support these days that just don't. Framerate caps or things being tied to frame-rate are the worst.

BloodBath wrote: »

Hi I was just wondering if HWVS is alright to use again since it went into administration?

Has anybody ordered since? Is the delivery still a flat €12?

Just bought from them last week. Bought 5 different items, some of which needed to be ordered in, some of which were on site, and one of which was available but in an "external warehouse". Received one item last Friday, one yesterday, 2 today and expect the final delivery soon enough.

I paid the flat 12 euro, and can't complain about delivery times given some items were (expectedly) delayed. Just waiting on the last item now. I would have thought they'd have hekld back some items to make one large shipment, or split it into two, but I received 4 separate packages over 3 separate days, and expect a fifth package soon.

I'm not complaining though! Hopefully all items are in order as I've yet to test them. SSD works well though, fingers crossed for the others!

WEST wrote: »

Folks, long shot but is anyone selling a 1150 socket compatible heatsink? Ideally in the Limerick area. Thanks.

Try Adverts. Plenty on there for 5 quid or so.

If it's just to borrow I have an Intel 1155 cooler (might this be compatible?) and I'm in the Limerick area if you can pick up.

Hey folks. Anywhere in Ireland where I can try a few mechanical keyboards? I'm really curious to see what they're like to type on.

Gumbi wrote: »

Try Adverts. Plenty on there for 5 quid or so.

If it's just to borrow I have an Intel 1155 cooler (might this be compatible?) and I'm in the Limerick area if you can pick up.

Thanks Gumbo and Serephucus, I ended up buying a aftermarket heatsink from Amazon last night. Might overstock the CPU at some stage.

Danger781 wrote: »

Over the last week or so while playing games I've been getting random FPS drops.. Like I might go from 140 fps, down to 80 for a second or two, then back to 140. The difference is extremely noticeable while playing CS:GO. I've been unfortunate enough to have it happen just as I go to peek a corner.

Any ideas what I should check?

There was no issues until recently. I have GTX 970s in SLI.

If you arent using vsync and a 144hz panel right now try

fps_max 110

and you'll stabilize it out by leaving some headroom.

Danger781 wrote: »

Over the last week or so while playing games I've been getting random FPS drops.. Like I might go from 140 fps, down to 80 for a second or two, then back to 140. The difference is extremely noticeable while playing CS:GO. I've been unfortunate enough to have it happen just as I go to peek a corner.

Any ideas what I should check?

There was no issues until recently. I have GTX 970s in SLI.

Check your system overall. Rule out other applications - don't have a browser open, make sure 100 useless thigns aren't running in the background. Check by going into MSCONFIG. Disable stuff that you can easily recognize as unimportant (so many updaters running constantly it's insane). After you've cleaned up the system just run a game like CS to check if the problem still persists. If not you can rule out hardware issues.

Never ever do a BMC FW update on a machine you can't physically get to.

Serephucus wrote: »

I've had that happen...

Why can't you get to it? Different house?

Different nation.

Don't particularly trust its "caretaker" to pull the HDD caddy to get at the CMOS batt.

Anyone know somewhere in Dublin you can get antistatic bags?

Does anyone know the max current output of a PWM controller?

My motherboard only has one 4 pin for case fans. It's a smal case and I'm sticking in a 150w~ (7870) GPU in there so I'd prefer to have a front intake and rear exhaust (currently hust have a front intake).

I have a 3 pin Nanoxia 1300RPM 120mm hooked up, but it runs at full speed; preferably I'd like to have this run a bit slower, and I'd also like a splitter off the pins to run 2 fans off the 3 pin connector.

So, my question is, will this overload the controller? I imagine not, as a 120mm fan at 1300rpm and a 92mm fan same speed roughly isn't a particularly huge load.

I'm also wondering if I do that, can I run them at sub 12v? I understand if I don't use the fourth pin I don't have Pwm control, but is there a way I can implement voltage control?

Any recommendations as to a splitter?

Thanks, I realise I phrased the question a bit awkwardly :P

Oddest thing the right shift button on my G510s keeps depressing itself and sticking.

Being honest I dont think I have ever pressed that button ever.

Probably the wrong place to be asking but is there any good budget keyboards that people can recommend?

Illuminated would be a bonus, i dont need any mechanical keys but something nice to type on would do the job fine. USB or Wireless.

Im not to fond of that tacky BAKTH keyboard coming up on lightning deals at 8!

RoyalMarine wrote: »

how budget is budget?

Something like this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JLADM8W?ref_=gbps_img_m-3_2807_21e3bb60&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Much much more budget than that! Something within the range of 50 euros. Was just seeing if anyone bought something in that range.