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MiskyBoyy · 07-01-2016 12:09AM

Don't talk to me about CeX ffs. "Just going to put it in for testing, it will be about 30 mins"
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"It might be another 20 mins"
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"Sorry I think he's testing it now, can you call back in 30 mins?"
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I'll call back tomorrow I said.
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Next day, "Sorry we don't actually buy sound cards" :mad: :mad: :mad:

Xenoronin · 07-01-2016 10:32AM

N64 wrote: »

What's the max speed the Virigin Media Thompson router can push out over Wi-Fi? I'm on the 120 mbps package and only get a maximum of 50 mbps through my laptop with dual band wifi. It's the same story with my phone. The router is set to 802.11 wireless N.

Is this just because the router is sh*t or is there a wireless setting I can change? thanks.

Speed varies based on time of day and also location. The WiFi should still be able to handle way more than 50Mbps so I'm assuming it's the speed in. Try an ethernet cable to test the difference over wire?

levitronix · 07-01-2016 04:35PM

Just had to plug my GTX980 classified in the pcie x 4 slot :eek:
Done a bit of reading dont think its going to be a big deal loosing some bandwidth
My PSU was about 5 mm too long, so had to fit the card on the other slot, then i had to remove a fan:eek: to get it too fit, now i have to find a very low profile fan, because im not buying new psu

Serephucus · 07-01-2016 04:39PM

Picture? I'm not too sure what's going on here. How does PSU length affect which PCI slot you use?

TerrorFirmer · 07-01-2016 04:42PM

It actually should be OK at 4X - you probably won't really notice the difference even compared to 16x at 1080p on the majority of games. Obviously not ideal but in the short term I don't think it's anything to worry about.

TotallyEpic · 07-01-2016 04:49PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Seems very reasonable to me!

Went into CEX today to trade in an old GTX560Ti, left it with them for testing, came back and was told it had failed the test.

Really, I said, that's surprisingly because it was working perfectly until I brought it in here - how did it fail? I was told it was overheating.

Like turning off, I asked? Shutting down? No, the guy said, it just reaches super high temperatures way beyond what we can accept.

This mad temperature? 70c.

They sell crazy mad power hungry hot cards there, GTX470, GTX480, HD6990, etc, so there is no way that 70c could be a standard! But the guy wasn't having any of it, 70c is overheating and they can't take it.

I sold in my 290X to CEX. That thing idled at 70 degrees.

I'd say just bring it to another one of their shops if you have one near.

levitronix · 07-01-2016 07:40PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Picture? I'm not too sure what's going on here. How does PSU length affect which PCI slot you use?

i have a small case, things get the way of each other

MiskyBoyy · 07-01-2016 08:42PM

Does anyone know if there's somewhere in the South East, Waterford/Wexford preferably that I could pick up one of these in a b&m store tomorrow? I'll try PC World but doubt they'll have them.

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N64 · 07-01-2016 09:37PM

Xenoronin wrote: »

Speed varies based on time of day and also location. The WiFi should still be able to handle way more than 50Mbps so I'm assuming it's the speed in. Try an ethernet cable to test the difference over wire?

I get the full 120 mpbs speed over Ethernet, so it seems to be something WiFi related. Other devices also seem to be capped at 50 mbps when doing speed tests over wifi. Really weird

Venom · 07-01-2016 11:37PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Seems very reasonable to me!

Went into CEX today to trade in an old GTX560Ti, left it with them for testing, came back and was told it had failed the test.

Really, I said, that's surprisingly because it was working perfectly until I brought it in here - how did it fail? I was told it was overheating.

Like turning off, I asked? Shutting down? No, the guy said, it just reaches super high temperatures way beyond what we can accept.

This mad temperature? 70c.

They sell crazy mad power hungry hot cards there, GTX470, GTX480, HD6990, etc, so there is no way that 70c could be a standard! But the guy wasn't having any of it, 70c is overheating and they can't take it.

If ya think that odd, I tried selling my old AMD 5870 to them and was told...

1) They had no machine with a power supply high enough to test it on at the Westmoreland Street branch

2)It failed the smell test (he actually smelled it) which ment it had been previously used :rolleyes:

MongoNet · 07-01-2016 11:39PM

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Does anyone know if there's somewhere in the South East, Waterford/Wexford preferably that I could pick up one of these in a b&m store tomorrow? I'll try PC World but doubt they'll have them.

pm sent

Nolars · 08-01-2016 06:50AM

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Does anyone know if there's somewhere in the South East, Waterford/Wexford preferably that I could pick up one of these in a b&m store tomorrow? I'll try PC World but doubt they'll have them.

lol noob

Doge · 08-01-2016 11:18AM

Nolars wrote: »

lol noob

MiskyBoyy · 08-01-2016 02:15PM

Doge wrote: »

Nolars is a personal friend of mine and I laughed at him when he got a new gpu and didn't have the proper power connection for it. Now it's me in the same position :P

Revoker88 · 08-01-2016 02:46PM

Did you get the adapter? Maplins have them but dont think they have a store in either Waterford or Wexford

MiskyBoyy · 08-01-2016 02:49PM

EoinHef wrote: »

Did you get the adapter? Maplins have them but dont think they have a store in either Waterford or Wexford

No not yet. MongoNet was nice enough to pm me to tell me he has 1 that he's not using that I could take off his hands

Just waiting for him to reply now.

I have a shiny, new r9 390 here and not able to use it is tearing me apart ha

Yeah no Maplins down here. I think they only have 2 stores in all of Ireland,both in Dublin?

Bazzo · 08-01-2016 02:53PM

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

No not yet. MongoNet was nice enough to pm me to tell me he has 1 that he's not using that I could take off his hands Just waiting for him to reply now.

I have a shiny, new r9 390 here and not able to use it is tearing me apart ha

Yeah no Maplins down here. I think they only have 2 stores in all of Ireland,both in Dublin?

There's one in Galway. You'd probably pay about 6 grand and your first born for basically anything in Maplin though...

Revoker88 · 08-01-2016 03:22PM

Cork have one as well as far as i know. Was in a similar situation a few year back with a pair of dual 8 pin 7950's,could only run one of them till i got a new PSU with 4 x 8pin.

MiskyBoyy · 08-01-2016 07:30PM

MongoNet wrote: »

pm sent

MongoNet here in true Boards fashion PM'ed me to tell me he had a spare adapter & I could have it it if I wanted it.

Thanks again man, it works perfectly, can now enjoy my 390 woo

Really appreciate it, cheers! :cool:

Gehad_JoyRider · 08-01-2016 07:55PM

EoinHef wrote: »

Cork have one as well as far as i know. Was in a similar situation a few year back with a pair of dual 8 pin 7950's,could only run one of them till i got a new PSU with 4 x 8pin.

Did you not have a molex to 8 pin connection?

Separate question, does any one know if GTA v runs faster on an ssd? No problems with running the game just load time.

MongoNet · 08-01-2016 08:28PM

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

MongoNet here in true Boards fashion PM'ed me to tell me he had a spare adapter & I could have it it if I wanted it.

Thanks again man, it works perfectly, can now enjoy my 390 woo Really appreciate it, cheers! :cool:

No problem, glad it worked for you. Now all this talk of new cards really tempting me

Sonics2k · 08-01-2016 08:35PM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Did you not have a molex to 8 pin connection?

Separate question, does any one know if GTA v runs faster on an ssd? No problems with running the game just load time.

It'll run at basically the same speed if you mean in terms of FPS, there may be a slight increase, but not massive.

The SSD will only really help the game itself load faster when you start it up.

Revoker88 · 08-01-2016 09:05PM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Did you not have a molex to 8 pin connection?

I did but wasnt positive the old PSU had enough to run both cards

challengemaster · 08-01-2016 11:18PM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Did you not have a molex to 8 pin connection?

Separate question, does any one know if GTA v runs faster on an ssd? No problems with running the game just load time.

In terms of load times pretty much every game is way faster.

MiskyBoyy · 08-01-2016 11:22PM

For GTA the SSD will speed up single player load times a good bit alright but for online I'm not so sure. Online load times for gta are just ridiculous, I think it's down to their servers.

Gehad_JoyRider · 08-01-2016 11:42PM

Cheers lads its the load time drive me nuts love the game just those load times... I don't need any more fps I only have a 60hz screen so theres no point.

Gehad_JoyRider · 08-01-2016 11:56PM

Has any one got nzxt h440? Thinking its time to start gathering parts for my next build after that it's a modulare power supply. Was think of a 950w EVGA or has any one got any other recomondations?

Doge · 09-01-2016 01:35AM

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Nolars is a personal friend of mine and I laughed at him when he got a new gpu and didn't have the proper power connection for it. Now it's me in the same position :P

Ah, i thought you had time traveled back to the noughties when you were a teenager with the use of this "noob" nonesense! :P

Gehad_JoyRider · 09-01-2016 02:34AM

I've got a spare molax to 8 pin if its needed

Sonics2k · 09-01-2016 10:42AM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Has any one got nzxt h440? Thinking its time to start gathering parts for my next build after that it's a modulare power supply. Was think of a 950w EVGA or has any one got any other recomondations?

I have it, put the EVGA SuperNova G2 750W into it and fits perfectly, the 950W should fit just fine too.

The case it damn near perfect and I highly, highly recommend it.

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