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Serephucus wrote: »

Enermax's (horribly named) Liqmax 240mm unit goes for €71, and from a very quick google performs with the best of 'em as well.

Now that is an interesting lead

Google maps is no good for LOS but if its actually there then you could have a runner.

Step 1. Grab OSI maps and check the elevation at both points and between

If you're only just clearing the motorway then its a no, you need to be higher than an artic.

Looks like its semi built up so using 2.4Ghz may not be great, plenty of noise sources.

Can you use 900Mhz here? Its largely licensed for LTE use.

Thanks lads,

Just checked an os map, the house is showing as around 20m, the land in between dips down to 10m (including where the road is) and the destination then is 10m, but just from knowing the area it does appear slope up on the street the business is on, so there's easily another 2-3 metres of elevation, then the height of the building itself

when its dry I'm going to measure the height of the house and have a look from the ladder to see if I can see the other end, there's a lot of trees surrounding the building on the other end but they would be no higher than the roof so I hope I can spot that, and I'll try do the same in reverse over the weekend and get a good idea of the lay of the land.

No flegs involved yet There's a big landmark a few hundred metres from the end point and I know for definite you can see that from the roof here, so that'll make it easier to get my bearings for finding the place with binoculars.

I was looking at 5GHz mostly for the throughput but I wouldn't be against 2.4GHz or 900Hz, 900 could give me to make it worthwhile, the calculator is saying 42mbps tx at 10MHz / 84mbps at 20MHz.

so if the trees are an issue that could be the answer. Although that would probably more come into it for hills and other obstacles?

I'll be back for more info anyway definitely

if its raw you need to put it back in the oven, I prefer my ssds medium rare

Sounds interesting. Not sure how viable it is with such a small community, but definitely interesting. What kind of hardware would people usually swap?

So grape vines be a talking. Zen single thread performance not that far behind 6700k

Cinebench is my favourite anyway. Small filesize, quick tests, and easy / sensible numbers for comparing stuff.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

If it's just a basic €35 430w psu or whatever, easier to just buy another from Amazon or the like - brand new unit, new warranty, and so on. No matter what, it'll cost you a fair chunk to ship it back to them. That's the problem even with cheap PSU's that have a 5 year warranty - once your retailer warranty runs out, it costs almost the value of the PSU again to send it back. Most people probably don't bother once the actual retailer warranty expires.

Its just an Evga 500B. Unfortunately bought from Hardware Versand before they went bust. I might just look into Parcel Motel, looks like about €15 to return. At least ill have a refurb PSU then that i can throw into a spare system. Will be cheaper than buying another 40 ish PSU off amazon

MarkAnthony wrote: »

Kinda cool

Yeah it's pretty slick, the numbers are mind boggling, I wonder how they compute the performance if the emulated GPUs run slower. 16Billion transistors is mental. But in comparison a 16 GB flash drive contains roughly 64 billion transistors. The Human brain has at least 100 trillion connections.

Danger781 wrote: »

Can anyone recommend me a set of headphones for work? Since they're for work they need to be:

• Not very expensive
• Noise cancelling / Noise insulating
• Subtle - My headset at home is too big

Had a poke around Amazon but I figured it would be better to ask around..

I was recommend HyperX Clouds myself and VERY happy with them.

Cloud 1's or 2's. Went for the 2 myself. Great headsets.

Danger781 wrote:

More expensive than I was looking for!

They're well worth it. Best headset for under £150

ED E wrote: »

Honestly I'd use IEMs in work. If you have hair, no headphone hair. Don't look like a gamer. Even cheaper units have great isolation. Don't look like you're gaming/faffing off.

Second this. I usually use IEMs. Most of the lads use headphones, as they can be more comfortable for longer periods, but I prefer the bang-for-buck quality that IEMs tend to have over full-size cans.

ESB has a calculator yoke somewhere. Stick in "standby" and "on" power (I use those for "idle" and "gaming"), and hours on per week (hours gaming, in this case) and it'll give you a per bill price.