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  • #5282
    Dair76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Dair76


    Or case, singular.


  • #5283
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Dair76 wrote: »
    Or case, singular.

    Ashes of, budum tish.


  • #5284
    Dair76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Dair76


    I'm not really familiar with AotS. Is it known to be a game that favours AMD cards over Nvidia?


  • #5285
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Zen looks a bit meh - hopefully it'll mean decent gaming on cheap ultrabooks.

    I reckon RX 480 will be quite a cool running chip. A flip on the last generation.

    Oooh new gen wasn't Zen.


  • #5286
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Dair76 wrote: »
    I'm not really familiar with AotS. Is it known to be a game that favours AMD cards over Nvidia?

    Hugely, however it's potentially a good point in AMD's favour as it looks like the way the industry is going.


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  • #5287
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    I wish HP would feck off.


  • #5288
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Oh FFS - Dell now?

    Now we're talking about optical drives. :rolleyes:


  • #5289
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Won't be staying up again for those - that was pretty **** :P

    Also no mention of Vega


  • #5290
    Dair76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Dair76


    Yeah, that was a bit of an anti-climax alright. And Lisa wasn't even wearing a leather jacket. Pfft.


  • #5291
    john the one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    So putting in a z97 Mobo and i5 4690 tonight, will windows need to be re installed or will it install itself? I'm rocking windows 10 atm and don't have a copy anywhere.

    What problems can I expect to run in to? I have fresh paste and cleaner.


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  • #5292
    papu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭papu


    john the one wrote: »
    So putting in a z97 Mobo and i5 4690 tonight, will windows need to be re installed or will it install itself? I'm rocking windows 10 atm and don't have a copy anywhere.

    What problems can I expect to run in to? I have fresh paste and cleaner.

    If you're lucky you'll have to reactivate and install drivers, probably you'll have to do a repair install of windows. You can download an Iso of windows 10 and put it on a Usb Key.

    What cleaner are you using?


  • #5293
    john the one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    papu wrote: »
    If you're lucky you'll have to reactivate and install drivers, probably you'll have to do a repair install of windows. You can download an Iso of windows 10 and put it on a Usb Key.

    What cleaner are you using?

    It came with my cooler Master paste. It's a wipe.

    I don't really mind not cleaning the old processor, it's the heat sink that I will be cleaning properly.


  • #5294
    john the one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭john the one


    Burnt an Iso onto a Usb before removing everything, stripped and cleaned the computer, popped the i5 into the new Mobo and installed it in the case, powered up straight away.

    Whacked the gpu and WiFi card in, hooked it up, it booted straight away to the Windows screen. No lumps, no bumps, we're talking horse, not camel.

    In game I got some micro stutter but it turns out the gpu driver hasn't updated in a year.

    I was getting about 15 fps on Arma 3 with the fx 6300 on med settings, ran it today and it's on about 34 on ultra settings.

    Happy happy man.


  • #5295
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Not super pleased with that third last row. That said, BB do abuse their drives.

    blog-table-q1-2016-only.jpg


  • #5296
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    ED E wrote: »
    Not super pleased with that third last row. That said, BB do abuse their drives.
    Ah shyte! I've 4 of them in my NAS. :(


  • #5297
    will56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭will56


    Random question: I have 2 spare 120gb SSDs (bought a 480gb when it went on offer)
    Do I sell them or is there any thing I can put them to use with ?
    480gb is loads of space for my OS and steam at the mo and I have a 2tb storage drive

    I'll be getting photoshop in the next month, is there any benefit to giving it its own drive for editing on ?


  • #5298
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    will56 wrote: »
    Random question: I have 2 spare 120gb SSDs (bought a 480gb when it went on offer)
    Do I sell them or is there any thing I can put them to use with ?
    480gb is loads of space for my OS and steam at the mo and I have a 2tb storage drive

    I'll be getting photoshop in the next month, is there any benefit to giving it its own drive for editing on ?

    If you fancy a bit of speed for a scratch drive you could set them up in RAID0 and backup regularly to the storage drive, it's what I do with my "spare" SSDs :D


  • #5299
    SterlingArcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,767 ✭✭✭SterlingArcher


    john the one wrote: »
    Burnt an Iso onto a Usb before removing everything, stripped and cleaned the computer, popped the i5 into the new Mobo and installed it in the case, powered up straight away.

    Whacked the gpu and WiFi card in, hooked it up, it booted straight away to the Windows screen. No lumps, no bumps, we're talking horse, not camel.

    In game I got some micro stutter but it turns out the gpu driver hasn't updated in a year.

    I was getting about 15 fps on Arma 3 with the fx 6300 on med settings, ran it today and it's on about 34 on ultra settings.

    Happy happy man.

    Nice just in time for the new tanoa. Should be on development branch for testing this week.

    There has also been performance boosts made in version 1.61 of arma so next patch.

    Have you got arma running on an ssd?


  • #5300
    megaten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭megaten


    Just wondering if people thought that a slim PC build would be too ambitious for a first build. I've been thing recently of building a relatively cheap gaming PC mainly for indie games and ports of japanese games. I was looking at the Silverstone raven cases to get an idea of the size I'm thinking of.


  • #5301
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    megaten wrote: »
    Just wondering if people thought that a slim PC build would be too ambitious for a first build. I've been thing recently of building a relatively cheap gaming PC mainly for indie games and ports of japanese games. I was looking at the Silverstone raven cases to get an idea of the size I'm thinking of.

    The only thing you need to be careful of (having just cocked this up but managed to save it - thanks amazon!) is clearances. Otherwise it's dead easy, infact it can be easier than a larger build if you use the integrated GPU which sounds like you will.

    Chances are someone somewhere has done a build on the platform you want, just google :)


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  • #5302
    Serephucus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,181 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Nah, that'd be fine. It'll be slightly more difficult, but not by much. Just take a little extra time doing things. The only thing that'll be different is that you'll want to focus a bit more on cable management a little more.


  • #5303
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,141 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Guys looking for a gauge on pricing for something I'm about to sell.

    Netgear Stora NAS, two bay. Included is one Seagate 500GB drive.

    Was thinking starting of at €80. Sounds fair?


  • #5304
    VenomIreland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭VenomIreland


    How much could 3 second-hand Cisco 2901's sell for?


  • #5305
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    Looking for some help here.
    I have an ASUS P9X79-E WS and it's working away grand with a Xeon E5-2650 (Sandy Bridge) for a while now.
    I want to replace the Xeon with an i7-4930k but when I boot with this CPU the system doesn't complete POST and the q-code readout hangs on 61 which according to the manual is NVRAM Initialization (This is the case with or without memory installed in the board)
    I also have a Xeon E5-1620v2 and it won't boot with this either, same symptoms as the i7.
    Both of these processors that don't boot are Ivy Bridge parts which I know are working as I tested them successfully in a friend's system.
    According to ASUS the board has official support for these CPUs since bios version 1203 and I've tried booting with this version and the latest version(1704) with no success.
    I have tried booting with minimal components, 1 memory module in slot A1 and just a gfx card.
    I've also tried various memory modules
    Samsung M378B5273BH0-CH9 1333mhz
    Corsair Dominator CM3X2G1600C9D3 1600mhz
    Power supply is Corsair RM850

    It's looking like I might have to RMA the board as ASUS support are not offering anything apart from advising to double check components and leaning towards faulty components since the system works fine with the Sandy Bridge CPU.

    Anyone experienced anything similar and get it resolved? I'm hoping I'm doing something silly and didn't RTFM correctly but I'm stumped for now.


  • #5306
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Assume you've reset the UEFI/XMP?


  • #5307
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    ED E wrote: »
    Assume you've reset the UEFI/XMP?

    Yup


  • #5308
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Typically running Xeon you'd run ECC but with the i7 you want non-ecc.

    Has to be fault or power delivery issue, you're going from 90W to 130W. Dumb question but you've definitely got the 8Pin and 6Pin EATX power ports connected and connected to the right place the RM850?


  • #5309
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    ED E wrote: »
    Typically running Xeon you'd run ECC but with the i7 you want non-ecc.

    Has to be fault or power delivery issue, you're going from 90W to 130W. Dumb question but you've definitely got the 8Pin and 6Pin EATX power ports connected and connected to the right place the RM850?

    I'll double check where the 8 and 6 pin cables are connected to the power supply but I'm almost certain they're in the right place as they're keyed.


  • #5310
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    They're connected to the correct ports on the PSU alright, for pig iron I moved then around but made no difference.
    I don't normally use the 6 pin but I have everything connected while tying to get the i7 to boot to give it every chance of whatever power it night need.


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  • #5311
    Danger781
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭Danger781


    Source input button has stopped working on my monitor.. Anything I can do?

    I have one of the Korean 1440p monitor from eBay (XStar specifically)


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