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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 20:18
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| I got a new monitor. I wasn't going to, then this showed up on Ebay "refurb" for half price. I didn't want it for my flat, but mum's. I was still running my old 32" HP 60hz here. https://i.imgur.com/yEsIyT7.jpg I was pretty scared. It terrifies me at the best of times ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2021 21:04
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| . It's incredibly heavy and I needed someone to move it professionally. Cor, how big and heavy is it? I've not used removalists for a long time (last time was when mum moved house in maybe 2006, something like that) and I don't recall them being particularly careful. I would say full over 50kg. The... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:58
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 18:39
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| Life changes. I have two big PCs at home. I had another monstrosity at my mother's. The one at mum's was a temp build until I brought over one from my flat. Because of Covid. It's incredibly heavy and I needed someone to move it professionally. ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 16:10
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TheVision wrote: Is memory expensive these days then? I think I need to upgrade my PC but if it's going to be spendy, I might wait a bit.
Memory prices have been pretty stable tbh. |
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 21:02
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| Looks like that board will do the job. Just don't install MSI's Mystic Light. It will kill your Windows install, as I found out the hard way. |
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 14:03
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| There's a couple of channels on YT that suit the budget gamer. Random Gaming In HD and Tech Yes City. Both of these have benched the two to death, and there's practically nothing in it in gaming. You'll get a better upgrade path from AMD, but only if you are ... |
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 15:36
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| Cheers Gaz, my question would be what does that board (or the x570 chipset in general) offer over the cheapo b450 boards that are about half the price? My understanding is that they've got better expansion options for things like on-board SSDs and stuff, and PCI-Express 4 - although granted, I don'... |
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 15:29
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| Yeah B450 offers ample. https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-B450M-PRO-VDH-MAX-Motherboard/dp/B07WC724Z7/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3K2NF7E4EJHZU&dchild=1&keywords=b450+motherboard&qid=1611411222&sprefix=b450+mother%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-3 Is a nice board. The Max is indicative of the fact it has a bigg... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 16:48
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| Upgraded mine the other day. To 32gb, and a Der8auer bracket (that moves the cold plate on the cooler in line with the cores). https://i.imgur.com/QCPWe1S.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/5DUpwNh.jpg?1 Within about a minute of cleaning out the dust filters the fluff starts t... |
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 21:33
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| Decided I needed yet another PC. I've been running my new HIFI stuff with an Amazon Fire cube thing. It's great for videos, netflix and so on but didn't really sound all that great with music. So I bagged one of these for £42 on Amazon. ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 13:58
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| ... It uses a Phanteks Enthoo Pro and distro (the wall of water). Has my existing PSU, 2070 Super and memory with a Threadripper 1920x and MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon I picked up for £200 off a chum. Runs very cool and very, very quiet. The fans and pump are set to 7v, so it's like a very gentle ... |
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 19:17
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| Yeah that pink was really annoying. When I switched to Threadripper from an Intel board the USB system just collapsed. I took it apart last night and ran the offending items directly into the board. https://i.imgur.com/S5JJLvo.jpg?1 For some reason if it can't find the device it defa... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 17:09
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Upgraded rig two to a 2080Ti I got for £490 with a block already on. Upgraded to a bigger res and a Bitspower CPU block whilst I was there.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 14:44
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| After a bugger load of cutting, modding, making parts, wiring, soldering and wet sanding and buffing my FreeNAS is finished. https://i.imgur.com/gC03ZYH.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/kNafu9S.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/NfU8yNB.jpg?1 https://i.imgur&#... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 19:44
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My soon to be new FreeNAS build.
The rest of it.
Covers will go on at the end.
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 15:27
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Yeah I wasn't a huge fan of Quake RTX. I actually bought it, but it soon got very boring.
Control looks amazing in places, but some of it looks very, IDK? "bitty"?
It's DLSS2 I am interested in. It looks great and boosts performance. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:03
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Sir Taxalot wrote: JohnCoffey wrote: Otherwise you'd have pages of the shit 
Take that, then multiply it by infinity. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 20:39
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| Nope ! no copy and paste Otherwise you'd have pages of the shit |
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 17:21
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| ... into it. I left it folding for three days, and with the WUs it had it was fine. So now it is going to be my server, given it's rammed full of PCIE hard drives and uses a metric ton of lanes. I also forgot to post the spec of Mike Tyson. AMD Ryzen 3950x Asus TUF X570 16gb 4133 8 Pack ram (clocked ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 18:26
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| You'll always benefit from more RAM eventually. Faster RAM will help in a few scenarios too, where memory bandwidth is important. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 17:17
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| Unless you're getting warnings and crashes you should be fine then, though ram is very cheap ATM. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 16:59
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| Is it dual channel? If it's one stick it can reduce gaming performance. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 14:15
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I finally decided on a monitor.
XG32VQR. I've had my old HP for over five years now. |
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 16:32
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| Why is it called Mike Tyson, John Coffey? Because it was going to have no lights in it at all, and everything was going to be black or carbon. So case. https://i.imgur.com/g682QzU.jpg Fans. https://i.imgur.com/3wMZCrF.jpg And etc. For me it's very low key, and just r... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 23:23
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Mike Tyson.
Been working on it for about two weeks. Slowly as parts come in. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 16:26
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| I’m thinking about getting some compressed air and blowing the shit out of my PC. What’s the risk of blowing something off and totalling it? None, just don't let it whizz the fans around. Hold them in place, or they could spin backward and send a surge. But yeah ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:17
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| Yes. You disconnect the fan from the power and insert the programming cable into the middle (it's not visible in pics) and then you open up an app and input what you want. IIRC it has 5 or 6 lines. I like it, it's also kinda pointless unnecessary really, but that's part of what makes it cool Title ... |
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 23:47
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| ... this time running a full and lengthy surface scan. https://i.imgur.com/gq5zxge.jpg So there was literally nothing wrong with the hardware at all. That never happens. All I need to do now as I said is solder in another SATA power cable and connect up the SSD. Very happy for a total ... |
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 20:29
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| You're going to use a whole other PC to control your LEDs? We're through the looking glass, boys! Just when I want to set them. Right now they've defaulted to random and a nice shade of pink lol. https://i.imgur.com/TPHlMYd.jpg ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:47
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| "new" toy. https://i.imgur.com/8ZROdsd.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NnGLXM3.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0o60ncs.jpg Spec is not great but could have been far worse. I5 3330 (could have been a I3 Sandy) 6gb ram (enough for what I am wanting it for) GT ... |
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:58
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| I'm waiting on a pedestal and it's not finished so the wiring is messy. Still got lots to do (fans, more modding, paint touch up etc.) I've not synched the LEDs so they're farting rainbows ATM. Having issues with the internal USB hubs dropping all the time. Shouldn't be too much longer though. Busy ... |
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:49
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Nearly there now. Got a new mouse and mat to cover the desk.
Nothing is synced yet I've not had the time to mess with it. |
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 18:10
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| It's getting very intense. |
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 17:20
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 22:55
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It's all up and running now. Hit a few stumbling blocks, but yeah really getting there. |
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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 23:06
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| This should be happening next week. The PC is all stripped out. https://i.imgur.com/bb5qfts.jpg?1 A little pump drying action. https://i.imgur.com/PmmO2Us.jpg?1 GPU https://i.imgur.com/sIdIpHf.jpg?1 ... |
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 16:11
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| ... but no rugs. The upside of buying a Threadripper 1920x (well, before they all sold out) was the price. £230 for a 12 core 24 thread chip with many PCIE lanes (48, IIRC). The downside? the board prices. Jesus they do make your eyes water. After many hours of research and being very annoyed at MSI ... |
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 15:33
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| The packing material matches your carpets nicely. Is your carpet in fact incredibly comfortable packing material? It's similar. I'm amazed it hasn't gone flat from all the pacing I do. I guess they thought it through when building the place. Why use shite if you're going to have to do it again? Don... |
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 14:19
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Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 0:46
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Typical Ebuyer. Order a 28" 4k monitor on the 23rd, hasn't arrived yet. Order a board and CPU, out of the blue the CPU arrived today... Alone.
Oh well, 1 out of 3 isn't bad lol. |
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2019 18:31
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| ... over complicated. Most notably the X99 Godlike which is frankly fucking ridiculous. I bought a nice cheap SSD so I'm ready to build the bedroom PC. Well, once I've put four bikes into my mother's loft. It should be quite respectablly really. I already know it can run TOW very well at 1440p. ... |
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 18:28
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| Happens on every PC I have. So no, you're certainly not alone. I have to disable it and have every thing turn off apart from the pc itself. It's very annoying. |
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Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 15:52
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Yay unicorn farts!
I put in 7 fans yesterday. Not been out of bed in a week so it felt good. I'm an SSD away from a full PC now. |
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Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 15:34
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| Yeah it's not so little in person :( I took the panels off and was pulling stuff out of the inner chassis and the inner chassis toppled over and landed on that ^ The problem is that not only did it crack that in half (making the entire bottom floppy) but it also broke all of the tags that hold the p... |
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Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 15:26
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| Now that I have a full PC without a case I was needing a case. This will be my TV gaming PC. Last week I managed to do this to a previously pristine ... think it's a good idea to load it up with very heavy hardware. So instead I scoured OCUK's clearance section and ... |
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 21:25
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 1:13
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Sir Taxalot wrote: I hate that the report is formatted to look like a tatty piece of paper
It's Unigene Super Position. It's old fashioned, and has pictures of Tesla etc on the walls. |
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 21:54
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| Well it came and I am immensely impressed. I guess I have AMD to thank for bringing out the 5700 cards. I have a Titan XP in my machine at home, and I wasn't expecting the 2070s to quite match it, given people all say the 2070s is on par with the 1080Ti. This is not true. I have my machine at home o... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
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Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 18:20
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| ... hot and crashes. The only way I can get it dependably stable for long gaming sessions is to shove it in "Radeon chill" which clocks it ... what was going to be my FO76 server to make another complete gaming PC for my bedroom. |
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