Bargain Alerts/Adverts Discussion Thread

Rsaeire · 04-11-2011 10:24am

abelard wrote: »

I ordered the Iiyama monitor from the dabs UK site after I saw a post on it here, was at £98, since gone up to £162. Just to say I'm in the same boat regarding the delivery date being constantly pushed back. I have almost 0% expectation of getting it at that price, but gonna keep hoping!

That's the thing with these bargains, it invariably becomes a waiting game for the cancellation email. I hope you do get your monitor though as that was an awesome price.

abelard · 05-11-2011 11:51am

Rsaeire wrote: »

That's the thing with these bargains, it invariably becomes a waiting game for the cancellation email. I hope you do get your monitor though as that was an awesome price.

Cheers. Checking this morning though, I don't even have an expected delivery date any more! That 0% hope is now (somehow) even smaller!

Tea_Bag · 05-11-2011 3:40pm

abelard wrote: »

Cheers. Checking this morning though, I don't even have an expected delivery date any more! That 0% hope is now (somehow) even smaller!

same. my delivery date is now replaced with "your items will be with you shortly" but its still processing and seeing as money hasn't been taken from my account I doubt it'll be dispatched any time soon

makes me think twice about what kind of company they are. should have received an email or something by now notifying me of a delay or cancellation or misprice or something? ill email them later today.

abelard · 05-11-2011 10:02pm

Tea_Bag wrote: »

same. my delivery date is now replaced with "your items will be with you shortly" but its still processing and seeing as money hasn't been taken from my account I doubt it'll be dispatched any time soon

makes me think twice about what kind of company they are. should have received an email or something by now notifying me of a delay or cancellation or misprice or something? ill email them later today.

In fairness to them though, they advertise the product as not being in stock, so it's not like we order expecting delivery in a few days. If they're going to cancel for misprice, which is almost certain, it would be nice to be informed though.

Trevor451 · 06-11-2011 12:59am

Have you guys tried asking them here?

http://www.dabs.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/28-Customer-queries

Tea_Bag · 06-11-2011 1:37pm

abelard wrote: »

In fairness to them though, they advertise the product as not being in stock, so it's not like we order expecting delivery in a few days. If they're going to cancel for misprice, which is almost certain, it would be nice to be informed though.

ah you're right I completely forgot that it was out of stock when I had ordered (when i started my rant.)

still would like an email now though.

Tar.Aldarion · 07-11-2011 4:05pm

have more ram than I use, anybody ever made a ram disk, what you think of them?

Tea_Bag · 07-11-2011 4:18pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

have more ram than I use, anybody ever made a ram disk, what you think of them?

What do you plan on using it for?
Iirc, you've got an SSD? Is there any need for it?

Tar.Aldarion · 07-11-2011 5:05pm

Don't have an ssd, as I am waiting on them to cheapen up and get a big one

The bit that interested me was 'RAM disk is in general orders of magnitude faster than other forms of storage media, such as an SSD'. I don't reallly ahve much use for it apart from interest i learning about it. As far as I can see some people remove things like their page file to it to use less space on their ssd, load web pages quicker by using a web cache and so forth. A quicker way to access data you have on other hard drives by temporarily having it in the volatile ram memory? And using it for games/PS? I wonder would it change gaming much.

I don't really know much about it at all

Was wondering is it any good and for what.

08-11-2011 4:53pm

Is http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0035FF066/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE actually a good deal?

It doesn't look any cheaper than most of the other BDRWs I've seen the last while.

Burgo · 08-11-2011 6:03pm

L wrote: »

Is http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0035FF066/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE actually a good deal?

It doesn't look any cheaper than most of the other BDRWs I've seen the last while.

Yeah was going to ask the same thing,haven't really being keeping up with my drives these days, good bargain or not?

Voodu Child · 08-11-2011 10:12pm

It's been hovering around £65-70 for the last few months so you're saving a few quid, that's all.

http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/LG-BH10LS30-AUAR10B-Internal-Blu-Ray-Retail/product/B0035FF066

£60 is good for a Bluray burner and at that price most readers are only £10-15 cheaper so i'd say its decent enough.

Got the liteon IHBS112-37 for £60 a few months ago and supposedly its faster than the LG.

witnessmenow · 09-11-2011 12:02pm

***king dabs, monitor pushed out to December 1st now! Just cancel it already if you arent going to proceed with it!

I have a full PC ordered through them on the same order as the monitor, which is being held up by the monitor.... no contact telling me about the delay, do they really expect me to keep the order for the PC for an extra month! ridiculous

Im going to cancel all but the monitor and order somewhere else...

Effluo · 09-11-2011 12:37pm

Just call them first

Tea_Bag · 09-11-2011 1:43pm

which monitor witnessmenow?

witnessmenow · 09-11-2011 2:39pm

The Iiyama 24" one.

Im after ordering the pc from amazon

Tea_Bag · 09-11-2011 2:59pm

witnessmenow wrote: »

The Iiyama 24" one.

Im after ordering the pc from amazon

when did they tell you december?

Serephucus · 09-11-2011 3:06pm

They'll probably do it for you if you give them a call. They can't be expected to read your mind; if you haven't called them or anything, then they can only conclude you're ok with waiting a month for your stuff.

witnessmenow · 09-11-2011 3:25pm

Call who?

* dabs.ie is a website for individual consumer customers based in Eire, which offers great online service and low prices.
* We use the latest technology to offer our customers a "self service" approach and have a set of online tools to help you decide what you want, place your order and deal with after sales problems if they happen.
* We do not offer a telephone service for pre or post sales enquiries because you can usually get an answer to your question from our website. See below.

Serephucus · 09-11-2011 3:30pm

1800 80 60 40

It's Dabs4Work, supposed to be for business use, but usually they don't care too much if an individual calls.

witnessmenow · 09-11-2011 3:38pm

Serephucus wrote: »

1800 80 60 40

It's Dabs4Work, supposed to be for business use, but usually they don't care too much if an individual calls.

Thanks, but I won't be needing it. I ordered off amazon today.

I'm maybe a bit more pissed off than I should be, but personally I think it's crazy that they have not contacted me by email once to say there is a delay, I got an order confirmation and that's it. And this setting expected delivery dates that they aren't even close to keeping, I shouldn't have to chase them to buy stuff from them!

It also annoyed me that they have no number or live chat.

@tb it's in my order details.

Serephucus · 09-11-2011 3:52pm

witnessmenow wrote: »

It also annoyed me that they have no number or live chat.

That one pisses me off too. Usually I only order stuff from Dabs if it's in-stock, and doesn't look like some crazy misprice. With anything "normal", they're usually great.

Shy_Dave! · 09-11-2011 4:20pm

Thought I should say that the i5 2500k OEM is on overclockers for 162 pounds for the week. Seems like a decent price!
Edit* Although actually that comes to 190 euro or so, which is almost the same as Komplett but Komplett has free delivery.
IGNORE! :P

Genghiz Cohen · 10-11-2011 6:54pm

www.dabs.ie/products/ocz-technology-120gb-vertex-plus-series-sata-3gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-7P0T.html

It's a SATA 2 drive.

Can SSD's take advantage of the 6Gb/s speeds offered by SATA3 or are the SATA3 drives more expensive for no real reason?

Unregistered. · 10-11-2011 7:46pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

www.dabs.ie/products/ocz-technology-120gb-vertex-plus-series-sata-3gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-7P0T.html

It's a SATA 2 drive.

Can SSD's take advantage of the 6Gb/s speeds offered by SATA3 or are the SATA3 drives more expensive for no real reason?

SSD's yes, some definitely do. Most of the newer drives have theoretical maximum read or write speeds in excess of 300MB/s

Rsaeire · 10-11-2011 8:21pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

SSD's yes, some definitely do. Most of the newer drives have theoretical maximum read or write speeds in excess of 300MB/s

Just out of curiosity, which SATA II SSDs have you come across that take advantage of SATA III (6 Gbps) ports?

54kroc · 10-11-2011 8:59pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

SSD's yes, some definitely do. Most of the newer drives have theoretical maximum read or write speeds in excess of 300MB/s

I don't think speeds higher than 300MB/s is a theory, more of a fact.

Unregistered. · 10-11-2011 9:13pm

Rsaeire wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, which SATA II SSDs have you come across that take advantage of SATA III (6 Gbps) ports?

None. You need a SATA3 drive (as well as SATA3 ports) to take advantage of the increased throughput. Otherwise you will be limited to SATA2 speeds.

cork45 wrote: »

I don't think speeds higher than 300MB/s is a theory, more of a fact.

Well done.

Rsaeire · 10-11-2011 9:17pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

None. You need a SATA3 drive (as well as SATA3 ports) to take advantage of the increased throughput. Otherwise you will be limited to SATA2 speeds.

I knew that but I wasn't sure you did from your original post.

54kroc · 10-11-2011 9:34pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

Well done.

Thank you.

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