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Serephucus

Headshot wrote: »

Jebus how many games do you?

I'd wager about 50? I have 90, and I'm using about 400GB.

Headshot

Lol you lads mad

ShadowHearth

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

I actually asked a question about the first link a minute before you posted it.
Only problem is he doesn't take paypal and I need it shipped to Mayo too.

I don't see the point in spending 40euro on a 250GB hard drive, I'll have that much used up with Steam games in no time and will only need to get another one then.

do you need them all on HDD at same time? i got 69 games on steam alone and i got only 12 games installed including minecraft, terraria and binding of isaac.

the games i stop playing i just delete and redownload when i got crawing for it.

in fact my current system got only 60gb ssd and 500gb hdd and i got 300gb still free. i got full seasons of family guy+southpark and just few movies too. i will add one more hdd later on just for storage and video recording.

FlyingIrishMan

ShadowHearth wrote: »

do you need them all on HDD at same time? i got 69 games on steam alone and i got only 12 games installed including minecraft, terraria and binding of isaac.

the games i stop playing i just delete and redownload when i got crawing for it.

in fact my current system got only 60gb ssd and 500gb hdd and i got 300gb still free. i got full seasons of family guy+southpark and just few movies too. i will add one more hdd later on just for storage and video recording.

I would rather just keep them downloaded, I have satellite broadband so my download speed isn't very good. It took me 18hours to download Portal 2, a 10GB file... So it would be much easier for me if I could keep everything downloaded all the time.
I actually only have about 120GB of Steam Games, but there are a few I have my eyes on, and I'll probably buy a lot more through out the year.

Also now that you mention it, I do plan to do some fraps recording too and I hear that uses up a lot of space.

ShadowHearth

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

I would rather just keep them downloaded, I have satellite broadband so my download speed isn't very good. It took me 18hours to download Portal 2, a 10GB file... So it would be much easier for me if I could keep everything downloaded all the time.
I actually only have about 120GB of Steam Games, but there are a few I have my eyes on, and I'll probably buy a lot more through out the year.

Also now that you mention it, I do plan to do some fraps recording too and I hear that uses up a lot of space.

you will need just a separate drive for fraps. ( well, just recomandation, not vital ).

HDDs are expensive and there are no 70eu 1gb drives, so you have to upper your budget or just buy something 250-500ish gb now and later on buy one more drive or usb 3.0 external.

_AVALANCHE_

Scrape up another €20 and get the tera.

ShadowHearth

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Scrape up another €20 and get the tera.

Better of with USB 3.0 .

_AVALANCHE_

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Better of with USB 3.0 .

I didn't check it as it was near £120 last week but it's £85/€103 now.

Monotype

The outside connector doesn't make much difference if you just want to salvage it for the drive inside. External drives are a good place too look these days as they're regularly cheaper than the internal ones. Nearly always 5400 RPM green drives though.

deconduo wrote: »

But isn't the 960T a green chip clocked at 3GHz. I'd be interested to see what sort of overclocking people are getting from it, but I would expect it to be from a fairly low bin right?

I suppose that's a fair point. It probably would be lower binned alright than the X6s. I'd hope though, that the fact that Thubans usually overclock a bit better would balance it to get similar performance to what you'd get with the regular phenom. The price and possibility of additional cores is a good bonus too.

Have the phenom X4s and athlons stopped production? They've been disappearing and increasing in price. I presume that the Thubans are still in production as they're plentiful.

ShadowHearth

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

I didn't check it as it was near £120 last week but it's £85/€103 now.

I would stay away from that one as reviews are very bad!

FlyingIrishMan

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SEAGATE-Barracuda-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B005F306RY/ref=sr_1_16?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1326231962&sr=1-16

How does that look? Reading the reviews on Amazon seems promising, but would rather get some opinions of people who might know more about hard drives.

Would I be better of waiting and getting an extra 40euro and getting something like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST31000524AS-Barracuda-7200rpm-Buffer/dp/B004HBAGSO/ref=pd_cp_computers_4

_AVALANCHE_

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I would stay away from that one as reviews are very bad!

I can't stay away from it, it's sitting on my desk here in front of me.:p

It's a good drive. Majority of people who write reviews do it to complain about something or because something was DOA on arrival, folk that are happy don't bother.

The only thing, only thing, if I was into complaining about stuff is that it's vertical. Makes knocking it over abit easier but it takes up less desk real estate like this so...in reality it's better for it.

I put 600GB onto it in one go and it didn't get hot or noisey. I don't use it for continuos backups, I've no need for that.

ShadowHearth

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

I can't stay away from it, it's sitting on my desk here in front of me.:p

It's a good drive. Majority of people who write reviews do it to complain about something or because something was DOA on arrival, folk that are happy don't bother.

The only thing, only thing, if I was into complaining about stuff is that it's vertical. Makes knocking it over abit easier but it takes up less desk real estate like this so...in reality it's better for it.

I put 600GB onto it in one go and it didn't get hot or noisey. I don't use it for continuos backups, I've no need for that.

Oh.

What about that software? It looks prety stupid to introduce such stuff, when external hdds are plug and play for the last few years!

I got few spare quid this week, so ofc like any addict I want to spend it on my drug! I am thinking between 120gb ssd just for steam games and use 60gb ssd as windows drive and 500gb I got for storage and video recording. Or getting external 1gb drive for storage and video recording, then 500gb drive just for games...

Ah it's a hard life to be a pc geek

Monotype

Software with an external drive is nothing new. It's usually for syncing (your data between multiple PCs) and backup. Better to format it clean unless you really want it.

Headshot

lads you know MSI Instant OC

How much would that increase the clock speed on the i5-2500K?

ShadowHearth

Headshot wrote: »

lads you know MSI Instant OC

How much would that increase the clock speed on the i5-2500K?

OC genie you mean?

for me it OCed my system to 4.2ghz. super stable for the last month now. i know i will be told to do it manually, but it works for me and 4.2ghz is more then enough for my gaming needs.

Headshot

Yap OC genie

Tea_Bag

its usually super stable cause the algorithms over volt by quite a bit, which isn't good for long term longevity.

ShadowHearth

Tea_Bag wrote: »

its usually super stable cause the algorithms over volt by quite a bit, which isn't good for long term longevity.

i just checked and it is on stock voltage 4.2ghz...

edit: scrap that, its not lol

Headshot

How does one check?

ShadowHearth

Headshot wrote: »

How does one check?

its actually weird... i set it to stock and main CPU voltage did not changed. i kept on 1.3v and i checked online and stock is around 1.2v.

Brian

Anyone know where I could pick up a Microsoft WMO or IE3.0 cheap in town? I have an MX518 (two, actually) but I'm interested to see what it is about these mouses that make so many Quake Live pros still use them.

Monotype

I didn't like the IE3 at all. Only used it for about a day and I could sell it to you if you wanted it. Too big for my hands, I suppose.

Genghiz Cohen

Ordered a new Monitor from Komplett on the night of the 5th. Komplett say they shipped on the 6th, arrived today.

That's alright, isn't it?

Serephucus

Not bad at all, considering there was a weekend in there. What monitor did you go for?

Genghiz Cohen

Serephucus wrote: »

Not bad at all, considering there was a weekend in there. What monitor did you go for?

As recommended, the 23" Dell IPS.
Pulled it out of the box and set it up.
Then had to go to stupid work!

Me, Skyrim and my graphics card are gonna have a nice chat when I get home, oh yes....

Serephucus

Happy days!

Brian

Monotype wrote: »

I didn't like the IE3 at all. Only used it for about a day and I could sell it to you if you wanted it. Too big for my hands, I suppose.

Sure, how much do you want?

Bonesy.

How the Palit NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB Graphics Card HDMI GPU for gaming? What level would it play BF3 on?

Serephucus

It'll do alright, but if you're getting it new, there are much better options available.

Bonesy.

Serephucus wrote: »

It'll do alright, but if you're getting it new, there are much better options available.

Nah about 60 second hand

Serephucus

Rest of your specs? If it's an ok system you'll be fine with it. If it's a powerful one, it'll be a bottleneck. It's very handy to have a spare GPU though, for problem testing, GPU RMAs, etc.

Headshot

My poor auld razor respawn 3500 is on its death bed im afraid

Right click is a pain in the games at the moment

deconduo

Bonesy. wrote: »

Nah about 60 second hand

If you're ordering parts from HWVS, get this instead:

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=49395&agid=1004

Its the same price and roughly the same performance, but uses less power and will have full warranty. Otherwise its a decent enough deal.

ktulu123

Built 2 gaming PC's today. It's not too hard at all once your careful and research a bit. Delighted!

Fluffy88

You lucky *ahem* I've nowhere to put a desktop in our house unless I replace the family PC and I'm not gonna spend 1k+ for my mother to play solitaire. But I'm still half thinking of upgrading it for the fun


Also bored so was just browsing around, I never read the first post in this thread before. Brilliant!!

BaconZombie wrote: »

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102858

ShadowHearth

Fluffy88 wrote: »

You lucky *ahem* I've nowhere to put a desktop in our house unless I replace the family PC and I'm not gonna spend 1k+ for my mother to play solitaire. But I'm still half thinking of upgrading it for the fun


Also bored so was just browsing around, I never read the first post in this thread before. Brilliant!!

lol! FARMVILLE ON HIGH SETTINGS! IN YOUR FACE CRYSIS 2!

Serephucus

Forget Furmark. Bejeweled, on high, for hours!

Will bring any computer to its knees*

*Is completely untrue

Brian

There's an unopened SteelSeries Kinzu for €25 in Cash Connectors in Cork.

nesf

Baza210 wrote: »

There's an unopened SteelSeries Kinzu for €25 in Cash Connectors in Cork.

They're meant to be a decent mouse.

Headshot

Lads what ya think this problem is

computer starts up but you cant click on anything for awhile (extremely slow)

papu

Headshot wrote: »

Lads what ya think this problem is

computer starts up but you cant click on anything for awhile (extremely slow)

too many startup processes , press windowskey+R , type in msconfig , go to startup and untick anything non essential

explains it well > http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/index.html

ShadowHearth

so lads, anyone using that netflix?

any catch on that 1 month trial? will i still need to subscribe to get that 1 free month?

problem is i am really not impressed with those choises showed on website andi cant get a full list of stuff they have on offer...

so anyone here can give some more details on it?

Monotype

There's a thread about it on the bargain alerts forum.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056509234

ShadowHearth

Monotype wrote: »

There's a thread about it on the bargain alerts forum.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056509234

**** it, subbed.

just checked and it does look like an good selection.

there are faulty towers, little britain etc. i allways wanted to watch all of them. i am not irish, so i only playing catching up . i already know father ted line by line

for ****s and giggles i got "Army of darkness" on now on second screen

FlyingIrishMan

I just registered with a pre-paid visa card with no money left on it.
No chance of them taking money of me now
Movies on there don't look that good anyway, not a lot of new ones.

_AVALANCHE_

adox wrote: »

Got this off another thread and it works a treat. Change your DNS settings on your PS3, reboot the PS3 then enter Netflix. When you hit the Netflic icon, hold down select and start and it will ask you if you want to re enter your log in details. Say yes, re enter your username and password that you set your Irish account up with and hey presto, you are on the US store. Huge difference in the library.

http://support.unblock-us.com/customer/portal/articles/291530-setting-up-ps3

From this page of this Thread. If you read on their's more about setup.

Edit:Actually, it's mentioned in the Bargain Alerts Thread also.

Fluffy88

Hey, just looking to get a can of compressed air to clean out a few PC's.
On amazon I see one that is listed as flammable :O I assume that's not air in there.

Does anyone here have a link to an online retailer that's not going to blow anything up?
I checked dabs, komplett and I could only find a can on scan but that comes to £10. Is that the price they normally are?

Links:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000MQ7DZC/ref=s9_simh_gw_p229_d0_g229_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1R2D8ZMMBQD1DQK3C5HT&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/falcon-gaming-gear-dust-off-compressed-air-duster-300ml

Serephucus

The only brick and mortar place I've found them in - mind you, I haven't exactly been looking - was an office supplies place in Maynooth. Maybe check places like Reids?

Fluffy88

Serephucus wrote: »

The only brick and mortar place I've found them in - mind you, I haven't exactly been looking - was an office supplies place in Maynooth. Maybe check places like Reids?

I hate walking :P