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yoshiktk

EoinHef wrote: »

Cant remember where but i recently saw a set of dummy sticks for sale that were just the heat spreader with rgb,no actual ram modules.

There made for slots 2 and 4 if you plan to only fill 1 and 3 with actaul ram.

Corsair RGB Light Kit
For someone with OCD not a bad idea. The gold one on the other hand.... For me it looks like a "plastic" tracksuit from 80's

BArra

Noticed today that a lot of pc monitors on Amazon, majority won't dispatch to Ireland? And they are sold and dispatched by amazon

Edit: just checked some more stuff, echo dot also now showing won't dispatch to Ireland, it seems a big change has occurred, all sorts of tech stuff sold and dispatched by Amazon show won't deliver to Ireland

BArra

Scratch that, somebody must of pressed a wrong button, seems reverted now

L

Intel's new Ryzen competitor has been announced.

AlmightyCushion

L wrote: »

Intel's new Ryzen competitor has been announced.

Looks like it's primarily aimed at laptops. Interesting all the same.

The 10nm part will contain both a Sunny Cove high power core, and four Atom cores, in a style that is familiar from modern ARM processors: light workloads will be able to use the low power Atom cores, but the Sunny Cove can be powered up for more computationally expensive tasks. This chip will be aimed at ultra-mobile systems with the processor measuring 12×12×1mm and having a standby power of 2mW.

yoshiktk

Is there a PC store in Dublin with normal prices which have stock on the spot? A friend of mine is looking for a last minute gift, a RX580.

Nibs05

Seen a i7 3770k going for €120, is there much of performance difference from a 2500k

TerrorFirmer

Nibs05 wrote: »

Seen a i7 3770k going for €120, is there much of performance difference from a 2500k

In the latest games, massive.

Cuddlesworth

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Looks like it's primarily aimed at laptops. Interesting all the same.

Can windows scheduler even do anything with that? At the moment, Windows just picks a free thread for the task and the firmware/board ramps up the core as needed right?

Irishder

yoshiktk wrote: »

Is there a PC store in Dublin with normal prices which have stock on the spot? A friend of mine is looking for a last minute gift, a RX580.

Bought one off of overclockers last week delivered in 3 days. Got two free games as well for 184 sterling delivered

Irishder

Actually if anyone wants a steam code for devil may cry 5 and resident evil 2 make me an offer. Think you need to have an rx570 or 580 in your system

yoshiktk

Irishder wrote: »

Bought one off of overclockers last week delivered in 3 days. Got two free games as well for 184 sterling delivered

Unfortunately he needs the card for tomorrow. Ebay seller messed up the order, card went to wrong address in different country...

K.O.Kiki

yoshiktk wrote: »

Is there a PC store in Dublin with normal prices which have stock on the spot? A friend of mine is looking for a last minute gift, a RX580.

yoshiktk wrote: »

Unfortunately he needs the card for tomorrow. Ebay seller messed up the order, card went to wrong address in different country...

Your only way of finding one in Ireland will be on Adverts.ie
https://www.adverts.ie/for-sale/computers/desktop-hardware/494/q_rx+580/county-Dublin/

Good luck!

yoshiktk

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Your only way of finding one in Ireland will be on Adverts.ie
https://www.adverts.ie/for-sale/computers/desktop-hardware/494/q_rx+580/county-Dublin/

Good luck!

Thanks. He won't be to happy.

L

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Looks like it's primarily aimed at laptops. Interesting all the same.

My suspicion is that that'll just be the start. Mobile devices are the low hanging fruit when it comes to mixing and matching. Long-term, I expect this to show up in desktop architectures from Intel as a direct 'our package is better' answer to Ryzen's design.

MiskyBoyy

Anyone seen 8700k's going anyway cheap recently?

K.O.Kiki

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Anyone seen 8700k's going anyway cheap recently?

As per Geizhals price history, they've only been going up in price since August/September
https://geizhals.eu/intel-core-i7-8700k-bx80684i78700k-a1685281.html
https://geizhals.eu/intel-core-i7-8700k-cm8068403358220-a1699932.html

If you're looking to upgrade, check with your motherboard vendor if it supports i5-9600K / i7-9700K

MiskyBoyy

K.O.Kiki wrote:

If you're looking to upgrade, check with your motherboard vendor if it supports i5-9600K / i7-9700K

I'll be getting a new motherboard and ram too. I'll probably just splash out on the current price on either 8700k or 9700k. I'm upgrading from a 3570k and hope for it to last me another 5 years like my faithful 3570k did

K.O.Kiki

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

I'll be getting a new motherboard and ram too. I'll probably just splash out on the current price on either 8700k or 9700k. I'm upgrading from a 3570k and hope for it to last me another 5 years like my faithful 3570k did

Why not get a Ryzen 2600/2700 instead?

That socket is good for another 2 years at least (i.e. Ryzen 3000-series will slot right in) and tbh you're better off spending on a good GPU than worrying about your CPU these days.

Headshot

I got a 300 euro One4All voucher. I fecking hate them

You use to beable to convert them to use on Amazon but I think that's gone now

argggg

EoinHef

I shop in supervalu for groceries. They take one4all. I just put away the value in the voucher in cash and use the voucher for the weekly shopping.

We get them in work to be tax efficent so there great in that sense but yeah,it was handy when you could convert to amazon.

MiskyBoyy

K.O.Kiki wrote:

That socket is good for another 2 years at least (i.e. Ryzen 3000-series will slot right in) and tbh you're better off spending on a good GPU than worrying about your CPU these days.

I'm still undecided really, but am a little bit of an Intel fanboy.

I have a 1080Ti so I'm good in the gpu department but the 3570k is currently bottlenecking me hence why I'm currently looking to upgrade.

DarkPassenger

Headshot wrote: »

I got a 300 euro One4All voucher. I fecking hate them

You use to beable to convert them to use on Amazon but I think that's gone now

argggg

Vplusprepaid let's you convert it to MasterCard, they take a few quid of course

Headshot

DarkPassenger wrote: »

Vplusprepaid let's you convert it to MasterCard, they take a few quid of course

ohhhh that is interesting. Ill have to investigate that

Inquitus

EoinHef wrote: »

I shop in supervalu for groceries. They take one4all. I just put away the value in the voucher in cash and use the voucher for the weekly shopping.

We get them in work to be tax efficent so there great in that sense but yeah,it was handy when you could convert to amazon.

Agreed, use them for the weekly shop, and spend the cash saved on tech goodness, that's what I do. Shame they are capped at €500 a year tax free It used to be soo much better many moons ago.

Headshot

Guys what's the last day of an post delivering post?

K.O.Kiki

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

I'm still undecided really, but am a little bit of an Intel fanboy.

I have a 1080Ti so I'm good in the gpu department but the 3570k is currently bottlenecking me hence why I'm currently looking to upgrade.

What screen you got/going to get?

Headshot wrote: »

Guys what's the last day of an post delivering post?

https://www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels/Sending/Christmas-2018/christmas-2018-postal-dates

MiskyBoyy

Headshot wrote: »

Guys what's the last day of an post delivering post?

Up until Monday December 24th, then again on 28th;

https://www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels/Sending/Christmas-2018/christmas-2018-delivery-collection-dates

MiskyBoyy

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

What screen you got/going to get?

Have this:


https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LWQGIUR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

K.O.Kiki

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Have this:


https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LWQGIUR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Ah ok, Intel seems like it's for you then.

Unless you want to wait it out until CES (January 8th-12th) to see what metrics/release date AMD 3000 brings.

MiskyBoyy

Just ordered the 9700k, Asus ROG Strix Z390 & Corsair Vengeance DD4 using my Christmas mun Was up 'till 5am this morning trying to decide what to go for, was nearly gone nuts :pac:

Seriously can't wait for it to arrive now. Going to be a massive jump from my 2013 3570k DDR3 setup :eek:

tadcan

The 1% of gaming rigs from LTT, well an attempt at least. And a Russian competes for bad jokes with Linus. https://youtu.be/sCfmM71NOTo

K.O.Kiki

tadcan wrote: »

The 1% of gaming rigs from LTT, well an attempt at least. And a Russian competes for bad jokes with Linus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCfmM71NOTo

It ended up ONLY being a 2%-er :rolleyes: :pac:

SickBoy

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

It ended up ONLY being a 2%-er :rolleyes: :pac:

Jeeessseeee!
Spoiler alert!!!!!

EoinHef

Anyone try Nvidia OC scanner for pascal cards yet? MSI Afterburner's latest beta includes it.

Have a decent OC on my 1080 already but id be interested to see what sort of clocks,voltage,temps the OC scanner would push. Gonna try it next time i can get on the PC

.G.

Just tried it on my Gaming X 1080, average OC its said was 97Mhz and the dominant limiter is power. I've had 100Mhz manually applied to mine with no issues since I bought it. Never bothered going higher.

Testing it added 113Mhz with temps around mid 70s.

SickBoy

EoinHef wrote: »

Anyone try Nvidia OC scanner for pascal cards yet? MSI Afterburner's latest beta includes it.

Have a decent OC on my 1080 already but id be interested to see what sort of clocks,voltage,temps the OC scanner would push. Gonna try it next time i can get on the PC

I haven't looked into this yet but wondering does this work well with 1070ti cards.
Something to do with clocks locked on 1070ti cards to 1070 card levels unless you run something from the manufacturer to unlock...

EoinHef

SickBoy wrote: »

I haven't looked into this yet but wondering does this work well with 1070ti cards.
Something to do with clocks locked on 1070ti cards to 1070 card levels unless you run something from the manufacturer to unlock...

Dont know. Didnt hear anything about that happening.

It is still in beta though so maybe just avoid it till full release.

K.O.Kiki

I'm a spanner who's been running his CPU/RAM at stock for the past month lol

Headshot

steam store must be getting hammered at the moment

Trying to buy a game and getting:


'There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance.'

jebidiah

Any worthwhile upgrade from a GTX 770 for around €200? Mate is convinced he needs and upgrade, wants to get a used GTX970 at around €130. Only really plays Overwatch, but that could change in the future. 970 is grand for everything I play on mine but the VRAM is a problem going forwards, or is it?

Would a new 1060 6gb or RX 580 8gb be worth stretching to 300 for?

K.O.Kiki

jebidiah wrote: »

Any worthwhile upgrade from a GTX 770 for around €200? Mate is convinced he needs and upgrade, wants to get a used GTX970 at around €130. Only really plays Overwatch, but that could change in the future. 970 is grand for everything I play on mine but the VRAM is a problem going forwards, or is it?

Would a new 1060 6gb or RX 580 8gb be worth stretching to 300 for?

RX 580 8Gb & GTX 1060 6Gb are actually back down to €215-250 range (RX 570/580 4Gb are below 200).

The slightly better RX 590 is €275-290

I've also spotted this GTX 1070 for €300
https://www.caseking.de/inno3d-geforce-gtx-1070-twin-x2-8192-mb-gddr5-gci3-092.html?sPartner=185&utm_source=geizhals&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=geizhals&campaign=psm/geizhals&wt_mc=preisvergleich.geizhals.feed
which would blow all 3 above out of the water.

Having said that - for 1080p or even 1440p @60fps in the majority of titles the GTX 970's 3.5Gb VRAM is sufficient for now.
Just make sure to overclock it *(overclock the core!)

CES 2019 is 8-12. January & will hopefully have new GPU announcements, too.

Solitaire

Aaaand the thread has somehow died at the very very end of 2018! And it only had seven hours until retirement...