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Icyseanfitz

Headshot wrote: »

Just ordered the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080Ti AMP Extreme Spectre RGB

nice hoping to hold out for evga's hybrid cooler one myself, 390x room heater is testing my patience though :rolleyes:

ShadowHearth

savemejebus wrote: »

It's worth giving the dell outlet (both UK and Irish) a call too, sometimes cracking deals on there.

I heard its better just call them before buying with dell. They throw some better prices.
899eu is good proce for spec, but I wonder which model it is. I read a lot about that gaming inspirion 15, its a good laptop for price, but screen is complete and utter garbage.

Perfectly I would want allienware 13, msi g40/43 14inch or that pcspecialist 14inch defiance 3. It would be pure couch and bed gaming device, so would love smaller size.

I will go monday to pcworld and have a look at 15inch laptops. Just to see size and weight.
If its okay, I might look in to hp omen, which actually really cracking laptop for the price.

K.O.Kiki

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

nice hoping to hold out for evga's hybrid cooler one myself, 390x room heater is testing my patience though :rolleyes:

You could get a Founder's Edition & Arctic Accelero Hybrid III 120/140 right now - around €800 + an hour's modding.

Icyseanfitz

i have thought about doing it but i really dont want to feck the card up fiddling with it myself, might give it a bit more thought though

TerrorFirmer

Sickened with Asus at the moment. Bought a cheap Asus RX480 8GB 'Dual' thinking "It's Asus, has to be half decent"....wrong. The card's cooler is the worst 3rd party I've ever experienced - under load it sounds like the reference R9 290 (remember those?).

What's worse....once it hits 65-67c, it hard locks up the computer. The only way it runs without crashing is to run fan at 80% manually and then it works just fine. But then it sounds like a tortured hoover. On automatic fan control, it locks up within a few minutes. The second it hits above 65c = hard lock up.

A painful lesson - never, ever buy any model card from any vendor, no matter how reputable, without googling. The second I googled "Asus RX480 Dual crash" I found tons of people with the exact same issue....hard system lock playing games.

wotzgoingon

I remember the 290 as I had a reference up until a few months ago. Man was I glad the jet engine sound was gone. I play with ear phones on during game play so never really noticed it but if I went to the kitchen and left the door open you can here it really loud. On standby though it is silent.

Gehad_JoyRider

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Sickened with Asus at the moment. Bought a cheap Asus RX480 8GB 'Dual' thinking "It's Asus, has to be half decent"....wrong. The card's cooler is the worst 3rd party I've ever experienced - under load it sounds like the reference R9 290 (remember those?).

What's worse....once it hits 65-67c, it hard locks up the computer. The only way it runs without crashing is to run fan at 80% manually and then it works just fine. But then it sounds like a tortured hoover. On automatic fan control, it locks up within a few minutes. The second it hits above 65c = hard lock up.

A painful lesson - never, ever buy any model card from any vendor, no matter how reputable, without googling. The second I googled "Asus RX480 Dual crash" I found tons of people with the exact same issue....hard system lock playing games.

I got mine in overclockers,

My first question was why is it so cheap :pac: he couldn't answer me.
I haven't had any locks, but its very noisey, I'm going to be getting a vega gpu. Tho I may try pick up 2 rx 480s crossfire apparently is really good according adored tv which seems quite good?

have you thought about underclocking it?

Digital Solitude

I've a Sapphire 290 and it's stupid loud. The PC is also silent when I'm not gaming, all you can hear are the hard drives.

Then the 290 hits 40 degrees, you'd hear it two rooms away.

I'd hate to have a reference model, god only knows how bad they are compared to this.

Icyseanfitz

reinstalled my reference 7970 for giggles 2 days ago and that was a loud ass card, its like a plane taking off

TerrorFirmer

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I've a Sapphire 290 and it's stupid loud. The PC is also silent when I'm not gaming, all you can hear are the hard drives.

Then the 290 hits 40 degrees, you'd hear it two rooms away.

I'd hate to have a reference model, god only knows how bad they are compared to this.

Go to Argos, buy this, turn it on and leave it on your table beside your PC and you have a fully working AMD Radeon R9 290 Reference Simulator.

have you thought about underclocking it?

Yes, but it sickens me that the user has to apply all these workarounds just to get a functional card! I can't believe Asus would release a card like this. It's the noisiest third party card I've ever seen...heard.

Thankfully I have a spare R9 290 that I'm using which works just fine and isn't really even that far behind performance wise. Those cards have lasted amazingly well. I bought mine for €360 from Dabs in 2013....still running the latest games at 1080p ultra quite well.

899eu is good proce for spec, but I wonder which model it is. I read a lot about that gaming inspirion 15, its a good laptop for price, but screen is complete and utter garbage.

Yep, that's the one. I actually only read reviews after you mentioned that and even people who say they usually couldn't give a crap about screen quality find it absoutely horrible. Was thinking about buying one but not anymore! Very short sighted of Dell. Save a few $ per laptop....and destroy the reputation of the entire range.

Gehad_JoyRider

Left me thinking last night I may get my self a, kraken g10 ive an h50 corsair water cooler so I may put that on my rx480 its €30.00 and I have the parts.

Scratch that doesn't seem to be an option the fitment is a bit back words

Gbear

I noticed there that there was no audio coming out of two of my 5.1 speakers.
I had a look around and I'd changed it back to stereo.

It took me a while to figure out why (must've had this problem before and gave up).

Looking at my motherboard (ASRock z77 extreme 4), it has outputs for front, bass and rear audio, but 5.1 uses side audio.
Does that mean my mobo can only do surround through a digital cable and the jacks are just for quadrophonic?

Is there any way to trick the rear output into thinking it's a side output?

If I change it to 7.1 and test it, the rear speakers (the ones that weren't working) sound off, but the side speakers are duplicated on the front.

Any idears?
It seems weird to me that something so lo-tech has no software workaround but I can't find anything online.

mossym

5.1 doesnt use side audio. in the original spec, the surround speakers were diagonally behind the listener, neither directly to the side or behind the listener. the speakers were quite commonly referred to as rears. in fact, even though it's been a while, i'm pretty sure the spec doc i had from dolby when doldby digital was the current standard referred to them as rears.

the jacks will work just fine for 5.1.

ED E

If you've speakers at 90 and 270* you've got things incorrectly setup.

Gbear

Motherboard's back panel:


The spec for them lists center/bass (orange), line in (blue), rear (black), front (green), mic (red).
There is no sides jack (so at any rate, I can't do 7.1, without the black optical cable).

When I go into my Realtek Audio manager thing, for 5.1 it lists the center, subwoofer and side speakers as options.

In the diagram if you click on a speaker it sends out a little tinkle.
The test works for all the speakers except for the side speakers, which are silent when I click them.

If I change the configuration to 7.1, clicking on the rear speakers produces the tinkle from the correct speakers. However, the side speakers are sent out of the front.

It looks like this for me:


The "rear" speakers are greyed out.
However, looking for this image on google I also found this:


Note that their "sides" are greyed out and they can use rear.

So there must be some way to get it to change.

Solitaire

That's weird... its the side speakers that should be greyed out, they were only added in the 7.1 specification Try moving some of the cables around, the sound block may be wired up differently for your mobo and may have black supplying sides and the grey jack providing the rear.

The google image is useless as it references a completely different mobo from a different manufacturer and probably from a different hardware generation You sure you have the latest sound drivers for your specific mobo?

game4it70

Normally if you unplug a jack and plug it back in it brings up a box with an option to select what speakers its assigned to.

Gbear

I unplugged everything several times last night but I just did it there again and now it works for some reason.

I didn't even get the option to reassign it. I just clicked on the popup that said "you've plugged in a jack" or something and it didn't seem to do anything.

Oh well.

Thanks.

frozenfrozen

Amazon prime in ireland, possibly the worst 70 pounds you could spend?

Cost of delivery for non-prime: free

On my current prime trial: £6.45 "Delivery at no extra cost for Prime members once available"


what the fooooooooooooooook?

Inviere

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Amazon prime in ireland, possibly the worst 70 pounds you could spend?

Cost of delivery for non-prime: free

On my current prime trial: £6.45 "Delivery at no extra cost for Prime members once available"


what the fooooooooooooooook?

Yeah, my trial ends in about two weeks...suffice it to say, I shall not be renewing it. Seems absolutely pointless in the RoI.

Just going back to the 850 Evo's, neither Amazon.co.uk, .de, .fr, .es, or .it would deliver them to Ireland (some 3rd party sellers did but I prefer buying direct). Following the advice here, I punched in my Parcel Wizard address...exact same result on ALL sites - "This Item Can't Be Delivered to the UK - Northern Ireland". Fook me, hardest damned thing I've ever tried to buy on Amazon. Pulled the trigger on the Komplett listed 500GB one in the end, seemed the best value* @ €185 plus delivery.

*ssd's have gone up dramatically in price over the last few months!

frozenfrozen

An posts parcel forwarding thing has an address outside london if you ever need an item like that again.

I would like to be able to cancel my trial and actually have it end right now so I can go ahead and order

Inviere

frozenfrozen wrote: »

An posts parcel forwarding thing has an address outside london if you ever need an item like that again.

Good to know, cheers

I would like to be able to cancel my trial and actually have it end right now so I can go ahead and order

Can you not end the trial whenever?

Squaredude

Inviere wrote: »

Yeah, my trial ends in about two weeks...suffice it to say, I shall not be renewing it. Seems absolutely pointless in the RoI.

Just going back to the 850 Evo's, neither Amazon.co.uk, .de, .fr, .es, or .it would deliver them to Ireland (some 3rd party sellers did but I prefer buying direct). Following the advice here, I punched in my Parcel Wizard address...exact same result on ALL sites - "This Item Can't Be Delivered to the UK - Northern Ireland". Fook me, hardest damned thing I've ever tried to buy on Amazon. Pulled the trigger on the Komplett listed 500GB one in the end, seemed the best value* @ €185 plus delivery.

*ssd's have gone up dramatically in price over the last few months!

Try using an posts service https://addresspal.anpost.ie/
They use a mainland UK delivery address

frozenfrozen

Inviere wrote: »

Can you not end the trial whenever?

No idea, too late now anyway ordered from a seller on ebay instead at a very slightly higher price :cool:

ED E

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Amazon prime in ireland, possibly the worst 70 pounds you could spend?

Cost of delivery for non-prime: free

On my current prime trial: £6.45 "Delivery at no extra cost for Prime members once available"


what the fooooooooooooooook?

There's a glitch there. Been getting supersaver delivery on prime for months no bother. Sounds like Amazon themselves might have been out of stock but Marketplace lads had it.


Using Prime for a while now, got it for %50 off, worth it in my eyes. Every order is sent ExpressPost and reliably arrives on the day after dispatch between 9.45 and 10.15AM. Like clockwork. Supersaver delivery. Dispatch can be a few days depending on where stock is.


With AP being the way they are at the moment regarding mail from China I'd be much quicker to recommend Parcel Wizard than Address Pal.

Serephucus

I can't seem to create an account with PW.

I get to the phone verification phase, and I get the text, but the site throws an error, and email activation throws me back to the homepage, rather than a verification success page. Account remains inactive no matter what I do.

Gehad_JoyRider

Does any one know where I can get a spec size of the rx 480s GPUs processor size im going to try fit a kraken ,g10 but I may need a shim so I want to get one made up I have access to copper plates I just need to.get the size.

Xenoronin

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Does any one know where I can get a spec size of the rx 480s GPUs processor size im going to try fit a kraken ,g10 but I may need a shim so I want to get one made up I have access to copper plates I just need to.get the size.

No citation but here are some figures: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4tntvx/nvidias_die_size_advantage_rx_480_vs_gtx_1060/?st=j1266ul6&sh=e0a3eaf4

Inviere

ED E wrote: »

Using Prime for a while now, got it for %50 off, worth it in my eyes. Every order is sent ExpressPost and reliably arrives on the day after dispatch between 9.45 and 10.15AM. Like clockwork.

I'm finding with my Prime trial, that items are taking FOREVER in the pre-dispatch phases, and once dispatched, arrive the next day. Can't see any real difference to compared to Super Saver personally, though it is only a trial so maybe that's why

ED E

Inviere wrote: »

I'm finding with my Prime trial, that items are taking FOREVER in the pre-dispatch phases, and once dispatched, arrive the next day. Can't see any real difference to compared to Super Saver personally, though it is only a trial so maybe that's why

That delay is a necessary evil.

To send it express it comes from D17, so Amazon ship it from Bristol/Fife/wherever to Dublin, then its sent out. That dispatch time is really UK-IE transport.