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Author:  Four_Candles [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 15:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: PC gaming hardware thread.

Thanks very much, appreciate all of the advice and I'll mod the specs accordingly. :)

BTW, on that site is there a way to save your PC build? A while ago I changed a few things and added everything to the cart but now the cart is empty and the spec has reverted back to what it was, therefore I'll have to start again.

Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Sun Jan 28, 2018 23:43 ]
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Four_Candles wrote:
BTW, on that site is there a way to save your PC build? A while ago I changed a few things and added everything to the cart but now the cart is empty and the spec has reverted back to what it was, therefore I'll have to start again.


Record your screen and then upload the video to youtube

Author:  Bamba [ Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:11 ]
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Sir Taxalot wrote:
Four_Candles wrote:
BTW, on that site is there a way to save your PC build? A while ago I changed a few things and added everything to the cart but now the cart is empty and the spec has reverted back to what it was, therefore I'll have to start again.


Record your screen and then write a 2000 word blog post describing the video.


Feex.

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:47 ]
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https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainbo ... re_fixes/1

A patch for the patch. Still, after the week I had last week I will take it. It's better than Intel telling me not to use the patch at all.

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Tue Feb 06, 2018 15:21 ]
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After a lot of trial and tribulation I got Dianoga finished yesterday.

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It was an absolute bugger tbh. The new water block I bought has a specific inlet and outlet. And of course, as is the norm it was the wrong way around. I flipped it upside down but it looked odd because then the writing on it was upside down so I had to take it apart, flip the top cover and polish it. Then of course the socket was miles from where it used to be and I only had one option of running the tubes because the block's G 1/4s were so bloody close together. So I had this idea of running straight rotaries in series from the 90 deg to the block. Only the rotaries did this.

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It was pretty soul destroying having to drain the loop three times just to find that they were all rubbish. As soon as you put any lateral pressure on them at all they just peed like a bloody racehorse :( Eventually I ran the series the other way around so that the lateral pressure was on the straight pass through and bingo ! no leaks in 30 hours.

Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Mar 29, 2018 19:12 ]
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Great follow-up video from AdoredTV, locking in that Intel were sending out cherry-picked CPUs for Coffee Lake reviews. (The Coffee Lake Con Job.)

Also covers how motherboard manufacturers have been quietly turning off MCE (multi-core enhancement) on their mobos as it auto-boosted the chips to 5.0GHz, and a lot of retail chips can't hit that (whereas all the review samples hit that and more).


Author:  JohnCoffey [ Fri Mar 30, 2018 14:00 ]
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TBH I think he is making a bit of a storm in a teacup out of this. He needs to accept that life is crap and people do things like this. I am still, to this day, ever to buy a burger at a fast food place and get what it looks like in the pic. Instead I get something some poor kid has lobbed together whilst running around on an oily floor. Everything is sampled up like that..

Any way, on the subject of PCs I transported Dianoga to my mother's house today (Dianoga is the bogey rig). If any one was ever wondering what that means (I bet you weren't) then it's the alien thing that lives in the trash compactor in Star Wars. "There's something alive in here !".

I made one stupid mistake, though. Mum's friend picks me up in his very trendy hybrid people transporter (some Japanese only thing, Toyota IIRC) and I lug it all in there and bring it all over. Get it upstairs and realise I have made THE number one noob mistake. When I switched out the GTX 950 to Fury X I tested it on my day to day monitor (32" HP thing) blissfully unaware that the monitor was DVI and the Fury X had no DVI. Even more annoyingly I have a genuine (and very expensive) Apple DVI - DP adapter (active), and left it at home :(

This sucks, because I am here for five days now and Ryan (my pal in USA) and I still game every weekend. Been playing Wildlands, what a game for co op that is !

So I've had to order a cheapy one hoping it actually works. Otherwise my only choice is £30 in a taxi to go back and get it, and being Good Friday they'd probably spit roast me :(

Bloody computers, lol.

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Piccy. That is with the Fury X and a modified EVGA Powerlink (that connects to your GPU power sockets and takes them around the back). Looks awesome.

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Tue Apr 10, 2018 13:11 ]
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headset-Beexce ... eexcellent

Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Tue Apr 10, 2018 23:55 ]
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:DD LEDs and something to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. It's a BEEX injoke special. Quick - someone feature this on our website, it'd surely attract more visitors and help new folk settle in.

Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:53 ]
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Covered in Bits & Bobs already.

I made an excellent joke about it, obv.

Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:56 ]
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Can I put entire threads on a sort of 'ignore'?

Author:  krazywookie [ Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:16 ]
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Indeed I think this is the third iteration. Not going to try and prove it though, who could be arsed doing that?

Author:  Bamba [ Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:32 ]
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krazywookie wrote:
Indeed I think this is the third iteration. Not going to try and prove it though, who could be arsed doing that?


Me, it turns out:

https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... et#p986957
https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... et#p987673
https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... fe#p981279

Mostly because I was first and I want the credit dammit!

Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:43 ]
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Excellent dredging.

Author:  Kern [ Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:44 ]
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Is it any good?

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Wed Apr 11, 2018 12:18 ]
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Kern wrote:
Is it any good?


No, sadly :'(

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Tue May 22, 2018 16:55 ]
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OK so I guess you guys have all seen the latest Windows update (the big one) and have installed it. However, though quite rare, this can cause big issues. Now oddly enough it all went fine on my rig at my mother's, so when it chose to install on Sunday I deleted the rollback file as I figured all would be well. It wasn't. All of a sudden I had a 500mb hard drive, letter M: (yours will vary) and Windows was continually whining that it was full and flashing messages at me.

This is not the first time Windows has busted my PC with an update and I am sure it won't be the last but if this happens to you (and you sprout a new 500mb hard drive that won't go away) then this is the fix.

open cmd (type CMD in the "Type here to search" box)
type diskpart (this will open diskpart)
new window, type list volume (only type list volume)
find the volume in question which might be volume 0 (mine was Volume 10)
then type select volume 0 (or whatever volume its assigned)
and then type remove letter C (mine was M).

This will make the new hard drive go away and stop Windows whining. It is obviously some sort of boot area that Windows usually hides, but this update can make it pop up and start complaining about low disk space.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Tue May 22, 2018 17:28 ]
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The previous update was an absolute nightmare, I had to do a complete reinstall of all 3 of my Internet connected computers.

I'm somewhat dreading this one.

Author:  Trooper [ Tue May 22, 2018 17:53 ]
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If you have, or have ever had a non standard boot loader or grub, I guarantee it will fuck it up and render your machine unbootable.
All the complaints about this update are related to that.

Author:  Cras [ Wed May 23, 2018 1:18 ]
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Mine indeed has no such thing, and happily just updated itself overnight.

Author:  DavPaz [ Wed May 23, 2018 7:00 ]
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Cras wrote:
Mine indeed has no such thing, and happily just updated itself overnight.

Same x2

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Wed May 23, 2018 13:18 ]
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I now have a full PC/desk/monitor set up at my mother's so I can game properly with my pal. The update on that went fine, and because it was on a small hdd (64gb) I deleted the rollback file. However, I got home and my home rig needed the update too. I kinda trusted it, because it worked so well on my other rig. So of course as soon as it was done updating I ran a system cleanup and deleted the 30gb old install. So there was no going back, and I very nearly had to reinstall the entire OS *again*. I have had several of these updates basically turn around and say "Well your OS is too old, please reinstall".

I've known how to make hard drives appear for many years but not how to hide one lol.

Author:  TheVision [ Wed May 23, 2018 13:23 ]
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Hang on... I've just checked and I have a "windows old" folder on my C drive. Are you saying I can safely delete this? It's nearly 7gb.

Author:  Cras [ Wed May 23, 2018 13:29 ]
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Storage is cheap as fuck. Fixing a buggered windows install because you listened to some opinions on the internet can be somewhat expensive. In time, if nothing else.

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Wed May 23, 2018 13:37 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Hang on... I've just checked and I have a "windows old" folder on my C drive. Are you saying I can safely delete this? It's nearly 7gb.


Go to "Type here to search" and type "cleanup". It will open disk cleaner (or whatever it is called). Then simply click "Clean Up System files" and it'll find that for you and remove it :)

Because of the ridiculous prices of SSD atm I have had a couple of them die, and just put smaller ones in their place. So for example my 256gb vanished and died so I replaced with a 128. If you run cleanup every time you have a update or what not it keeps a tidy house :)

Author:  MaliA [ Wed May 23, 2018 14:11 ]
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Pleased to hear your housing is sorted JC!

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Wed May 23, 2018 19:49 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Pleased to hear your housing is sorted JC!


Sadly it isn't mate. That is just a bolt hole. I can not live there. I am spending two weeks there and two weeks home. That is all I can handle since my last OD (November). The housing situ has not changed. Making it more upsetting was coming home to this.

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Major leak. The ceiling has already collapsed in the boiler cupboard as I talked about before. I left a note for upstairs to come down urgently... Three days ago. I know they are in. I emailed my landlady and as usual no response at all. So by now I am pretty fucking angry, so I decided to just fuck it and go for a ride.

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If I let it consume me I will OD again. Fuck it, let the fucking ceiling fall down I really just don't give a shit any more. I've called in my duty worker, who is now aiming for the jugular and has contacted environmental services. He is preparing another "Two weeks to fix" letter (I did one last November which of course was ignored.. Then I ODed and because I spent time in the hospital and with my mother they closed the case) and he will chase up on it and start the legal proceedings etc.

The people in the top flat are still chasing her for the £2k she owes them. And guess what? she has ignored them too.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:00 ]
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Back on my bullshit: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Penllawen/saved/NTTd6h

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:03 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Server?

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:08 ]
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Yeah, well, almost entirely NAS. Might run some small server utilities in docker instances.

My existing NAS (3x 3TB in ZFS's equivalent of RAID-5) is consistently low on space. I started doing the numbers on upgrading it, and quickly realised that (a) its current disks are five years old and (b) the chassis is nine years old. That's old enough that I think it's worth considering replacing the entire thing on general principles. Things snowballed from there.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:10 ]
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A major constraint is that ZFS has no ability for online drive expansion, and wiping arrays storing 5+ TB of data to resize them is (obviously) a pain in the arse. So I'm speccing somewhat generously on storage.

I'll be running this in the ZFS version of RAID-6 -- two parity disks.

Author:  TheVision [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:24 ]
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That's a lot of porn but, it's got to go somewhere! Good work.

Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:36 ]
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Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?

Author:  Trooper [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:37 ]
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You know what that build needs? More hard disks!

Author:  Cras [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 16:05 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?


Nerding

Author:  GazChap [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 16:08 ]
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Cras wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?

Nerding

Don't you mean Redknapp?

Yes, I know that was Nurding ;)

Author:  Grim... [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 16:13 ]
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Didn't they get divorced?

Author:  Cras [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 16:13 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
A major constraint is that ZFS has no ability for online drive expansion, and wiping arrays storing 5+ TB of data to resize them is (obviously) a pain in the arse. So I'm speccing somewhat generously on storage.

I'll be running this in the ZFS version of RAID-6 -- two parity disks.


Now you've stopped using toy OSs at home you could switch to NTFS and have stuff that works ;)

Author:  Curiosity [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 16:56 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?


Factorio

Author:  TheVision [ Thu Jun 28, 2018 22:48 ]
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Don't know whether it should be in this thread but I don't see how it matters... Anyway, my steam controller came today.

I'm just about to plug it in but so far I'm thinking that it's a weird little thing. It's probably because I'm not used to it but it doesn't quite fit in my hands properly.

Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Jun 29, 2018 21:03 ]
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Got my steam link today. That's a lot of hardware for £2. Worth it for the lovely flat ethernet cable alone :)

Author:  TheVision [ Sat Jun 30, 2018 0:00 ]
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I set mine up today and what do you know? It works exactly as it should! Amazing. I like it.

Author:  DavPaz [ Sat Jun 30, 2018 21:33 ]
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The SSD that I "borrowed" from work to run my games machine has died. Now I have to use a mechanical disk like a fucking peasant.

Author:  DavPaz [ Sat Jun 30, 2018 21:53 ]
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On the upside, I also "borrowed" the mechanical disk ;)

Author:  Hearthly [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:18 ]
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SSDs are crazy cheap now, there's really no excuse not to have one as the primary OS/apps/game drive in any PC or laptop. (Or even a main 'games drive', really.)

Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 8:54 ]
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Of course there's an excuse. I'm very, very tight.

Author:  Trooper [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:17 ]
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Title

Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:57 ]
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Trooper wrote:
Title

Oh yeah.

Author:  JohnCoffey [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 11:40 ]
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Not bought sod all for my PC now in a year. Literally a whole year, without buying anything PC related.

The whole mining debacle was bad enough, but the contempt shown to gamers was just incredible. Then of course RAM prices have been off the scale, and SSD prices have been stupid too. I can't count how many times I thought "ooo, let me add something to my PC !" and then thought "haha, no chance am I paying that".

So it has remained exactly as it was, and since playing 4k on my 1X I doubt I will do anything to it any time soon. Bikes are cheaper, much more fun (and substantially more for your money) and have the added bonus of making you fit. Win.

Author:  myp [ Sun Jul 01, 2018 13:30 ]
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Never thought I'd see John Coffey go full console, but here we are!

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