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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:56 
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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?


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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?


Me, it turns out:

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


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Excellent dredging.

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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No, sadly :'(

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
PostPosted: 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.


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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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Mine indeed has no such thing, and happily just updated itself overnight.

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 7:00 
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Mine indeed has no such thing, and happily just updated itself overnight.

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
PostPosted: 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.

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 13:37 
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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.


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 :)

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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Pleased to hear your housing is sorted JC!

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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Back on my bullshit: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Penllawen/saved/NTTd6h


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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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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.


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That's a lot of porn but, it's got to go somewhere! Good work.


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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 15:36 
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Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?

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You know what that build needs? More hard disks!


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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?


Nerding

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Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?

Nerding

Don't you mean Redknapp?

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 Post subject: Re: PC gaming hardware thread.
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Didn't they get divorced?

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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 ;)

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Yeah... what do you need all that storage for?


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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.


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PostPosted: 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 :)


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I set mine up today and what do you know? It works exactly as it should! Amazing. I like it.


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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.


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On the upside, I also "borrowed" the mechanical disk ;)


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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.)


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Of course there's an excuse. I'm very, very tight.


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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.

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Never thought I'd see John Coffey go full console, but here we are!

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Never thought I'd see John Coffey go full console, but here we are!


Culmination of things. I always knew this stuff was stupid prices but I always managed to find an excuse. I got my last GPU just in time (before the rush, I could have doubled up tbh) and then had lots of pleasure playing games driven to 4k with max detail. Then you get used to it and go looking for the latest game tech to make your card struggle.. Nothing. Which I guess takes a lot of the fun out of it. Then AMD & Nvidia saying "We love PC gamers really mmmm yummy money up yours PC gamers !" as well as all of the other things (memory price fixing and all of that crap). Yeah, totally felt like an abused step kid. Then you load up a game on a console and run it at 4k and from 20ft away there is no major difference. Shit, I even stop from time to time when playing Quantum Break to admire how beautiful it is. I hadn't done that in a long time.

I could probably load it up on my PC, stare at it really hard and spot some detail differences but I just can't be arsed any more. As long as it looks good, doesn't give me a headache and doesn't crawl to a stop then it's perfectly fine.

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Quantum Break is such an odd game to wax lyrical about how pretty it is. Look how great these shipping containers are! Look at these offices! And these shipping containers. And this office corridor. Shipping container. Another office. Office.

I’d suggest Gears 4 for 4K goodness but that’s equally boring to play through.


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I really wanted to like Quantum Break but it just didn't click with me. I enjoyed the live action stuff but that's not the point of playing a game is it?


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Quantum Break is such an odd game to wax lyrical about how pretty it is. Look how great these shipping containers are! Look at these offices! And these shipping containers. And this office corridor. Shipping container. Another office. Office.

I’d suggest Gears 4 for 4K goodness but that’s equally boring to play through.



Yeah man got Gears too :) it's great in co op.

What I meant with QB is like, very high res textures. Like the floor for example. You can stand there and it looks perfect. No AA needed (not sure if it AAs somehow?) but yeah just how sharp it is with no fuzzy edges.

I guess the game could be boring, but I am so monged out on tablets ATM that I am enjoying the slow pace. The action scenes are fun, I like the puzzles too :) It kinda reminds me of Max Payne a bit.

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Of course there's an excuse. I'm very, very tight.


Can't you just "ask" work to get another one for you to "borrow"?

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£58 for a 250GB SSD.

No excuse!

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So it's less than zero then? Pass.


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So it's less than zero then? Pass.

More than zero.

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So it's less than zero then? Pass.

More than zero.

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OK then, £25.

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