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Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 3:46 PM
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£200 was a ball park figure, will see if she will wear £300.
Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 3:48 PM
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Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 4:24 PM
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I will just have to pretend it was really £200 😉
Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 5:19 PM
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but as for gaming i must say Intel are better now
http://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/value/budget-gaming/form-factors a selection of MB bundles here
samsung 850evo 250gig , WD black 2 TB . Asus Phoebus sound ,
16 gig Avexir ram 2400 , water cooling Corsair H100i gtx ,
Corsair 750HXI Psu , Phanteks Enthoo pro case .
Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 5:26 PM
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Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 5:37 PM
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Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 5:41 PM
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CCL & Novatech are worth a look.
At the moment it seems you get between 4 & 8 gig ram on the bundles at the lower end of the price range.
Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 5:46 PM
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if its suitable for your needs of course
Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 5:51 PM
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Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 6:05 PM
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Had a look at Scan's offerings, their definition of affordable doesn't meet mine, maybe I should be looking at budget rather than affordable 😉
Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 6:14 PM
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also I often check via google shopping for the parts then trawl places like aria /kikatek /micromart etc seperatly sicne they often list stuff on daily/weekly offers that arnt including in the google spider
Re: New m/b time help needed
13-02-2015 9:46 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: New m/b time help needed
23-02-2015 6:52 PM
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Got 8Gb of ram for it.
BUT the graphics are carp! Nothing on stream plays. Civ V doesn't display the characters, just the background. etc.
So now have ordered a new video card for it, as my old GT610 I wanted to keep in the Dell, and use as my new server.
So costs spiralling out of control ;-(
Originally looking at a £200 budget, already over £300!
Speed appears to be about 2x on "normal" tasks, not tried any video conversions yet.
Getting the 2 monitors to work needed the hdmi-vga adapter (neat little unit I got for my pi to connect to a monitor), but the one connected to the (real) vga port has refresh issues (I can see the screen flashing even though it is @60Hz and not changeable. AMD driver will not install so stuck with the open source one.)
Hopefully the new card will give me back a working gaming pc.
Got this one
Re: New m/b time help needed
23-02-2015 7:10 PM
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if I was going to run a multi monitor setup now though I would definitely bite the bullet and go for a proper eyefinity setup (or a display port one if running NVidia), now though I just use duel hdmi for remoting to the TV periodically and stick with one decent desktop monitor (I don't play flight sims though)
failing that you could go for a x-fire or sli setup but you would likely still need to upgrade that old VGA screen to dvi or hdmi /
Re: New m/b time help needed
23-02-2015 7:14 PM
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The one with the shimmer is showing as 60Hz on the info panel. (as is the one connected to the hdmi->vga)
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