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Messages - philo-sofa
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« on: May 29, 2014, 07:42:22 am »
Thank you for making me put my mouse to my ear and for my having heard it squeal.
TBH my G500 is completely inaudible when not being used as an impromptu earmuff, but it is shameful that some are apparently noticable. Otherwise I'd say it's a pretty primo piece of kit (unlike my POS G19).
Yeah but is it 500 or 500 ESSSSSSSqueealy?
Aaaaaaaaand the pluralisation cage-fight has a surprise entry... yeah sorry pyro I though you meant to avoid 'gee five hundreds' 
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« on: May 10, 2014, 06:09:29 am »
Thank you for making me put my mouse to my ear and for my having heard it squeal.
TBH my G500 is completely inaudible when not being used as an impromptu earmuff, but it is shameful that some are apparently noticable. Otherwise I'd say it's a pretty primo piece of kit (unlike my POS G19).
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« on: March 11, 2014, 11:58:31 am »
Tiwa!
You know I love you, but Tarot?? Not Taro, which I understand grows rationally in many peoples' lives, but Tarot? O.o
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« on: March 11, 2014, 11:57:12 am »
The UK, duh 
Be pacific!
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« on: March 11, 2014, 11:01:32 am »
Posting in thread that Red and Philo have also posted in.
Gidday chaps, how've ya been?
Jolly Good myself. Been living in the UK for a while now, stuff going well for the most part.
I get real mad when people say 'the UK' when they really just mean London.
London is specific and identifiable enough to not need a broader qualification term.
It'd be like saying you live in the Southern Hemisphere when you really just live in Sydney.
Which, coincidentally seems to be where every dipshit Aussie comes from over here.
ps. I'll forgive you if you do live in London, just admit that it's London and I might come have a beer... when next I'm down from the UK.
pps. Now just if that Bell character would turn up for a chat...
I lived the first seven years O'my life in London, then the next seven in Kent. The upshot is I consider myself New Zulundish, then British. And occasionally I go 'oop north' or 'down to Brighton'. Where are you camping nowadays pyro? 
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« on: March 03, 2014, 10:10:52 am »
and Wholly Shitballs Philo is back
You have some updates to do on your recommended builds Mister!
Aww it's damn nice to be noticed  As far as recommended builds I would have work to do; has fallen by the waysaide a bit, but that logical increments site is fairly onto it. Is there still an appetite, regardless, for a system building guide round here? So instead of gaining any form of help I built one
Ooops... sorry man, I thought that was sorta handled. What did you end up getting? Posting in thread that Red and Philo have also posted in.
Gidday chaps, how've ya been?
Jolly Good myself. Been living in the UK for a while now, stuff going well for the most part. What's up with that? I'm not good enough to mod this crazy busy sub anymore?
Well fuck yous then.
To be fair I know I was a little 'distant' lol. Were you still posting?
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« on: February 28, 2014, 11:06:53 am »
lulz Thanks for noticing I'm back and preaching Am working for a big bank in the UK and it's looooooooooooong hours and I've had some stuff to work out too. Sorry about disappearing off the face of the earth though; it's good to see you're all still around. Sooo... I hear we all now serve under lord Xenolightning? I for one welcome our new electronic master; couldn't be in better hands.
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« on: February 27, 2014, 08:57:13 am »
Son of a whore. Finally technology takes a stride towards making tech geeks a redundant frivolity. I reckon a human could juice another 5% out of it but the other 95% is there... apart from recommending AMD processors, that's a huge flaw which should be ignored.
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« on: February 08, 2014, 10:47:37 am »
Love the 4X, shall download.
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« on: January 31, 2014, 10:54:56 am »
And yes sorry: it's Ethernet over power .
nah nah, wasn't having a crack at you. It is officially called "Power over Ethernet" which is what you said. But I'm saying that in general I think it should be called Ethernet over Power.... seems like it is backwards.
I think you boys are getting very confused.
Are you talking about
A: Ethernet connectivity via the 240v sockets on the wall? Generally know as HomePlug, HD-PLC or more generically "Power-Line Communications"
B: Power for devices (such as VOIP phones, IP cameras, etc) being provided over standard Cat5/6 type cabling, which is "Power over Ethernet"
We're not confused, we're confus ing. We are talking aboot Ethernet via 240v (or indeed 110v you're a 'merkin) sockets though. I didn't actually know power over Ethernet existed, having said that so always good to learn something new.
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« on: January 31, 2014, 08:53:17 am »
^^ I know man; wasn't taking it personally: I was in fact ass backwards, exactly as you said. But the big news is something fucking worked; it feels like an different game. I still get the occasional 'big stutter' every few minutes, but all of a sudden I run round corners and surprise people and can actually take them out without suddenly staring at my own death. After doing the DX install thing, I jumped on and played a half round I played and this was the result:  Which as the game is kind of saying hasn't been normal for me in BF4: I have a pathetic ~1.3 KDR. I actually wonder if I was like 3-4 frames behind, as well as the stutter... Fucking A either way: thanks so much 3viction!!!  I thought I was getting too old; as it turn out that's true but everyone else is still crap, so overall it's okay. Seriously that one file install did me more good than a hundred reinstalls PB. Bring back rep so I can rep spam this man! ~Giddily Happy, London. EDIT: ok, found rep button. My life is complete.
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« on: January 31, 2014, 07:57:28 am »
What servers are you playing on? Never heard of this before but I googled and found this, does this fix it?
How to fix Battlefield 4 - Stuttering and Frame Drops Fixed!
UK servers lol Thanks for the vid; shall take a look now. I have constant stutter of the 0.5-2 second (i.e. have clawed one eye out due to frustration already) variety and I'm starting to wonder about my connection (Fibre, but via a power plug ethernet). Is this a common thing?
Sorry if this is a well known thing: I haven't really trawled forums for whether it's a universal thing or not...
i dont' have fibre, but I have power over ethernet. Shouldn't it be Ethernet over power? Anyone, last night was a real shitter of a night if that is what you were referring to. Otherwise I am all good.
What GPU are you running? SLI and Crossfire has had some stutter issues.
GTX 670; I know it's an AMD branded game but I assume my stuttering must be something other than an Nvidia thing else even I (under a gaming rock) would have heard. And yes sorry: it's Ethernet over power . I've taken to drinking to smooth out my game experience. Have you tried updating punkbuster?
go to www.evenbalance.com and download the updater
this worked for me
Pffft. First thing I did yo.
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« on: January 30, 2014, 11:30:01 am »
I have constant stutter of the 0.5-2 second (i.e. have clawed one eye out due to frustration already) variety and I'm starting to wonder about my connection (Fibre, but via a power plug ethernet). Is this a common thing?
Sorry if this is a well known thing: I haven't really trawled forums for whether it's a universal thing or not...
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« on: December 09, 2012, 03:33:55 pm »
9/12/Year of Our Lord 2012: Have updated budget, budget gaming and gaming, rest to follow. Happy Jesus day for the 25th everyone.
A few updates - Keyboards in the United Kingdom have the @ and " keys transposed which is just weird. Also given the six month gap, you see a lot of other hardware changes. AMD and Nvidia change places repeatedly; inspite of the general win of Nvidia's Kepler architecture over AMD's GCN, a round of harsh price-cuts at the Red camp see it win in value, for everything barring the GTX 660 level (where it draws even but thus loses due to some still-inferior drivers). On the CPU front we see Intel's 'Ivy-Bridge' 3570K win for every single non-extreme gaming rig, but amazingly for the first time since... we started this thread, there's serious competition from a truly modern AMD processor - with the AMD 'Trinity' A6-5600K proving AMD aren't out (yet). The Piledriver CPU cores aren't quite able to provide a true enthusiast CPU (again stay with Intel for now for true gaming builds) but the impressive packaged graphics in the 5600K means that for the first time our budget build is truly becoming capable of basic gaming.
In other news SSDs are becoming so cheap, they're nearing the point where they'll be in every build, some... new speakers, keyboards and monitors are out and computers are getting stupidly cheap now.
Will update the rest as soon as possible.
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« on: November 20, 2012, 02:47:48 pm »
Ahh, damnnit, 5 reps Ok I'll slap something together folks! (this weekend perhaps) Is the 600 series worth it? Generally speaking it gives slightly better value/performance/efficiency than AMDs lineup does, yes.
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« on: November 14, 2012, 12:48:56 pm »
Oh for God's sake has no one taken this over already... Fine, I'll update the thread when I get, say five rep's. I'm not specifying positive or negative but everyone here has always been so nice I feel I don't need to. CAUZ IM N00B AND DONT KNOW COMPUTERS AND LIEK AM ALSO SPENDING 2 GRAND IN A WEEK OR TWO ON ONE
Which set up is better?
Was planning to spend the 300$ left over from 2nd option on a dell ultra sharp 23"
Edit : ahahaha, just read what I wrote in that old post. Lol'd Take the second build by your mate, swap the frankly stupid CPU for this (the one OLWAG suggested): http://www.playtech.co.nz/afawcs0139235/CATID=/ID=17393/SID=712334944/productdetails.htmland the motherboard for this (OLWAG's suggestion there is... a bit overpriced): http://www.playtech.co.nz/afawcs0139235/CATID=/ID=17477/SID=916819817/productdetails.htmland that looks good to go for ~$NZ 1600 (sans monitor). Upgrades to ~NZ 2k : grab a GTX 670 (+$120) and a 240GB Intel 330 Series (+$200 ish).
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« on: September 05, 2012, 04:50:37 am »
I heard Philo died. Will he be updating this thread? We need a new Philo. Who will step up to take his place? Sounds like he is travelling or on the move. TO THE GHOSTMOBILE!  Oh yeah, sorry moved to the UK (via Aussie and Jewbai). Shit got a little hectic prior to departure so didn't have time to update all this... got a week before I start work so will update it before then. p.s. aww you guys missed me (i.e. me writing random crap about computers)! xox
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« on: July 08, 2012, 03:18:02 pm »
Yeah k, will update this by midweek?
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« on: May 27, 2012, 01:19:15 pm »
Sweet as, I don't know much about computers. I'm trying to learn what a good idea is and all but I really don't SEE anything (as in, no visual evidence. Just graphs and peoples words)
I've said this many times, and I'm just wanting you all to know my childish reasoning. All good man. Tho as above there are a couple of Q's you could hypothetically google
Water cooling, Was because i've heard "You can over clock the FUCK out of things". Refers to the whole "blowing games out of the water" thing.
Buy a decent all on one w/c and yeah you should be able to O/C a 3570.
Power supply, I just didn't know what to get so I thought i'll just get one that would def cover it . hahaha.
It's almost universal to buy overpowered power supplies amongst enthusiasts TBH. A good 650w should cover any 'single card' system'
and one question, the 3770k, is that still ivy bridge?... <- Feel like a dick saying that because it shows how much I don't know about pc's. I hear a good name and that's all I care about, Lol
You mena the 3570K? Yes it surely is. Also bear in mind 'K' processors are the only Intel ones that can overclock.
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« on: May 26, 2012, 05:44:20 pm »
Will update this thread soon!
`Kayne - IMO:
- Drop the 3770K for a 3570K (still not much point having an i7 for gaming)
- Swap the power supply for an FSP Group Aurum 650-750w (don't need more than that and they're very good value)
- Upgrade the GPU to either an HD 7970 (if you're ok with just overclocking it within the drivers) or a GTX 670 (if you refuse to O/C at all) with the savings from the two above
- As OLWAG says, unless you're a true Audiophile you probably don't need a sound card either TBH.
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« on: February 07, 2012, 10:43:14 pm »
Catalyst 12.1 (which ironically don't support the 7000 series??) is a dramatic improvement, almost up to Nvidia level in terms of functionality TBH.
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« on: February 07, 2012, 10:00:18 pm »
Yep. Upgrading AM3 board users may, from time to time find an occasional small batch of imported of X4 960T CPU's (they're made from slightly factory-broken X6's) along with a steady supply of Phenom X6 1090T's. For new budget builds I do highly recommend the Llano A8-3870K CPU (actually generally faster than the FX series too lawl) but for any build with a discrete GPU... Intel is now the only sane choice sadly.
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« on: February 07, 2012, 09:39:58 pm »
Updated 07/02/2012 (except for HTPC builds to come soon).
AMD's awesome 'CPU-with-a-decent-onboard-GPU' chips continue to impress, with the newly released, fully overclocking-unlocked 3870K proving an almost free upgrade. Unfortunately AMD's utterly crap FX series processors count them out of everything above the entry level. Primarily because they're sp slow (don't believe any fanboy ranting, or polite reviews - they're utterly shit) but also because AMD seem to live in a fantasy land and have takinen the interesting step of essentially stopping production of the faster Phenom II X4 (yes Phenom II was faster and it's the FX series' predecessor!) and pricing the FX's as if they were actually half-decent: AMD I am disappoint, put down the bong and design some good chups again FFS. Other than that the odd cpu tweak (and price increase due to zero competition) has occurred, with the only significant change being the 'never gonna buy it' $10K rig's new LGA-2011 3960X Sandy Bridge-E processor.
Hard drive prices have of course shot up (tho TBH I don't believe they're doing much more than gouging now) and I've tried to find the best value drives there are. We also see some Z68 'G3' boards with true PCI-E 3.0 compatibility around, which have been swapped in, in place of older LGA-1155 boards in the mid to high range. SSD prices are down and in the high end the AMD HD7970 and HD 7950 makes an appearance, pleasing OLWAG immensely (they're included in anticipation of some severe price drops). We're still waiting on Nvidia's new GPUs to drive down prices and likely drive up performance which will be very interesting, along with the new Intel Ivy-Bridge processors - both are due in April.
This is the first time where I can say it's actually a worse time to buy a computer than it was previously; prices are up and performance has plateaued (and this is compared with 4-5 months ago). Caused can largely be tracked down to Thailand being flooded and AMD being a failboat. Our best wishes are with Thailand our utter scorn is to be heaped upon AMD (except for the excellent Llano A8, A6 & A4 series!).
Happy Building!
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« on: February 06, 2012, 06:54:34 pm »
I'd wait for Ivy-bridge and the 7 seris of GPUs and in the mean while grab the RAM, PSU, Case, HDD and anything else not getting an upgrade for the next few years TBH given the compatibility between existing boards and Ivy, as well as how cheap a 2500K is, it's not like he can't upgrade now if he needs.
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