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About Phinbar
- Birthday Nov 16, 1995
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Gender
Male
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Location
Aberdeen, Scotland
System
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CPU
i5 3570k 4.40Ghz
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Motherboard
Asrock Z77 Extreme4
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RAM
Corsair Vengeance (1x8) 8GB 1600Mhz
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GPU
Palit GTX 770 OC Jetstream
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Case
Corsair Carbide Air 540
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Storage
Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200rpm
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PSU
Corsair RM750
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Display(s)
AOC 2367Ph (23" 1080p IPS 3D)
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Cooling
Corsair H80i, AF140, 3xAF140L
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Keyboard
Corsair Vengeance K70 Gunmetal
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Mouse
Logitech Performance MX
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Sound
Sennheiser HD 600
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I am looking for a HTPC case to fit my current hardware in. I wouldn't be using it as an HTPC however, I just like the aesthetics . I currently have an ATX motherboard, 10.5" graphics card, 180mm ATX psu and a Corsair H80i. That is a tall order for a HTPC case to handle, I know. I've been looking around and there are multiple contenders from Silverstone and Lian-li, as well as the Node 605 from fractal design. And every time the only problem is, obviously, the 120mm liquid cooler. HTPCs simply aren't designed to be liquid cooled. However, it looks like the Node 605 may be able to hold one where the pre-installed fan is if I use an ITX motherboard judging from this video: Can any Node 605 owners out there confirm this? If not, can anybody recommend another HTPC style case that can hold my hardware (I could get a smaller motherboard if needed)?
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good guess with the 770 thats my thoughts, this '10x the performance' is actually per watt and i dont really care about that to be truthfully honest! Nvidia's next lineup of graphics cards, supposedly very efficient
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Title says it all, the gtx 980 ti is really tempting but do you think it would be wise to wait for the next generation of cards to come out. I would normally say that if you keep waiting for the next thing, you'll never get anything but the rumours say Pascal is going to be really big so what do you guys think?
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I'm on win10 now and had to reset the OS to solve graphics driver problems and the drive seems to be performing normally now
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it passed both tests so I'll make a back up and see what happens
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thanks a lot
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ok thanks for the advice, i've actually got a second hdd in the computer already so i'll move everything over and see what happens
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I ran the error check thing in hard drive properties and chkdsk in command prompt and it definitely feels faster booting but the drive's still at 100%... When I said earlier I've had the computer for years, well I thought about it and its only been 20 months. Pretty unlikely its dying, no? If I were to chuck this drive and finally buy and ssd, do you think the problems would just carry over (you can tell I got no clue)?
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So I have had this computer for years and theres been no problem. I use it for multiple hours every day however I have just got back from a week's holiday and booted her up for the first time and the boot drive is locked at 100% usage most of the time? If I close all programs and leave it for a few minutes, the hard drive usage will jump from normal usage (<10%) back up to 100% constantly as shown: This is making the computer take ages to boot - up to 10 minutes - and makes games unplayable. The computer has been off the entire time so nothing has been newly installed or anything like that. Any ideas or solutions?
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I am looking to get some stereo speakers for my kitchen/dining room so I can listen to music when people come over and by myself. I want to be able to easily play music from my phone so bluetooth would be nice (since all the google cast speakers apparently don't sound great and sonos isn't really worth it for one room), but I would easily buy a chromecast and one of those hdmi to vga/aux adapters to make wired speakers wireless. I've heard good things about the Q Acoustics Concept 20 so does that sound good or am I making a big mistake because, honestly, I wouldn't know :rolleyes:
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I currently have a pair of hd600s and a schiit asgard 2 headphone amplifier for listening to ripped cos. I am looking into upgrading my source to vinyl and was looking specifically at the audio technica lp120 turntable. My question is, since I don't know much about vinyl, would I need anything in between the turntable and the amplifier? This turntable has a USB output but the internal phono preamp can be disabled to use the phone output instead. Which output would sound better and would I need any intermediary components?
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That's the first time I've seen the 'advanced search techniques' be useful, thanks! Ah ok so theres no benchmarks yet
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I'm curious about Nvidia's naming scheme for their next line-up since it would be easy to mix up gtx1080 with 1080p like "Hey man are the new Nvidia cards any good at high resolutions?" "Yeah, it would be a sin to run the 1080 at 1080"
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With the announcement of AMD's new line-up of cards, people are pretty excited for the Fury X. So much that whenever I search 'r9 fury' into google every result is about the r9 fury x. I'm personally more interested in the fury (non-x) since it is just about the same card minus the overclocking potential at a lower price. Are the benchmarks not out yet for the air-cooled version or are they just hidden under the endless stream of fury x articles?