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Hey there, this Christmas I'm getting a large amount of money from both of my parents (it happens every 3 Years) and I'm deciding to redo all my monitors which isn't the problem in this topic. What I want help with is what to spend £500 on. Basically I will have around £500 left and I don't want to leave it in my account, because I know I will spend it on like CS:GO or something, so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions of what to use it for.

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Weird glitch thing.....................................

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Build a quadcopter :P

I followed this: http://www.readytoflyquads.com/know-how-250-kit 

 

It's over multiple episodes but I managed it, only thing I changed was I used a CC3D flight controller, because it uses software called open pilot GCS which is basically a wizard for setting it up. 

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Flying drones is banned where I live, and I'm not a fan of travelling around to much 

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Upgrade to Skylake :D

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Upgrade to Skylake :D

I have been tempted to do this, but I don't know what I could do with my FX and mobo :/

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Upgrade to Haswell-E  :D

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Upgrade to Haswell-E  :D

 

Again, don't know what I could do with my FX after that.

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Upgrade to Haswell-E  :D

 

I only said Skylake because I'm not sure what Haswell-E prices are in the UK

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I have been considering water cooling my 290x using the NZXT Kraken thing

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Again, don't know what I could do with my FX after that.

You could perhaps sell it off to someone you know or re-purpose it in a machine for a family relative?

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You could perhaps sell it off to someone you know or re-purpose it in a machine for a family relative?

No-one would buy it, they all have like £200 PC's and don't care about high end ones (CONSOLE PEASANTS) and non of my family need new pc's as they're all new laptops and don't favor desktops due to limited space.

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SOMETIMES LOSING THE BATTLE, MEANS YOU CAN WIN THE WAR

 

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Also things to quiet down my pc I don't care about, as when I redo my setup at christmas my pc wont be in my room anyway 

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No-one would buy it, they all have like £200 PC's and don't care about high end ones (CONSOLE PEASANTS) and non of my family need new pc's as they're all new laptops and don't favor desktops due to limited space.

Darn first world problems. Haha. Anyways, I'm out of ideas to be honest, 

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Darn first world problems. Haha. Anyways, I'm out of ideas to be honest, 

Okay fair enoughs, thanks for the suggestions however :)

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Hey there, this Christmas I'm getting a large amount of money from both of my parents (it happens every 3 Years) and I'm deciding to redo all my monitors which isn't the problem in this topic. What I want help with is what to spend £500 on. Basically I will have around £500 left and I don't want to leave it in my account, because I know I will spend it on like CS:GO or something, so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions of what to use it for.

 

Buy a RC car :D

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Buy a RC car :D

 

Not a huge fan of them, I always crash and then I'm like, damn that's a lot of money wasted ;P 

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| CASE: Corsair Carbide 88R |STORAGE: 1x WD Black | KEYBOARD: Corsair K70 | MOUSE: R.A.T 9 |

SOMETIMES LOSING THE BATTLE, MEANS YOU CAN WIN THE WAR

 

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Hey there, this Christmas I'm getting a large amount of money from both of my parents (it happens every 3 Years) and I'm deciding to redo all my monitors which isn't the problem in this topic. What I want help with is what to spend £500 on. Basically I will have around £500 left and I don't want to leave it in my account, because I know I will spend it on like CS:GO or something, so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions of what to use it for.

Wait till the custom LinusTechTips fans from Noctua come out.

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Wait till the custom LinusTechTips fans from Noctua come out.

And what, nail them to my wall ;P? They wouldn't fit my build anyway as its Red/Black

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| CASE: Corsair Carbide 88R |STORAGE: 1x WD Black | KEYBOARD: Corsair K70 | MOUSE: R.A.T 9 |

SOMETIMES LOSING THE BATTLE, MEANS YOU CAN WIN THE WAR

 

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I'd upgrade that CPU & Mobo combo of yours before anything. 

I'm perfectly fine with my PC, I have no issues with it, just its loud, which I already mentioned I will be solving 

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| CASE: Corsair Carbide 88R |STORAGE: 1x WD Black | KEYBOARD: Corsair K70 | MOUSE: R.A.T 9 |

SOMETIMES LOSING THE BATTLE, MEANS YOU CAN WIN THE WAR

 

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I have been considering water cooling my 290x using the NZXT Kraken thing

Very good idea. I used it to cool the top 780ti in my rig as it was being suffocated. Went from 90C to 45C. I'm using an NZXT 140 something to cool it.

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