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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: JDC on May 27, 2009, 04:18:15 PM
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ordered new pc parts the other day, had to get the psu I wanted from somewhere else and it came today.... someone's wacked it in the corner and the edges are bent and there is a gap in the corner big enough to almost get my pinky in!!!
so I'm getting it returned and I'm taking the rage out with a forum post....
I'm hoping I get a replacement before all the other parts come on Tuesday
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how terribly frustrating!
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I feel for you, its hard enough building a pc that works properly you don't need postman pat vandalising your CPU!
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When was 'the other day'?
If it was Friday or Thursday I'm sure you'll get it before the parts arrive, if not the same day.
Request pics of finished PC too!
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Sucks dude. Hope the new one turns up quick.
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look what came today!!! and I can't do anything with it!!! yes the cpu cooler is fecking huge, I just wanted something quiet didn't think it was going to be the size of a house, more quiet case fans and a 1tb hard drive in another box
they forgot the monitor!!! turns out that's coming from a different warehouse
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2434/dsc00875medium.jpg)
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The fan on my PSU died a while back, I keep meaning to replace it but... i can't be bothered.
Keeps reaching over 80c inside though, nice and toasty.
Great in winter.
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You put that thing together yet?
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The fan on my PSU died a while back, I keep meaning to replace it but... i can't be bothered.
Keeps reaching over 80c inside though, nice and toasty.
Great in winter.
er..... I really would get that replaced, or at the very least put a fan on it, especially if it's cheap kind, heard enough stories of black smoke and fried computer parts
Ailean: I'm still waiting for the PSU, I sent it back on Saturday, the company doesn't know if they have it yet because it takes them 2 days to put stuff though the returns system, and they don't have any in stock now so I'll have to wait a "week" for them to get new stock
the new 24" TFT monitor came on Tuesday though, it's pretty sweet, although moving the old broken 22" 30kg CRT monitor, I had bad posture and it slipped out my hands onto the new apple keyboard, my own daft fault but the keyboard survived with a minor dent, I can only see it if you look for it, it's a bit annoying knowing it's there though when it's a week old!
had to return the CPU cooler and get a new one too because it's too big to fit in the case!!! I research everything and still got something wrong!!! I've got sloppy, ordered a 92mm cooler last night with a DVI cable because the monitor only came with a VGA cable at 4pm last night, came this morning!!! sent back the other cooler for a refund
by the time I got this PSU, if anything else turns out faulty, which I doubt, it'll be past the 10 days in which I can get it replaced with free delivery, and I hope I don't end up waiting 4 months like I did for my amp because the new ATI cards will be out then and all my these parts will have depreciated before I've even used them!
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Yuck :(
I've built most of my previous PC's, but I have to say, the next one might be a pre-built Dell or something, jusat coz it's easier!
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The fan on my PSU died a while back, I keep meaning to replace it but... i can't be bothered.
Keeps reaching over 80c inside though, nice and toasty.
Great in winter.
er..... I really would get that replaced, or at the very least put a fan on it, especially if it's cheap kind, heard enough stories of black smoke and fried computer parts
Yeah, I really should but she's holding out real well.
Been slapping pc's together since I was 11, ain't had a single problem yet and oddly I kinda want to see what happens/how long it'll last.
It's been a good 5 months now.
It only really gets bad when I'm playing games with everything up, which is rare these days.
I'm going to have to change this stock intel CPU fan too, it's good but... not good enough.
Gah, I wish I'd had kept on route to working in IT. I only stopped because I'd rather die than work on an IT Help Desk...
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An IT helpdesk isn't the only route into IT. I started as a Junior Developer. Not too late to try Adam.
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An IT helpdesk isn't the only route into IT. I started as a Junior Developer. Not too late to try Adam.
Yeah, I guess I panicked.
Soft Dev? hmm... a possibility. Then again so is Systems Analysis and Design/Business Analyst.
No matter what I do I'm going to end up going back to college/university.
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No matter what I do I'm going to end up going back to college/university.
Maybe not. The current economic climate won't work in your favour, but if you've got some IT chops then put out a CV to some IT companies and see if they are willing to train you. If it's what you want to do, it can't hurt to fire off a few emails with your CV on it.
I got lucky, my Dev post came from within the company I was working for at the time, they couldn't find a Junior Dev, one of them knew I have IT background and told me to apply. I got made redundant a year later (D'oh!) but I had my foot in the door, just over 2 years later I'm the sole IT guy for a mortgage broker covering both systems and development. (I know sod all about systems, but the systems guy left and I've had to pick it up!)
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Yuck :(
I've built most of my previous PC's, but I have to say, the next one might be a pre-built Dell or something, jusat coz it's easier!
do dell still use none standard parts these days? the only reason I self build is I get exactly what I want with the right quality, the gfx card is the only thing I'll be upgrading in the next 5+ years so I'd rather have a good one, than a dell built to a price one
1080p movie trailers off the apple site are sweeeeeeeeet
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If I was building a really high spec then I'd get either an Alienware setup (or similar) or build my own. But my requirements are much lower these days.
Dell will build a system to your spec out of the parts they stock, and they do have some high end gear available. Not as much choice as when you build your own, but pretty good, and pretty much certain to work! And the warrenty is with one company, not a load who will blame your problems on the other componants.
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alienware.... you must be loaded, they are so expensive!!!
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If I was building a really high spec then I'd get either an Alienware setup (or similar) or build my own. But my requirements are much lower these days.
Dell will build a system to your spec out of the parts they stock, and they do have some high end gear available. Not as much choice as when you build your own, but pretty good, and pretty much certain to work! And the warrenty is with one company, not a load who will blame your problems on the other componants.
Do you realise Alienware is dell now?
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alienware.... you must be loaded, they are so expensive!!!
I said IF I were building a high end system. If I had that much money to blow on a PC I'd buy another amp :)
Do you realise Alienware is dell now?
I did know that Dell are advertising a very cool looking Alienware laptop on their website, but I didn't know they'd been bought out.
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http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/index.php?page=results
These do some good options
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anyone want to buy my desktop (without monitor and keyboard/mouse) for about £500 (£650-700 new last year)? :P Not going to happen but I really want to downsize as I never use it properly, I cant afford anything else til I sell this though.. Gonna try and take some nice photos of it, really hype it up and put it on ebay for what I want, see if anyones silly enough to pay it haha
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anyone want to buy my desktop (without monitor and keyboard/mouse) for about £500 (£650-700 new last year)? :P Not going to happen but I really want to downsize as I never use it properly, I cant afford anything else til I sell this though.. Gonna try and take some nice photos of it, really hype it up and put it on ebay for what I want, see if anyones silly enough to pay it haha
Hahahaha :D
That'd be hillarious if someone did, you could buy a £500 computer that would vastly out spec last years £700'er
I'm so glad I started building my own from an early age.
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Apparently I should only get £300-350 for it :( Not nearly enough, I sort of want a nice shiny macbook haha
The only thing I'm worried about with a laptop is rendering for 3d stuff, how well do they cope with it?
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The new MacBooks have reasonably decent graphics cards. An NVIDIA GeForce 9400M I think.
Actually... looking at the Apple website, they seem to have reverted back to the old-design plastic (or "polycarbonate") MacBooks (albeit still with the updated graphics card), does anyone know anything about this?
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Apparently I should only get £300-350 for it :( Not nearly enough, I sort of want a nice shiny macbook haha
The only thing I'm worried about with a laptop is rendering for 3d stuff, how well do they cope with it?
Yeah, a computer is already out of date by the time you get it and they depreciate quicker than a bugatti veyron. (half a million in a month, ouch)
I've not once sold on a PC simply because it's not worth it.
I'd just keep a hold of it... some laptops are okay for rendering, but i know how painstaking the render times are for you ;) i'd if anything keep the desktop just for rendering whilst you use a laptop to do stuff.
I heard from the keynote that the MacBooks were going to be more thin, they look it for sure. Not sure if I like the new look or not... I still hate the price, it still makes zero sense.
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The new MacBooks have reasonably decent graphics cards. An NVIDIA GeForce 9400M I think.
Actually... looking at the Apple website, they seem to have reverted back to the old-design plastic (or "polycarbonate") MacBooks (albeit still with the updated graphics card), does anyone know anything about this?
I thought it was always plastic on the macbooks and alluminium on the macbook pros?
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The new MacBooks have reasonably decent graphics cards. An NVIDIA GeForce 9400M I think.
Actually... looking at the Apple website, they seem to have reverted back to the old-design plastic (or "polycarbonate") MacBooks (albeit still with the updated graphics card), does anyone know anything about this?
I thought it was always plastic on the macbooks and alluminium on the macbook pros?
The log from the keynote said that Macbook was gone and they'd all be called Macbook Pro now.
Haven't checked up to see what's what, don't care to either, they're about 3x-4x the price that they should be.
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almost 2 weeks since I sent the PSU off now, it's finally gone through their returns system, and now they ain't getting any more in stock, so got refunded, don't think I'll be using those guys again
researched what was best out of what I could get my hands on for my needs, ordered and crossing my fingers I might get it tomorrow
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Name and shame...
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If it's ebuyer im going to be dissapointed, I've used them for years!
I bet it's Overclockers... but I hate Overclockers.
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I'll just say it's a Manchester place, NOT Aria
ebuyer are great!!! got everything else from them, free delivery too!
I wouldn't touch overclockers with the longest stick in the world!!! sooo many bad stories about them
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hmm I got all my stuff from Overclockers and their customer service has always been great for me. I had loads of problems with returning a cr@p monitor to Aria so probably wouldnt use em again, though they do have nice prices.
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hmm I got all my stuff from Overclockers and their customer service has always been great for me. I had loads of problems with returning a cr@p monitor to Aria so probably wouldnt use em again, though they do have nice prices.
No idea what they're like right now, but back in the day we had major, major gripes with them. The vast majority of the geek world boycotted them.
I can't even remember why... I know I had a massive argument with the guy that ran the place.
Hell, whatever it was, it was serious. The companies probably all changed by now but I love ebuyer.
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well it's new nerd box day, it's built and all running
now I don't have to wait 2 days for stuff to load, and the CPU cooler doesn't even get warm!!! 25C idle, old box was 40C, the box is so quiet I forget it's turned on sometimes
I suppose I should review the £150 sound card
before I had an audigy 2, the difference isn't amazing on my not too expensive sennheisers (pc150s aka that one with a mic) I'd say it was 5 to 10% better, the sound feels less coloured is probably the best way to describe it, tight metal tones are tighter, and bass and bass drums are a smidge clearer depending on the song, it's certainly not the night and day difference I got when I changed from £20 platronic headphones to the £45 sennheisers
the headphones are probably the limit of my sound, I'm going to upgrade them in the future anyway and the card has a built in headphone amp, I have no rational reason to ever upgrade sound cards any more, unlike the old creative monopoly days with newer EAX versions for games (now broke by vista) and ASIO added to the audigy series, I hope to use the card for a very long time, and it should be future proof being pci-e
so the only way it'll ever get changed is if it broke or I got really deep into recording