Quote from: STRGRN on August 10, 2017, 10:18 AM

Quote from: TheMadCharles on August 10, 2017, 09:20 AM
Modded Minecraft PC plz

and by that I mean look up Sky Factory 3

sf3 is mediocre, I suggest you try po2 kappa mode

This as well

What do you think guys about this setup? (2nd hand, but well maintaned)

-Source Sirtec - High Power Element BRONZE 500W
-Hard disk: Toshiba DT01ACAxxx 500GB SATA-III 7200 RPM 32MB
-SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SATA-III 2.5 inch
-Mother board: MSI B85-G43
-Processor: Intel Haswell, Core i5 4440 3.1GHz
-Ram: HyperX Red 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit   
-Video card: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 760 OC WindForce3X 2GB DDR5 256-bit   
-Case: Deepcool Tesseract BF black (cea din poza)
-Monitor: LED BenQ GL2460 24 inch 2ms Black

All that for ~380 Euros.

Quote from: Csongi on October 10, 2017, 12:43 PM
What do you think guys about this setup? (2nd hand, but well maintaned)

-Source Sirtec - High Power Element BRONZE 500W
-Hard disk: Toshiba DT01ACAxxx 500GB SATA-III 7200 RPM 32MB
-SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SATA-III 2.5 inch
-Mother board: MSI B85-G43
-Processor: Intel Haswell, Core i5 4440 3.1GHz
-Ram: HyperX Red 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit   
-Video card: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 760 OC WindForce3X 2GB DDR5 256-bit   
-Case: Deepcool Tesseract BF black (cea din poza)
-Monitor: LED BenQ GL2460 24 inch 2ms Black

All that for ~380 Euros.

4 year old haswell processor. Less than 1 tb of storage. Old graphics card. Old ddr3 ram.
Only thing why you should be considering to take this overused rig is the monitor.. But i guess even that you can find new for ~100$.
I would pass the offer, add a bit money, buy new stuff.

Just ordered this

PCPartPicker part list: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/YznmYr
Price breakdown by merchant: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/YznmYr/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor  ($388.00 @ Shopping Express)
CPU Cooler: Fractal Design - Celsius S36 87.6 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($169.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Motherboard: Asus - ROG Strix Z370-H Gaming ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($279.00 @ PLE Computers)
Memory: Kingston - Predator 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($279.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Intel - 600p Series 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($229.00 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  ($779.00 @ Umart)
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  ($129.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($149.00 @ IJK)
Monitor: BenQ - XL2411 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  ($399.00 @ IJK)
Total: $2800.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-23 19:50 AEDT+1100

Quote from: Rabbzz on November 23, 2017, 10:59 AM
Monitor: BenQ - XL2411 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  ($399.00 @ IJK)

Don't forget to try roping at 100Hz.

Yea fo shure haha

Bought pc 2 years ago. Mostly wanted to play worms with it.. But meanwhile started doing lots of other games + streaming so it got a bit "too low end" for my intentions.

Already changed GPU (from rx460-2gb to gtx 1060-3gb)

Next is swapping CPU,MBO and RAM (running 8gb ddr4 2133mhz in single channel over 2 years and didn't even know i'm losing so much performance compared to dual channel..)

Anyway, meaning to sell 3 components for around 200€ :
mbo: msi h110m pro-d
cpu: i5 6402p
ram: kingston 8gb ddr4

And buy 3 new ones:
mbo: asrock ab350m -> around 70$
cpu: ryzen5 1600x -> around 160$ (+40$ more for cpu cooler)
ram: corsair vengeance lpx 2x8gb 2400mhz -> around 130$ from amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B017NW5NZY/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)

+ around 20$ on delivery altogether..

What you think boys? I'm pretty sure that's my new rig. Cpu is clocked on 3.6 ghz in stock so I won't be dealing with any overclocking at start.. (but if i wanna do it later, mbo will support it cause it have letter "B" in it's name)
Only thing I'm worried about is ram.. Don't know how much performance gain I'd get with, for example, 3000mhz ram sticks, but i think 2400 is pretty okayish, even for ryzen.. And 16gb of it should last me next 3-4 years I'd imagine. Won't find much cheaper price than it is now an amazon as well... My gpu is good but not that good to feel the difference in ram speed while gaming!?

Anyway, lemme know what you think.

Why not just slap another 8gb to current ram instead selling it? Also Ryzen stock cooler is pretty great afaik. 3000mhz is better than 2400 obviously but not worth it at all if there is a significant price gap.

Quote from: Triad on December 18, 2018, 09:11 PM
Why not just slap another 8gb to current ram instead selling it? Also Ryzen stock cooler is pretty great afaik. 3000mhz is better than 2400 obviously but not worth it at all if there is a significant price gap.

Ram i'm having now is 2133mhz, so it's not really the best clock speed out there. And I think my MBO can only handle 2133 modules, so for sure buyer won't mind having 8gb of ram with cpu and mbo, and I'll get better price.
Buying 1 more 8gb stick there's no guarantee it will work with previous one, even if you find same product of same manufacturer. Also price for same 8gb 2133mhz stick is just 1/3 cheaper than 2x8 gb 2400mhz, so really no value in that.

Ryzen X series comes without stock coolers.

Your first post made me think you're more into these things man..

ooh it's X, my bad.

I am not really better than any other guy with decent knowledge, I didn't keep up with latest parts n whatnot so quitted community too. Probably won't be able to help people in the future.

Anyway it seems good to go, just finding the best deal should be your only concern perhaps.

Wondering if anyone knows any good deals, prefer it to be available in UK, or even a UK based website.

Looking for a cheap laptop, Windows XP or Windows 7 with a budget of up to £180.

I am not concerned with a good graphics card or powerful CPU, or a lot of RAM.

My only requirements are:

As big a screen as possible
As loud as possible
Able to connect to internet.

If it can run WA so I can watch games in bed, that's a bonus.

Would appreciate your help as i've spent a while looking online and I know people on gaming forums know good deals on this kinda stuff!

Thanks!

So, after spending about 4 hours comparing laptops and prices and specs I upped my budget by £50 and decided on this.

Lenovo ThinkPad T430 - £229+£3.95 P&P:

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz.
Memory: 4GB DDR3 RAM, Hard Drive: 320GB HDD.
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 630
Screen: 14"
Optical Drive: DVD-ReWriter

The main deciding factor in getting this laptop was that it has older features that I absolutely love!

It has a DVD drive, as I have a big DVD collection so being able to watch these lying in bed is awesome.

It has VGA output which is good for using with older monitors which suits me.

It has a DVD ReWriter, unsure about specific make/model, but any is good for me tbh, and it's great to be able to burn music and other things to disc.

I had to sacrifice 15"6 screen size for 14" but with everything else it came with, i'm very happy, seems like great value for money to suit all of my needs!

Quote from: TheKomodo on January 13, 2019, 07:26 PM
My only requirements are:

As big a screen as possible

Quote from: TheKomodo on January 14, 2019, 01:31 PM
Screen: 14"

Well, you're not too picky aren't you!?
That's an very old rig. 7 years old cpu, ddr3 ram and only 4gb, integrated gpu.. only 320 gb hdd.

For whatever you're gonna use this machine, you overpaying it! It's probably worth only that 50£ you're "adding" to the deal. Don't get fooled dude.

I'm pretty sure that amazon.co.uk will have something aroun. New and with free shipping for about similar price.

I spent hours comparing laptops, style/design/features and specs through benchmarking websites, I got this from amazon, I didn't like any of the 200-300 laptops for the same price range I looked at.

The only laptops that were more powerful for the same budget, had other problems to me, I like that it's big and chunky and from what I read very robust, and has an optical drive, rather than the computers these days that come without drives.

Also, Lenovo bought IBMs laptop department a number of years ago, when they were IBM thinkpads they had drainage holes incase you spilled stuff, which were tested vigorously and threads on reddit even praising this feature.

It also has big loud af speakers, which is a major selling point as well compared to the crappy speakers other laptops have.

This was a major selling point to me, it's not surprising to see older things sell for a bit more money than newer slightly more powerful things for the same price, they are unique and have their own advantages.

And yes, I did sacrifice a slightly lower screen size, but I did so because everything else that was 15.6" had other things I didn't like, there wasn't a single 15.6" screen laptop that I liked the look of or it's setup.

People pay ridiculous money for old cars that aren't "as good" as modern cars, but they have a certain character and certain features people love about them, and it's the same thing when it comes to computers and technology for me.

I am still looking for a year 2000 era Windows 98 PC in mint condition, and willing to pay a serious amount of cash for one, as all my favourite games are from that era, and most of them don't work on modern hardware/software without serious modding involved, and still doesn't look as good, partly because a lot of those games are designed for different types of monitors so always look better on the hardware/software designed in that era. Take old games consoles for example, the way monitors were designed, to use colours and not pixels, the games always look smoother there than any modern emulation possible, which is why emulated games, or even the legit company released "classic" and "mini" versions of consoles these days still don't look as good as the originals back in the day.

I did my research(which i'm VERY good at) and in doing so, very happy with this purchase

Edit - Also, this is a refurbished laptop with new parts, and I checked up on the company that did the work and they have excellent reviews

So this is pretty annoying, the company delivering my laptop have delivered it to the wrong address and it was signed for by me, so someone else has basically tried to steal my parcel...

My address is 1/2, they delivered to 1B.

I've been on the phone to the company, so they have to try and receive it now, but interestingly enough their policy when it comes to investigations and deliveries, it's the drivers responsibility, and if the driver can't retrieve the package and deliver to the correct recipient(me) then the driver has the pay the full cost of the package, so at least there is incentive for the driver to track down the parcel and get it delivered to me.

The guy on the phone said once they raise an investigation 3 things happen:

Full declaration I didn't sign for parcel - Done
A full investigation to find out where parcel was left - Done
Then get my signature(and evidence of order) to say i've received the parcel - In progress, they have to go retrieve it and then bring it to me.

The customer service is pretty good actually, once the investigation has been launched the depot has a deadline of 1 hour to get back in touch with me following up with the retrieval.

So, obviously i'll get a refund if they can't get the package back, but still I might have to wait 5-7 working days to get a refund IF they can't retrieve it which still sucks, I ordered express delivery, ends up being late af... :/