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yeah! i swear Caps lock brings up the score? :wtf:

I have a very crazy binding system which was a relic of the old WoW Dota + the lack of thumb buttons for the 6 items. Doesn't make any sense at all now that you mentioned, but it works.
 
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Anyone looking to go 1440p on the cheap let me know, going to be selling my monitor and only looking for £180 insured & shipped to the UK. Let me know and i'll list in BST

It's the Shimian qh270, probably 6 months old, matte screen, dual link DVI only, 1 stuck pixel that has been there from new though only ever slightly noticeable under black screen. Great cosmetic condition.
 
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Anyone looking to go 1440p on the cheap let me know, going to be selling my monitor and only looking for £180 insured & shipped to the UK. Let me know and i'll list in BST

It's the Shimian qh270, probably 6 months old, matte screen, dual link DVI only, 1 stuck pixel that has been there from new though only ever slightly noticeable under black screen. Great cosmetic condition.

at a time when im looking for a monitor and got laid off, lifes a bitch!

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at a time when im looking for a monitor and got laid off, lifes a bitch!

:banghead:

Sorry to hear about that man, hopefully you won't be out of work too long, I had a long spell last year and am still paying for it now :shadedshu
 
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at a time when im looking for a monitor and got laid off, lifes a bitch!

:banghead:

Ah that sucks man. I've got plenty of credit to pay off, wont be in the money for quite some months.

I'm also quite seriously thinking of exiting the enthusiast scene, sell off my entire rig, rebuild a basic APU system for CS:GO, and use the money to pay off debts and find a place to live. Definitely need to move out soon, and I'm not sure I like the endless circles of upgrades nowadays. I'd also like to get back into being an author, but there's not been much time, and too many distractions.
 
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Ah that sucks man. I've got plenty of credit to pay off, wont be in the money for quite some months.

I'm also quite seriously thinking of exiting the enthusiast scene, sell off my entire rig, rebuild a basic APU system for CS:GO, and use the money to pay off debts and find a place to live. Definitely need to move out soon, and I'm not sure I like the endless circles of upgrades nowadays.

yea, I understand how you feel. theres time I think how much ive spent (wasted) on my rig and should of bought a car or bike.

ive done the whole pissing money up the wall, parties and had some messy years. its good to find a hobby with such a wide and diverse audience, if it wasn't spent on this id be going out every weekend or probably spending it on another hobby.

but its addictive and priorities kind of get put aside for some reason.
 
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but its addictive and priorities kind of get put aside for some reason.

This is my problem!
I've got a small audience for my book and I'd like to carry on, not to mention assume my responsibilities and quit living in my parents spare room! When the 780 died I dropped the money on a new one without thinking, and since then it's bugged me quite a bit. I think I've had my fun with the doing, and I'd rather spend time on here doing the seeing for once.
I'll probably put the whole rig up on the FS section later.
 
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This is my problem!
I've got a small audience for my book and I'd like to carry on, not to mention assume my responsibilities and quit living in my parents spare room! When the 780 died I dropped the money on a new one without thinking, and since then it's bugged me quite a bit. I think I've had my fun with the doing, and I'd rather spend time on here doing the seeing for once.
I'll probably put the whole rig up on the FS section later.

wow that's a massive choice, I love my rig it may not be the best but its fun and does ok. im kind of hoping I don't have to part out with it. but I always had the idea that if I got a good rig spent money on it, its an investment to sell on for when I need the money for car or bike. messed up justification lol

plus id love to get in to modding properly, I really do love that!


you know, not doing and just seeing is what made me want to do, seeing everyones shiny rigs while I had a budget build got to me after a while :laugh:
 
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wow that's a massive choice, I love my rig it may not be the best but its fun and does ok. im kind of hoping I don't have to part out with it. but I always had the idea that if I got a good rig spent money on it, its an investment to sell on for when I need the money for car or bike. messed up justification lol

plus id love to get in to modding properly, I really do love that!


you know, not doing and just seeing is what made me want to do, seeing everyones shiny rigs while I had a budget build got to me after a while :laugh:

I get what you're saying, but I guess my priorities have shifted somewhat. Making an awesome PC is awesome, but for me it feels like a bit of a hollow victory! I'm happy just playing CSGO with my friends on occasion, but I have other things taking my time up, and having a 1.6K machine sat in my room feels a little bit of a waste. Bragging rights are one thing, but that doesnt quite do it for me.
 
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This is my problem!
I've got a small audience for my book and I'd like to carry on, not to mention assume my responsibilities and quit living in my parents spare room! When the 780 died I dropped the money on a new one without thinking, and since then it's bugged me quite a bit. I think I've had my fun with the doing, and I'd rather spend time on here doing the seeing for once.
I'll probably put the whole rig up on the FS section later.

I take it this nurse of yours is pretty high maintenance???
 
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Anyone looking to go 1440p on the cheap let me know, going to be selling my monitor and only looking for £180 insured & shipped to the UK. Let me know and i'll list in BST

It's the Shimian qh270, probably 6 months old, matte screen, dual link DVI only, 1 stuck pixel that has been there from new though only ever slightly noticeable under black screen. Great cosmetic condition.

I could be very interested in that, been after a reasonably priced 1440p for a long time now. Why you selling it? and when are you looking to sell it?
 
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I take it this nurse of yours is pretty high maintenance???

Quite the opposite actually, so far I've not had any demands. Yet.

EDIT:

Grand success, Ebuyer accepted my RMA (told them the card didnt POST in any computer). The guy accepted it straight away.
 
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I could be very interested in that, been after a reasonably priced 1440p for a long time now. Why you selling it? and when are you looking to sell it?

Just money problems, not long started a new job, moved house and also spent a shit load of money this month for my brothers wedding, really feeling it this month and just need some extra cash to see me through until the end of the month and this seems to be the easiest way without me having to borrow money on the short term as that will leave me short again next mth. Looking to sell asap.
 
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Grand success, Ebuyer accepted my RMA (told them the card didnt POST in any computer). The guy accepted it straight away.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

before you sell up, stick some hwbot submissions of sli 780s.... :D
 
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

before you sell up, stick some hwbot submissions of sli 780s.... :D

I'd rather sell it new in the box, I'll probably knock £100 off the new price just to sell the damn thing.
 

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For a grand price of ~400. Sorry, I don't have that money even if I am interested in owning a 780 :eek:
 
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For a grand price of ~400. Sorry, I don't have that money even if I am interested in owning a 780 :eek:

I dont expect many people to be in the market for one. I dont need it, and I'd rather be debt free than running 780 SLI.
 

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I would say that id be interested in owning one if not 2 780's. sadly i used up all £600 of my tax rebate setting up my NAS.

Ive just relented and ordered another 3TB toshiba off ebuyer for £85. Im trying to organise my remaining hard drives but having one 3TB replacing 2x1.5TBs with the previous partitioning that i had makes things a little awkward with the amount of data i need to re-organise and shuffle around, Easiest solution would be to just have 1xSSD & 2x3TBs - partition the 3TBs up 50/50 and arrange things like that. I may sell off my 2 WD blacks eventually. For some reason they were never really that fast though they were fresh 'refurbs' that US member of TPU got back and wanted to sell on, Price was good so i bought them, I think they barely hit 100mb/s read whereas these 3TBs are just shy of 190mb/s according to atto.
 
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I would say that id be interested in owning one if not 2 780's. sadly i used up all £600 of my tax rebate setting up my NAS.

Ive just relented and ordered another 3TB toshiba off ebuyer for £85. Im trying to organise my remaining hard drives but having one 3TB replacing 2x1.5TBs with the previous partitioning that i had makes things a little awkward with the amount of data i need to re-organise and shuffle around, Easiest solution would be to just have 1xSSD & 2x3TBs - partition the 3TBs up 50/50 and arrange things like that. I may sell off my 2 WD blacks eventually. For some reason they were never really that fast though they were fresh 'refurbs' that US member of TPU got back and wanted to sell on, Price was good so i bought them, I think they barely hit 100mb/s read whereas these 3TBs are just shy of 190mb/s according to atto.

My HDD's are pretty average, one is a deathstar the other is a generic seagate, but both get around 120-140mb/s
 

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I dunno - imo i think theyve always been that speed, tested them when they first arrived - they worked and i didnt think any lesser of them. though could it be down to platter size?? 1.5TB vs 2TB. I know 3TB is gonna be a huge jump so its only obvious that it would be way ahead in performance.

It could be that they were just bad refurbs but carried on working regardless. I get no errors coming up in HDD Pro and since i had all my games installed on one of them i never had any issue, they've been running for a year if not coming close to 2years now

::EDIT::

Actually looking more closely at it - IRST reports that the drives are running in Sata 3Gb/s mode not 6Gb/s However there is no jumpers on drives that have limited it to that speed unless WD edited the firmware to deliberately slow them down because they were either overheating or something else was going on.
 
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Mystery intensifies :roll:

I don't think there will be much difference between 3Gbps and 6Gbps given that its not even going to get anywhere close to 3Gbps running at full speed. Any idea how fast they spin? Maybe they are locked in powersaving mode or something. I have never used WD Blacks for some reason or another.
 

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their spec states 7200RPM obviously but i have no way of telling their actual speed
 
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Mystery intensifies :roll:

I don't think there will be much difference between 3Gbps and 6Gbps given that its not even going to get anywhere close to 3Gbps running at full speed. Any idea how fast they spin? Maybe they are locked in powersaving mode or something. I have never used WD Blacks for some reason or another.

Larger drives are inherantly faster to start with. Writing the very outer edge of the drive is always far faster than writing to the inner most section of a drive, so the fact they are twice the size, they're new, and you're obviously writing data to the very fresh edges of the drive could have something to do with it.
My deathstar has 1.5TB used out of 1.8TB, and I get 128mb/s, I presume because I'm reaching the innermost parts of the drive.
 

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I would presume you will be losing half the speed once you get from the outer edges to the inner edge, but you shouldn't start off with 100Mbps to begin with.
 
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