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  1. Gipo

    Wilko goes into Administration

    Amen
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    Cheap activity tracker that works with Google Fit?

    I was thinking of getting one largely for step-counting (as my health insurance policy rewards me for my activity :D). Just carrying the phone around is fine, but I always miss out on step-count during football sessions. So, any recommendations?
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    What are the 30 year old plus gamers playing?

    I seem to pick up whatever is 'free' on Epic :D Most recently though I got into Genshin Impact - its quite neat that its cross-platform so I can 'continue' whether I'm on my phone or on the PC
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    Wilko goes into Administration

    I was a little saddened by the news of Wilko - was the go-to place for student abode related stuffffs many moons ago! Don't know if there's really a place for such a retailer nowadays especially with Amazon basically offering the same sort of tat which doesn't require you getting off your bum.
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    A bit out of the loop - selling to fund a new laptop?

    Thanks for the reply! Thought I was going blind as I couldn't see such a place... but seems things have changed again since I last visited and I can no longer access price checks :(
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    A bit out of the loop - selling to fund a new laptop?

    Hello folks, My desktop isn't really seeing much use, so thinking of selling up to fund perhaps a gaming laptop instead. Any idea how much I could realistically fetch for the below? MSI Bazooka B550 Ryzen 3600 MSI Ventus 1660 Super 16GB Corsair LPX 128GB Sandisk SSD 1TB Seagate Cheers in...
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    Its been a while and out of the loop - Budget of 150 Notes

    Thanks folks - I think for the time being I have bought a bit more time... turns out I hadn't seated my 670 properly, and plugging/unplugging hdmi loosened it. Now have done the right thing and secured the backplate with a thumbscrew (as it should have been in the first place), and card is up...
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    Its been a while and out of the loop - Budget of 150 Notes

    Allo all, I last upgraded my setup about 6 or 7 years ago - GTX 670 looks to have bit the dust (it started with Direct X errors in games, and today it just doesn't output anything so now using onboard gfx). My CPU will probably bottleneck quite a lot, being an i5 4690K - but I don't do heavy...
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    Thermalright Ultra-120 or something new?

    Quick Q, I used to use 'standard height' ram sticks - my new ones are a little taller let's say. How much clearance is there from the TRUE/attached fan to the ram 'area'
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    Thermalright Ultra-120 or something new?

    Tis indeed the 6 pipe extreme :) Good to know it's still a good cooler! Have found the VX BTK II online at a competitor, but that's the only place - where else to get in the UK? Have tried the auction site but no luck :(
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    Thermalright Ultra-120 or something new?

    Hallo! Have just purchased some new gear - a G3258 and a Z97 board to go with it. Currently on stock cooling, but have an old cooler as above. It only has the gubbins for my old AM2+/AM3 socket, and I was possibly just going to get an adapter for it to fit socket 1150 - cost of around 15...
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    OK - this time for real! Intel proc, mobo, ram - £250

    thanky thanks! Out of interest is it worth having a non-K i5 paired with a z97? How would it compared with a beastly overclocked G3258 in just gaming type scenarios? My benchmark would be against a Phenom II X4 940...
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    OK - this time for real! Intel proc, mobo, ram - £250

    Definitely will be processor, ram and motherboard needed - I was in the dark ages on DDR2 :) The way I saw it - 8gb DDR3 - around 60 ish, z97 - 68 ish, leaving 122 quid for a processor! Which led to the question in my mind - better processor + non z97, or lower end processor + z97?
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    OK - this time for real! Intel proc, mobo, ram - £250

    Hello! I was going to try and upgrade (or rather, rebuild) a while back - but put it on hold temporarily. Now the time has come to do my thing - I have a case, a good PSU, and a graphics card. I'd like to go Intel (used to be AMD), just for fun - and have a budget of £250 (if even less...
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    Spec me Mobo, CPU and RAM! (Cheap as poss)

    Groovy! Thanks everyone for the help - I think I will go the Intel route with the setups suggested - maybe even try and source some ram from MM to save a few more quid :D
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    Spec me Mobo, CPU and RAM! (Cheap as poss)

    No optical drives to worry about - I have a 120gig SSD and a 1TB 'normal' SATA. How comparable is the AMD to the Intel setup - would I really see any 'real world' (and I'm not talking about benchmarking etc) advantages going Intel?
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    Spec me Mobo, CPU and RAM! (Cheap as poss)

    My parts are rather old - still DDR2 for the ram! Am guessing there is no chance to get anything semi decent for the £200 mark? :D
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    Spec me Mobo, CPU and RAM! (Cheap as poss)

    Well... after an eventful day, it appears I've fried my CPU - saw some scorch marks around the socket, and to the sides of the CPU its self. It was a beautiful Phenom II X4 - didn't even overclock - a bit of an old motherboard so I'm probably due an upgrade anyway. Previous setup: Phenom...
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    ****The Official Note III Thread****

    Me too! Though the Mrs keeps mentioning it's not others are small, note is huge! Cue argument for 5 mins!
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    ****The Official Note III Thread****

    Such a crazy good phone :) Though I only got it as work pay for my contract - and my contract was up on my personal contract anyway so two birds, one stone - though of course I have a mixed work/personal phone now (no one likes me anyway so I'm safe)
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