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  1. davida76

    what to do with these SFF PCs?

    Give recalbox or lakka a go on the remaining one if you fancy trying an emulation box, both linux based.
  2. davida76

    Buying a 2nd hand PS4

    Search "xbox one" and sort by ending soonest. The £60 - 100 are either faulty or just the console (no psu etc). eg: 233552100833, £188 total with 2 hours to go.
  3. davida76

    Buying a 2nd hand PS4

    The lunatics on ebay are bidding over £200 for used 1st gen xbox ones, it's insanity! You can get the 1 s and 1 x for £210 and £260 from MS store.
  4. davida76

    New US$85 - Ryzen 5 1600 AF - 6-core 12-thread CPU

    The place I got mine from has the old box number (YD1600BBAEBOX) but if you hover over it you get an alternative part number (YD1600BBAFBOX) and is currently priced at £89.97. I can't give anymore clues than that without breaking the rules and pointing to a competitor.
  5. davida76

    New US$85 - Ryzen 5 1600 AF - 6-core 12-thread CPU

    Excellent, I'll have a look in a bit, cheers mate.
  6. davida76

    New US$85 - Ryzen 5 1600 AF - 6-core 12-thread CPU

    No bios update required, just went with el cheapo asrock b450m hdv and 16gb of corsair 3200mhz ram. I've not tried any clocking yet because the wraith stealth doesn't fill me with confidence (Hitting 80c on all core boost 3.6ghz) and none of the tower coolers I've got kicking about support am4.
  7. davida76

    New US$85 - Ryzen 5 1600 AF - 6-core 12-thread CPU

    Can confirm they have them in the UK, been running one for about a week, for £85 it's pretty phenomenal. The only bad thing is it comes with the wraith stealth rather than the copper based spire the 1600's used to have. Not exactly a deal breaker.
  8. davida76

    AMD Ryzen 5 3500X / 3900 (non-x) ???

    If productivity is your thing whilst on a budget the new Ryzen 1600 AF is looking handy, basically a 2600 for £85 ish, decent alternative to the 3500X if you don't fancy running the import gauntlet.
  9. davida76

    Cheap upgrade or will it be a sidegrade?

    It's ivy bridge, the jump is considerable depending on the task, though obviously with your overclock the gap is smaller but you get newer features such as avx. In this article the xeon e3 would be somewhere between the i7 2700k and the i7 4790k...
  10. davida76

    Cheap upgrade or will it be a sidegrade?

    Get yourself a Xeon e3-1240 v2 off t'bay for £50, stick it in the H77 and call it a day, ipc uplift and 8 threads. Then plan a full upgrade when you're ready or xeon is struggling.
  11. davida76

    What retro things have you done today?

    Turned an old thinkpad l440 into a portable...ish retro gaming machine with the help of recalbox. Currently making images of old pc engine cd games to play on it, however this part is mind numbing.
  12. davida76

    Ram prices about to increase hugely

    Well the Crucial ballistix 16gb kit I was looking at has increased over night, Maybe coincidence, but it was a budget kit for a cheap build, doesn't bode well if it's going to become the norm again. *** Please no hinting or prices of competitors, Thanks ***
  13. davida76

    How much would you pay for the next gen consoles?

    £400 max for me, any more than that and I'd seriously start looking at google stadia.
  14. davida76

    Intel to Cut Prices of its Desktop Processors by 15% in Response to Ryzen 3000

    Has anybody witnessed these price cuts yet? Edit: Oh, I see it was a rumour..
  15. davida76

    The Sandy, Ivy and Haswell (Hazzy?) Upgrade Thread

    The problem you have is the sli 780's, switch them out with a modern single card and you'll have excellent gaming performance when coupled with that sandy hex core and clocks. You're currently sitting somewhere between a ryzen 1600 and 2600 albeit without the new features they bring.
  16. davida76

    Old 6 core Xeons still good value in a world of used Ryzen's?

    Definitely mate, but then that wouldn't fit the agenda as we both know.
  17. davida76

    Old 6 core Xeons still good value in a world of used Ryzen's?

    I think you'll see a similar situation when the new consoles drop, rumours are 8 core ryzen gen3 but I'd bet my house on them being fairly low clocked, circa 2ghz.
  18. davida76

    Old 6 core Xeons still good value in a world of used Ryzen's?

    Yeah I watched that video earlier and to be honest it comes across as purely trolling other channels that recommend old tech. He picked literally the worst combo possible and compared it to systems that were blatantly going to thrash it. No one in their right mind would buy a 1356 socket board...
  19. davida76

    AsRock A300 Deskmini

    Isn't the 3400g a refresh of what's currently available?
  20. davida76

    APU future

    Unfortunately it's completely crippled by the genius idea of only allocating 2gb of vram. I'd love to make an apu gaming machine too but the performance just isn't there yet, well for me personally at least. 1080p medium / high is the sweet spot or you may as well go ps4.
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