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  1. Dancer

    Keyboards randomly not powered by USB (Z270E)

    I upgraded to an Asus Strix Z270E motherboard couple of weeks ago, and just yesterday my keyboards started misbehaving. Mostly they will not receive any power (lights not on) when powering on. If I unplug the USB and plug it back in they work fine. At other times the power light on the keyboard...
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    ROG SWIFT PG348Q Switching between displayport and hdmi

    Thanks for the suggestion, but that isn't really an option as I use g-sync on the DP for gaming (besides switches and KVMs being very expensive and haven't seen one that takes HDMI+DP in and does DP out while preserving framerate and g-sync. Ideally I would like to program one of the buttons or...
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    ROG SWIFT PG348Q Switching between displayport and hdmi

    I love my ROG SWIFT PG348Q superwide monitor, but I often have two computers connected on the displayport and HDMI. Has anyone discovered a way to switch bettwen DP and HDMI without using the joystick, or have any clever suggestions? Navigating the menu with the joystick is less than ideal, but...
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    More widescreen 3440x1440 monitors coming?

    Thanks for sharing your experience and FPS numbers. I would certainly be very happy with the Acer X34 if it gets a bit more affordable. I get the impression that g-sync/freesync is in many ways more important than the max refresh rate, but I am lacking experience in this area. Would you say that...
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    More widescreen 3440x1440 monitors coming?

    Thanks, been struggling to dig up much on the lay of the land ahead for 32"+ high refresh widescreen so it is nice to read that there are more coming. Yes, the new GPU requirement is part of the reason this is too expensive for me. I'm hoping these monitors will get more common and mass...
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    More widescreen 3440x1440 monitors coming?

    I want to get my hands on the Acer 34" curved IPS 3440x1440 100 Hz monitor, but it is just too expensive for me. Are there more monitors like this coming along and are we likely to see cheaper versions or price drops later in the year or next year? My priorities are that it must be 32" + and...
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    Samsung Data Migration Snag

    Thanks for the link and suggestion, but I think I have solved it by renaming the windows folder on the old drive. When I rebooted everything (e.g. windows update) works and points to the new c: drive. I did want to rename the old f:\users folder too, but it doesn't allow that (i.e. nothing...
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    Samsung Data Migration Snag

    I just used the Samsung Data Migration software to move my SSD boot win 8.1 boot drive to a new, bigger Samsung 840 Evo disk. Everything went ok as I made sure to stop comodo antivirus and kill all non-essential processes and when the process completed I shut down, unplugged my old drive and...
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    Win8 storahci.sys vs iaStorA.sys

    Problem suddenly returned this morning after 6 days of working nicely. I had done no updates - in fact I had turned updates off for this whole time. I did download and install a game as well as teamspeak last night, but I'm not sure how that can affect drivers and PDC times. Again it is...
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    Win8 storahci.sys vs iaStorA.sys

    Win8 on a Z77X-UD5H, i5-3570K, Vertex-4 SSD and 8 GB RAM and since February and having no (major) issues. Then suddenly a few days ago I started noticing stutters, pops and cracks when playing mp3s and watching movies. This happened from all drives, an through audio jacks, USB headphones and...
  11. Dancer

    What's up with CPU prices?

    Well a friend bought i5-3570K when it first released around £150 (some sort of special deal) and when I bought mine back in January it was £140 (ex. VAT and I think part of the overclockers weekly discount) with sandybridge models just as expensive (or worse). I was surprised to see it it is...
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    What's up with CPU prices?

    No reduction in price for a long time now and if anything they've gone slightly up lately? I've been looking mostly at the i5 range (focusing on 3570k), but is this a general trend. It seems to apply equally to newer and older chipsets. What is the cause? Is it a lack of competition from AMD...
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    Mini ITX Build - Programming, Linux and some gaming

    Yes, keeping it as quiet as possible is a concern, but for me size is also an issue as space is limited and I need to transport it occasionally. Gaming for me is not the priority anyway as I have my midi-tower rig for that, although I want it to be as capable as possible for use by friends and...
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    Mini ITX Build - Programming, Linux and some gaming

    Some good ideas there I wouldn't have thought of. Is the Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz really that much better than the cheaper Pentium G2120 3.10GHz? Especially as I note the nice motherboard you picked is not an overclocker (which is fine with me). @snips86x: Why the BitFenix Prodigy? I did...
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    Mini ITX Build - Programming, Linux and some gaming

    Thanks for trying. :) By all means if a few extra ££ will make all the difference suggest some quality stuff, but I'm less concerned about top performance and more interested in a cheap, quiet, quality mini ITX solution which has adequate power for visual studio, maybe some video editing and...
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    Mini ITX Build - Programming, Linux and some gaming

    I'm doing my first Mini ITX build as I want a small machine that takes little space and is easy(ier) to transport. I've been researching, but appreciate any help from experienced dudes here. Budget: around £500 (ideally less) Purpose: Dual boot (separate SSDs) Windows/Linux for visual studio...
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    Raid Confusion

    Ok, I'll get the SSD and 3TB raid setup first on the intel. Then I'll experiment and see if I can get a second raid going on the Marvell controllers.
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    Raid Confusion

    Both controllers support raid so I don't see why I should be able to have one on each, but if not then are you saying I could have both the 3TB RAID-1 and 0.5TB RAID-1 on the same intel controller (as well as the SSD)? I know there are enough connectors, but I've never attempted two separate...
  19. Dancer

    Raid Confusion

    Wonderful, thank you for the fast reply! Time to get my credit card out. :D PS! I also plan on doing a second 500 GB RAID-1 on the marvell chipset. I don't see any issues with this, but if there are any known problems or things I should know that's not in the manual then let me know.
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