If this Thursday you should be OK, if next Thursday not sure as Crucial can't keep up with our demand on these things.
This thursday indeed
Super psyched to get one of these babies!THIS WEEK ONLY 28TH JULY
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This thursday indeed
Super psyched to get one of these babies!
This thursday indeed
You won't regret it, moving from a magnetic HDD to an SSD is easily one of the most noticable upgrades to system performance you can make these days.
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I have faith that you can do it Gibbo
Well as it stands I can't sorry.
If we can will the exchange rate to 1.60 then maybe we can.
Been through this, they are Winpower, they are absolutely fine when built around a system one would expect to run of a £13 PSU.
If your overclocking, buying the latest graphics card then no. But for an everyday system yes they are fine and extremely reliable.
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Well as it stands I can't sorry.
If we can will the exchange rate to 1.60 then maybe we can.
N1, BTW Gibbo you have only been back 1 week and posted 150 times, are you spamming at hte moment to get free delivery?
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Been through this, they are Winpower, they are absolutely fine when built around a system one would expect to run of a £13 PSU.
If your overclocking, buying the latest graphics card then no. But for an everyday system yes they are fine and extremely reliable.
Exactly, we have had this question asked so many times before.
N1, BTW Gibbo you have only been back 1 week and posted 150 times, are you spamming at the moment to get free delivery?
Just LOL.
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Wow at £29.99 I was ready to overlook this hard drive but now it’s discounted by a staggering 64p off I really tempted.
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Wow at £29.99 I was ready to overlook this hard drive but now it’s discounted by a staggering 64p off I really tempted.
It got you talking about it! Any marketing is good marketing!
Wow at £29.99 I was ready to overlook this hard drive but now it’s discounted by a staggering 64p off I really tempted.
Its hard to discount a product like that when were already so cheap, but we still manage to shave a few more pennies of it.
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I've been reading the post relating to the 980X pricing, I would have thought on a top end product like that profit margins would have been a lot higher but it would appear the only people who are turning a tidy profit are Intel. 
Been through this, they are Winpower, they are absolutely fine when built around a system one would expect to run of a £13 PSU.
If your overclocking, buying the latest graphics card then no. But for an everyday system yes they are fine and extremely reliable.
I've asked last time and didn't get any answer, how are they in terms of noise in comparison to lets say the corsair cx400 or the cheap ocz models?
I'm looking into building another cheap system for someone, will have a slightly OCed athlonII x3 and probably something along lines of 5670 so I'm not too worried about power draw but how quiet/noisy are those?
And regarding that case, any chance for inside pics ?
We specifically only buy in the 120mm fan versions, so they are pretty damn quiet to be honest, if not silent.
I've been reading the post relating to the 980X pricing, I would have thought on a top end product like that profit margins would have been a lot higher but it would appear the only people who are turning a tidy profit are Intel.
Intel's profits are up an amazing 65% year-over-year. Check it out for yourself - here.
On a side note: It would be nice if there was a pricing review at Intel, more-so because fellow high-end-gamers/encoders want the 980x beast, and the stable-high-clocks that's easily obtainable. When I bought my QX6700 at release (2006), it was £650 and a hell of a CPU, I never thought I would need to spend more than that again. At OCUK the 980x is currently £796 (it did top out at £880) which is a nice 9.5% reduction. I doubt it would drop much more anytime soon (keep watching the Weekly Offers just incase), the superior overclocking/performance on air alone makes it a worthwhile investment just as mine was back then.
You have ur QX6700 @3.2GHz, that's hardly a good advert for superior overclocking performance
I did originally have a BFG 680sli in 2006 that easily obtained 3.5GHz on air (from 2.66GHz using nTune). Then about 2 years ago I bought my current Gigabyte mobo to upgrade to CFX.
Its only the mobo which is holding me back and there's not too much I can do about it since the mobo keeps locking up on tiny increases and actual volts aren't displayed, so it stayed at 3.2GHz. Very annoying for a overclockers board as I would love to increase the FSB from 266MHz.
got one of these psu's on tuesday and ordered 2 more today, they don't come with a kettle lead and have a 20+4 pin, 4 pin, 2 molex and 2 sata, not the 4 molex and 1 sata stated in the product description.
in noise terms they are not silent and not as quiet as a corsair cx 400 but are about the same as the cheaper pcz psu's so are fairly quiet.
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have to say it's an absolute waste getting the QX unless ur pushing over 4GHz as nearly all Q6600s do 3.2 and a lot do up to 3.6-3.8GHz with a few cherry picked ones doing over 4GHz, at less than a third of the price!
U'd be mad to buy the new extreme chip when the standard ones clock to 4-4.2GHz on air easily unless ur into benchmarking and LN2 cooling.