*****WEEKEND ONLY DEALS - Incredible Deals for Weekend ONLY!*****
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thats a keen price on the 5870....... but i just can't justify it !
Those SATA 6gb/s drives are seriously tempting, even if i do have to relegate another of my drives out of the case to fit one in, as i now have an ASUS card that will allow me to run 2 of them, but all of the drives i have for my rebuild are enterprise editions, although none over 750GB, so i can see me upgrading fairly soon
The Black Ice RAD is very tempting as i may be needing a 120 unit to do my chipsets if i take the plunge on that
Those SATA 6gb/s drives are seriously tempting, even if i do have to relegate another of my drives out of the case to fit one in, as i now have an ASUS card that will allow me to run 2 of them, but all of the drives i have for my rebuild are enterprise editions, although none over 750GB, so i can see me upgrading fairly soon
The Black Ice RAD is very tempting as i may be needing a 120 unit to do my chipsets if i take the plunge on that
Cheeky Mode... The HD5870 was £274.99 before/Cheeky Mode.
Great deals there though.
Just seen you have the GTX470 for under £240 as well. What models are the current OCUK cards if you don't mind me asking?
Cheers.
They are currently Point of View full retail boxed cards with 3yr warranty, so very nice deal indeed.
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Need some deals on laptop drives, particularly 160gb models
Buy 2, get SLi or Crossfire
So, not satisfied with us remortgaging our homes to buy pc components, laptops, netbooks and all manner of computing goodness you now want us to buy 2 of each item we buy. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. No wonder the country's economy is in such a mess seeing as overclockers are trying to take 80% of the country's cash, i suppose if OcUK sold beer, cigs and food it would be 100%.
So, not satisfied with us remortgaging our homes to buy pc components, laptops, netbooks and all manner of computing goodness you now want us to buy 2 of each item we buy. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. No wonder the country's economy is in such a mess seeing as overclockers are trying to take 80% of the country's cash, i suppose if OcUK sold beer, cigs and food it would be 100%.
OcUK selling beer would be a very bad idea indeed.
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I've got a P182 in use, a P193 about to be used, already built one system into it but not used it yet, and i had an original P180.
Install is not too bad, find some little quirks, there is not as much space as you first think, beware of high / tall CPU coolers, the NeroS only just fits in my P182, the Titan Fenrir wont fit. Cable space at the back of the motherboard tray is quite good, but, unless the P183 is different, no access panel for cpu mounting plates, so you have to remove the motherboard to fit them, edges and stuff are sharp so be careful, other aspects of the cable routing is, meh, so so.
Sound proofing is good, with the PSU at the bottom, if you seal off the sections better than they do (i used some foam along the seprating panels in my P193) then you can control the air flow better in the sections, no need for the lower section to get anywhere near the air flow needed for the top, or you can ramp up the bottom fan speed and direct some of it up through the cable access and directly at your GPU
Front fan mounting in the lower section is really good, they should have done that in the first place.
The P183 has the new design front for better air flow, which i think is good, but you lose the removable filters behind the doors, i'd be tempted to add some behind the door, as the built in mesh can still let a fair bit through.
Keep an eye on the expansion mounting area, i've had a couple of issues where cards have gaps under them, and if tightened down, bend the motherboard.... quality control can be a bit slack at times.
PSU selection is important, make sure the one you get has long enough cables
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PSU selection is important, make sure the one you get has long enough cables
That's a great read, thanks for the thorough review! I was quite tempted to go for one of the antec cp 850s as they're kind of custom built for this case, depends whether my current power supply will reach or not though
I can see it now...OcUK selling beer would be a very bad idea indeed.
ocUK Laga 5% Volume Alchol @ 35% Volume Overclocked - Stable (Not Deadly....yet)
/JOhnathan
