Vecha Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 Just bought a 700W PSU...as my GPU was acting up only during high-end games and would shut off during stress tests...read online that it could be due to a faulty PSU(had a 530W one). Hope this fixes it. If not...guess I'll need to get a new GPU How does this PSU hold up that I bought? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817148040 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 Got this sucker for $30 on Amazon. I cancelled my Ghost Stories order as it was over a week and they hadn't shipped it yet. Oh wait bought this for a dollar on Amazon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 Eeyup. Don't judge me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 Eeyup. Don't judge me! What the hell is a Rape Test? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 Galaxy S Advance. Kinda like an SII..but not. It arrives on Monday n I get 14 days to play with it n decide if I want to keep or not. (It'd come tommorow, which shocked me, but we've got a day out with relatives). I'll see how it goes, if not so well then on Thursday I'll swing by the row of phone shops in Darlo n see what can be done to get a SII in my pocket (since that's definitely got ICS n dev support n such, whereas the S advance is "maybe". Don't really want a gingerbread phone for next 2 years ) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 ^What are your other options? I assume you're getting that for dirt cheap and that's why you're not going for something recent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 It's more recent than the SII, only 6 months old. Any more recent and we're looking at the SIII, which is a fair bit out my price range I get it on Monday, gonna see how it plays. If not fine with the stock included* I'll throw it back Virgins way n grab a SII from either Carphone/Phones4U or Tesco. Which means either on Orange, O2 or T-Mobile, but all at same price. T-mobile SII at Tesco provides more data, so may pop through there. Clubcard points too I think. Main reason for sticking with Virgin is I get to keep my unlimited data and I know what their service is like. But hopping across means getting the SII, which is a decent phone, has ICS n custom rom support, and for about same price as current tariff, just with a bit less than I get atm (lose the unlimited data for one. I don't much care for texts n calls though) *since there's a fair chance the phone may end up without ICS or custom ROMs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 Just looked it up. Specs are worse than the SII. No Gorilla Glass. Smaller (though you might not consider that a bad thing.) Heavier despite the smaller screen. Less RAM, less internal storage. Lower quality camera (the SII camera is great so that's a bummer.) Weaker battery. Remember: Newer isn't better when you change device tiers. On older high-end device is likely to beat out a newer mid-range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 Faiblesse, I've been looking through most of the android phones on the market for the past month or so. I could tell you the specs of a dozen phones with my eyes closed. I know the specs on the Advance, didn't need you repeating them . I'm well aware of the differences between the phones, and also that older high end stuff can beat out newer mid range. And I'm not changing tiers, not live I'm going from a Nexus to a Galaxy Y or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 You're going from high to mid IMO. Though you're definitely not going from high to low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 My Wildfire is nowhere near high end, wasn't when I got it and certainly isn't now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 7, 2012 Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 Comparing the Galaxy SII to the Galaxy S Advance If you're going to be using a device for two years, I would highly recommend the one with higher specs and with far better support. 2 years is a long time to have a mid-level phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted July 9, 2012 Report Share Posted July 9, 2012 Just bought PS+, I've been debating it for a long while, and now that I have a full time job on salary I decided that I could afford the yearly cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 $3 download on Amazon MP3 today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 WOTC board game for $2 at the thrift shop. Plays like Monopoly with combat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 Got meself a Galaxy Note. I was going to post in here earlier, I apologise for the confusion in the Status post, but the image wasn't working just showing the "broken image" icon (I assume a bug in Android Chrome). It's pretty sweet. Few quirks here n there as part of Touchwiz I'll have to get used to for a while (until CM9/10 is stable on Note). My god is the screen fucking sweet. Few scaling quirks in a couple apps though. For example I use Reddit is Fun and the Action bar on it shows less buttons than it did on my 3" Wildfire. But other than that great. Currently copying across a film to test it out for that (wasn't really something I'd been able to do before). ICS is nice too. Oh a cool addition is that I gave it a boot up and it asked which network I was on, and the choices being T-mobile n Virgin. I'm on Virgin atm(got a couple days and it ends then I can PAC code my number across) so I'm currently on my old sim, while I had been thinking I'd be on my wildfire for a few extra days when out n about. So that was handy. Currently hopping between keyboards too (though a nice handy feature is when typing I get an option pop up in the shade to quickly swap keyboards. So atm I'm popping between Swiftkey when in portrait n Hacker Keyboard (a replica of a full PC keyboard) in landscape as n when the situation requires. Will be swapping between a few apps as I find once that play nice with ICS n the Note. Oh n here's the forum on the Note in Chrome: Chrome has a nice thing where if you tap on a spot that could be one of a couple of links it makes a pop-up magnified area so you can click the one you want. So it's perfectly usable this far zoomed out. I'll probably throw something up on my blog in the coming weeks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 Are notes still running GB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 Are notes still running GB? ICS is nice too....... Will be swapping between a few apps as I find once that play nice with ICS n the Note. ...... Oh n here's the forum on the Note in Chrome: Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Oh, so it still looks like GB just like Sense 3.6 (the ICS version of Sense 3.) Gotcha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Grab them while I was cooling off from my bike ride to the Farmer's Market. I'm missing #4 so the guy at the comic shop is going to try to get an order in since I took the last #1 as well. I think Marceline and the Scream Queens just came out this week so time for a wait on that... not to mention waiting for a Bluray Season 1-3 of Adventure Time. The DVD just came out but no word about any Blurays which is totally not math. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 I think DVD is all we can hope for. Considering it's going to be forever until we get The Complete Second Season, the only possibility of a Blu-ray is a Complete Series Collection. That, my fellow adventurer, could be years away. Though I don't have a photo of it, I did get The Complete First Season today. Well, it finally arrived today as I got it off Amazon for $7.98. The UPS guys are super tricky here. If I wasn't 10 feet from the door, I wouldn't have heard the guy knocking. It's not like he needed my signature though, and I imagine delivering a tiny DVD case isn't such a high priority in his route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Stuff from Amazon are just dropped off. Well, that is how it works for all the time I had gotten stuff from Amazon. And yes, I understand that a Bluray version may never come but I am holding out. This is 2012 damn it! I'll eat Kickstarter pie if I have to to get it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 It depends on if they tell the delivery service that it requires a signature or not. On many sites you can put "no signature required" in the comments and they'll just leave stuff at your door. UPS has some pretty convenient features nowadays with free texts and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Oh, so it still looks like GB just like Sense 3.6 (the ICS version of Sense 3.) Gotcha. Welcome to the world of not being a nit picky bastard while grabbing stock photos off the web. In fact looking at the image that I assume you're talking of being GB it looks pretty much exact same as my phone does atm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 http://db.tt/B0HjOtFH For my sisters birthday. The other two died (illness maybe, not sure on second. Maybe died from the loss). So two female replacements; Eliza and Rapunzel. Only one bought by me mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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