http://forums.cclonline.com/ Discuss general hardware, your next purchase or anything computer related en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:28:47 GMT vBulletin 10 http://forums.cclonline.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.cclonline.com/ http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15389-Recommend-a-laptop-charger-PSU&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:54:21 GMT I just wanted to hear your advise for a laptop charger for this: Fujitsu Siemens AMILO PRO V3505 http://uk.ts.fujitsu.com/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/lifebook/AMILO/Amilo-Pro/Downloads/ds_amilo_pro_v3505_july_aug.pdf This might help: Power supply I just wanted to hear your advise for a laptop charger for this:

Fujitsu Siemens
AMILO PRO V3505

http://uk.ts.fujitsu.com/rl/services...5_july_aug.pdf

This might help:

Power supply
1st
Li-Ion battery 6 cell 10.8V or 11.1V, 4400mAh (48Wh)
Battery runtime:
First battery * (Mobile Mark 2002) [up to]
AC adapter 19V/65W Adapter
Rated voltage (AC input) 100 - 240 V
Rated frequency 50 - 60 Hz
DC output 19 V, 3.42 A
AC adapter 20V/65W Adapter
Rated voltage (AC input) 100 - 240 V
Rated frequency 50 - 60 Hz
DC output 20 V, 3.25 A


many thanks in advance :)

I've seen some cheap ones on everybodys fave auction site, unbranded though which puts me off, but do the same rules apply like when buying a desktop PSU that you should avoid cheap tat.

I ask cos I dont want to spend a lot on this old laptop.
The one that was originally supplied was Li-Shin branded??? ]]> General Hardware Powdered Toast Man http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15389-Recommend-a-laptop-charger-PSU http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15383-Cheapest-bundle-for-home-server&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:58:08 GMT Having spent best part of a day trying combinations of ram, hdd, optical drive and media source I've came to the conclusion that my ASUS Athlon XP rig is finally dead. After years of issue-free computing an attempted install of Linux seems to have nuked it.

So it looks like I need a new mobo/cpu/memory.

Needs to have:

1. onboard gfx (or be a pci gfx card cheaper than the rest)
2. 4 or more SATA ports for 2 RAID 1 disk sets. Doesn't need to have RAID though as I could software RAID it since most onboard RAID setups are fake-RAID.
3. Gigabit network would be a benefit - or have a std PCI slot free.

I thought about using my current PC hardware and buying new for my PC, but it doesn't look like hardware has advaned enough for a budget bundle to be better than my current hardware. Correct?

Appreciate peoples experiece with the budget mobos - stability, driver issues etc. ]]> General Hardware Hellcat http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15383-Cheapest-bundle-for-home-server http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15373-Electrical-noise&goto=newpost Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:35:17 GMT Hello, I was in CCL returning some ram the other day and happened across a PC in there. It was a water cooled monster based around a socket 775 asus board with a Q9400 quad core CPU and a GT220. My boss was after a pc so after a quick call and an emptying of my bank into the CCL till I walked... Hello,

I was in CCL returning some ram the other day and happened across a PC in there. It was a water cooled monster based around a socket 775 asus board with a Q9400 quad core CPU and a GT220. My boss was after a pc so after a quick call and an emptying of my bank into the CCL till I walked out with that plus a Nvidia 460 card (Palit)

Now I dropped it off today and my boss has got it all setup with the 460 and when he is inside a game the GFX card is making odd noises, the tone, frequency and pitch change depending on what is currently been displayed. Once he dumps out of the game back 2D the noises stop. He's put the GT220 back in and it doesn't produce the noises.

Please bear in mind that the symptoms are been described 2nd hand so to speak as I haven't seen the beast turned on.

Any ideas?

Faulty card maybe?

Cheers for any help

Will ]]> General Hardware wej1976 http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15373-Electrical-noise http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15369-Help-with-my-pc-with-water-cooling-%21%21&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:19:42 GMT i've just brough & fitted the Corsair H50-1 Hydro Series CPU Cooler to my system & im wouding if it's running right

with my old setup on the heatsink & fan i was getting 60 63c when playing games ( battlefeild bc2 )

with the Corsair h50 it has gone down to 50 55c now the since the switch from heatsink to water cooler my mother bored temp has gone right up to over 40C what it naver did with the heat sink is this right

Help lol any advice would be great :) :)

AMD pheonom II x4 945 3.0 ghz
asus m2n68-am plus mobo
4gig a Ram nvidia 8800gtx xx 768mb
425 w hyper psu windows XP home ]]> General Hardware RoGuE(uk) http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15369-Help-with-my-pc-with-water-cooling-%21%21 http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15366-ssd&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:52:00 GMT so...i've got to go shopping for a monitor, keyb + mousey. figure while i'm at it i ought to consider a ssd...pretty sure ccl had a great deal a month or so ago....and i missed it. had a quick look at ebay, am i missing something here? so the performance isn't gonna be as great as one of the newer drives..but it's got to be 1000x faster than my 7200rpm sata drives...hasn't it?
as with many here, i am a yorkshireman and my cash is covered in treacle, so it's hard to prize out of my fingers...looking for a real bargain :) ]]> General Hardware tony http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15366-ssd http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15360-wife-wants-a-pc&goto=newpost Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:06:07 GMT so...wifey wants a computer because her laptop cuts off the last little bit of the farmville screen (honestly!).
marc had his pc for sale and i pointed it out to her, but she decided it was too expensive and she'd be ok anyway..blah, blah, blah.

now that PC is sold she realises that farmville is important enough to her to spend money on, bugger feeding the kids and all that crap, so i need to get involved to keep costs low.

as i'm moving out and taking my pc with me (which was gonna have some parts from marcs thrown in if she'd had the sense to buy it together).
so...i dumped my spare parts onto freecycle a while ago, need a fairly low-spec pc capable of running...er...farmville and facebook chat, + monitor etc..., cheap as chips (lcd monitor only though)
advice welcome as always, 2nd hand is certainly an option to keep costs down. OS not required as i still have vista keys from my brief technet subscription...which she will be using for testing purposes only :P ]]> General Hardware tony http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15360-wife-wants-a-pc http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15359-New-PC-DarkFilter&goto=newpost Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:04:20 GMT Im looking for a new pc for college thats going to last 3 years hopefully
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...urer_id=0&tid=
i need it to mannage Picture edditing/CS5
CAD/CAM support
and hopefully good ventilation ]]> General Hardware DarkFilter http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15359-New-PC-DarkFilter http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15343-How-would-you-upgrade-this-system&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:03:26 GMT Current system is as follows (built by CCL ~2 years ago):

Gigabyte EP45-DS3 motherboard
Core 2 duo E8500 o'clocked at 3.61 GHz
3GB Corsair XMS2 RAM
Radeon HD4850 512MB graphics card
Windows Vista 32bit Home OS
ASUS 19" monitor (VW series) running at native res of 1440 x 900


The main purpose of upgrading is for the release of FFXIV next month. I've been looking at various options available for upgrading, but can't seem to settle on anything.

Option 1.... Get the best (or better) Quad core processor that my current MB supports. Best is the QX9770, but even second hand these are £300 on ebay. You can forget new prices on one of those, absolutely mind boggling! A new Q9550 perhaps? CCL have these at £250. Or a lower spec Quad core maybe? I've Googled "E8500 versus X Quad" and the arguments tend to go with the E8500. But a lot of those threads are knocking on two years old when games didn't utilise Quad core technology. FFXIV will utilise this of course. I'd need to uppgrade the graphics too to Radeon 5850 or above.

Option 2.... Stick with the dual core and just upgrade the Graphics card to a Radeon 5850 and o'clock it. Cheapest option. Leaves field clear to upgrade further if need be. I feel the 4850 I currently have is the weakest point of the system anyway. But this alone is likely to give little performance boost. Thoughts?

Option 3.... Go for a new build with i5 or i7 processor. Preferably o'clocked to ~4.0 GHz. Of course this will need a new graphics card too. This is the big bucks option. I would also need a new OS as my Vista will be detected as being in a new system. So probably go Windows 7 under this option.


Don't really wanna go with #3 if I can help it for obvious wallet emptying reasons. Part of me feels silly upgrading for one game, but I've put 5.5 years into FFXI. :p So forget the game... how would you upgrade it?


EDIT: I've already set aside ~£200 on a new monitor. That 1440 x 900 display doesn't cut it any more. :) ]]> General Hardware DBrown67 http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15343-How-would-you-upgrade-this-system http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15342-Q-re-CCL-branded-PC&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:08:14 GMT Hi,

I bought a CCL branded entry level system in Jan 2009. This was for a friend - and they are asking for a graphics upgrade. Well, I gave them all the docs - and they can't find them.

Q: does the system take PCI-express cards? My purchase confirmation says this is a:

CCL Value AMD PC System Base Unit (No OS) AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
2GB RAM / 320GB HDD

- the present graphics is an on-board ATI Radeon 1200.

Thanks!

brodders ]]> General Hardware brodders http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15342-Q-re-CCL-branded-PC http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15341-Random-Shutdowns&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:21:17 GMT Hi, now and then, my Pc randomly shutsdown. No Shutdown sequence, it just completely turns off, and i can then turn it back on and boot it up normal without any problems until it does it again, but when i go into the bios, it says that my cpu is at 110 Degrees Celsius. Now this seems that this is a... Hi, now and then, my Pc randomly shutsdown. No Shutdown sequence, it just completely turns off, and i can then turn it back on and boot it up normal without any problems until it does it again, but when i go into the bios, it says that my cpu is at 110 Degrees Celsius. Now this seems that this is a overheating problem with my cpu, is there any tips on how to fix this?
Thanks. ]]> General Hardware Reddax http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15341-Random-Shutdowns http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15340-ATi-is-no-more&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:44:18 GMT ......well sort of.

AMD has announced plans to drop the name ATi from it's graphics cards range.

http://fwd4.me/bRy ]]> General Hardware diddler1979 http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15340-ATi-is-no-more http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15333-PC-Price-Check&goto=newpost Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:04:21 GMT Hi I am looking to sell this computer to get a new and better one. I am just wondering how much you think I could get for it since I have no idea. Also anybody know good places to sell? Specs: CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8Ghz RAM - 3.0GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 200MHz Motherboard - WinFast... Hi
I am looking to sell this computer to get a new and better one. I am just wondering how much you think I could get for it since I have no idea. Also anybody know good places to sell?

Specs:
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8Ghz
RAM - 3.0GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 200MHz
Motherboard - WinFast 6150M2MA (Socket AM2)
Graphics Card - 256MB GeForce 8800 GT
HDD - 156GB ExcelStor Technology J8160 ATA Device (IDE)
Optical Drive - LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163 ATA Device
Optical Drive - TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222A ATA Device
Power Supply - 330W Seasonic
Case - Sagitta Gaming Case

Thanks :) ]]> General Hardware sooty1892 http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15333-PC-Price-Check http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15324-Capturing-Gameplay-Revised&goto=newpost Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:35:43 GMT I have decided to chase one of my long dreams for a year now and start capturing gameplay for the xbox360, and now i have announced this ive been getting loads of questions and answers that are very misleading, so with the New thread, i will be stating all in here, My current option- is to... I have decided to chase one of my long dreams for a year now and start capturing gameplay for the xbox360, and now i have announced this ive been getting loads of questions and answers that are very misleading, so with the New thread, i will be stating all in here,

My current option- is to start of capturing SD footage till i build an audience? i think it is very strategic to do that but different opinions say that Hd is better for building an audience... which i dont belive....
( i will be re-edditing this current option as things go along in this thread so new posters can get and be relivent)

The Current system i have: Samsung R5300, DualCore 2.2ghz, 2gb Ram, 250gb HDD

I would probably like a new system for this, but currently people have said not to if i am capturing Sd to start of with, then cash out when going hd, which i agree too, ass i dont have that much money currently i need to buy a new AV-Reciver(the old one uses to much power, plus it overheats like a bish, aswell as to pay for, my over pending electric bill.... ]]> General Hardware DarkFilter http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15324-Capturing-Gameplay-Revised http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15323-Help-choosing-new-computer-plz&goto=newpost Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:23:23 GMT Hi
I currently have a 5 year old computer which won't run some of my new high spec games so I am going to build new a computer. I am just not sure what works best and is compatible with what.
My computer now has a 2.8Ghz AMD Athlon processor, WinFast 6150M2MA motherboard, 3GB DDR2 RAM, rubbish graphics card, IDE hard drive and optical drives and I am not sure what power supply and cooling.
I have £600 at the most to spend and am looking for at least 3Ghz processor, 1GB graphics card and a good motherboard and obviously a hard drive and optical drive.
Please be creative, thanks ]]> General Hardware sooty1892 http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15323-Help-choosing-new-computer-plz http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15318-Captureing-Game-Play-Edditing-Rig&goto=newpost Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:16:44 GMT I need a Rig for £500 that is very capable of capturing gameplay, and editing... Im currently looking at a basic i3 setup I need a Rig for £500 that is very capable of capturing gameplay, and editing...
Im currently looking at a basic i3 setup ]]> General Hardware DarkFilter http://forums.cclonline.com/showthread.php?15318-Captureing-Game-Play-Edditing-Rig