So I have £4,000 To spend,

Post by **FatherJack** » April 13th, 2008, 20:02

Um: http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=22083

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 13th, 2008, 21:20

It lies, OC'ers has all of em in stock atm unless they lies in which case I shall personally visit Stoke and ...petrol bomb em? Nail bomb? Hmmm

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » April 13th, 2008, 22:18

Vowles wrote:It lies, OC'ers has all of em in stock atm unless they lies in which case I shall personally visit Stoke and ...petrol bomb em? Nail bomb? Hmmm

Speaking from personal experience; they do lie (OcUK, that is).

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 14th, 2008, 11:38

Haha! Result, I sent 'em a horrible email this morning saying how unpleased I was at the customer service and that I had planned to use OC'ers for many of my projects but will look else where and that I would of been ringing to talk to a manager later on about how shit I've been treated (All bollocks of course) and lo-and behold! Its been dispatched!!!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 14th, 2008, 11:42

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 14th, 2008, 12:18

Just trying to grab a few days off work now :D

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » April 14th, 2008, 14:54

Vowles wrote:Haha! Result, I sent 'em a horrible email this morning saying how unpleased I was at the customer service and that I had planned to use OC'ers for many of my projects but will look else where and that I would of been ringing to talk to a manager later on about how shit I've been treated (All bollocks of course) and lo-and behold! Its been dispatched!!!

I am loathed to be pessimistic here (ok I'm not; because it's OcUK, but for Vowles' sake) however, I have had that as well. They tell you your order has been dispatched; what they fail to tell you is that the out of stock items haven't been dispatched with them, and you still have to wait.

I know OcUK has undergone an overhaul recently and Mr Proudfoot is no longer in charge of the day-to-day running of things and, in general, service does seem much improved (I bought my last rig from them without a hitch) but I still don't trust the fuckers further than I can throw them.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » April 14th, 2008, 17:25

I have no idea why people buy stuff from overclockers when theres ebuyer who beat OC on almost every price, have free shipping and send out a courier to pick up your returned items for free.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 14th, 2008, 17:35

Lee wrote:I have no idea why people buy stuff from overclockers when theres ebuyer who beat OC on almost every price, have free shipping and send out a courier to pick up your returned items for free.

Mostly I use ocock because they're cheaper (i just checked a WD 1t GP RE2 HDD, a Q6600 and a few sets of ram) all were cheaper from ocock.

ebuyer (at least, when i last used them) had free shipping that took 6 months, massive premiums on faster postage)

and RMA shipping isn't a massive concern to me, because i very, very rarely get anything DOA from ocock (currently i've had one DOA hdd from them, in 6+ years, and many thousands of pounds) on the other hand, i've had a various things arrive totally fucked from ebuyer.

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 14th, 2008, 18:07

I've had good/bad experiences with both. Ocok used to be a few pound dearer on all things, but now they regularly beat ebuyer on price.

Ebuyer once sent me my stuff a week early because they got a delivery they didn't expect, they also fucked me about over a drive that the bot arm died on, I knew it had, but they spent an age testing it when I needed the replacement. They sent me some free arctic cooling paste though.

OCOK fucked up two different orders of mine, but got them fixed quickly and sent me free stuff/said sorry.

Overall ebuyer have had more of my monies, multiple thousands in fact, and they've fucked me about less.

All in all they've both improved a lot but they still fuck you about now and then. If you use them infrequently then you may see them in a worse light because the incidence of fuck ups is higher for you.

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 15th, 2008, 21:28

Heres how my days gone so far,
Came home from work at 1pm, Bits arrived at 1:15pm.
Everything was there.
Opening everything up, installed PSU before buggering off back to work.
Came home, finished building. Booted up the first time, told me "Undetected CPU, Update your bios to unlease its powers" (*Actually said that*). But I was a smart twat and went on to try and install windows. At which point I got a lovely BSOD and then it wouldn't boot. With Berks help I went through ALOT of things nothing worked. Then I read on the ASUS forums that it trys to run things with sillyness. (Had set a Quad core to run at 1300FSB for all four cpus or something on one guys). Funnily enough, I had a Core 2 Duo lying about, put that in HEY PRESTO IT BOOTS! And its currently formatting my Raptor. (24%). Woooness,

Update #1:
Its finished formatting, copying at 50% now :D wooo

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 15th, 2008, 22:07

Yay woo for it working! Stupid boy for ignoring the message about unleashing the l33t powers of your cpu!

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 15th, 2008, 22:13

Windows is installing now (x64) and all is good. Just asked for CD-Key and everything is going just loverly! And yes, how silly of me to ignore such a potent message, but it is my first build...gotta let me off

Post by **HereComesPete** » April 15th, 2008, 22:14

Fista 64? Or XP? Because XP64 is fucking crap.

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 15th, 2008, 22:24

XP64, Had it since the day it came out and never had a quirk with it.
Finished for the night.

I installed windows, installed drivers then...flashed the bios to the newest version which "Support" my CPU (lies!), booted up. Unknown CPU detected blah blah. Tried some BIOS fiddling (setting FSB/multi and RAM settings) nothing werked. Posted on ASUS but fornow I'll use the Core 2 Duo E6300.
Overall, Im pleased... nothing was borked beyond repair :D

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 16th, 2008, 9:23

Sounds like you're having the exact same problems I had. I flashed the BIOS and it liked my CPU, but it didn't like my RAM. I checked out the site (OCZ DDR3 platinum) and it had a setup walkthrough for a similar motherboard. The auto settings are shit, it needs doing manually until they bring out a better BIOS version.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 16th, 2008, 9:33

it does look like the the bios not liking the cpu in this case, as the machine works fine on an e6300.

anyway, I still reckon it should work, if it posts, it can handle the cpu, it's just a matter of getting past the errorz.

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 16th, 2008, 10:09

Oh I can get past the error, but it hangs on loading windows. It runs fine with the 6300 for now. I'm told ASUS are working on releasing C1 bios "Soon(TM)". Only thing now is my OC'ed Graphicard isn't getting the power it needs (So nvidia says).

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 16th, 2008, 10:23

oddness.

memory and cpu voltages?

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » April 16th, 2008, 10:39

nTune can't see them. I'll have a poke in the bios. It said it lowered the settings to increase stability and had no sillies yet.
and it doesn't lie, CSS running at 14FPS.