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 Topic: MMA |
[sYn]
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 Forum: The Sports Bar Posted: Sat, 3rd Jan 2015 21:21 Subject: MMA |
| Anyone have a method to watch this tonight? I'm going out of my miiiind! |
| Topic: Wireless Streaming To TV Over Home Network From External HDD |
[sYn]
Replies: 11
Views: 1330
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sat, 27th Dec 2014 10:54 Subject: Wireless Streaming To TV Over Home Network From External HDD |
| Chromecast + PLEX (installed on your PC) would work too. |
| Topic: Headphones, noise-cancelling, neutral (for gaming). |
[sYn]
Replies: 189
Views: 34091
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Thu, 25th Dec 2014 22:36 Subject: Headphones, noise-cancelling, neutral (for gaming). |
I will when I tidy my desk  ! I presume most peoples desk look like mine but only post a picture AFTER a clean.. right... right?!
I'm currently increasing my FLAC collection and getting it setup ... |
| Topic: Headphones, noise-cancelling, neutral (for gaming). |
[sYn]
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Thu, 25th Dec 2014 11:24 Subject: Headphones, noise-cancelling, neutral (for gaming). |
My VX1 arrived (well - I got given it for christmas  !). Trying to decide between using my Sennheiser HD595's or my Bose Q125's with it.. I can't decide which of the two provide better sound :\..
... |
| Topic: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes |
[sYn]
Replies: 26
Views: 287
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Forum: The Sharing Corner Posted: Fri, 19th Dec 2014 00:10 Subject: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes |
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| Topic: RimWorld |
[sYn]
Replies: 106
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sun, 14th Dec 2014 16:53 Subject: RimWorld |
| I've seen this around for a while but didn't plan on jumping in, however, I just got a new laptop and wondered if this would run decently? How demanding is it? Is there a "demo" kicking around? |
| Topic: Is it only on my end or is the youtube really slow again? |
[sYn]
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Forum: The Useless Void Posted: Mon, 1st Dec 2014 01:49 Subject: Is it only on my end or is the youtube really slow again? |
Must be something with my provider.
vpns are slowest thing ever. Not a good idea
Depends what VPN.. It goes as fast as your bandwidth and the VPN bandwidth allows. Mines fantastic.. |
| Topic: Is it only on my end or is the youtube really slow again? |
[sYn]
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Forum: The Useless Void Posted: Sun, 30th Nov 2014 16:40 Subject: Is it only on my end or is the youtube really slow again? |
| Its probably a slowdown on your ISP ran CDN server. The issue with sites like youtube is that ISPs dont want to pay extra to their peering partners for the huge amounts of data needed to get the conte ... |
| Topic: The audio thread (renamed) |
[sYn]
Replies: 916
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Fri, 28th Nov 2014 22:28 Subject: The audio thread (renamed) |
| Thanks Shoshomiga! I've passed all of this onto the missus to make some choices! |
| Topic: The audio thread (renamed) |
[sYn]
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Fri, 28th Nov 2014 21:37 Subject: The audio thread (renamed) |
| 99% of the time I'll be using headphones but the rest of the time I'm not as fussed about audio quality. I use a good quality set of 2.1 PC speakers (some of the best you can buy although I don't reca ... |
| Topic: The audio thread (renamed) |
[sYn]
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Wed, 26th Nov 2014 00:42 Subject: The audio thread (renamed) |
| Thanks for the links! I'm not sure the budget but probably about £100? Depends on how much I plan on spending on the missus ! |
| Topic: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
[sYn]
Replies: 7
Views: 1531
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sun, 23rd Nov 2014 03:40 Subject: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
| ES1-311 - The other was just too big and had to low battery life. You're right that it would perform better but when I really thought about it, size and battery life where more important for its use. |
| Topic: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
[sYn]
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sat, 22nd Nov 2014 22:34 Subject: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
| I had a think about it and whilst I almost went for a Chromebook.. then I almost went for a HP Streamtop 14.. I ended up grabbing the Acer Aspire above. Its suits my needs and should provide enough ba ... |
| Topic: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
[sYn]
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sat, 22nd Nov 2014 19:35 Subject: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
| Moving up to the 15" and adding the CPU cuts the battery life in half, which is also a pretty big factor in what I'm after. I may well be wanting to much out of a single machine for the price I'm aimi ... |
| Topic: The audio thread (renamed) |
[sYn]
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sat, 22nd Nov 2014 18:53 Subject: The audio thread (renamed) |
| I just replaced my Sennheiser HD595's with some Bose Q25. How I lived without noise cancelling at home for this long is beyond me! Well worth the money, although it does make me sad that I wont be usi ... |
| Topic: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
[sYn]
Replies: 7
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sat, 22nd Nov 2014 18:46 Subject: Low Cost Laptop Advice |
Hey Guys!
So I'm looking at buying myself a cheap low end laptop (as well as one for the wife). She is moving from a macbook pro to a chromebook (and a new iMac in a few months) and I'm looking to ... |
| Topic: Google Inbox - Invites? |
[sYn]
Replies: 17
Views: 2033
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Forum: Applications Posted: Tue, 28th Oct 2014 02:25 Subject: Google Inbox - Invites? |
Requested one myself but nothing so far  ! |
| Topic: Theme discussion |
[sYn]
Replies: 831
Views: 86901
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Forum: Site Feedback Posted: Mon, 27th Oct 2014 20:22 Subject: Theme discussion |
| Amazing. I still feel like we're missing pictures of Barney the dinosaur though ! |
| Topic: Theme discussion |
[sYn]
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Forum: Site Feedback Posted: Sun, 26th Oct 2014 18:17 Subject: Theme discussion |
| hahaha.. I can see why we'd want to keep it, my worry is the complexity of doing just that. I don't have a clue about the internals of the PHPBB database though, surely they've accounted for this.. Ev ... |
| Topic: Theme discussion |
[sYn]
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Forum: Site Feedback Posted: Sun, 26th Oct 2014 17:56 Subject: Theme discussion |
| "]Why import the data at all? Personally I think a clean break would be good for everyone. Initial setup "cost" would be higher for the users but far lower from a back-end perspective - plus we get th ... |
| Topic: Theme discussion |
[sYn]
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Forum: Site Feedback Posted: Sun, 26th Oct 2014 13:02 Subject: Theme discussion |
| Why import the data at all? Personally I think a clean break would be good for everyone. Initial setup "cost" would be higher for the users but far lower from a back-end perspective - plus we get the ... |
| Topic: Windows 10 - because 7 8 9 [late 2015] |
[sYn]
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Forum: Operating Systems Posted: Thu, 2nd Oct 2014 00:12 Subject: Windows 10 - because 7 8 9 [late 2015] |
Sooo.. obviously I installed it.
Its pretty decent. Not much has changed since 8.1 - It feels more like the desktop OS Windows 8 should have been but frankly I had little issue with 8. The multipl ... |
| Topic: WTF??? |
[sYn]
Replies: 25
Views: 2305
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Forum: The Bitching Session Posted: Sat, 27th Sep 2014 00:40 Subject: WTF??? |
Was it Cohen?
hahaha |
| Topic: Powerline Adapter Advice |
[sYn]
Replies: 2
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sun, 21st Sep 2014 16:53 Subject: Powerline Adapter Advice |
So powerline (that I currently have works like this).
Modem -> 100Mbps Socket Powerline adapter -> 80Mbps BW powerline -> computer
I would be replacing it with:
Modem -> 1Gbps soc ... |
| Topic: Powerline Adapter Advice |
[sYn]
Replies: 2
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Forum: Hardware Zone Posted: Sat, 20th Sep 2014 19:53 Subject: Powerline Adapter Advice |
Hey Guys!
Soooo.. I'm moving rooms in my house from the large awesome office I used to have to the little shitty back room that was my daughters bedroom. Unfortunately she is getting bigger and my ... |
| Topic: Free Year of LastPass Premium |
[sYn]
Replies: 29
Views: 386
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Forum: The Sharing Corner Posted: Mon, 25th Aug 2014 18:29 Subject: Free Year of LastPass Premium |
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| Topic: Free Year of LastPass Premium |
[sYn]
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Forum: The Sharing Corner Posted: Mon, 25th Aug 2014 17:46 Subject: Free Year of LastPass Premium |
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| Topic: Free Year of LastPass Premium |
[sYn]
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Forum: The Sharing Corner Posted: Mon, 25th Aug 2014 15:10 Subject: Free Year of LastPass Premium |
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| Topic: Elementary OS |
[sYn]
Replies: 15
Views: 3764
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Forum: Operating Systems Posted: Fri, 15th Aug 2014 14:00 Subject: Elementary OS |
| finally! I'll get this installed ASAP, how is it so far? |
| Topic: Elite: Dangerous |
[sYn]
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2014 13:10 Subject: Elite: Dangerous |
| By the time ED is done, it'll be 2017 just the same. And mind you, they started before the Kickstarter; not the production, but the technical stuff was all done before it, the engine was ready to go. ... |
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