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thank you for your help i will get the measurements for the cards tonight

starting to think Asrock just slapped it on there to charge more. looking at the setups above it has a usb above the first sli with PCie 1x so the bottom graphics card would never have a space in any matx case as you can see where the northbridge is is where the first slot is so no...

Hi i got a thermaltake matx case but recently fitted a asrock 970m pro which has corossfire on it. however there is no way i can use 2 graphics cards in this case. no room as most cards now use 2 pci slots. is there a matx case that is more ideal for using 2 cards in crossfire as i...

ok just so others know yes you can use 3 monitors with the Dvi HDMI and DP ports. given the cost of a splitter hub i have the 4th running through 1 usb display so all good.

i wasn't sure if it would work as its expensive one of those displayport hubs its not like its a £5 risk out of my pension which is why i asked the question. i had already purchased 2 usb3 graphics things and can only use 1 as the drivers conflict even with other brands versions.

out of interest i just bought a Displayport to VGA adapter so if i can use the hdmi/DVI/Displayport to run 3 screens then the usb 3 vga adapter if its possible i will report back

i got a athlonx4 860k and a FX8350 the FM2 board doesnt have a built in gpu and the AM3 board has a HD3000 series built in which windows 10 doesnt support I have tried those USB3 display adaptors and while ok for 1 extra screen they dont work well for 4. the drivers on them conflict...

Hi i bought a RX460 4gb which is a great little card, however i find myself needing to be able to power 4 screens as part of a work station. I dont need anything in pureview etc i just need to have 4 screens with extended desktops on them. I notice a display port which can be split...

just in case someone looking for the same information comes to this post : I bought one for harvesting. The product box says it's made in China. The drive inside is a Toshiba MD04ACA500 made in the Philippines. Bare drive is a standard SATA, and the system reports it as 7200 RPM. Blackmagic...

Thank you both. The support this forum offers is second to none even for an old ah heck like me Now just need to find out when the wife will be out next week Bingo has its uses

Just looking on ebuyer http://www.ebuyer.com/632162-toshiba-5tb-canvio-desktop-hard-drive-hdwc250ek3j1 cheap as chips per TB its a con they can charge so much for internal drives yet so little for external this is basically what i am trying to fill with the 2.5" drives the problem i...

no way of finding out like some sort of list which drives as basics just pluged into a PCB sorry for the questions i just want to fill up the drive bays without spending £1000 when £200 the external route could get me 4x2TB 2.5" drives for the IcyBox and £200 could get me...

sorry lol i wasnt clear, if i break out the Hard drives from the external cases and use them as normal hard drives i didnt have my glasses on ( dont tell nanna ) they have benefit from the internal cooling fans of the pc then as well

after the great advice this forum has given me i went for a server pc in the house. using Linux Mint 18 which although is a desktop environment in the laptop server testing has been fine for my needs. all in i am about £120 in HP8000 SFF ( Laugh away ) as i upgraded a fair bit after...

Ah. So to keep costs down I could use a mitx build? And pop free NAS on it? I am yet to sample any of the open source os building that fx8350 has given me the bug for this stuff again. OK so quick look on Amazon As this needs to be low power as possible. Amd athlon 5350 quad core...