PC Tech Thread

CD's? DVD's? I feel like I'm 27 again, this thread is a time warp, no wheres my White Star cider?

I'm using a couple of these at the moment for Linux development machines. I'm really impressed. They're just rebadged Gigabyte pockits.

I'm going to buy a third for TV use. I'll let you know how I get on.

Windows 8.1?

throws things

Mine came with Win10.... can't remember if I've done the anniversary update tho...

Pockit looks a winner.

Their Celeron units are half the price of their i3 one:
https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechpockithdnpi17.html

Wonder how it compares to the faster boxes in real terms?

I dunno what the comparison would be, surely it's just better to buy the fastest best thing?

Yeah, that's why I was looking at the Intel boxes. They test fast.
If you wanted cheap though, go properly cheap.

wasn't @spotter selling a little media machine?

Bought and gone, sorry.

I have one of these if you can find one:

http://www.ebuyer.com/735868-zoostorm-delta-pico-desktop-pc-7260-3043

popped a 512gb ssd in and 8gb of ram and its great for media playing needs. Plays 1080p no problems, I got a small USB external soundcard so could get DTS optical audio over vanilla stereo but that's its only short coming for media playing imo. I even play some basic games on it like FEZ.

That's cool!

thank heavens (and mike hunt) for that.

Pappa bless

Would it run Zwift?

Zwift

not very well i suspect, too much 3D

trainer road?

I could get it running on my shitty nvidia card but with the nvidia drivers enabled I'd get a blue screen in a matter of minutes so I disabled it. I'll get something with more grunt.

trainer road?

Not a clue, without knowing the min spec of the software.

tbh. I don't know why I asked that. it was an automatic response.
turbo training

So... Anyone else waiting for the Ryzen chips before splashing cash on Kaby Lake?

Unsubscribe button is just over there, sweetie.

No fucking way! you and PC stuff is as much lol's as @ChainBreaker and his Chromecast / Neighbour posts.

Happy to help.

No, we're going carb free for Feb.

Mine are the celeron models.

I'm just testing openelec on one. Plays h264 4k ok which is pretty much the toughest test a box connected to a TV will see.

I'm not sure I'd bother with an i3 model. Mine compile C++ fairly nicely too. Definitely faster than the cheap VPS instances I was using before anyway.