Motherboard Deals & Offers

If a deal becomes expired it should be marked as expired; as was the case here. If at some point in the future it becomes available again it can be unexpired as long as somebody else hasn't reposted it.

See I don't understand the rules here. So can you please point me at the one that allows a new deal to supersede a previous deal where the item has gone out of stock then come back in stock again, like this. Why isn't my deal just unexpired and the other guys not allowed?

Already been reposted I'm afraid https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/toshiba-exceria-m302-64gb-micro-sd-memory-card-amazon-1198-prime-1593-non-prime-2956053

Deal back on. Unexpired

It went out of stock, they must have got a shipment in today

Not sure, however I do know that Seagate make it VERY difficult to return a drive to them for refund; if you cannot return via the people you bought it from, you are screwed. Why?? Because they specify a HDD packaging box that can only be bought in packs of 200; and that I have never seen sold "Retail" individually. The 200 pack costs far more than most consumer HDDs, and returning a faulty drive in anything else - even the HDD box it came in; and you dont get a refund OR replacement. For this reason, I dont buy Seagate; in fact the only Seagate drives I have laid hands on in the last 10 years are ones that family and friends got inside pre-built systems, all of which died.

I was told by Seagate that warranty is from date of manufacture and not date of purchase.... i.e. I paid through the nose for an Enterprise and got less than 5 years warranty. Is this the same with other manufacturers?

Seagate HDD drives are the most unreliable on the market - hence so many recertified offers popping up on here. Western Digital failure rates are about 25% of Seagates, and Hitachi failure rates are about 1% of Seagates. (Toshiba rates are somewhere inbetween WD and Hitachi). Which brand do you really want to trust your data to??

SEAGATE Backup Plus Portable Hard Drive - 2 TB, Black - £66.99 Would be this be a better buy? I've seen videos on YouTube that show easy disassembly. Then the old drive could be used as smaller external drive. Does anyone have one and are the 2018 ones easy open and more importantly are the drives Sata? or have they changed them since the YouTube vids seem old. currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/data-storage/external-hard-drives/seagate-backup-plus-portable-hard-drive-2-tb-black-21862389-pdt.html?intcmpid=display~RR P:)

Depends on the game too i guess

I'm pretty sure you just top up £40 with the barcode Amazon creates at any paypoint , then the £10 automatically gets added to your account. Maybe this particular item is excluded ? I've not read the T&Cs on it tbh , but it's worked fine for me on a previous order.

Please enlighten as i’ve read this in the terms; “Top Up orders placed online at Amazon.co.uk are excluded from this Offer.”

Here: 40 top

£40 top ???

Why are you comparing the 3U cooler to a 2U cooler? Check out how much smaller the NH-L9x65 is. The wraith prism is actually pretty tall for a box cooler. NH-L9I CPU COOLER LOW PROFILE - 92MM is the cooler that matches up against the Wraith at height and 'price'. Anyway, I don't think there is anything to add. If you think it looks pretty and have cornered yourself into buying a 30 quid mediocre 'aftermarket' cooler for some shoddily designed case, whatever floats your boat.

We we never talking about using it with a 2700x, it was the opposite. We were discussing other people paying £30 for one. When questioned why anybody would do this (and they clearly have) it is because anything equivalent (NH-L9x65) costs more, performs similar and doesn't look as nice. There are plenty of small cases where a tower cooler or AIO are not suitable.

Have a look here for some low profile, value, and quality, options. The wraith prism is in the 3U category, FYI. But anyway, if you've constructed a situation where you need a 3U or less cooler that has pretty lights, ok? If someone has A) Bad airflow and B) No space in their case for their 2700x CPU, I would *severely question* what they are doing putting such a nice and expensive CPU in such a bad case. Low profile cases don't need to have 'bad airflow' for starters. It feels like you've concocted a viable situation just for arguments sake, rather than a typical situation.

But the only similar one you found was the NH-L9x65. It may well cool better but clearly doesn't look as good. If you need a box type cooler it is another option (if you can find one). An AIO would only work if you mount it directly above the CPU socket. This would likely make it taller and not as good as the box cooler. AIO are good but require good airflow round the case to keep the VRM's cool. If this is not an likely an option if you are looking at box type coolers. AIO, tower, low profile and box coolers are all there for a situation. Being able to get hold of this AMD one just adds to the options you have. Nothing more nothing less.

Oh just stop, this is just untruth and really unneeded. The cooler works fine, it's better, marginally, than the Intel stock cooler and RGBs. This is all fine, but the point of the conversation is that it isn't worth 30 quid, and when comparing to other coolers (Hyper evo 212 at 20 quid) it doesn't stand up. Also, 3.6 GHZ is quite low for an OC, the chips go to 3.9 all cores relatively easily and 4.0 if you get lucky in the silicon lottery, so talking about a 3.6ghz OC on the Wratih Spire is not very good.

They don't come as 4 or 5TB models.

I said earlier in post go for seagate firequda because they are top of the range ones and free 5 years warranty.

You need with 5 years warranty if you use for cctv. I was dull when bought with 2 years and had to replace after 2.5 years.

Thanks for the advice @RiverDragon8 & @wizk1 Does anybody know what hard drives comes as standard in the VM TIVO boxes?

WD Discontinued their green line for 3.5" hard drives. For surveillance, I agree with the recommendation for purple.

Are these cards low profile

There are rumours but nothing confirmed. Remember people were saying this about the 8th generation chips for about a year. If you need a new card, buy one.

I'll be very pleasantly surprised if there's an 1160 released in two months. I'm in the market for a new GPU as mine has decided to visit the great scrapheap in the sky but I'm really not convinced we'll see the new 'mid range' series of Nvidia GPU's until Christmas. Sounds as though the 1180 (or whatever the top end might be labeled this time around) might be on the way with all of the recent rumours, though.

The 11 series is imminent. This is not some "If you keep on waiting, you'll never buy" situation. This is two year old tech that'll be replaced in the next two months.

I have a gtx 1060 (a full size dual slot one) and found it underwhelming for the money. Not that it's a bad card, it's just considering the difference in price between the xx60 models in previous gens and this one, well I was disappointed.

This is NOT 235.99 - please expire this

Are these Gpu’s low profile

My bad sorry I thought you were saying it.

It wasnt my review you numpty. Thats the first reviee on amazon for that card.

Your joking right? So your shooting a gpu down because the out of box driver cd (which isn't kept up to date) didn't work and the box was plain... Ignoring this guys comments I'd recommend anyone to buy the KFA2 series gpus. They are known as Galax in Europe and work perfectly fine.

In terms of speed and quality it is the same. The Sandisk "plus" is just their most basic drive and competes with other less well known brands. Their better quality SSD is the "Ultra" and "Pro", but these cost more and cannot compete with Crucial or Samsung.

£10 more than similar spec and quality from other brands.

Sandisk • Sequential read speeds of up to 530MB/s. Sequential write speeds of up to 310MB/s. Integral • Sequential Read up to 560MB/s , Write up to 540MB/s other than that they are much of a muchness

Fair enough! As it would seem by the cold votes.

Not much in it, but the sandisk certainly isnt worth £10+ more. (40% more!)

i reckon its cos bobo is a french word... as well as a clown :p

You. Make. Me. SICK :p (lol) (y) well done :D

so, does it mean I am the lucky winner this week!!! Sorry for the one that could not make it. Did anyone else made it?? A big thank you to the OP Also, let me point out that my win is everybody win on HUKD, we need to be in to WIN edit: DONE

Ah well. Was worth a shot (:I nothing lost nothing gained.

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This over MESH?

It doesn't. You need the 3200 version for that. I don't care at the moment.

so this doesn't have MU-MIMO but does that really matter?

Most likely interference. The BT hub isn’t as smart as it says it is, I had a similar issue solved by simply changing the channel in the hub menu manually. Type 192.168.l.254 into a browser and use login info on the back of the router. If you have an Iphone the Apple airport utitility app has a nifty simple trick of checking channels on nearby networks if you have the same channel as one of them it could be the issue. You want to choose a channel that you don’t see as often (or preferably at all) in the list to lessen any interference. There are lots of other ways of checking nearby channels. You may have already tried this step. Hope this helps. Edit: If this doesn’t work then I recommend a full factory reset and if no joy it is probably a hardware issue.