The TPU UK Clubhouse

[cheesy999]

I hate when people start to turn others pain into their own, its pretty narcissistic. When you only care about someones death or someones anguish because you lose out on something is pretty selfish, someones dead and you can only think of yourself is pretty selfish. That is what i meant.

I wonder if you could donate the rig to a charity of some sort rather than give it to a forum member?

i don't think their are many charities that would know what to do with a rig,, we need to find a balance (we can't give it to someone for selfish reasons but we can't give it to someone who's just going to sell it on so they can get money)

i suggest it would be a forum member so we can trust them not to just sell it on for their own profit, at the end of the day there would be no point in building this if we gave it to someone and it ended up on ebay a week later, At the end of the day i'm sure MK Mods would want this rig to be placed somewhere where it would help people the most

 

[MilkyWay]

Hmmn i do understand because if its kept in the community you can at least keep in touch.

Sorry i forgot to use a quote i was replying to FreedomEclipse. The other part was just a suggestion. Giving a rig away isnt shelfish at all its pretty commendable.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

i'm sure we can find someone who's PC has melted or something.

i think it would be nice if we made it a member of tpu though cause then we could keep track of it, maybe making it the build of misfortune, if something bad happens to a TPU member we can lend it out for a month or so until they have a chance to build their own again - having it as a sort of rescue service for any unlucky TPU members might be nice (if their house burns down or their PC gets stolen we give it to them for a while until they have the funds to build their own.

Firstly -- as a techie, I own and run about 3-4 machines. (I work on 2-3 systems when sitting at my desk) I think most techies have enough spare parts thrown under their bed to do a quick 30min build off, if not then most techies would definitely have more then 1 PC, and no one said it had to be in the same location as the other.

Secondly -- unless theres a UK TPU member with a car whose happy to drive a few hours to deliver the PC (I vote for Tatty & his Jaguar XF...) shipping fees Via Courier will be expensive, Even for a M-ATX system.

So its a good idea. but not a real great one.

 

[MilkyWay]

Exactly what i was meaning Freedom, its a great idea but not very practical.

 

[cheesy999]

Firstly -- as a techie, I own and run about 3-4 machines. (I work on 2-3 systems when sitting at my desk) I think most techies have enough spare parts thrown under their bed to do a quick 30min build off, if not then most techies would definitely have more then 1 PC, and no one said it had to be in the same location as the other.

Secondly -- unless theres a UK TPU member with a car whose happy to drive a few hours to deliver the PC (I vote for Tatty & his Jaguar XF...) shipping fees Via Courier will be expensive, Even for a M-ATX system.

So its a good idea. but not a real great one.

those are some very good points you have made, but its also raised a valid point even if we just give it to one member, we are probably going to need someone to donate 'transport' eg money for Currier fee or even them driving it somewhere or else scaminatrix is gonna get stuck with a £60 bill from the royal mail whilst whoever we are giving it to has to wait 3 million years(average delivery time for royal mail according to red dwarf)

@keiran - one missed quote and the whole thread goes mental for 5 mins

also is it just me but the forum seem to be experiencing errors theirs no automatic updating and its labelling my own posts as 'by another user' i also can't log in if i use my phone

 

[MilkyWay]

Sorry

Could set the rig as a folder/cruncher or something, even untill at least you got somewhere to give it a home.

 

[cheesy999]

Could set the rig as a folder/cruncher or something

that could be a good idea, a dedicated WCG cruncher would seem better suited but only at this point as we don't know what gpu it will have

 

[KieX]

Already PM'd Scam, got GPU and HDD covered.

I think the sensible thing is to look for someone locally that needs it. One option is to look at schools or local charities/non-profit organisations that help kids. I'm sure a small chat with a librarian or town hall person can point you in the right direction.

Hell you could probably even go down to your local hospital and ask them if they know of any local centres that help children that could do with a computer.

I'll end up making a riddle typing, but guess what I'm really trying to say is that you don't need to look far to find someone in need. And knowing who/what this rig will go to/toward also helps in making it a purposeful venture.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Good, then its agreed that we all dig under Tattys house, build a small carpark/basement down there, Confenscate liberate tattys XF, mod it into This:

Or This

then proceed to kidnap Tatty, stick him in the basement, get a cat and brainwash him into thinking his names Alfred, while we the elite team of techies phone up this dude

(Jason Statham) and offer him a job....

Questions anyone??

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I love it when a plan comes together....

 

[cheesy999]

I think the sensible thing is to look for someone locally that needs it. One option is to look at schools or local charities/non-profit organisations that help kids. I'm sure a small chat with a librarian or town hall person can point you in the right direction.

Hell you could probably even go down to your local hospital and ask them if they know of any local centres that help children that could do with a computer.

I'll end up making a riddle typing, but guess what I'm really trying to say is that you don't need to look far to find someone in need. And knowing who/what this rig will go to/toward also helps in making it a purposeful venture.

could be an option but it would make the rig complete overkill for a school, the most intense things that happen in a school can be done on core 2's with integrated intel gfx, a hospital could probably do with it though, as the medical imaging they do is very intensive, (look at Nvidia saying hospitals are using cuda), the closed environment(nothing more then word processing and excel) means that schools and libraries would have no real use for the equipment we'd be giving them (so yes a hospital could be a really good idea or maybe a charity (one that does research and would need the computer, we don't want them to sell it as soon as they've got it)

@freedom - i still prefer the one from batman begins http://img218.imageshack.us/i/batmobile1bj5.jpg/ its less of a car, more of a tank but it could cause way more destruction then those other 2

 

[Fourstaff]

Questions anyone??

Can we get his daughters too? Also, how are we going to get to Tatty's house? Public transport strikes every other day, and closes on the rest :/ No money for taxi either

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I hated the 'tank' in batman begins... that ruined the complete movie for me.

its cool they are moving away from the original designs and such, But i loved the look of the previous batmobiles.

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And no we cannot have Tattys daughters! they are too good for you!

 

[cheesy999]

I hated the 'tank' in batman begins... that ruined the complete movie for me.

its cool they are moving away from the original designs and such, But i loved the look of the previous batmobiles.

they need to let you drive the batmobile in the next batman games, sort of a grand theft auto style (get in the car, go somewhere,fight people, repeat)

 

[Bo$$]

the elite team of techies

we need a better name than that man

 

[scaminatrix]

Ideally, a member here would know/live near the person who the rig's going to. This would make it easy for us to ship the bits to the user, so he can assemble it and pass it on. Saves building a rig and then shipping it. At least that way, the case will be the worst part to ship, but it would be lighter than an assembled rig.

 

[cheesy999]

Ideally, a member here would know/live near the person who the rig's going to. This would make it easy for us to ship the bits to the user, so he can assemble it and pass it on. Saves building a rig and then shipping it. At least that way, the case will be the worst part to ship, but it would be lighter than an assembled rig.

That just gets us back to the original problem, who are we going to give it too?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

That just gets us back to the original problem, who are we going to give it too?

Or you could be really evil and break the pc up into small peices -- e.g taking the cooler off a 6990 and sending the cooler to whoever then 2weeks later send something random like the power cable for a PSU then after another 2 weeks, send the 6990 on.

Like when theres a kidnapping and the kidnappers cut the fingers of the hostage and mail it back to the victim one peice at a time.....


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Just to add to that.... Better hope its not a MODULAR PSU otherwise you got a looooooooong wait ahead of you

 

[scaminatrix]

Hmmm... This is where we start needing the dedicated thread - there's someone here that knows of a worthy recipient, just gotta root them out!!
I'm off again, see you in a bit peeps.

 

[cheesy999]

Sweet, cheers man, it's good you can contribute if someone who's good with words could write up a framework for the thread and PM it to cheesy pleasy, that'll get the ball rolling

Hmmm... This is where we start needing the dedicated thread - there's someone here that knows of a worthy recipient, just gotta root them out!!
I'm off again, see you in a bit peeps.

i've been waiting for the framework mentioned in the first quote but if i don't have one by the time i've finished this civ 5 game (read tomorrow afternoon probably) i'll just post a draft up and if anything seriously wrong it can be edited later

 

[Tatty_Two]

Good, then its agreed that we all dig under Tattys house, build a small carpark/basement down there, Confenscate liberate tattys XF, mod it into This: http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/batmobile.jpg Or This http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/batman_forever_batmobile.jpg

then proceed to kidnap Tatty, stick him in the basement, get a cat and brainwash him into thinking his names Alfred, while we the elite team of techies phone up this dudehttp://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/09/30/2_transporter_2_050928034121805_wideweb__300x414.jpg (Jason Statham) and offer him a job....

Questions anyone??

Flawed plan....... I have 2 houses and a flat, I move between the 3 so as not to be traced by the Americans, not that I am paranoid of course......... ohhhh and remember that raffle I was going to do with the Piggy one (and completely forgot), well I have the 600W PSU so that can be donated into the PC...... think I have a IDE DVD/CD drive also.

 

[cheesy999]

Flawed plan....... I have 2 houses and a flat, I move between the 3 so as not to be traced by the Americans, not that I am paranoid of course.

even better, we can we find a house your not in and wait for you, when you finally get there we'll have eaten all your food and will attack you when you most vulnerable (when your hungry)

 

[Spectrum]

no, he will sense a disturbance in the force, and smell that packets of food have been opened and then he shall flee.



by the way cheesy i like what it says in your specs for sound card

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Evening fellow limeys, evening Tatty *tips bowler hat*

I would have donated summat had i been able, i'm just a poor pauper so i dont have spare hardware. Nice gesture though.

 

[cheesy999]

no, he will sense a disturbance in the force, and smell that packets of food have been opened and then he shall flee.



by the way cheesy i like what it says in your specs for sound card

that's similar to what my psu and Case use to be, basicly if i don't know what it is then i describe what it does, i also know that if i increase the volume it gets very loud. (my case description used to be box with holes