The TPU UK Clubhouse

[kurosagi01]

I can wear 30" jeans aswell but i like my jeans a bit loose lol. Everyone has their own opinion on what they want to achieve when it comes to healthy lifestyle. For me I do it because i enjoy working out and i feel great.

 

[RCoon]

I can wear 30" jeans aswell but i like my jeans a bit loose lol. Everyone has their own opinion on what they want to achieve when it comes to healthy lifestyle. For me I do it because i enjoy working out and i feel great.

Exactly, I've been hitting up the gym for a while now, haven't bulked up because I'm not that kind of person, but it makes you feel 10 times better during the week. Just those 30 mins of nonstop on the treadmill and working up a red-faced sweat is totally worth the effort.

 

[Fourstaff]

150 pounds, so about 12.5 stones. 178cm according to last count, so not that tall. Extremely unfit other than my fingers though, pants size 32 (a bit loose, need to belt up). Have been doing short hill walks (depending on weather, few times a week, an hour to two each time).

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Fuck treadmills, id rather do 30mins rowing non stop. I used to love rowing machines back at school

 

[RCoon]

Fuck treadmills, id rather do 30mins rowing non stop. I used to love rowing machines back at school

Ha, I do both XD

 

[kurosagi01]

Or go in weight section hit them squats, deadlifts, bench press and shoulder press and be a man.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Or go in weight section hit them squats, deadlifts, bench press and shoulder press and be a man.

Or just row myself to china

 

[FreedomEclipse]

So i ordered some stuff off OCuK but accidently selected second class delivery via royal mail - Left them a webnote but by the time they responded it had already been bagged, tagged and released into the wild. But to my surprise It arrived this morning with the rest of the PC stuff i bought for my dad - paid for second class, got next day delivery, fucking win...oh and OCuK dont discriminate if you take the cheapest delivery option, They still bundle some haribo with the order.

I was lead to believe that they only tossed that in if you ask them to deliver via courier - in which case CityLink or DPD

 

[Deleted member 24505]

So i ordered some stuff off OCuK but accidently selected second class delivery via royal mail - Left them a webnote but by the time they responded it had already been bagged, tagged and released into the wild. But to my surprise It arrived this morning with the rest of the PC stuff i bought for my dad - paid for second class, got next day delivery, fucking win...oh and OCuK dont discriminate if you take the cheapest delivery option, They still bundle some haribo with the order.

I was lead to believe that they only tossed that in if you ask them to deliver via courier - in which case CityLink or DPD

I'm working for RM, just finished night shift.

 

[RCoon]

Well... I was playing Hearthstone last night and then my computer went black. Wouldn't turn on properly, wouldn't post, literally just died. Managed to rule out SSD, Memory, GPU, PSU and all that, all apart from CPU and motherboard. Just took the motherboard and processor down to the local ripoff merchant PC Store for testing, the worrying thing is they didn't seem to have a clue, but they did have testing kit for motherboards, so they can at least rule that out (or in) for me.
Currently transferred all the good bits to the 8350 system, though the network port is broken on the V Formula motherboard so I've ordered a TPLink Gigabit PCIE card to dump in it, because I'm fairly certain it's going to take ages to RMA either the Processor or Motherboard through Amazon. Shit sucks. Never buying an ASRock motherboard again though, that thing is so thin and flimsy...

 

[The_]

Yesterday (typical friday the 13th) I pulled my bosses sat nav out of my bag in the morning and the touch screen glass was broken . Great! I had 5 drops to do in London and Uxbridge and had to use the sat nav on my phone. with no in car (van) holder.

Mid way through the day I had a look on ebay for a replacement touch screen and placed my order. To my surprise it arrived this morning and I managed to replace it fairly easily (made of glass, stuck to the metal LCD cage with strongest adhesive the world has seen and requires soldering a ribbon cable to a circuit on another ribbon cable)

So to summarise; from ordering to replacement took less than 24 hours!! Guess not all ebay merchants are scammers, lowlifes and con-men.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

So I received complaints about my previous avatar..... I think there are some people who are still in the closet about their sexuality on TPU.....

 

[Tatty_Two]

So I received complaints about my previous avatar..... I think there are some people who are still in the closet about their sexuality on TPU.....

Not really, some people browse from work and your last one was fairly close, now this lady is much more attractive anyway!

 

[RCoon]

Not really, some people browse from work and your last one was fairly close, now this lady is much more attractive anyway!

Yes we do, and I concur, this lady is a sight better to look at.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Finished with my dads pc - just installing all the software and shit on it. I specced him a Samsung 840 Evo and i have to admit im slightly jealous of rapid mode...

ANYHOOOOOO

PC was kinda noisy till i disconnected the front 120mm fan - HA Fractal, silent fan not so silent after all. Im using a 92mm PWM Arctic fan on the back and got an Akasa K32 low profile heatsink. which should perform better than the stock cooler. as the fan is thicker and is being channeled towards the fins instead of letting the air flow wherever it wants to go....

This...

Vs.

This...

Dad wont be home till tomorrow evening so i got all night to fuck with this set up and bench the tits off it - otherwise he wont let me touch it when he gets back.

One of the reasons his old pc died was because he wouldnt let me troubleshoot a hardware issue. for some reason the USB ports on the motherboard just stopped working alltogether and it carried on like that till a few days ago when dad unplugged a USB stick and the whole PC froze and never started back up again. PC still starts up but nothing comes on screen and keyboard doesnt light up so i know its not posting.

Stripped it out and tested it with other PSUs but the board is gone. the X2 could still be good though but i need to find a cheap 939 board to get it running. If i was to resurrect it, id probably make it into a file server.

 

[RCoon]

Finished with my dads pc - just installing all the software and shit on it. I specced him a Samsung 840 Evo and i have to admit im slightly jealous of rapid mode...

ANYHOOOOOO

PC was kinda noisy till i disconnected the front 120mm fan - HA Fractal, silent fan not so silent after all. Im using a 92mm PWM Arctic fan on the back and got an Akasa K32 low profile heatsink. which should perform better than the stock cooler. as the fan is thicker and is being channeled towards the fins instead of letting the air flow wherever it wants to go....

This...

Vs.

This...

Dad wont be home till tomorrow evening so i got all night to fuck with this set up and bench the tits off it - otherwise he wont let me touch it when he gets back.

One of the reasons his old pc died was because he wouldnt let me troubleshoot a hardware issue. for some reason the USB ports on the motherboard just stopped working alltogether and it carried on like that till a few days ago when dad unplugged a USB stick and the whole PC froze and never started back up again. PC still starts up but nothing comes on screen and keyboard doesnt light up so i know its not posting.

Stripped it out and tested it with other PSUs but the board is gone. the X2 could still be good though but i need to find a cheap 939 board to get it running. If i was to resurrect it, id probably make it into a file server.

Sounds like the same problem as my board, the damn thing just doesn't post. Testers still haven't got back to me yet though.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

the board is dead, nothing you can do about it. Obviously my dad still blames me because that setup used to be mine before I upgraded to a C2Q. I had the PC for 3 years running @2.66Ghz and it never skipped a beat - give it to my dad and it starts falling to pieces. Though with that said, its done 8-9years in total so not bad for setup thats at least 6-7years out of its prime. Hes bitching and saying it was a weak system to begin with. but back in 2005 I honestly didnt have a lot of cash. the whole idea was to get some budget hardware which i know could overclock good. PC still played all my games till i decided I wanted to retire it for something faster. I think holding on to a gaming grade pc without any upgrades for 3years is pretty damn good. I was running a Radeon X1800XT for soooooo long.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I have an Audigy 2 ZS & a ATi 4830 that were in my dads old PC that need to be put into his new PC, Kinda wondering if its worth the effort. the HD4000 in the i3 will still do 1080p and my dad doesnt game so theres not much point. He might want the Audigy though as it gives him better audio fidelity over the crappy Realtek ALC887 Codec

 

[RCoon]

I have an Audigy 2 ZS & a ATi 4830 that were in my dads old PC that need to be put into his new PC, Kinda wondering if its worth the effort. the HD4000 in the i3 will still do 1080p and my dad doesnt game so theres not much point. He might want the Audigy though as it gives him better audio fidelity over the crappy Realtek ALC887 Codec

GPU is pointless yeah, but sound cards are always nice. Just remembered this beast has a nice Asus Xonar D2X and now everything sounds hurrendously awesome compared to my main rig. As a matter of fact everything about this rig is better. Except it's too damn big and noisy. Made me realise why I switched to an ITX system.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Put the Audigy 2 ZS back in. It amazes me that for such an old card it still sounds so better than a realtek HD codec. testing it out with some parody rap/hiphop, some 80's style metal, some dubstep/trance/screamo metal stuff & some dubstep...

All sound amazing on the Audigy 2 ZS.

Unfortunately my dads 2.1 speakers aint exactly the best. Ive found out that even if i tweak EQs for a more fuller sound with a bit of umph for the bass its like one minute its saturated then the next theres barely any bass to keep it at least punchy. Could be the drivers though - Im using Daniel_K's 4.5 pack as opposed to PaX drivers. Ive heard rumours that the guy who tweaks the drivers has no idea what hes doing compared to Daniel_k and the guy working on Kx_project (though that could be an ex-TPU member working that project, KetxXX?? cant remember what his name was but he was an egotistical bastard but he knew what he was talking about when it came to modding drivers)

 

[RCoon]

Anybody with BT Internet tested out their new adult filtering?

 

[Tatty_Two]

Finally!
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tattys-christmas-greetings.195891/

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Still having a get together on the 21st for those who are interested and around the london area. Drop me a pm for more details

 

[Fourstaff]

So jelly you guys are meeting and I missed the fun

 

[RCoon]

So jelly you guys are meeting and I missed the fun

Missed? It's not happened yet, there's still time to book late plane tickets direct to the pub