The TPU UK Clubhouse

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

No, its from Cex. We had Amazon vouchers from scamsung

 

[FreedomEclipse]

No, its from Cex. We had Amazon vouchers from scamsung

Pre-ordering their S8 by any chance?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Pre-ordering their S8 by any chance?

I gave the vouchers straight to my daughter and she spent them all on makeup. I am happy to report that her selfies have never looked so good.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Im getting the upgrade itch but im not sure what to upgrade at this stage. Only thing i can think off is a more powerful GPU but the thing with that is my 1070 isnt even 6months old. Im also waiting for Ryzen to mature as a platform but thats going to take a bit of time. I thought about getting a M.2 SSD on a PCI-Ex adapter for one of my vacant PCI-Ex slots since dropping SLi... Or i could just say stuff it and SLi again lol... Both these ideas seem a bit silly and unnecessary in their own ways so im forced to sit on my hands for now.

 

[pantherx12]

Im getting the upgrade itch but im not sure what to upgrade at this stage. Only thing i can think off is a more powerful GPU but the thing with that is my 1070 isnt even 6months old. Im also waiting for Ryzen to mature as a platform but thats going to take a bit of time. I thought about getting a M.2 SSD on a PCI-Ex adapter for one of my vacant PCI-Ex slots since dropping SLi... Or i could just say stuff it and SLi again lol... Both these ideas seem a bit silly and unnecessary in their own ways so im forced to sit on my hands for now.

A PC enthusiast can never have to many fans and heatsinks.


Speaking of which my old Phenom x6 build turned up the other day at my house.

Apparently dead I saw the mother board super heat myself ( red hot resistors!)

How ever after taking it all out and set up on a "test bench" with a stock heatsinks installed it works! It's been "dead" since I was last a regular on here.

Anyway, I suspect the problem was the mounting system I ghetto rigged together for the thermal right dual tower heatsink was the issue as the motherboard was gently curved around the socket from to much clamping force...

Abyway, long and short is this system needs a heatsink and mounting system that has not been cobbled together by myself.

Anyone got a stock Amd heatpipe heatsinks or something like a freezer 7 or something else cheap and good we could use?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

A PC enthusiast can never have to many fans and heatsinks.

Corsair ML Pros it is

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

So Mot time turned up and the guy says i need my rear passenger door to open to pass it , why i have one on the other side ffs , life's way too complex sometimes.
I been out assesssin the situ and I believe I'm fecked i cant get the central locking solenoid to let go ,i ripped the door card off from inside with few issues but I'm stumped.
Last attempt was to directly power the solenoid with a PSU (checked as working still)with no luck or it's dead.
Any ideas.
My next is to get all faulty towers on its ass with a tree branch.
edit,, neither a tree branch or mallet fixed the issue im out,, ill seek pro help here.

 

[Caring1]

So Mot time turned up and the guy says i need my rear passenger door to open to pass it , why i have one on the other side ffs , life's way too complex sometimes.
I been out assesssin the situ and I believe I'm fecked i cant get the central locking solenoid to let go ,i ripped the door card off from inside with few issues but I'm stumped.
......
Any ideas.

Disconnect the soleniod from the lever it attaches to, then you can manually move the lever to unlock the door.
Or go all Dukes of Hazzard and weld that side shut, so you wont have to worry about opening that side.

 

[the54thvoid]

Finally up and running the World Peace Rig. AMD Ryzen and Nvidia 1080ti.

Let there be no more fighting.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Finally up and running the World Peace Rig. AMD Ryzen and Nvidia 1080ti.

Let there be no more fighting.

Let the fighting be taken to the beaches of BF1

 

[FreedomEclipse]

So i bought a 'new' laptop for £60

Not looking for neck breaking speed or performance but something better then my HP DM1 which is 5 years old and has absolutely no support from AMD who have broken hardware acceleration so 1080p on youtube is almost impossible.

I can buy new battery cells and replace the dead ones in the battery pack myself for a fully portable unit. going to transfer my SSD & 8Gigs of DDR3 from my DM1 to this laptop and sell off the DM1 as parts for £30 odd ish. Should get some money back.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I saw the CCTV of my brothers bike accident. Hes hobbling around at home now and putting clothes on for the first time. Hes going to recover ok by the sound of things.

One thing i pointed out to him was that if he had been wearing anything hi viz AT ALL the driver may have seen him. My brother should try and be a responsible road user too in my opinion. When we were kids there was a campaign to make sure people were visible on or near roads, they should do something similar. Or maybe insurers should insist on it.

We used to sing it.........

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I saw the CCTV of my brothers bike accident. Hes hobbling around at home now and putting clothes on for the first time. Hes going to recover ok by the sound of things.

One thing i pointed out to him was that if he had been wearing anything hi viz AT ALL the driver may have seen him. My brother should try and be a responsible road user too in my opinion. When we were kids there was a campaign to make sure people were visible on or near roads, they should do something similar. Or maybe insurers should insist on it

Im glad your brother is recovering any more info on what happened exactly?

Secondly I dont want to be an asshole but Hi-vis makes very little difference in some cases. Thats like people saying accidents could of been completely avoided if he was wearing a helmet etc etc and there are a lot of people who tend to bring that up but if 99% of the time as a cyclist its not your head that goes through the windscreen first so its always a topic which is heavily debated amongst the cycling community the same way as hi-vis.

I rarely wear any hi-vis clothing. I used to but i dont bother now. the clothing i do wear is cycling related so has reflective piping and patches etc etc. I also have a small red blinking light on the back of my helmet so drivers can see me 'above traffic' but its no holy grail against stupid drivers. Drivers that speed past you within an inch or two or those idiots who are too busy checking their facebook to be keeping their eyes on the road ahead of them.

A cyclists road awareness can also be pretty bad as well. As a bicycle commuter who cycles to work in central london I see it every day... People who cycle with headphones on, or mobile phone out in their hand checking facebook or cycle like they have 'blinkers' on like horses. These people cant hear whats around them nor can they see it because their eyes are either staring down at their phone or straight ahead.


Ive lost count of the times where another cyclist has swung out in front of me as i tried to overtake because they didnt bother or know how to shoulder check, cutting from right to left or left to right because they were in the wrong lane etc etc without shoulder checking before making their move. Though these cyclists are a smaller threat compared to those at the wheel of a steel cage thats weighs a tonne and moving at quite a speed.

 

[kurosagi01]

I almost accidentally hit a cyclist the other day on a big roundabout with traffic lights which has 2 lane to go 1 exit and merge into 1 lane,the cyclist was on left lane and i was in right lane. He was wearing a high vis jacket which is ones worn on construction site with no helmet on he poorly indicated he was going around the roundabout and I noticed the arm signal a bit to late as i was going for overtake and barely missed him because he slowed down to check if it was safe to go around. I have no issues with cyclist but i just don't like encountering them on big roundabouts and roads that has national speed limit placed as well.

 

[dorsetknob]

Or maybe insurers should insist on it.

Unfortunatly there is no legal requirment for cyclist to have Insurance

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I almost accidentally hit a cyclist the other day on a big roundabout with traffic lights which has 2 lane to go 1 exit and merge into 1 lane,the cyclist was on left lane and i was in right lane. He was wearing a high vis jacket which is ones worn on construction site with no helmet on he poorly indicated he was going around the roundabout and I noticed the arm signal a bit to late as i was going for overtake and barely missed him because he slowed down to check if it was safe to go around. I have no issues with cyclist but i just don't like encountering them on big roundabouts and roads that has national speed limit placed as well.

Cyclists dont like big roundabouts either, especially the bigger ones that carry more traffic. Its like playing a game of frogger.

Unfortunatly there is no legal requirment for cyclist to have Insurance

I have insurance though im guessing that most other cyclists probably see it as a waste of time.

 

[kurosagi01]

Cyclists dont like big roundabouts either, especially the bigger ones that carry more traffic. Its like playing a game of frogger.

Hate it because lot of cyclist don't pay attention or they don't indicate clear enough where they want go. Literally the dude just lift his arm in like 40-45 degrees which isn't exactly clear..he could be just stretching or dangling his arm as far as some people might think,if he wants to tell people he is going round or turning off that point which i don't know the correct procedure but i thought they need check their shoulder first to check if its safe and then use their arm as indicator at like a 90 degree stretch to tell road users where they are going.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

The careers guidance woman filled in a form for my daughter to apply for an apprenticeship. We've been wondering why we havent heard anything back when other kids have.

Tiurns out the teacher wrote her own birthdate on the form and they have been processing the application for a 43 year old

 

[kurosagi01]

The careers guidance woman filled in a form for my daughter to apply for an apprenticeship. We've been wondering why we havent heard anything back when other kids have.

Tiurns out the teacher wrote her own birthdate on the form and they have been processing the application for a 43 year old

Them blasted teachers!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Anyone got a single stick of 8GB DDR3 of laptop ram spare??

I also need an msata ssd drive thats bigger than 120gb

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Anyone got a single stick of 8GB DDR3 of laptop ram spare??

I also need an msata ssd drive thats bigger than 120gb

Well update on this... didnt need the Msata drive after all and sourced some ram off ebay for £30

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Ive also got some 'Maker's Mark' and Dalwhinnie Winter's Gold this week to add to my whisky collection

 

[FreedomEclipse]

new laptop is up and running..... its not that bad... keyboard is a kind of mushy, volume of the speakers is very very poor but on a side note i can play 1080p on youtube & watch blueray rips with minimal lag but the fan on this beast does go apeshit though.

It came with a Msata drive which wouldnt play nice when i put in a 2.5" SSD to see if i could increase storage. Its either one or the other or the 2.5" wont get detected in windows 10. Ive checked in windows 10 but theres not a lot of options.

Cloned the 32Gb Msata to my OCZ Arc100 that i had running in my older laptop and its been running absolutely fine so far.

Its using windows 10 and ive been having a poke around and it honestly doesnt seem so bad. I should really think about moving from windows 7 on my main pc to windows 10!!!!!

4GB of ram currently but waiting for my 8GB off ebay to arrive. CPU is an Celeron 1037U which is much better then the old AMD E-350 i had which would start tanking if 3 tabs in chrome were open and would struggle to do 1080p on YT but I think that was something to do with AMDs drivers that broke hardware acceleration as i remember i could play 1080p in cyberfox before or when i forced any browser to use flashplayer but even with flashplayer it started to lag and run like poo.

oh and the screen on this terrible waste of space is a touchscreen. laptop itself is mainly made up of cheap plastic. Ive seen chromebooks that felt and looked better than this. For £60 though.... cant really complain. Battery is absolutely fubar though. Zoostorm left this laptop in their warehouse for so long that the battery cells just died out completely so im going to have to crack that open at some point with some new cells and just replace the old ones with my trusty soldering iron.


Not a superb user experience but better than the previous experience with my HP DM1....Looking forward to upgrading to win 10 on my pc at some point this year

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Bloody foreign drivers.

Not far from here over the weekend. The road is the A40 which runs from Fishguard into the centre of London . The driver has been identified and hopefully will be prosecuted

 

[P4-630]

Bloody foreign drivers.

Not far from here over the weekend. The road is the A40 which runs from Fishguard into the centre of London . The driver has been identified and hopefully will be prosecuted

They just all drive on the wrong side of the road in your country.....

 

[dorsetknob]

Right side is left -wrong side is right Get used to it or don't Drive over here
apart from that your welcome to visit

PS wilki
"76 countries and territories using LHT.[3] Countries that use LHT account for about a sixth of the world's area and a quarter of its roads."