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The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition
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11. June 2013 @ 17:52 |
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So difficult for me to choose a game :S I have countless at my fingertips! And yet I choose Angry Birds so easily LOL!
It may be time to dust off GTA IV!
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11. June 2013 @ 18:01 |
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Disk controller is home safe - Amazon Locker was a doddle, will probably be using that a lot in future. Now I just need to wait for the cables to be ordered in from the US to Span - a bit more of a trek to pick those up (15 miles each way, the other side of london to home), but still cheaper than paying £13 to ship some already very expensive cables (and they should be ready to pick up at the end of the week, versus next week if I had them delivered). SFF-8643 may be the standard, but UK stock of them is point blank non-existent, and at £20 each for 1m cables, believe it or not that's by far the cheapest price out there! Server equipment don't come cheap... :/
Still, I suppose you can argue they do handle 4 drives each, so £5 a disk, £80 total. 16 1m S-ATA cables that are any good might not be much more than that.
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11. June 2013 @ 19:30 |
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I'm currently selling multiple items on ebay, to raise funds for the device I'm building. If all goes well, I should be able to post about the device in a month :)
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12. June 2013 @ 01:16 |
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Originally posted by Sam:
Now I just need to wait for the cables to be ordered in from the US to Span - a bit more of a trek to pick those up (15 miles each way, the other side of london to home), but still cheaper than paying £13 to ship some already very expensive cables (and they should be ready to pick up at the end of the week, versus next week if I had them delivered).
I see, wandering about London are we these days? Let's see, would that be by motor car, (on the wrong side of the road - sounds dangerous) or by - is it.... the tunnel? as I seem to recall (meaning subway?) Come to think of it, a tunnel sounds pretty dangerous too! Now I know why we fought the revolution - you guys are just too dangerous to leave in charge of things!! :P
Well, I'm writing my little suggestion to Ubi as we speak, about putting some tips into Assassins Creed III - so if you see that come up in a game patch, it was ALL ME, like the natives love to repeat endlessly in Far Cry 3 after every victory "This was ALL ME."
Haha.
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12. June 2013 @ 05:36 |
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Sam, I have a friend who spent a few months in England last fall. He spent quite a bit of time in and around the London metropolitan area. You are lucky to live so closely to a densely packed city. The simple proximity of things eases a great many issues.
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So, Jeff, Christa is her name - and she plays video games too! Great! Always nice to have things in common, especially really important things - like VIDEO GAMES!!! (And I'm not joking.) Next you need to take her out on the rifle range.
Ha she's interested in going to the range. I need to be careful not to bring anything too scary or any shoulder-breakers. So the SKS and Lever-action 30-30 might be okay but the AR and Magnum 12 gauge should stay safely locked away for the meantime. When you don't grow up with them constantly around, some of them can be pretty intimidating. I still carry a healthy amount of paranoia and caution when handling any of mine, more than many. I treat my firearms as serious tools.
I'm glad you are so entertained by Assassin's Creed! The first one is basically entirely forgettable, but the rest of them are very high quality games.
It's sad the same can't be said for the latest Operation Flashpoint games, Dragon Rising and Red River. They are fantastic games but are let down terribly by their technology. I highly enjoyed the gameplay but the chokingly narrow field of view gives me motion sickness and spoils the pretty graphics by leaving you permanently zoomed into everything you look at. It's prevented me from further playthroughs and really enjoying them as they were meant to be. Months and months of searching for an answer have turned up nothing as the community for both games is very small with almost zero mod support. Tools have been released to force a new FoV but only support certain versions of the game or are no longer available to download due to poor community project support.
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12. June 2013 @ 05:53 |
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You wouldn't drive in London if you had any sense :P
No, I've commuted by train ever since I started working in London back in 2011 - Only recently since moving to the new location three weeks ago have I actually needed to go underground every day, not that it bothers me.
The previous office was located near a DLR station
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway )
which is a contrast to the traditional London Underground as apart from being driverless, it also doesn't have any of the history, as most of the places it serves were brownfield sites when it was first built.
The route I use now (once in the london area) is this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_line
Also automatically driven, but driver-supervised. The eastern section I travel on is also fairly contemporary, only having been completed in 1999.
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12. June 2013 @ 06:07 |
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Mind the gap.
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12. June 2013 @ 06:11 |
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Sorry to disappoint you, but that's only said at stations where there's an appreciable gap to mind. Since both the DLR and JLE were built with disabled access in mind, there aren't any gaps to speak of :P Nonetheless, that recording is still commonplace on the majority of the rest of the network.
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12. June 2013 @ 10:59 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
Ha she's interested in going to the range. I need to be careful not to bring anything too scary or any shoulder-breakers. So the SKS and Lever-action 30-30 might be okay but the AR and Magnum 12 gauge should stay safely locked away for the meantime. When you don't grow up with them constantly around, some of them can be pretty intimidating. I still carry a healthy amount of paranoia and caution when handling any of mine, more than many. I treat my firearms as serious tools.
Get here the Five-SeveN, it's expensive but has tons of power, little recoil, and a lite gun to carry. I will be getting one of these bad boys in a riffle and hand gun some time down the road but like I said they are expensive to buy and shoot but well worth it as they are accurate and lethal. The fully automatic riffle is awesome!
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12. June 2013 @ 17:09 |
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The 5.7mm is a "new-age" concept round that was only fully realized when the company that designed it, designed the firearms for it as well. The Five Seven pistol and P90 were both designed in-house for FN Herstal for the express purpose of showcasing this round. The Five Seven round(or 5.7 x 28) is lightweight, high velocity, accurate, and high penetration. It can defeat most known body armors due to such high penetration. It's an excellent round but, as you say, somewhat hard to find and pretty expensive to shoot. They are priced like rifle rounds.
If that interests you Rich, you might also want to check out the 7.62 x 25 pistol round. It is very similar in concept to the 5.7 x 28 but was designed pre-WW2. It has very similar characteristics; light weight, penetration, defeating most known body armor, but is somewhat hard to find due to its age. Usually only obtainable in Cold War bulk, from specialty arms mfgs, or you can make them yourself with the right reloading equipment.
Boy this thread has gotten off track. Any new hardware developments lately?
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12. June 2013 @ 17:39 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
Boy this thread has gotten off track. Any new hardware developments lately?
About as stagnant as my wallet :(
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12. June 2013 @ 20:32 |
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what is a wallet?
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12. June 2013 @ 20:44 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
what is a wallet?
Where are you from DDP? It's a billfold. A wallet is often made of leather, to store cash and/or credit cards, personal information, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallet
What I meant, was PC technology is about as stagnant as my financial savings LOL!
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12. June 2013 @ 20:56 |
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got to have money to have a wallet.
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12. June 2013 @ 21:00 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
got to have money to have a wallet.
I guess I can appreciate that. However, I don't keep much cash on me, I still have a wallet :p It houses my license, and ATM card. Which is as good as cash.
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13. June 2013 @ 01:29 |
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Most people don't use wallets any more so that was funny and yes it helps to have at least a little something to put into it... LOL
@Jeff,
I do like the NATO 7.62 round as well, if you have a reloader it's not tough to throw together some ammo. You'd really want to have a reloader if you were going to buy the 5.7 as well. You could also then make the Government tips for it which you can't buy without good reason.
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13. June 2013 @ 01:33 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Most people don't use wallets any more so that was funny and yes it helps to have at least a little something to put into it... LOL
@Jeff,
I do like the NATO 7.62 round as well, if you have a reloader it's not tough to throw together some ammo. You'd really want to have a reloader if you were going to buy the 5.7 as well. You could also then make the Government tips for it which you can't buy without good reason.
Most people don't use a wallet anymore? Where do you put your license, atm card, health insurance card? :S Family photos!
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13. June 2013 @ 07:35 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Originally posted by ddp:
what is a wallet?
Where are you from DDP? It's a billfold. A wallet is often made of leather, to store cash and/or credit cards, personal information, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallet
What I meant, was PC technology is about as stagnant as my financial savings LOL!
LOL, I think he was pulling your leg.
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13. June 2013 @ 10:13 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Sorry to disappoint you, but that's only said at stations where there's an appreciable gap to mind. Since both the DLR and JLE were built with disabled access in mind, there aren't any gaps to speak of :P Nonetheless, that recording is still commonplace on the majority of the rest of the network.
Next thing you know, you'll tell me that other uniquely British sayings are going extinct. Do you still say "Put a shrimp on the Barbie" when its time to eat?
/joke
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13. June 2013 @ 10:14 |
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That was australia, surely?
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13. June 2013 @ 12:20 |
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yes it is.
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13. June 2013 @ 12:23 |
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I'm a bit gullible at times :S
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13. June 2013 @ 12:44 |
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yes & oops!!!
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13. June 2013 @ 14:48 |
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Hahahaha ddp I noticed that ;P Naughty naughty abuse of power hehe ;P
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13. June 2013 @ 16:32 |
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because i was banning & closing posts, i guess that was on my mind & closed it without realizing it. i'm human just like the rest of you except i get to throw lightning bolts when i want to.
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