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I would be honestly amazed if you didn't have some sort of cooler. I can't think of a desktop CPU in the last decade which didn't need some sort of additional cooling, even if it's just a passive heatsink.

Many moons ago I worked for a company called Kerridge Commercial Systems, that sort of stuff was their core business although it was becoming part of a much bigger ERP product. They’re still going, and the software was solid, so might be worth a look to see if they still offer anything along...

Yeah, it didn't go very well. Sat at £810 for days and was expecting it to move at least a bit but hey ho, that's ebay. Someone got a bargain. Honestly it being gone is a win, it's just cluttering up the place now. Buyer says they're coming tomorrow to collect so hopefully it happens. Still a...

Brilliant conversation with my wife. It’s technically her car, so turns out she was looking forward to getting the money for it. I said that’s completely fine, as long as she buys herself her next car when the time comes that she can drive again. No? No. Didn’t think so 😂

That's a bit toasty! Doesn't it have a fan?

I’ve lived in many places, but never Bootle 😂 Was born on the Wirral mind you

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326161557573 Not sure what’s worse, putting this on eBay or sharing the link with you bunch of wind up merchants 😀 In all seriousness though, please no funny messages or windups, my wife is not very well and I’ve got too much on my plate as it is 👍

Basically yes, except that you're probably always going to want some gas generation capacity to fill in on still days. We're in a great position to become a net exporter of energy and not be reliant on imported oil and gas. It should be one of our big economic strengths in future, even more so...

That’s annoying for anyone who bought hoping for that, it’s been out a while too. Personally I’m happy with the wheel it comes with, but if they want to build an ecosystem that’s not the way 🤷‍♂️

Seriously temped by this: https://www.logitechg.com/en-gb/products/driving/pro-racing-wheel.941-000196.html#bundle It’s quite expensive, but the wheel gets excellent reviews and the pedals do too, load cell etc. Fanatec’s website is all over the shop and I honestly don’t trust them any more.

Are you just going to be doing sim racing, or do you need something expandable like the prime? I’m really happy with the Titan, and it’s soooooo much easier to put together than a Prime. Guess it depends how far you want to take it 👍

Or, if you're a total monster like me, go "f**k it, that'll do" and close the case up.

Don’t forget power consumption and noise too. 4070 is a lot more efficient than a 3090. The 90 cards are basically just willy waving for most people, unless you’re looking for silly frame rates at 4K and are willing to pay a hefty premium for it, in which case fill your boots :)

I crumbled and upgraded my monitor https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/alienware-34-curved-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-aw3423dwf/apd/210-bfrq/monitors-monitor-accessories 25% off currently and I got another 10% off through work. It’s replacing a similar but non-OLED Asus ROG monitor. Arrives today...

It’s still being finished - based on the 80/20 rule it’ll probably be done before they both die of old age. Maybe.

I mean, I typed mammary overflow rather than memory overflow in slack earlier today, so I guess it just depends what's on your mind at the time ;)

I'm not sure how funny it is, but this was so sweet. I work in support, but a few of my jobs have also involved some toolset coding or bug fixing. I was looking at a major issue for a customer and writing a fix for the problem. They'd changed something upstream which "shouldn't have any impact"...

Despite what I said earlier, I played through it again in the mode which leaves you with all the upgrades you had when finished the last game. So much more fun. Skipped all the dialogue, wondered around like a tank, still some situations where you'd get pasted if you were stupid. Honestly all...

I keep reading the title of this thread as “Up the pink shitbox”, which changes the context a bit. Not sure if disappointed or relieved that it’s about a car.

It depends on the pump, you’d need to check the specific AIO. That said, you can pick up manually controlled 12v PWM signal generators for less than a tenner on eBay, or Noctua do one for about £20 if you want a trusted brand.

Yep, something along those lines should do the job just fine. You can now get air coolers which can handle 300W loads too, but they’ll be on their limit. A decent water cooling loop should handle that load with headroom to spare. Really it depends what your future plans are, if you think you...

Yes, there should be plenty of options, the main potential difficulty is in mounting the cooler to what you want to cool and getting good thermal contact. Is it something which could be immersed in water? Or something non-conducive like mineral oil?

Holy mother of god…… We got very close to having a back door which could arbitrarily inject malicious code into ssh requests as part of the default install of some major Linux distros...

That’s really interesting, thanks for the feedback. I was hoping for way more plug and play than that, a bit of tweaking is fine but not tons of messing around. Maybe that’s a benefit of Fanatec, is their compatibility a bit more mature?

I imagine they've run into some fairly mahoosive cashflow problems because their entire shipping chain collapsed. Will have been chargebacks a-plenty from people who paid on credit cards for a start. Then you've got the reputational damage which will have impacted new orders too. All forseeable...

Yeah that’s a massive vote of no confidence in him from the bank right there. “We’ll give you another few months to get your s**t together, but only if you fire this useless berk.”

Picked up a sliding pedal mount for £40 in a sale recently, it's made such a difference to have easy fine adjustment on the pedal position. Definitely ready for a wheel upgrade now. It's still so, so much better than a controller but I've got to the point where I want some detailed feedback...

"Full service history" Um...... riiiiiight........

3 year burn-in warranty on the Alienware too, which is nice.

I’m more thinking of the difference OLED makes compared to LED, the contrast and blacks are so good. I think micro/nano LED is supposed to get close but not quite there. My current monitor was a very good one at the time (ROG Strix XG35VQ) but compared to the 42” TV on the Xbox it’s nowhere.