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Tis here: http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/topic/175746-tf-computer-nerds-gamers-overclockers-server-ists-etc/ I've been thinking about upgrading recently. I have an AMD 965BE with some ram and a motherboard, and it's all a bit shit. 4770k is coming out in June...

Hahaaa!

A fortnight ago the PSU died in my server, then a week ago one of my graphics cards started playing up in my desktop, now my desktop won't turn on. PSU is fine so I reckon it's the motherboard. b*****d computers.

The riding impressed me in this video, Kawasaki Ninja 250 ridden with some rather beefy bollocks.

Start climbing. It's the bestest.

I meant it's faster to find things and stuff, not that it runs faster. I believe it actually runs slower than W7. Don't do it! They've killed that shit off for a reason. Just pin everything you normally use to the task bar and then when you need the start menu, you have the lovely new metro screen as well.

I like it. If you just embrace the new ways that W8 does things, I reckon it's faster to use. It's such a big change though that I can't be bothered re-learning things so I'm sticking with W7.

I thought deathgrip was having brakes fitted, but just not covering or using them?

I rent a flat because it's within my means, and that does not mean I can't poke fun at other people on the internet. I don't have to own a house to wind Jardo up surely? The natural status quo of TF is a complex mixture of many things, and IMO it's the characters that make it interesting. Jardo is the bullshitter, I'm a cantankerous old b*****d, Dave Anscombe is mental, Ben Rowlands is the complicated voice of reason, many, many people have their place. So no, Sir Rainbird, I shall not drop it. It is my purpose. The street outside your window looks pretty nice. You complain too much lol.

If you earn so much and your penis is so magnificent, why can't you afford windows?

In Scotland, the women make the milk.

I think you've misunderstood Ben, I meant that life is too short for discussions this deep and this long about issues that may or may not be fact or come to pass. I never said life is too short to care about drought, flooding or the NHS!

Sounds like she's being a bit of a dick dude... I'd just stay anyway to be honest, surely she thinks it's safer for you to stay there anyway?

Your boss was a b*****d. Doesn't mean that anyone else has to be stupid enough to put up with it.

Because life is too short to bother?

Best so far this series, but still not on par with the Vietnam one. I like the 2 part thing though, and I preferred the lack of daft challenges along the way. The whole premise of "Go here, achieve this" suited them better IMO.

Haha, tis the life of any form of engineer in Britain. My Dad is a CNC Turner and constantly has to convert between metric and imperial. Even has a set of whitworth spanners somewhere too. There's an app for that.

We just got an email from Uni from someone called "C. Hunt". I giggled.

Still... Basic units of measurement should be second nature to you.

Didn't say they were bad, I said avoid. They're usually very reliable and stuff, you just can't upgrade them and they're pretty expensive for the spec you get. They use a Dell specific motherboard layout, so you can only replace parts, not upgrade them (within reason). You also can't overclock, and can't modify them without a load of hassle so watercooling is usually out. Laptops are (nearly) all based on manufacturer specific motherboards, so you can't upgrade many of them anyway. I swear by Samsung but they have similar issues to Dells anyway. I can't recommend this tray strongly enough to be honest, it works almost flawlessly. The SSD made a huge difference in my laptop because the HDD it came with was only a 5400rpm one, which really restricted the performance. I went from 2 min boots to 30 sec boots.

Haha, I wouldn't have bothered picking you up on it, but I seem to remember you're a doctor of something engineering related? I could have completely made that up though.

Dell desktops = avoid. Dell laptops = not too bad. Why can't you just accept the guy wants a gaming laptop, and not a desktop? I'm an ubernerd with 3 28" monitors in eyefinity, 2 graphics cards and lots of other gaming related shit, and I can understand fully why he wants a laptop, because gaming desktops are MASSIVE. Mine uses 600w of power for the tower and 300w for the monitors and speakers. Add in a printer, keyboard, mouse, USB DVD drive and you're approaching a kilowatt of power. My laptop on the other hand pulls about 75w, and can run most games, and doesn't even have a proper GPU, it uses the built in one with the i5-3210m. Any console ports work fine, and it weighs under 2kg, and fits in my bag. AMD vs Nvidia is a pointless argument these days, they're much of a muchness. There's also nothing wrong with eyefinity, I've been running it for nearly 2 years with no problems apart from ones relating to poorly written games. Desktops are obviously better for gaming, but they're also drastically compromised in certain ways. Laptops are compromised in other ways, but the OP has clearly decided that a laptop would suit him better. I can't understand why so many people in here are recommending desktops and failing to read the first post? Just open your eyes ffs. Anyway, JMCD, that laptop you've bought looks like a great spec for the price, should do you fine.

That'll be 150 million tonnes, or roughly 147.6 million tons. This thread is so full of bollocks I'm not even going to bother replying any more... If the world dies in 5 years then I'll die proven wrong, but I won't give a flying f**k because I'll be dead, and I won't have lived the previous 5 years with everyone thinking I'm a raving nutjob.

I watched the whole thing, and I didn't get why it was funny. Swede Mason has done some amazing videos, but that one wasn't one of them IMO. Naughty Ben Swales.

Many times, yes. You should also watch the interview he did on Top Gear, which follows the story up a bit.