Muel

That's a 1 time upgrade, if you ever need to reinstall then you'll need to buy a licence. Doing it this way gets you a full licence, so you can reinstall whenever you like.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9392/windows-insiders-to-receive-full-windows-10 Good news for anyone like me who wants Win10 but doesn't want to pay for it. Essentially, sign up for Windows Insider (can use gmail and other login options), download, install and use Win10 until July 29th and then the email address you signed up with will get a full licence assigned to it, so it authenticates when you log in to the computer. Not sure if it's tied to one set of hardware like the OEM copies yet though.

Road surfaces in and around Sheffield at the moment are appauling, granted, but if you head North towards Halifax and places like that they seem generally awesome these days. I've not seen a speed van in months to be honest, they seem to be favouring Gatsos and average speed cameras instead. I meant more that the roads are the most fun I've come across within the speed limit anyway. 50mph is often difficult to keep up on a lot of roads, like the Snake Pass has average speed cameras set at 50, and I'm sorry but you've got to be a f**king nutcase to get done on there. IMO everywhere has pockets of shit, and that whole Leeds/Bradford/Halifax/Huddersfield/Wakefield area is horrible. Head slightly further north into the North Yorkshire Moors or Yorkshire Dales and it's all amazing roads, no cameras and everywhere is national speed limit. If you want to see the world, then you need to be well placed to access the world, and I feel I am.

Did 7000 miles on my bike last year and got all over Britain. Yorkshire/Derbyshire is by far my favourite place, because of the balance of countryside, mountains, amazing roads, nice cities/towns etc. That's utter bollocks. The road network is awesome! You've got 2 major motorways at each side of the country, linked by some of the best driving/riding roads in the country. If you live near Sheffield, for example, you're pretty much perfectly placed for days out touring on motorbikes or whatever because you're in the middle of Britain. You can ride to Lands End or John O'Groats in about 7-9 hours, so holidays are a doddle. Fair enough you don't like the North, don't come here, but your impression of the roads couldn't be more the opposite of my impression after using them for the last 7 years.

I too have fallen prey to the "Oh you have broken hair, black glasses and stubble so you look like this guy" bollocks. Looks nothing like JD.

Even I've been to Lake Ogwen haha, awesome place to ride, even in the driving rain.

What CPU do you have? Posted on the OCUK forum about my build, so won't keep banging on about it in here. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=28189881

My last system was an AMD 965BE which was 3.4ghz stock, and at the absolute max vcore that was "safe" it would do 3.8ghz, so I knocked it back. Totally shit CPU. I doubt this CPU will be close to bottlenecking even the next generation of cards, but I guess the headroom is there if I need it.

Didn't build a system with this sort of spec to leave it stock. I'm just interested to see what it can do within reason really. I'm not going to risk killing it, so probably just going to stick to a sensible voltage (maybe 1.25v) and see what clocks I can get stable. Plenty of people are getting 4.4ghz at that. Once I've run the benchmarks and scored it etc, I'm planning on dropping it to 4.0ghz and seeing how low I can push the voltages, then leaving it at that.

Yeh, but it's actually been going for 20 years so it's worth just trying to refresh it IMO. I think Chris Evans will be alright. He's no more annoying than Hammond.

Playing around with a little bit of overclocking on my 5820K at the moment, first stability test was at 4.0ghz@1.2v, now running 4.2ghz@1.2v. Not sure what voltage I'm going to stick to. These chips are very power hungry so I'd a little worried about the lifetime of motherboard. At stock these will pull 140w from the socket, even at my fairly mild overclocks they'll pull over 200w...

Wouldn't you if you had the press hanging around your house all the time when you'd not even commented yet?

Well, I know what I'm about to go and find out. EDIT: I saw 304fps but it's clearly limited by something. Never dropped below 298. I turned every setting up full and no drop. Might try to fiddle it to run at 5760x1200 as it only allows up to 1920x1200...

I have very low money after building my new computer, so all I bought so far is Goat Simulator with the GoatZ pack, and the Unreal Collection. £11 well spent, I love Unreal Tournament. It's a good thing I built my new system ready for the sales, because the games I've bought really require dual 4gb GTX960s and a 5820k...

Everyone haggles dude. Just use your looming posture.

I generally get 330-350 miles out of a tank in mine. Bloody thirsty these 1300s!

Because I've been feeling the same for months. Not worth the commitment IMO. Got other stuff I want to concentrate on with my spare time now.

I was there when Chris Boardman did his 56km in 1996. Meant nothing to me as I was 6 at the time and bored after 2 mins.

Still waiting. The 32gb and 64gb versions are out, but there have been rumours of a 128gb version. (Rumours as in it's on sale in other countries, just not made it over here yet).

Sounds like a plan. Definitely disable the auto restart on BSOD though. If it's a family members computer then you can tell them to get a photo of the screen when it happens, so you'll have the details even if the crash dump is useless. (Happened to me a lot in the past). My new build is almost done (on air...). I had the SSDs fitted for 2 days, but now my computer is in little pieces. Did some case mods this weekend and now waiting on the new cables to arrive to get on with building.

Worrying curve in the bottom 1/3 of your spine there dude... I've packed it all in, time to do something else Top lifts were: Bench 75kg Overhead 60kg Squat 120kg Deadlift 160kg Leg press 280kg

In what way is that BOTI? It's not cool or funny at all, it's just horrific. How about not posting shit like that?

I don't organise things, find it too stressful. You do it and I'll come and bring our kid.

It's amazing haha. Might have to get a couple more. First of all, disable the automatic reboot after BSOD: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/automatic-restart-windows-7.htm Then, take a pic of the screen and post here, and probably on the W7 forum as well. The contents of the error wil help diagnose. As it's a new system with basic parts and nothing overclocked, I'm gonna shoot for faulty memory. If that's what the BSOD suggests, you'll have to run http://www.memtest86.com/with 1 stick at a time installed, 1 of them will probably have errors, in which case you can return the kit. I presume you went with 2 stocks of DDR3? 4gb each or something?

Aye, I have a home server which is running Ubuntu Server 15, which is nice and clean. Just benched the new SSDs, holy shit: Sequential - Read: 1090MB/s - Write: 955MB/s 512k - Read: 676.6MB/s - Write: 882.0MB/s 4k - Read: 41.10MB/s - Write: 85.61MB/s 4K QD32 - Read: 454.8MB/s - Write: 406.8MB/s Did not expect over 1GB/s read! Should make a sizeable difference to GTAV load times.