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Not sure, it's only 2 weeks worth of £8 so far, but I wasn't complaining about the money, just didn't add up in my head, now it makes sense though. Feck living in the states! How much is health insurance per year?

You're in big trouble JD. I want a picture of you, holding a sign up saying you're sorry, with a fried egg on your face. Not too hard a challenge to complete but I think it'll serve to make you look like enough of a pillock. EDIT: Real picture, not a photoshop. And look sincere.

Never said there was an issue, just couldn't work it out lol. If you're in hospital, do you still have to pay for things? Or is it just certain drugs you have to pay for?

f**k off. Wasn't meant to come across as complaining at all, it's not my money lol. I have the good sense to never get ill. I was just interested as to why we have to pay twice for healthcare! I thought that it might be to put people off for some reason, but I thought the rigmarole of booking an appointment, going to it and getting the prescription would put people off enough. Evidently not, that's me told lol.

Wife is ill at the moment, and she's being prescribed things to make her better again. These things are costing a bloody fortune. Just interested really, seeing as TF can answer any question, why is this so? Should it be the case? Contraceptive pills are free, but antibiotics aren't. Seems silly to me? Why do we pay taxes for a national health service if we then have to buy things as well?

Only if it's live, not if it's "watch later" services. Says on the TV licence website.

There was a warning. There are warnings all the time, but no-one takes any notice. Well not so much a warning as a forecast for meteor activity at the end of September.

Never watch it either. Haven't had a TV licence since I moved out of my Dad's house, which is about 2 years ago now.

Why not just have a phone call?

Doesn't look close enough to me dude. At first glance I thought it said "FIG ***".

Ah I see, could have got an i3 setup for that, I think the i3 outperforms the FX-4100 but not sure how much by. Probably not enough to be able to tell day to day.

£80 for the lot? CPU/MB/RAM? Not bad at all at that, I'd snap that kinda deal up myself to stick in my server lol.

You just posting a thumbs up to Jardo's post about how the car you had seen/were meant to be looking at was now his made it seem like you were angry about it?

Lololol, even Rainbird is pissy. This shit is more entertaining than Hollyoaks, for the sheer "What will happen next!" factor.

Have you bought yet? Avoid that CPU like the plague! Compared to an i5-3570k they're dog slow. Even the 8 core version of that CPU (FX-8150) is a terrible performer compared to an i5-2500k, see here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/434?vs=288 Imagine the difference between the FX-4100 and the new i5-3570k! To your 4 pin question, I believe you can just run it with the 4 pin only plugged in. It's only to add extra power to the PCI lanes, but with one graphics card it should be fine.

I would never tell them unless you get offered a new job. Agree a start date 4-6 weeks in the future, then that should be ample time for them to find a replacement for you and hopefully for you to train them. Doesn't matter if he's your best mate, I wouldn't report anything unless you have something to report. It's just standard practice.

Should listen to the man, he speaks sense. If she wants a small, slow, reliable, economical, boring car, then why not buy any one of the million £500 diesel hatchbacks that are out there?

Was referring to any really, you're right on the whole dual core/quad core thing though, but to be honest these days, how often do you find a dual core with better performance per core than a quad/6/8 core? Personally though, I believe the significant difference is already here for a lot of games. The only game currently being developed I can think of that only uses 2 cores or fewer is Minecraft. Other than that as far as I'm aware, they all use multiple cores. There isn't if you're running an owd GTX260, but there isn't going to be, it's a 4 year old card from the time when SLI was very young. Now they've refined the technology, the advantages can be huge depending on what you're doing.

SLI/Crossfire on modern cards is much better these days. I have 5830s in Crossfire and they're not bad, but certainly not 100% scaling, whereas the new GTX 6** series and AMD 7*** series offer much better scaling now. Gig means gb, not ghz btw. Any games written after about 2009 have been written to utilise multiple cores though. Clockspeed means very little anyway, what matters is the mixture of clockspeed, IPC and the number of cores available. Where Intel are really pulling ahead now is with the IPC. No idea what IPC actually means apart from it's related to the cause of 3.4ghz i5 quad being faster than a 4.8ghz FX-8150 8 core, because it does more calculations in one clock cycle. Anyways, things have moved on massively in the last year or two, I guess is my point lol. A GTX660 would outperform SLI GTX260s by a big margin, just like the new i3-2120k is faster than the old Q9650 and in a lot of cases, the i7-920/930/950.

PSU is easily enough. I run two 5830s on a 650w PSU and they're fine. They draw roughly the same as a GTX260 I think. (About 175w each).

I'm in no way involved, I just hear things on the grape vine lol. We have several mutual friends so it's going to happen. Doesn't bother me at all though, just strange thinking only a year ago we were together, now she's looking at settling down and getting all adult. Can't see any reason to totally avoid her anyway, if she was going to the pub with any of my mates then I'd be happy to go along as well.

Not an option in my case. This particular ex and current wifey were housemates, and still are pretty close friends.

Had a semi-similar thing the other day (I think?), my ex is looking at buying a house. I was all "whut". Time flies and all that shit I guess.

I hate them more than I hate girls between the ages of 12 and 15. I moved to O2. I'm not going anywhere now!

Hear we are folks.