The TPU UK Clubhouse

[RCoon]

what the hell is going on with AMD prices??!

everything I see gets cheaper and cheaper


example: 8350 £130

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials...cessor+-+Retail&utm_campaign=newsletter020913

It should have been that price a lot earlier than that. the 6xx series was better priced until last week when card prices got into gear, and like i said, months ago an i5 3570k was the same price as an 8350. It's just a response to intel and nvidia, albeit a late one.

If your buying then buy it - Dont question why prices are falling, they could go back up next week!

On a fun note - Ive just landed myself a Synology DS213J 2-bay NAS. Im running out of storage and i really need to start shuffling and organising my files better. For the time being ive opted for 2 of them dreaded 3TB Toshiba hard drives because the price fell to £78. I know there are bad feedback on newegg/NICX about them but all of the UK reviews if not all of them have been very positive. 8.4/10 from 79 reviews on Reevo. Some of the bad reviews were about how the item wasnt packaged very well or it looked like someones dog went at it. Very few reports of DoAs - overall very positive reviews.

the NAS comes with 2 USB 2.0 ports on it and i have 1 4TB External hard drive that i can add to it to boost the storage capacity.

Im still looking to pull at least 2 hard drives out of my PC case.

1. Plextor M5 SSD/Bootdrive (stays)

2.Samsung HD154UI/Dumpdrive (Removing/Soon to be decommissioned due to age & what im guessing are 3 bad sectors)

3. WDC WD1502FAEX/Dumpdrive

4. WDC WD1502FAEX/Games

5. WD20EARS/Dumpdrive (Removing)


If possible i would like to shuffle most of the data off the FAEX's (they are WD Blacks btw) and raid 0 both of them just for my games. but that could be a waste of space seeing as my entire games partition takes up about 500gigs and i dont want to use them as storage when raided.

I only RAID 0 when the drives are low capacity and crap and use it for games. That way I dont mind if they fail because the data is easily retrieved (from steam/origin) and then I'm not wasting a good 1TB that could hold my important data for years to come.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

RCoon,

Why don't you measure the inductance and get another one with same value ? if you have access to a signal generator and an oscilloscope, you can easily create an RL high pass filter, measure the cut-off frequency and calculate the inductance from it.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I only RAID 0 when the drives are low capacity and crap and use it for games. That way I dont mind if they fail because the data is easily retrieved (from steam/origin) and then I'm not wasting a good 1TB that could hold my important data for years to come.

I dunno what else i can do with the extra WD black drive then, (I say extra but they are a matched pair) At least one of them will be completely dedicated to games instead of just having its own partition. Most of my games with the exception of BF3 are currently running on the WD Black.

to simply just use it as a dump drive seems a bit of a waste for something thats supposed to be one of the fastest mechanical hard drives out there


::EDIT::

One does not simply use a WD Black as a dumpdrive!

 

[Bo$$]

I dunno what else i can do with the extra WD black drive then, (I say extra but they are a matched pair) At least one of them will be completely dedicated to games instead of just having its own partition. Most of my games with the exception of BF3 are currently running on the WD Black.

to simply just use it as a dump drive seems a bit of a waste for something thats supposed to be one of the fastest mechanical hard drives out there


::EDIT::

One does not simply use a WD Black as a dumpdrive!

You could post it to me

Raid 1?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

You could post it to me

Have you seen the price of the 4TB Blacks?!

Raid 1?

No point - All its storing is game data, nothing that cant be re-downloaded after a few hours on a 70mb connection.

Im still unsure about running the toshiba hard drives in Raid 0 on the NAS - Im terrified if i load data on it only to have one or both fail after a few days/weeks/months and lose everything, At the same time Raid 0 would be a bit of a no brainer in a sense as my network is limited to 100mb unless i upgrade my AmpedWireless wi-fi booster but that would cost some serious money to upgrade it

the NAS is mainly just a place i can dump my media collection so i have access to my anime, music and whatever movies i download on whatever device i choose to use around the house. The fact that it comes with Print server functionality is a bonus

I guess I'll figure it all out when it all gets here.

::EDIT::

actually totally disregard this, Im a complete nubcake and I realised i can put a gigabit switch between my PC and the wifi booster. Now all i need is some Cat5e or cat6 network cable.

 

[Bo$$]

Have you seen the price of the 4TB Blacks?!

i know right

All this storage and nothing to put on it

 

[FreedomEclipse]

i know right

All this storage and nothing to put on it

Fill it with porn!!! 4TBs of it then stream it like a boss. Show yo kids, show yo wife and show it to the neighbours kids when they leave the house to buy ice cream! Share your password with the whole street - tits and ass for the entire family!

The great thing about Synology is their control software allows you to do so much with the NAS, within reason the options are almost endless.

 

[d1nky]

Fill it with porn!!! 4TBs of it then stream it like a boss. Show yo kids, show yo wife and show it to the neighbours kids when they leave the house to buy ice cream! Share your password with the whole street - tits and ass for the entire family!

The great thing about Synology is their control software allows you to do so much with the NAS, within reason the options are almost endless.

well after the government try stop all filth, you may be able to make some money with that porn hub!


keep me back some fucked up twisted shit! I want like gangbanging rooting tooting warfare!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Well... I guess Im gonna be working my ass off till christmas - the entire NAS setup cost me £360.66 On top of that i have like £600 on my creditcard that needs paying and i think I still have one more payment of £110 to make on my 680s. Everytime time I think ive come to the end of paying off one item, another hops onto my lap and says BUY ME!!

 

[d1nky]

another hops onto my lap and says BUY ME!!

so many jokes, so little time!

im waiting on the AMD graphics to see what im doing with my rig.

may be another overhaul (twice this year) and a sexay intel rig

 

[FreedomEclipse]

may be another overhaul (twice this year) and a sexay intel rig

3930k it, you know you want to

 

[d1nky]

a 3770k on my stupid loop would do me ok.

paired with either a 780, or pair of decent clocking 7950s or maybe just maybe a hd9970 (whatever it is)

my friends got a 3930k and getting an overkill loop this week, the thing flies with just a 7970. does something like 5ghz on air at 1.35v

theres so much choice, so in the meantime im getting my loop complete! and I need a car and stop drinking tbh!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

5ghz is highly impossible on a 3930k unless LN2, They just eat up too much voltage - All of them do. Im sitting around 1.38v and the best i could do was 4.6Ghz. Increasing the volts anymore doesnt do anything but create more heat.

 

[d1nky]

this isn't prime stable but whats needed for an extended bench!

he'll have it all cooled properly soon,

and literally just messaged 1.27v 4.7ghz 12hr prime 80% ram!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

what's his temps though?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Maaaaan I hate having to wait for deliveries... Its like being on the bench, You cant do nothing but watch the game until you get called up.

Left ebuyer an Enote as I had 3 different orders - I'm an indecisive freak. Im asking them if i can bundle all my orders into the same delivery for next day. so that would be the NAS, 3x3TB hard drives & 1x USB 3.0 docking bay. Probably gonna cost me another £10-20 ontop to ship next day, but the rest of my networking stuff should arrive later today and im getting impatient even though just getting out of bed 15mins ago.

IDLE HANDS - THAT IS ALL

 

[RCoon]

Maaaaan I hate having to wait for deliveries... Its like being on the bench, You cant do nothing but watch the game until you get called up.

Left ebuyer an Enote as I had 3 different orders - I'm an indecisive freak. Im asking them if i can bundle all my orders into the same delivery for next day. so that would be the NAS, 3x3TB hard drives & 1x USB 3.0 docking bay. Probably gonna cost me another £10-20 ontop to ship next day, but the rest of my networking stuff should arrive later today and im getting impatient even though just getting out of bed 15mins ago.

IDLE HANDS - THAT IS ALL

Idle hands. Many things can be done about that.

Also dont expect Ebuyer to be useful in terms of delivery, and dont call them up unless you want to talk to the most useless woman I've encountered in terms of order and delivery support. I ordered before their cutoff time and paid for next day. I got my order 4 days later... (granted two of those days were a sunday and a bank holiday monday), but the delivery page quite clearly said next day Saturday.

I'm trying not to spend any money, I get paid in 3 weeks and will still be in negative double digits until October pay day, then I finally get back on top of a normal money situation. Sucks2bpoor. Unless of course Ebuyer eventually decides to DO SOMETHING WITH MY RMA. It's STILL pending management referral. I wish they would just say yes or no...

 

[d1nky]

that woman at ebuyer is a bit of a ******* tbh!

man ive been waiting on 2 EK angled fittings for a week now, ive got a major kink in my loop, want to lap the heatsinks and got to find another job

but hey I live near a beach and girlsssss..... no idle hands lol

 

[RCoon]

that woman at ebuyer is a bit of a ******* tbh!

man ive been waiting on 2 EK angled fittings for a week now, ive got a major kink in my loop, want to lap the heatsinks and got to find another job

but hey I live near a beach and girlsssss..... no idle hands lol

Ah that sucks man
Friend of mine for the last 5 years is now doing her second year of degree and is working locally as a nurse. Needless to say we've had our fair share of fun lately, and she's invited me to stay at her place on the weekends when she's at uni. Best part is, its not a relationship.

 

[d1nky]

rcoons tapping a nurse WOOOP!

you are now a legend, best ive had is a trainee probation and trainee police.. the irony is enough!

nurse im working on lol

 

[RCoon]

rcoons tapping a nurse WOOOP!

you are now a legend, best ive had is a trainee probation and trainee police.. the irony is enough!

nurse im working on lol

She said she always wanted to hit up with a teacher, I was more than happy to oblige.
I hear there's plenty of trainee police around nowadays, especially in my county at least. I'm sure I have some fluffy handcuffs somewhere.

 

[d1nky]

tbh I forgot the whole teacher thing, yea I don't think id be responsible with that special power!

id like to point out the obvious, ladies and older uni girls love teachers...

 

[RCoon]

id like to point out the obvious, ladies and older uni girls love men who actually have money...

Fix'd

 

[Fourstaff]

Fix'd

So how did you score then?

I mean, your bank account is obviously in the red...

 

[RCoon]

So how did you score then?

I mean, your bank account is obviously in the red...

We drank absinth and went out for a few meals xD Credit card is useful yo'.
She then explained she didnt care if I was in negative numbers, because her uni debt was just as bad!