The TPU UK Clubhouse

[FreedomEclipse]

I walked through Customs with five or six 250GB SSDs and Customs didnt care - thats like £600-650's worth of SSD. Either im retardedly rich or i plan to sell them

 

[BumbleBee]

anybody interested in doing a cultural exchange?

40 ounce bottle of malt liquor for 1 bottle of Buckfast lol

 

[FreedomEclipse]

anybody interested in doing a cultural exchange?

40 ounce bottle of malt liquor for 1 bottle of Buckfast lol

I believe we have a deal. Mr Anderson......

 

[RCoon]

1 bottle of Buckfast

I have no idea what that is. Is it delicious?
I ordered myself a 75cl bottle of Lindisfarne mead yesterday however

Also, anyone got a Turion 64 X2 TL-64 knocking around? Also in need of a 2GB DDR2 laptop memory module.

In other news, sisters Athon 64 3800 machine borked. Don't know what it is. Randomly powers off. Repasted the whole thing, reseated everythings, all cables. The thing is a patchwork, running random parts I got from old OEM machine from 2004 at work. Currently about to replace the GPU with a NX7300LE and replace the nameless PSU with my beQuiet L8 630W modular. No idea if it's the PSU that's bust, the GPU, or even just a totally fudged CPU. Don't think it's the CPU though, idling around 38 degrees. Got into safemode and it's fine, the second I went to go to Event Viewer it "clicks" the power off.

Really don't want to just give them the 630W PSU, but it's all I got...

 

[BumbleBee]

Buckfast is a tonic wine made by Irish monks.

slogan on the bottle is "Buckfast get you Fu*ked fast"

I was only kidding lol

I just wanted to streak the UK Clubhouse

 

[the54thvoid]

I have no idea what that is. Is it delicious?

loooool.

Buckfast, although not made in my country is our most renowned fighting fuel. In your pleasant land you have what you call chavs. We have what we call neds (also known as 'bams' in their own tongue). The favoured fighting mixture for our Glasgow bam is a heady mix of low grade cannabis with copious amounts of Buckfast 'Tonic Wine'. Made by the monks, the bottle of putrid brown stuff surely does bring forth the devil. It is vile, cheap and made for the lowest common denominator.

At least, in Scotland, that's how it's pretty much universally viewed.

 

[RCoon]

Buckfast is a tonic wine made by Irish monks.

slogan on the bottle is "Buckfast get you Fu*ked fast"

I was only kidding lol

I just wanted to streak the UK Clubhouse

Gotta try that... I've had some naturally fermented beer from some monks in Bruges, they leave it to mature for 6 months too. Tastes pretty damn weird if you ask me, but almost as strong as wine.

It is vile, cheap and made for the lowest common denominator.

Ah, so our chav's version of White Lightning then.

 

[BumbleBee]

oh no Buckfast is supposed to be terrible lol

do they have something in England that is equivalent to a 40 ounce beer or Buckfast?

 

[RCoon]

oh no Buckfast is supposed to be terrible lol

do they have something in England that is equivalent to a 40 ounce beer or Buckfast?

White Lightning. Probably not as strong, but cheaper, and just generally the cheapest and worst tasting cider ever devised by man. Comes in enormous plastic bottles.

 

[LaytonJnr]

The 512GB version of the Crucial MX100 SSD is about to go on sale on Amazon, if people are interested.

Will update in a few minutes with pricing.

EDIT: The price is £120, and they've pretty much gone within a minute of the sale starting.

 

[RCoon]

The 512GB version of the Crucial MX100 SSD is about to go on sale on Amazon, if people are interested.

Will update in a few minutes with pricing.

EDIT: The price is £120, and they've pretty much gone within a minute of the sale starting.

100% claimed already

 

[LaytonJnr]

100% claimed already

There's still a waiting list option I believe, if people don't buy the product in the next 15 minutes. These Lightning Deals go so flipping fast though!

EDIT: I'll sit on the waitlist, and if anyone wants one, PM in the next few minutes. There's no guarantee there'll be any left though.

 

[RCoon]

There's still a waiting list option I believe, if people don't buy the product in the next 15 minutes. These Lightning Deals go so flipping fast though!

EDIT: I'll sit on the waitlist, and if anyone wants one, PM in the next few minutes.

Heh, they had the 256 on for £59 (£8 more than the 128) yesterday. I'd have bought it if I had money.

Seen the link wording on that Amazon URL? Unfortunate word generation:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KFAGCUM/?tag=tec053-21

 

[BumbleBee]

I used to drink these when I was a teenager.

it's like three 12 ounce beers in a bottle and they vary in price from $1.50-$12 so you can imagine how terrible they taste lol

 

[FreedomEclipse]

512GB Crucial MX100 went for £122 in an amazon flash deal.... And i paid £142 for an open box... fml

 

[Finners]

Ok crazy (not so crazy) question. Crazy because I cannot find a straight answer online from HMRC. My wife is going to NYC next week for a holiday with her mum. If she buys, let's say a gfx card from Microcenter for her own use, does she need to pay any tax on it when she returns. Also, if it is a gift and she has transported it herself - does it need import duty? I know if it was posted from US to UK, it get's import duty and tax but if she buys it and transports it herself - what's the deal?

And if that's not enough, if my wife picked up a couple of GFX cards from a mutual friend and she brought them back as a gift (for which no financial transaction took place) what happens then?

Answers soon - might upgrade

If it's more than £390 worth you are meant to declare it and pay import duty on the whole value. Don't forget the sales tax in New York as well which is 7%. All in all you don't save that much.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/arriving/arrivingnoneu.htm#1

Obviously your looking at a 980, just compared newegg to overclockers on an asus model and the price was almost identical

 

[RCoon]

EE just called, in the middle of me sorting out a 6th form course booklet for senior management. I told them I was at work, instead of saying OK, the woman said "It's OK, I'll be quick. As you're a long standing customer we have some deals..." to which I replied, no, I'm at work, call later. She then CARRIED ON. Do these people not understand we all can't just sit about on the phone?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

@RCoon i had the same thing from Three. They tried to sell me a tablet or mobile broadband stuffs.

Told the guy i ad an LG tablet i was happy with but he kept saying it wasnt an ipad... Anyhoo, since he couldn't sell me a tablet he tried to me mifi. Again its something i dont need as i have unlimited tethering as part of my tariff and i explained that.

Akward silence ensued before he just said "ok" and hung up

 

[LaytonJnr]

It seems that the only computer-related deals that Amazon's currently doing in their Black Friday sales are SSDs. Although I did see a pair of Philips wireless headphones for £39 (a saving of 66%).

If anyone's interested, the Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD will be on sale at 3:40pm - managed to see this deal in time to give people pre-warning.

EDIT - £73.00 at Amazon

 

[Fourstaff]

Crucial is offloading their SSDs cheap as chips, any reason?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Crucial is offloading their SSDs cheap as chips, any reason?

Excess stock i guess... though, they arent that cheap on Crucials own website. I guess Amazon are trying to shift stock so they have more space in their warehouses for new stock for the coming new year.

 

[d1nky]

@RCoon and all, been busy as hell lately. working, driving and paying off bills. Got no PC atm, its ironic as my tpu hwbot facebook page has exploded with likes. (over 150 in 2 weeks!)

I havent had time to even miss having a gaming rig, seen farcry 4 and that advanced warfare advertised makes me want a new one though. But christmas and bills will make that wait! even borrowed an xbox 360 off my bro but not had time to use it.

Other than that im all good, my cars my main hobby now :/

 

[RCoon]

Getting the cat into the Christmas spirit

 

[the54thvoid]

Rocking Chair.....

Next stop is a porch and a shotgun.

 

[BumbleBee]

kitties!!!!!!!!