The TPU UK Clubhouse

[RCoon]

Is that not a VRam artifact there? A lot of forum issues for gfx tend to gravitate towards that answer. Video memory could be unstable or plain dying.

This. That's a memory artifacting issue, as it's purely the drawn in background textures with the issue as opposed to any other textures in the same area.

 

[cheesy999]

This. That's a memory artifacting issue, as it's purely the drawn in background textures with the issue as opposed to any other textures in the same area.

In which case a new graphics card is in order, thanks for your help!

 

[Tatty_Two]

But first perhaps try under clocking memory, to see if that helps as a short term solution.

 

[cheesy999]

But first perhaps try under clocking memory, to see if that helps as a short term solution.

Took it all the way down to 600mhz and it doesn't stop artifacting, It's clearly not keen on functioning today

I'll just buy a new one as soon as I've found one i'm happy with

 

[kurosagi01]

Went to pick up the OCZ ARC 100 240GB SSD from Currys for £65,slowly getting bits together.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Took it all the way down to 600mhz and it doesn't stop artifacting, It's clearly not keen on functioning today

I'll just buy a new one as soon as I've found one i'm happy with

Can you adjust voltage to memory using any software?

 

[cheesy999]

Can you adjust voltage to memory using any software?

core only i'm afraid

 

[FreedomEclipse]

@Tatty_One

So i got talking to a former USMC through an acquaintance of mine - Done two tours of iraQ before leaving the USMC and he was just telling me a few of his stories and shit like that. tellin me about the kinda shit he did, what he got upto etc etc, and we were havin a good laugh about it. started talkin about other some of the other people he served with then started getting all quiet on me Guy was close to tears. started tellin me more about the folks he served with, those ones that never made it and how he hates talkin about his time in iraq because it always drags him to a dark place, but people always want to know and ask about his time in the army once they find out he was in the USMC.

to see him cry like that just broke my heart in so many places. even though hes surrounded by friends and family (he has a wife & baby girl) I could see it deep inside that he felt just so alone and that mentally he was completely and utterly broken.....

I didnt know what to say but just hug the shit out of him. I walked him out the room so no one else to see him cry and just gave him huge man hugs. I didnt want the rest of the people to see him cry. To everyone he was just an awesome guy that managed to live through hell TWICE and come back alive, I didnt want him to lose his pride.


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And no - i didnt know he was former USMC, Hes the one that started tellin me stories lol. so its not like i forced him to talk.

Hearing him talk about his experiences and shit like that really made me feel sorry for you & the other lads and ladies who put their life on the line and in a way kinda glad i didnt enlist when i left school lol.

I had no idea what i wanted to do when i left school - I was real close to enlisting though. but i just didnt have the balls to go through with it.


I think people really take the armed forces for granted and most people cant even begin to understand the shit they have to go through. Watching documentaries on Discovery & History channel just doesnt paint a clear picture how strong you have to be mentally just to get through each day as a soldier deployed in an active war zone.

I dont think anyone could understand it unless they've been through the same hell.


and yeah.... i fucking cried too...

 

[the54thvoid]

@Tatty_One

So i got talking to a former USMC through an acquaintance of mine - Done two tours of iraQ before leaving the USMC and he was just telling me a few of his stories and shit like that. tellin me about the kinda shit he did, what he got upto etc etc, and we were havin a good laugh about it. started talkin about other some of the other people he served with then started getting all quiet on me Guy was close to tears. started tellin me more about the folks he served with, those ones that never made it and how he hates talkin about his time in iraq because it always drags him to a dark place, but people always want to know and ask about his time in the army once they find out he was in the USMC.

to see him cry like that just broke my heart in so many places. even though hes surrounded by friends and family (he has a wife & baby girl) I could see it deep inside that he felt just so alone and that mentally he was completely and utterly broken.....

I didnt know what to say but just hug the shit out of him. I walked him out the room so no one else to see him cry and just gave him huge man hugs. I didnt want the rest of the people to see him cry. To everyone he was just an awesome guy that managed to live through hell TWICE and come back alive, I didnt want him to lose his pride.


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And no - i didnt know he was former USMC, Hes the one that started tellin me stories lol. so its not like i forced him to talk.

Hearing him talk about his experiences and shit like that really made me feel sorry for you & the other lads and ladies who put their life on the line and in a way kinda glad i didnt enlist when i left school lol.

I had no idea what i wanted to do when i left school - I was real close to enlisting though. but i just didnt have the balls to go through with it.


I think people really take the armed forces for granted and most people cant even begin to understand the shit they have to go through. Watching documentaries on Discovery & History channel just doesnt paint a clear picture how strong you have to be mentally just to get through each day as a soldier deployed in an active war zone.

I dont think anyone could understand it unless they've been through the same hell.


and yeah.... i fucking cried too...

Without wanting to get political, while conflict is unavoidable in human culture I find it hard to fathom the cold blood that runs through politicians veins. Knowing that Iraq and Afghanistan were arena's for guerrilla tactics they knew that we were sending countless troops to die or be mutilated. Especially without properly kitting out the troops with the utmost protective gear and vehicles.

I'm sure I might be shouted down by those that serve but the conflicts we send our ground troops into these days are senseless. Though to contradict myself, war came about through territorial conflict and a need for resources, so really, are the oil wars any different from wars of old?

It does make you mad to think though that troops go off and deal with danger and injury you can't empathise with while the public generally watches nothing but reality TV and fucking nobodies doing even fucking less. Yeah, my hat is off to the people that fight for our country. And I'd like to piss on those that just want their 15 mins of fame.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Without wanting to get political, while conflict is unavoidable in human culture I find it hard to fathom the cold blood that runs through politicians veins. Knowing that Iraq and Afghanistan were arena's for guerrilla tactics they knew that we were sending countless troops to die or be mutilated. Especially without properly kitting out the troops with the utmost protective gear and vehicles.

I'm sure I might be shouted down by those that serve but the conflicts we send our ground troops into these days are senseless. Though to contradict myself, war came about through territorial conflict and a need for resources, so really, are the oil wars any different from wars of old?

It does make you mad to think though that troops go off and deal with danger and injury you can't empathise with while the public generally watches nothing but reality TV and fucking nobodies doing even fucking less. Yeah, my hat is off to the people that fight for our country. And I'd like to piss on those that just want their 15 mins of fame.

I honestly dont think theres enough recognition for what the armed forces do. I watched a documentary about some young lads who were deployed in IraQ (i think it was called 'our war') and tbh even though the lads were telling their own account of what they went through and what was going on. I know that they've been told that theres probably a lot of things they cant say or talk about even if the information isnt classified etc etc. Even though the stories they tell are true, its not all of it and I think its time that there was closer ties between the armed forces and the people of the nation in which the army they serve to protect.

anybody on the street knows that being in the army isnt easy, but most people have no idea how stressful it is and what it does to people mentally. Unfortunately they are a necessary evil as technology hasnt progressed as far as to take them away from the frontlines.

For example, Japanese civilians have strong ties with the Japanese Self Defence Force as quite a lot of them are volunteers who have had basic training etc etc.

I think National Service should be compulsory to teach the next generation some respect and how to become better members of society but also bring back that link between the people and the army so that everyone can understand what they went through and as a nation truly be proud of what they do rather then just saying it like a prime minister from behind his desk at 10 downing street.

A lot of people dont support what the army does because they arent fighting for proper reasons but as a soldiers they have to follow orders so weather the reason be for right or wrong, they have no choice but to go ahead with it. but regardless of that, first and foremost they are people and human beings just like everyone else, and just like everyone else that lives on this earth, they need support from the people.

If i was a pub or restaurant owner and i refused entry to a lad who'd just come back from deployment overseas who had nothing else but his army slacks or uniform on him, I would feel so utterly and deeply ashamed of myself.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Without wanting to get political, while conflict is unavoidable in human culture I find it hard to fathom the cold blood that runs through politicians veins. Knowing that Iraq and Afghanistan were arena's for guerrilla tactics they knew that we were sending countless troops to die or be mutilated. Especially without properly kitting out the troops with the utmost protective gear and vehicles.

I'm sure I might be shouted down by those that serve but the conflicts we send our ground troops into these days are senseless. Though to contradict myself, war came about through territorial conflict and a need for resources, so really, are the oil wars any different from wars of old?

It does make you mad to think though that troops go off and deal with danger and injury you can't empathise with while the public generally watches nothing but reality TV and fucking nobodies doing even fucking less. Yeah, my hat is off to the people that fight for our country. And I'd like to piss on those that just want their 15 mins of fame.

I agree, if you asked most of the British who served in Afghanistan they would probably agree it was pointless, I was serving with the first British Battlegroup that deployed there in early 2002 and it was rough, there was absolutely no infrastructure there and we were living literally in shit pits, I really felt at that time we made a difference, we were in Kabul though this is way before troops moved south and into Helmand Province, in Kabul locals were shit scared, they had been butchered in the thousands over several years, about a million of them flew across the border into Pakistan, by the end of our 5 month tour 600,000 of those million had returned because we made it safe, at that point it was humanitarian and satisfying, at a cost, even with us, for example my departure was delayed by a month because we suffered the first casualty of the conflict just 2 weeks into the deployment, I had not left our Barracks in Surrey at that point and I had the unforgiving task of knocking on a young 20 year old's door, to be answered by a girl who was just a little older than my oldest daughter with a 6 month old baby in her arms to tell her that her 21 year old husband had died that morning. After a further 2 weeks of having to organise the repatriation of the body to Brize Norton and then arrange a full Military Funeral I finally got to go out for 4 months.

The problem with Afghanistan is that whilst we did make some ground, the Taliban just fled to Pakistan at a point where they realised they were losing, despite spending 10 years training Afghans to fight I fear that the Taliban will be back and things may fall back to where they were some 13 years ago, in my opinion that would be criminal because then all those lives lost would really be for nothing...... I fear for the country.

As for Iraq, I fought in both Gulf Wars, the first I can live with, Kuwait were invaded, we had an official agreement with Kuwait that in times of national conflict we would come to their aid, the Americans also had a similar agreement (the Kuwaiti's required said agreement if they bought Arms/Military equipment from foreign nations), I didn't know this at the time but after the war I spent a further 4 years living in Kuwait helping train their forces so they wouldn't all run away to Saudi if it happened again, during that time I also got involved in Defence Procurement as the Kuwaiti's were looking as procuring our AS90 Artillery and I had some involvement in Battlefield capability demonstrations. Now don't get me onto the 2nd Gulf War, I would prefer to just leave it at "a political cluster f**k where everyone involved from any side, race or religion apart from the specific politicians who were involved in sending us there paid a huge price.

 

[the54thvoid]

As for Iraq, I fought in both Gulf Wars, the first I can live with, Kuwait were invaded,

Is it true that Kuwait was doing some dodgy oil drilling, i.e. tapping into the field in Iraq territory? Not that it means they deserved to be invaded. I recall the famous Red Adair and his oil well closing escapades after Saddam's scorched earth policy. The prick.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Is it true that Kuwait was doing some dodgy oil drilling, i.e. tapping into the field in Iraq territory? Not that it means they deserved to be invaded. I recall the famous Red Adair and his oil well closing escapades after Saddam's scorched earth policy. The prick.

No, although a popular misconception, there is a Kuwaiti oilfield that had been running and operational right near the border with Iraq, about 2km inside the Kuwaiti border, Iraq because of their failing oil infrastructure (not so much the oil but the expense and technology required to drill deeper for it after 1st and 2nd level oil resources already used up) just didn't have the means to continue to redevelop quickly enough, since the 8 year war with Iran in the 80's (part funded by the US/UK alliance) their oil revenues halved, that coupled with economic meltdown as a result of 8 years of war left them near to ruin, so they decided their borders should revert back to pre 1st World War status (collapse of the Ottoman Empire) and lo and behold that meant that conveniently the Kuwaiti oilfield in question then would fall within Iraqi sovereign territory, thing is, that was just an Iraqi thing, not internationally sanctioned, they had asked Kuwait for 50% of the proceeds of the well I think but Kuwait refused...... well I think the story goes something like that.

 

[RCoon]

Proof the OCZ Agility 3 SSDs were capable of surviving for 3 years of use (almost 4000 hours, and still going strong). That thing has been running my file server's OS for years.

 

[the54thvoid]

Oh man. Fucking catastrophe.

Forgot to pop a plug on my newly blocked 2nd 780ti classified. Was doing my leak test and saw a very wet piece of tissue paper on mobo.
Took me a second to see where it was coming from and I'm like, "FUCK!"
Mobo was covered in a gentle pool of water. Whole rig now disassembled, PSU and bare mobo on radiator after hairdryer treatment. Took out CPU (dry socket) and removed chip set heat sink (very wet). I will spend tonight and tomorrow drying it and find out soon enough if I'm buying a new X99 PC build after all....

Finners & Freedom, might not be on BF4 this weekend. Doh!

 

[Finners]

Oh dear! Don't rush the drying time mate. Heard a bowl of rice is good if your phone gets wet, something similar here wouldn't be a bad idea.

What fluid do you use and I'm assuming the whole rig wasn't powered up when you were leak testing?

 

[the54thvoid]

De-ionised water only. No power. If I'm lucky it should be okay........

 

[RCoon]

De-ionised water only. No power. If I'm lucky it should be okay........

My old 1050W PSU got literally drenched during a leak test. Left it in the airing cupboard for 2 days and finished it off with 10 minutes of a hair dryer. Worked perfectly afterwards!

 

[Bo$$]

If it wasn't powered you'll be fine

 

[Finners]

Sounds like you should be OK then, water must of been pissing out if you left a plug out!

I'm hopefully going to be trying a new pump in my rig on Saturday! Think I will be triple checking everything now

 

[the54thvoid]

Well, reassembled loop and leak tested. Everything fine on that front (except a temperamental pump outlet leak -only when bashed about).
Plugged everything in, mains on and the mobo reset and power buttons have lit up (as they do on standby).
Will go have work out, come back and fire it up fully. I guess that the mobo standby lights are on this means the PSU and mobo aren't trashed completely.

 

[RCoon]

Well, reassembled loop and leak tested. Everything fine on that front (except a temperamental pump outlet leak -only when bashed about).
Plugged everything in, mains on and the mobo reset and power buttons have lit up (as they do on standby).
Will go have work out, come back and fire it up fully. I guess that the mobo standby lights are on this means the PSU and mobo aren't trashed completely.

We seem to have had our fair share of rather expensive accidental PC problems. One day luck will run out!

 

[the54thvoid]

We seem to have had our fair share of rather expensive accidental PC problems. One day luck will run out!

Thought fuck it and just fired it up.

I'm using it now to type this so it's returned to normalish but some peripherals not showing up. I did remove the mobo battery for a few hours while i dried it on the radiator so perhaps it's got a little amnesia?

 

[RCoon]

Thought fuck it and just fired it up.

I'm using it now to type this so it's returned to normalish but some peripherals not showing up. I did remove the mobo battery for a few hours while i dried it on the radiator so perhaps it's got a little amnesia?

Which peripherals?

 

[the54thvoid]

Which peripherals?

I was wrong. Just reset it and it was okay. Having some window errors but I think that could be mobo battery removal related.

I had to redo the entire rig, so the cpu and chipset were re-applied with thermal paste, plus obviously the whole reason - the new waterblock on the 780ti. Ran heaven for 10 mins and temps were at 50 on gpu (normal for me - very low fan speed). Ran Prime for a couple of mins to test temps on CPU and it was fine as well.

Think I might get a few software hiccups along the way - had a few strange windows messages but everything else seems okay. Will try BF4 and DA:I to see if it's operational that way too.

EDIT: windows clock says 01/01/2005!. Will get that sorted....

And it was all for this: