The TPU UK Clubhouse

[lyra]

Hell of a lot cheaper than cablemod.... I think ill just make my own though

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I spent a week watching an yamaha av receiver on ebay only to lose the final bid. I feel so gutted

 

[RCoon]

I spent a week watching an yamaha av receiver on ebay only to lose the final bid. I feel so gutted

I get super worked up watching stuff on eBay, only to lose the bid and then find out that I can buy the damn thing for less than what the bid finished for. eBay is so strange sometimes.

 

[lyra]

i bidded on a loooovely seiko 5 watch. i was winning up till about an hour before until i got saved as i dont have the money to be buying watches right now lol. but its fun to bid on things you know you wont win, it relieves the desire to buy crap online

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I get super worked up watching stuff on eBay, only to lose the bid and then find out that I can buy the damn thing for less than what the bid finished for. eBay is so strange sometimes.

Well it was starting to push a little beyond my budget at £265 so it was probably a good thing i lost the auction. doesnt make me feel less shitty about it

 

[the54thvoid]

i bidded on a loooovely seiko 5 watch. i was winning up till about an hour before until i got saved as i dont have the money to be buying watches right now lol. but its fun to bid on things you know you wont win, it relieves the desire to buy crap online

Love watches but my baby (which I bought 6 years ago?) is my Oris.

EDIT: arghh, my OCD, I can't unsee that the bezel is not precisely at 12 o'clock... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Oh, yeah, heads up, when I get my new monitor, my current one will want a new UK home. Shipping costs will be pee-pee enticing.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Love watches but my baby (which I bought 6 years ago?) is my Oris.

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EDIT: arghh, my OCD, I can't unsee that the bezel is not precisely at 12 o'clock... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Oh, yeah, heads up, when I get my new monitor, my current one will want a new UK home. Shipping costs will be pee-pee enticing.

Reminds me of an OMEGA

 

[the54thvoid]

Reminds me of an OMEGA

It's very similar but Omegas are about double the price. In fairness, when I bought it, I was looking at a £350 Seiko (Quartz) or the rather more expensive Oris. The sales guy said, yes, the Seiko is nice but the Oris will last a lifetime (all mechanical). That had me sold. He said Oris watches are every bit as good as Omega, just without the brand name.

still, £1170.00 isn't cheap.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

It's very similar but Omegas are about double the price. In fairness, when I bought it, I was looking at a £350 Seiko (Quartz) or the rather more expensive Oris. The sales guy said, yes, the Seiko is nice but the Oris will last a lifetime (all mechanical). That had me sold. He said Oris watches are every bit as good as Omega, just without the brand name.

still, £1170.00 isn't cheap.

Seiko has some nice watches.

I was looking at their 'Astron' range. but their 1k+ price tag aside I already have something that looks like them so i'll probably settle for a Citizen for my next buy.. probably spend about £300-400.

Failing that, I'll probably save my pennies for the same watch that John Krasinski was wearing when he was filming Jack Ryan for Amazon

KHAKI FIELD AUTO CHRONO by a company called Hamilton

I dont know why it caught my eye but it just does.

Ive never been one to buy into this whole smartwatch fad when you have to charge it every few days to keep working.

The day I die i will be buried with an old mechanical watch that will keep ticking till its battery runs out so it becomes 'frozen in time'. That way if i should my body ever be exhumed or discovered centuries later they will know roughly what era i died and the date and time that is frozen on the display of the watch is there just so people can put their tin foil hats on and hatch out some crazy xfiles plot about my dead corpse.



:EDIT::

Im going to be doing some upgrades to a friends PC. He has some shoddy haswell i5 build from ebuyer. ive negotiated a small sum to sort out some QoL upgrades but im stuck on the idea of giving him a better CPU cooler or not.

I think his CPU is a Haswell Quad core (I think its a 4670k). ebuyer have paired it with a board (GA-Z87-HD3) thats is cheap and not made for overclocking at all and i have no intention of overclocking his CPU. With that in mind I can either cheap out and get him an Akasa K32 which supposedly cools up to 95watts of CPU (his chip is only 84w) or i can spend double and get him a Cooler Master Hyper 212.

Im leaning towards the Akasa because he has voiced a desire to have a new machine built at some point and the Hyper 212 wont be able to carry over to the next build as I googled Hyper 212 and Ryzen 2600 and general consensus says the Hyper 212 performs the same as the stock cooler on the Ryzen 2600.

I know the K32 is plenty good as my dad is also running a Haswell refresh CPU with the same cooler and it has never skipped a beat, though my dad isnt a gamer and his machine never gets loaded up to 100% unless hes watching a 1080p or 4k video (He runs with the built in Intel graphics)

--- Im not trying to be knob by deliberate cutting corners and lining my own pockets with his cash. £11-12 difference is honestly not worth it.

What should i do?

 

[kurosagi01]

I've been wearing my Police(favourite accessory brand, my glasses are also Police) watch for good 5-6 years now which I got as a gift from my partner for anniversary.
Completely faultless, only needed to change battery 2-3 times and only just needed to replace one of the pins connecting the wrist strap together.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I've been wearing my Police(favourite accessory brand, my glasses are also Police) watch for good 5-6 years now which I got as a gift from my partner for anniversary.
Completely faultless, only needed to change battery 2-3 times and only just needed to replace one of the pins connecting the wrist strap together.

Ive never had to change my battery even once scrub.

Well I ordered the Cooler Master 212 Evo...

Yeah...I think im going to send it back....

 

[the54thvoid]

Ive never had to change my battery even once scrub.

Well I ordered the Cooler Master 212 Evo...

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Yeah...I think im going to send it back....

I looked at the picture and thought about replying with a paint shop circle around that pipe. Then I read your last line.

That's fucked. Find the QC sticker and ask for their months wage (about $5).

 

[kurosagi01]

Ive never had to change my battery even once scrub.

Does yours glow in the dark? Probably what makes mine drain so fast lol, I put it in draws when i'm home and not going out.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Does yours glow in the dark? Probably what makes mine drain so fast lol, I put it in draws when i'm home and not going out.

It doesn't have led lighting if that's what you mean.

Its got the 'neo-glow' and or 'day-brite' bits on the hands and around the clock face that glow for hours even with just a bit of light to start it off

 

[kurosagi01]

It doesn't have led lighting if that's what you mean.

Its got the 'neo-glow' and or 'day-brite' bits on the hands and around the clock face that glow for hours even with just a bit of light to start it off

Well without measuring each watch battery consumption its hard to tell why i've changed a lot more lol.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Well without measuring each watch battery consumption its hard to tell why i've changed a lot more lol.

You need something with solar power or kinetic like a citizen or seiko

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Anyone in the house with a An AM4 Ryzen that they'd be willing to let me borrow so i can get this damn system updated and running?

 

[kurosagi01]

Anyone in the house with a An AM4 Ryzen that they'd be willing to let me borrow so i can get this damn system updated and running?

I have but its in my main system bruv sorry.
Anyone else been going through the sales for junk?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I have but its in my main system bruv sorry.
Anyone else been going through the sales for junk?

Ugh.... Can you spare it just for a few days?? I'll never chat shit about your car again i swear

And yes... So far ive bought an 8TB WD external and a Samsung 970 NvMe SSD... thats all.... I only really follow Amazon for black friday sales. I dont really care much for other retailers.

 

[kurosagi01]

Ugh.... Can you spare it just for a few days?? I'll never chat shit about your car again i swear

And yes... So far ive bought an 8TB WD external and a Samsung 970 NvMe SSD... thats all.... I only really follow Amazon for black friday sales. I dont really care much for other retailers.

I use my PC everyday so can't sorry bruv. You'll still chat sh*t about my car anyway lol.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I use my PC everyday so can't sorry bruv. You'll still chat sh*t about my car anyway lol.

Dont you guys have phones??.

Ive contacted AMD about getting a 'boot kit' or a 'loan kit' to boot boards that dont support the new Ryzens but they insist that i contact gigabyte and send the board out to them so they can update the bios for me before stepping in and helping.

And im like...

If i didnt need your help, i wouldnt of wasted time contacting you and telling you that i needed your help.

So the issue is that either i send all my AMD shit back to amazon for a refund and buy an intel rig or i borrow or steal an cheap A6 to boot the motherboard so i can update the bios. I draw the line at buying one because thats money that i cant get back.

In all honestly, AMD should be more keen to help me --- even going as far as ordering me food from JustEAT or UberEats because I decided to break the mold and get the more marketshare by buying an AMD setup.


Any intel system would of been real straightforward to get working. but I have to deal with this shit and paying £15 -- Because its now the christmas period and to send the board out to europe now means i'll probably get it back in 2 weeks. not to mention the cost of postage.

 

[kurosagi01]

Dont you guys have phones??.

Ive contacted AMD about getting a 'boot kit' or a 'loan kit' to boot boards that dont support the new Ryzens but they insist that i contact gigabyte and send the board out to them so they can update the bios for me before stepping in and helping.

And im like...

If i didnt need your help, i wouldnt of wasted time contacting you and telling you that i needed your help.

So the issue is that either i send all my AMD shit back to amazon for a refund and buy an intel rig or i borrow or steal an cheap A6 to boot the motherboard so i can update the bios. I draw the line at buying one because thats money that i cant get back.

In all honestly, AMD should be more keen to help me --- even going as far as ordering me food from JustEAT or UberEats because I decided to break the mold and get the more marketshare by buying an AMD setup.


Any intel system would of been real straightforward to get working. but I have to deal with this shit and paying £15 -- Because its now the christmas period and to send the board out to europe now means i'll probably get it back in 2 weeks. not to mention the cost of postage.

So the problem is the motherboard won't detect the Ryzen chip?
Kinda annoying that not all AM4 boards support all ryzen chips out of the gate.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

So the problem is the motherboard won't detect the Ryzen chip?
Kinda annoying that not all AM4 boards support all ryzen chips out of the gate.

Yeah. I had the same issue with the B450 board that came before it i think.

Nothing starts up. Like the it wont even power on no matter what i do and i dont have a spare AMD CPU to test it with.

 

[kurosagi01]

Yeah. I had the same issue with the B450 board that came before it i think.

Nothing starts up. Like the it wont even power on no matter what i do and i dont have a spare AMD CPU to test it with.

Well depending how patient you are, I may be able to send you my chip on Saturday, i'm not home until Friday night.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Well depending how patient you are, I may be able to send you my chip on Saturday, i'm not home until Friday night.

Thanks. Ive sent all my pictures and invoices to AMD so im just waiting to hear back from them. If they are hellbent that i send my board to gigabyte then i'll give you a shout.