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« on: October 14, 2019, 03:37:16 PM »
Thanks for the streaming site Bird, but I don't really listen to that much music anymore  . I still have my CD collection and have xferred a lot of it to USB sticks to listen to in the car but that is about it. I am very much old school and still have my Connoisseur turntable with Grace G707 tonearm from the 70s, which I still use on the odd occasion.
I applaud that. I'm just a lazy old fart and I can't be bothered; otherwise I'd certainly rebuild my black disk collection, too 
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« on: October 13, 2019, 05:22:23 PM »
I have bought the CD but have yet to listen .
Thumbs up mate! Btw if you don't want to buy CDs but like to listen into various music - with reasonable quality - I can recommend Tidal. They've got proper hifi quality going (uncompressed stream), and a pretty wide variety. Costs about as much as a CD per month, which isn't that much, IMO. For me it was great as my CD collection stayed behind, and I could find most of it on Tidal - and more.
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« on: October 10, 2019, 08:31:55 AM »
Oops sorry, didn't really look to see if deals were any good. I got f1 2019 with my formula wheel, tried it a couple times and it's shite
I didn't look much either, it's only that Dirt2 title caught my eye. I've played Motorsport Manager, btw. It's fun on mobile, but the desktop is just a blown-up mobile app IMO.
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« on: October 09, 2019, 03:52:18 PM »
LOL Dirt2 $47 @ 60% off? Yeah right. I'm not *that* gullible. It's $34 @ 60% off on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/690790/DiRT_Rally_20/Still not sure if I should buy it... Codemasters are really becoming the Codewreckers...The garbage they produce is astonishing. Buggy code with utterly shit interfaces. Altho AC has one of the worst interfaces in the known universe, so there.
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« on: October 07, 2019, 08:57:03 PM »
look who's crawled out of the woodwork!
Howdy, mate.
You are serious about your baby factory...no.7!
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« on: October 06, 2019, 09:50:31 AM »
Well, on behalf of all the homos not coming around, hi!
I was hoping Brit would drop by at least, as he does occasionally (he still may at some point).
The fact is; the original guys have gone off in every direction, pretty much. XGN is held up by the sim racing sections nowadays - as you might have seen.
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« on: October 05, 2019, 05:29:07 PM »
Well, I strongly recommend The Wall, then. It'll be worth frying another set of speakers!
You don't even need to be drunk. But it's best if you listen to it as one, not just 'songs' off it, IMO.
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« on: October 05, 2019, 07:33:31 AM »
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« on: September 26, 2019, 08:44:01 AM »
Yeah, I've just read an article the other day, saying that while on paper it's well-proven quantum computers are far more capable for certain calculations than the current tech, there's still no practical proof of that; something about the need for more qubits, but when they go for it, the entanglement goes out of whack. And maybe google has managed to create a proof.
But on the subject of "google claimed" and "quantum supremacy" - well, it's a lot of hype, it seems google did not claim anything as such, only a google employee said something to this effect while a reporter was in hearing distance.
Apparently they have built something which does calculate one very specific scientific thing well & quick.
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« on: September 25, 2019, 08:30:45 AM »
Memory is a bit slower but with tighter timings ...
Funny thing there; I remember reading an article & test a few years ago, where they've compared RAM modules. Back then their conclusion was the ram "Speed" (the frequency) was of lesser importance for the performance, the timing was a much greater factor. I wonder if this is still true, though.
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« on: September 23, 2019, 05:47:31 PM »
RGB is an absolute must have, with a glass case, no less! It always gets an exclamation from visitors .  Especially when the keyboard & mouse are RBG, too.
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« on: September 23, 2019, 08:57:46 AM »
Sorry for the delay in responding ,I have been away.
Anyway thanks for all the knowledgeable replies with this info and some further research I have determined I will have to push current PC tech to the limits . I am now pretty sure CPU cores and Clock speed are the top priority , hyperthreading is not going to add much. I really wanted to go AMD this time but the case for Intel is just too good
Any recommendations on Mobo brands, and which ones to avoid?
Does anyone have any experience with "closed loop CPU liquid coolers" and any recomendations?
Brands wise I usually stick to Asus, never had a fault. All the regular brands have more faults (eg Gigabite, MSI) and the really bottom-end I won't even mention. I'm using water cooling for a while now, got the NZXT Kraken X62 currently, it's great performance-wise, but the motor has died on me once. Had to get a cheap heatsink while the warranty replacment was churning along, fucking annoying that lots of shops don't do local warranties. Before that I've used a Corsair H100i , that was good, too. And it didn't fail on me. With this sort of cooling two things to strongly consider; 1) noise (when at full tilt, they can be!) 2) space - radiators be big. Make sure it fits. The performance will be good, if you don't eff up the installation
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« on: September 19, 2019, 12:54:27 PM »
Couple of notes - just my 2c: - Some of the me2's aren't faster than the regular SSDs. Their spec *allows* them to communicate faster, but not all are - they are SSDs too (solid state drives: not spindle, but memory-chip based), just with a different bus. Even those that are faster, aren't perceptibly so, in normal use (i.e. desktop/gaming). This in my experience (got both, samsung 850pro SSD vs 960evo me2, same 1TB variants). - I reckon you're still better off with the Intel, for the following reasons: 1) core speed is still king in a lot of games, and regardless of what you're running on the side if the main game does not utilise the rest of the cpu, the single-core performance will be the bottleneck. (and other extra programs can run on other cores; they won't need high performance cores, so that is of no concern) 2) Intel works better & nicer with nVidia, and nVidia is what you want for top end 3) Intel 'K' CPUs are very nicely overclockable; so you get a decent 10%-20% extra for your money if you need it later. That's unbeatable, it's equivalent to a small upgrade. And even though you might be better of with the AMD, say, in 5 years time, by that time you'll want a new computer anyway
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« on: September 18, 2019, 09:06:37 AM »
I reckon the missing feel with the brake is mostly the missing 'arse' feel. I don't think you get too much feedback on a brake pedal, I certainly haven't noticed that, altho I've never driven a GT3 racecar, hehe.
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