Krackennutz

UK E10[Regular ]fuel $8.93  a gal     E5 [octane E 95] they now call premium lol $9.62  Diesel $9.62 but our gallon of fuel is 4.5 litres  US is 3.7 litres ,so not far off you lot

if we used 3.7 litres  per gallon, Premium Gas and Diesel $7.97....Reg Gas $7.58

above using Xe curreency converter

Alot of W11 updates seem to have problems in them[no surprise] they just do not install correctly,So after having to reload PC once again months ago found best way to check and repair it just in case depending on speed of your PC 1 to 3 mins wow! but worth it

 click on the windows icon on task bar then ALL  APPS  look for Windows Tools[ great they upgraded that lol]  look for command prompt,left click on that and hold mouse button and drag it to desktop ,saves keep looking for it,

Now Right mouse click on it  select Run as Administrator, when box pops up type in it   sfc/scannow   , it will look for any violations and will nearly fix all of them for you most of the time

reason putting this up,for many not computer literate is because  out of the last 2 major updates have gotten the wonderfull security lockdown,on 2nd reboot and got windows back up, have run the above and its fixed them

I ignore it as much as Harry and Megan

we used to make hand held bazzokas yrs ago very easy and cheap!!  you need to tall empty beer cans, on one can pierce small hole opposite the ring pull[ remove the ring pull to] 2 can cut the top and bottom off above where the can bevels, now slide the tube on top of the other can,use a bit of packing tape gaffer tape to create a seal.

Next scrunch some news paper into a ball till you have a circunference of the tube of top can make it slightly loose, then wrap it with tape[ try to get it as round as possible and  keep testing in tube, till it gets a nice light fit] on bazzoka made

Now some will work great some will just flop, best doing this on a warm day or in colder parts lightly warm bottom can, pop bapaer ball in top tube about half way in, now you need petrol lighter fluid, put a few drops [about 4/5] into little hole in base of can, give it a swirl, now light it[ prefable hole away from face hold no responsibilty if you burn your self or break anything!!!!!]

now if you get a good one be carefull, one we tried punched hole through a ply woood honeycombe inner door[missus was not happy]

mind you missus wasnt to happy when used to let mini rockets off up the chimney either

IF      you you literally end up hitting brick wall on this, problem could also be if its getting hot and shutting down[ daughters 580 Msi armor did it] black screens and mean only IF  all hope lost try repasting the the GPU chip, know its annoying when it happens to anyone with any parts even not pc related but even out of a 1000 made 10 will  have a fault,even though factory tested there probably just plugged it oh look work done, not stress tested as it takes to long

Been using W11 since they released it as a preview had few problems with it  seemed major but in end it was just an annoyance lol  if your using firefox i think chrome has it i add Ublock to it,its helped a lot on the junk mail i get and annoying videos that are on site ads, you still see them but it blocks info they try to get,So far on this site its blocked 4  today,total being used 94000

Used to get this on a Samsung Tv i used as a monitor,, did my head in like you new hdmi etc ,but did you know that theres different grade hdmi cable,turned out it worked with hdmi c, other thing  are your monitors 4k and you had your new 3070 running at 4k with a hdmi basic cable that runs only at 1080[ hence you see 4k and 8 k hdmi cables] but you run the 1080ti at 1080p.... jsut trying to run few more problems before you  RMA[ in the UK all electronics have 1 yr but 2 yr  manufacturing warranty. may apply where you are]

been using these for yrs cheap does the job  music sounds great [ you can tweak it all in the software] $25!  light on the head to as well as adjustable..https://www.ebay.com/itm/253922845290?epid=11014879216&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item3b1efb226a:g:tpkAAOSwGsJbuuXQ&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAACkPYe5NmHp%2B2JMhMi7yxGiTJkPrKr5t53CooMSQt2orsSg3Ye8yTWgOW7pmE1t838dmbC8oqJZHcRoPYvM8%2FvUAuEiaG3eNrfJi9VEFj7tYdNCE2MRialcOdk9saZnSac4sKObR9Yf3%2FPj1ihphTtHkElFfJX1JH933wB1ymbRbHTOc3%2Fsurd9huXPg2H1LG3FTs32nHd1J4m1t4ZHNJbygpXq%2BhJfv5YTZest%2BpT1zbtZY25nkoxl%2FKFwh2WdHFQen53G2M%2B8gNnWm%2FWUmbzJrUzN28UE%2FJX9YrkDgVm5xSKKRrzXiW0VX5dlD06AG5sotWYwfTfQpK5x%2By24kwJAQJhT0Ihq9rONWPyjVx8SE9gzQeR2re4JHtGblU5HSNR227ZORHbF1fLnHiJNnLnZOppcYPPJZ2rKlFb%2FKHUtcJd3e1c5BXVx7QL1LwiblK1nnihOhohyX%2FTiRNwN6iYu7wax49MP3akN%2F%2BGaz9ADyQgdApXevqTto40W%2FtxihjjqNaZlGhVeibJEAsEP4ohZki6411agUfw7HZsNaJrP1SI8KnS%2F2gIxrqRSv6Opqm90YbDcziyv16x4kdkwkQt119%2FNKPVELBTEqYw9Y4pQXxLCQ%2BefjE54WegsekpP1Z8%2BXw3BTChHpJdnCJHiwaDhAz9jpIHgjWkm4agE%2FfOHPk2DQfWgLdAo2u3BjZeXk3%2Fms0YaUM5h9PyvhN6wUXJ%2BKZ2D%2BSgUubpMF8WLsg37RKFmwSbBM6YEan9jBeWysH2WXmd3w5giAfifpqmT8L%2FhTA5BaIrDISvyXNlHLeQ35pNvH3zjDWt3HbKSmomyeXOJPVFXWop62AJP4V2kUBTXLO0OAswwz421irR%2B7CerMBo|clp%3A2334524|tkp%3ABFBMjLzim-tf

Well me thinks Puttin is after the old USSR,Ukraine is very rich in minerals etc,plus gas line runs through it and also he will control the black sea, mind you China is having re think re the sanctions, if that happened to them they would be bankrupt within a week.Hence distanced themselves from him whicjh has peeved him off a tad

As for Puttins nukes he may have a lot launches one  Nato counties around him have more than Russia combined...boom no Russia Puttin loses,not really its the innocents that lose from one who thinks he walks on water.Mind you apparently he is of afraid of one thing---- Being Assainated

Guessing when you did do your install and it booted from old disc, you went into Disk Management and assigned new  drive letter  to neew drive,if it was not assigned a drive letter then all it will do is boot off old drives

And when all Countries leaders are bunked down in there Bunkers ALL countries then pour concrete at least 5 ft thick over the doors and we call the whole thing off and we leave them there

23 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin hes going to push the button

Lets get to Chatham docks two warships and a sub there ....dont think he is that stupid maybe a prick but that will def lead to WW3

Top man

just remember when you look ,to  look  what your video card supports to  Amd uses G- sync [and what ever Nvidia uses lol [ as  rare they support both ] Had the Aoc 32 144hz for a whole 6 months and accidently knocked it over putting cable in and broke the screen replaced it with a Msi 165hz one,but depends on your budget  and also card you have if you want 4k, the msi i have only displays 1080p but have played it with my Rx580 at 2k.if you get curved after few weeks it will look flat anyway but will give you bit off eye strain.Would i swap it for a flat uhmmm nope.

Will say had it now for 2yrs and starting to look like a small screen and for us oldies the old 15 inch crts back then looked big!

The UK Supports Ukraine

Well thos batteries are copies dunno about the US,one way we tell in UK if there cheapo replacement is the C and one looks like an  E in it, they basic cut the C where it rounds, those on that battery stands for Chine Export,surpised how may ignore the lappy bit in manual if used for prolonged use ,use mains- disconect battery may casue battery to get hot,basic you use it it keeps pumping charge in battery gets hot, mind you there is good side if your a vaper, dismantel battery and you can use those or for anything else you have that use 18650

the other problem you may have is being shared house others using it ie netflix etc and landlord has base speed of 28mb,when you say wall socket guessing homeplug through mains there not very realiable[bit confusing when you say  3 other sockets] and if disconnected for to long will more like need re pairing

As your a UK fellow if the house your in is old the walls are pretty thick so wifi signal degrades,hence moved nearer it picked up, also depends on the router to,sometimes restarting router to will help, as for direct link[ethernet cable] that could be just going naff also  as open reach are pretty blah , check the master socket,if its an old one [ newer shape look faceplate looks like two halfs]if its through homeplugs would look there to start  cheap ones like i have lucky if can get 4mps through them,guessing your in shared household

On 1/31/2022 at 11:16 AM, KaptCrunch said:

in Canada Sept 1 1966 was the first color TV sold 

Where i live in the The UK is where the television was first transmitted by John Logie Baird

"Meanwhile, Scottish engineer John Baird gave the world's first demonstration of true television before 50 scientists in central London in 1927. With his new invention, Baird formed the Baird Television Development Company, and in 1928 it achieved the first transatlantic television transmission between London and New York and the first transmission to a ship in mid-Atlantic. Baird is also credited with giving the first demonstration of both color and stereoscopic television.

Not played 2042 for a while ,mainly as sysyem i have meets just midway,think the game is crap and cannot justify paying 00000s to upgrade, the modelling  looks basic for a start  BF2 looked better ,mind you dessy seeing vid using BF3  as a back drop ,think i shall reinstall it loved playing market place! but for time being have gone back to playing BF4 or Warzone

On 1/24/2022 at 7:48 PM, J3st3r said:

If your motherboard is more than a couple of years old, it will not have a TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) installed in it. I bought my AM4 motherboard back in July and it does not have a TPM module but it Does have a header on the board to plug one into.

 

If I had one, I would have probably installed Win 11 a couple of months ago. But I'm to Cheap and Broke to spend the $35 + shipping for the TPM 2.0 module.

Win 10 works fine and I'm not willing to install some 3rd party software or install a Win 11 Beta version and then upgrade to Win 11 to get it to install.

If I'm going to install Win 11 it will be a Clean install. I've had way to many "Hiccups" from Upgrading OSes in the past. Win 7 to Win 8 was a Nightmare then came Win 8.1 then Win 8.1 to Win 10. Every single time I've eventually had to Format and do a clean install.      

Amd boards am 4? i  have the X470 ultra gaming TPM shows on there as fTpm,problem with enabling secure boot is you also have to change it to UEFI,problem i had it then showed "NO DRIVES",after weeks  getting hump with it, had to download W11 then do fresh install,then had to convert to GPRT to the hard drive,your right lot of flaffing just for W11, i like it and dont, theres few things W10/W8.1 etc  had i able to put drives showable on taskbar, move task bar to right or left.W11 only alows top or bottom[me awkward like mine on right side] and like drives on task bar,were as W11 its a folder.Control panel it was easier to locate things not now.Also on most am4 even ones that just allowed W10,you may find theres a bios update to help with 11

BUT did you notice this part"Microsoft say they are working to bring Activision Blizzard games to their Game Pass subscription service. "

On 1/15/2022 at 5:05 AM, J3st3r said:

Could be from improper cooler installation.  Cooler master ML360R uses the Stock AM4 mounts. It will warp the board a bit if you over tighten the thumb screws. That little bit of warping will partly lift the heatsink on the VRM cooler and cause it to burn out.

 

Symptoms of a damaged VRM include thermal shutdown, rebooting and a very unstable PC especially when loading any CPU intensive program.

 

B450 Tomahawk doesn't have the best VRM config to begin with. Any overclocking will overheat the VRMs and running a Higher end Ryzen 9 5800x, 5900X or 5950X will cause the motherboard to quickly fail because of there higher voltage requirements. I read a bunch of reviews on the B450 boards and they run really hot especially if you run a 100-125W+ TDP chip in them.

B450 comes with 4+2 phase setup where as the B550 comes with a 10+2+1 phase setup and the X570 comes with a 12+2 or a BEEFY 14+4 phase setup. However the X570 boards all have those small Garbage chipset fans on them that tend to fail after a couple years. 

 

I bought my X470 before the B550 boards came out because 3rd and 4th gen Ryzen wasn't officially supported with the B450 and I did Not want another board with one of those Garbage Chipset fans on it.  I got my MSI X470 Gaming Plus MAX for $120 and it's very good for a Budget Mid-range motherboard that supports 3rd and 4th gen ryzen. 4th gen support came in a Bios update. I'm running a 3rd gen Ryzen 7 3700X 8 core 16 thread cpu.  I really need to get a better cooler though. The stock AMD Wrath Prizm cooler works very well but it is loud as heck.

 

I would recommend getting an MSI B550 motherboard if you can find one at a decent price. Motherboard are starting to go back up in price again. 

HAVE THE X470 ULTRA GAMING AND LITTLE 2600X.... will say best way water cooling! made own loop system[ didnt use ridge pipe used medical grade rubber tubiing] cost in your money around $150 in line temp guage never goes above 30c thats mostly in winter with heatiing on summer 23/25c playing  Warzone etc

had problems with daughters games with Win 10 and mine when Origin went tits up, for some reason  c+c visual  redistributal shows it has loaded latest but hasnt, try reloading latest Visual latest from MS heres a link for it

https://www.itechtics.com/microsoft-visual-c-redistributable-versions-direct-download-links/#microsoft-visual-c-2019-redistributable