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Maybe spend a little bit more on realistic movement animation and a little less on Vin Diesel.

What do you mean Father Christmas is dead?! :blink:

Who do I have tied up in my garage then?

That's the whole point of adding points into speed.

Just seen this on HUKD

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I've been grinding deliveries and catching up with podcasts, so I tend to stay off comms whilst I'm listening to them.

The  main problem recently has been the stability of the servers, it makes a  lot of the group playing very annoying as servers drop and groups get  broken up. The free flight week was an complete disaster and probably  put more people off putting money into the game than anything else that  could have happened.

Even though the flight week has ended, the  stability of the servers is still a problem, people are actively  avoiding the trading aspect of the game as the constant disconnects have  lost some people hundreds of thousands of credits.

But we've persevered and I've now saved up enough in game to buy the MISC Prospector and the Helix drill head. As well as a Greycat buggy and the Jeep version, I'll be popping over to the in game ship shop later this weekend to buy the URSA Rover.

There were deaths......

But all the tames got out alive and all pack contents were recoverable, so nothing lost in the execution.

You'll notice that the script picked up all the nasties that killed our tribe members.

Looks like the Milli-osaur managed to kill 5 of us, closely followed by the Addx-adon.

Now you are just being silly, that will never work.

The BIOS battery is missing.

I can make any PC last that long, in fact a lot longer, especially as I take the "Trigger's Broom" approach to computing.

Well I clicked a button and these parts are winging their way. I went for the P400A (which arrived about an hour ago) as I didn't want RizZy having sleepless nights thinking his mind worked too much like mine. On the reviews where they say the metal is a bit flimsy I think they must have been tugging pretty hard at the least supported part of the back, it has a little give around the MB backplate area, but thats not a bad thing

The ram is coming from Italy..... But has a good rating on Amazon Marketplace and I have been notified it has been dispatched with TNT as the courier.

I think I'll order a 6 pipe Snowman and some GD900 thermal paste from Ali-express (as the Snowman has no pad or grease), then I'll have time to run it with stock cooler before it arrives. Then there is the question of single or dual fan, the dual fans seem to run off a single connector, but the single fan version does not look like it comes with additional clips for a second fan if needed, may go dual RGB one and split the cables, I have a dupont crimp tool and the extras knocking about.

But saying all that, I need to see what clearances I have after the NVME with the generous heatsink is installed, may have to go for a smaller Snowman with 6 pipes and twin stacks.


Edit: Just noticed the price of the Sabrent Rocket has gone up a lot, I got it at £180. Alexa just binged at me to let me know the other bits are on the van for delivery today.

I was thinking of building with the stock and seeing what happens, but  if you type in best quiet cooler for 3700x you get some surprising  results.

There is a cheap Chinese cooler manufacturer out there called Snowman and they seem to have a great product for around £20.

The 4 heat pipe single fan versions rate really highly, I was wondering about getting one of these 6 heat pipe versions with double fans as a potential swap out later.

I'm looking around for reviews of the variants as well, they have dual tower 6 heat pipe versions with a central fan.

I was thinking of building with the stock and seeing what happens, but if you type in best q

I'll probably think about 144Hz further down the line and just stick with my current one for now.

For the case I looked around about air flow and decibels and the Phantek P400A seemed to have ticked a lot of boxes for the guys on Gamers Nexus, but there are also some niggles around build quality. They also seem to count the Cooler Master H500 as an alternative, but slightly higher db.

Still deciding so all input is appreciated,

Nice info about the Octacore's, that will change my mind on processor,  but I still like to have upgrade options so will stick with the X570  base. The ASUS TUF X570 seems to have pretty robust VRMs and military grade caps. I also really like ASUS, all my main systems have been on their boards and I've had no trouble with them, same thing processor wise I started off with AMD on the DX2-80 chip on my first PC. My only divergence from that was the original Pentium.

It's not a budget thing, but a bang for buck.

The PCPartPicker price for the CL16 ram was based on a Czech company, UK sourcing is a hell of a lot more expensive, so I may settle for some CL18 of the same frequency and family instead and a bit closer to home.

Although PCI 4.0 is not being utilised yet on GFX and the NVME drives out there at 4.0 are restricted to 5gb/s by the current chip controllers, the 40% better sustained read/write speeds they currently have seems to blow away the 3.0 drives for only a few pounds more. I know in the real world this probably won't see any great gain, but I'm thinking that a lot of the upcoming games are going to be more IO intensive as they transition between Sim and FPS modes. I know swap is not an issue in today's 32/64/128gb ram world, but having that write speed capability makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

My current system is not doing too bad on most games, still getting 60fps on Division2, but occasional stop motion when testing Star Citizen and the likes of Atlas and ARK as they release engine updates and more intensive maps they kill my system.

I'm coming from a ASUS M4A89TD Pro/USB3 (stuck at PCIe 2.0x16) with FX8350 (upgraded from a Phenom 2 X6 1055T). I think they were the first USB3.0 motherboards that ASUS produced with an AMD chipset as there was a USB2.0 version as well. It has and currently still is doing reasonably okay for what I play with High or Very High GFX settings, but only Ultra on few things, I have no intentions of going 4K any time soon.

Only thing I'd say, is for negligible extra cost you can go for the 3700x ryzen instead no? It's what myself and a couple others have upgraded to and it is an incredible performance jump, I also upgraded from a almost-ten-year-build.

Can't wait to hear how the upgrade feels bro.

The 5% increase on a 3700x compared to a 3600 doesn't seem to add up cost wise. £160 v £270. Although the move from 3600 to 3600x might be worth looking at, does anything really need 8 cores yet.

I think the biggest increase will be around the PCI 4,0 NVME,

Not ordered anything yet, just specing up at the moment and I do expect that this mobo will last me a fair amount of time and see a CPU upgrade and a few GPU upgrades in its future.