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Ha I use adblock on my desktop but I only use my phone in the late evening or morning while in bed so haven't bothered. I was on the net before there was 16 colours, batch files were a thing and 25 Mhz was the turbo boost on my cpu. Something something fireworks lol. I'm not that old but I wasn't watching ads then and I don't now except on mobile. I dunno about you blokes but I'm not getting pregnant any time soon and not likely to click lol.

Hey k31th you know we get the top banner ads? Do you reckon that I really need an "are you pregnant" ad? We had a baby just 8 weeks ago and we made sure we aren't having a fifth. Advertise me sh*t from bunnings or something, I might actually buy it lol.

Ha I noticed that little discrepancy. It was never wine, it was water. 6 bottles of water it is then. You watching on Netflix? I guess you watch in the order of release date?! I just checked and there is Star Trek galore on Netflix and only "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" available in Australia right now. I'd recommend; Suits, Vampire Diaries and various other sci fi or zombie 1 season series. I'm currently watching Ascension and it doesn't suck too badly. I liked Meat Eater as a hunting series and Arrow wasn't too bad if dragging it's heels somewhat. Sons of Anarchy has a billion seasons if you like watching that sort of thing. The Originals is a spinoff of Vampire Diaries. Vikings might strike your fancy. From Dusk Till Dawn might be your thing but I thought it was a bit too much like a soggy nacho cheese plate. If you can handle the "Wild West" then I'd recommend that you watch all of the seasons of Deadwood. Don't blame me if your every second phrase is "goddamn cocksucker" after you watch it. For a tamer version that is more likely to piss you off at it's cheesiness watch Longmire. Download or buy The Walking Dead for a stretched out zombie excursion. Don't forget all the great movies from the last 30 years from Tarantino. I can't think of much more right now but I watched most of that in the last 18 months or so.

Don't believe the hype man. It doesn't look that close online but we're dealing with advertising here. My card is aftermarket and apparently I got a good one as it sits at 1530Mhz when gaming and drops to 1518 otherwise. I've successfully had it at 1547 when benching but that's good for fa. I was quite surprised then amused when the new gaming and synthetic benchmarks came out earlier in the year and my 980ti was already beating them. I was expecting miracles but I guess that is a testament to my noobness lol. I'm sure some blower versions don't fare nearly as well in testing but you should know that advertisers use the worst of the old and the best of the new for promoting new products. Yes you can overclock a new one, providing the chip in question will oc. Clock cycles aren't equal on different chipsets as the instructions per second differ greatly as proven (to me at least) by my own testing with various cards as well as being public knowledge. A Mhz number is not the be all and end all. We also rely on having quality drivers and bios's for our cards. Fortunately my card doesn't catch on fire like some 1080's. I rarely see more than 75 degrees at 50% fan in a 35 degree room with an oc on air. Aftermarket coolers ftw. Fyi the 980ti is dx12 compatible.

Here lemme fix that for you 1 fish, 1 loaf of bread and 6 bottles of wine.

Umm down the drain? You never had your paint, you never even had your car...until a couple of weeks ago. I think your paint has been uv affected over time or had a slight scratch in it. When you blasted it the paint just came right off. Yes thank me Captain Obvious Here is a link to how to repaint it cos at the end of the day that is what you will need to do. Disclaimer: I haven't tried this method but it seems legit. If you don't trust it then check with your local crash repair.

Haha you'd think after that long that there would be fully integrated, reliable dual card gaming options but it ain't so. I have at least one game that I remember (The golf club) refused to run when in crossfire and everything else had stuttering or crashing issues. There are other examples that required the user to spend hours setting up individual cf or sli profiles in order to get games to run smoothly and reliably. When the founders edition gtx 1080 came out they were $1200 and the aftermarket gtx 980ti's were $650 new. If there was decent sli and crossfire support I would have bought another 980ti in a heartbeat. As you mentioned dual card setups are pretty much only good for benchmarking and I agree 100%. My firestrike benchmark went from 18072 to 17002 when I went to a single 980ti from 2 aftermarket r9 290x's but now have none of the issues I had with cf. That sh*t can make you pull your hair out lol. Imo a gtx 1080 is still not the best bang for buck at the moment. I'd still be happy to buy a second hand 980ti now if I had to make the choice, although I bought mine new a year ago. My card exceeds a 1080 when oc'd and is still within 5 to 10% when stock. No doubt the 1080 is a better card but not worth swapping a 980ti for such a minimal upgrade. It would be worth upgrading to a 1080 from earlier generations though. Any way one looks at it, building a top tier gaming computer is expensive as crap by the time peripherals are accounted for. It's still cheaper to play Assetto Corsa than to flog the hell out of my xr6 through the hills though so that's a thing!

So apart from knocking down my fence and blowing every bin in the street over we escaped relatively unharmed. We even still have power on which is surprising!

Haha don't worry mate the baby can only stay awake for an hour or so at a time.

I'm currently petitioning my wife as we speak. It's not looking good at this stage, the baby has taken over the boobies.

I've changed nothing and have no wiring issues nor gaf either. Problem solved!?

Ya old carnt! I usually stay awake until I'm tired which is 1:00am most nights. My latest thing is to go to bed at a normal time ie:10:00pm and then wake up at 1:00am and stay awake for 2 or 3 hours then go to bed. It sucks a fat one as I'm left tired and fatigued for most of the day. I'm not sure if that's from getting old or sleep walking.

I've lived in every capital city bar Darwin. I've also been to almost every small town in Australia. If you are talking about geographic planning or urban structure then you couldn't be farther from the truth. Do some research and you will see that Adelaide is one of Australia's best planned cities. Here's a start; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide https://goo.gl/maps/8qtTn5GfNg62 Whatever gen x/y opinion exists of this place you will see that a fresh outlook reveals that this city/state is on par with anywhere in Australia in regards to urban planning.

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I reserve the word epic for stuff that actually matters like the himalayas rising or an earthquake exploding in the main street. Next year indeed.

Farken hell I just saw this now. I filled up 2 hours ago and made my car ok to drive on the street. I came home and had some drinks and now I'm stuck here. I don't know how I missed this. Edit: I have no faceballs. My wife just told me there are 2500 people confirmed attending and she knew about it a few days ago. Maybe I got lucky lol.

The breaker was fine (for the wiring) as it didn't trip. The wiring was too thin for the load and heated up and burnt.

I would be reluctant to go dual card again for gaming as these days as it is not needed. Maybe I'd get another 980ti just because they are getting cheaper by the day but I don't like the stuttering. I'm sure sli/crossfire support will improve as time goes by, at least in the AAA titles. Give it a few years and a single card will exceed 60 fps if not double that at 4k and will come in at the usual $1000 price. With the more obvious move toward multithreading I think my cpu should hold up for nearly a decade before becoming obsolete for gaming based on Intel's current cycle. Hopefully AMD can shake that up in the coming weeks and years.

Haha Jet I don't spose you want an old man for an apprentice? Looking after kids pays me a big fat zero!

Haha @bloodycrashboy I have a neptom 240m and it it usually goes to 75 when playing assetto corsa. @masda74 I'm pretty sure I've got the best I can from my setup. I'm not game to put more than 1.65 volts on the ram. There is little benefit to having the ram run 300Mhz faster and the cpu 200Mhz faster (assuming that a new chip will get to 4.8Ghz) so I'll just stick with what I have for now. The only bsods I've seen lately are due to the graphics driver but at the rate nvidia pumps them out it usually gets fixed fairly quickly. I had 2 r9 290x's in crossfire previous to swapping to the gtx980ti. The power supply was sufficient to run them at stock speeds but when I oc'd them I was getting crashes constantly. After thorough diagnosing I worked out that I needed a 1200w psu minimum for that setup. I may get another 980ti one day but I rarely feel like I need more gpu power at 1440p. Maybe I'll upgrade cards in a few years if I ever move to a 4k monitor.

Was that playing minesweeper?

My personal thermometer is reserved for my butt. I have a couple of different inside outside thermometers. It's always hotter at my house than Adelaide.

The best part is that it has only just started to give us a few decently hot days. I saw 48 last year in December and I'm betting that will appear again this year in January if not this week. Funny thing is that in 6 months it will cold af, we'll be running the open fire and complaining about how it's 0 outside and 10 degrees in the living area in the morning. It's still 37 degrees at 7:30pm now.

My poor wife can't cope (she's from tassy) so I'm constantly misting her with an atomiser and moving a fan to wherever she is lol. It's about 32 in the house. It's 6:50pm and it's dropped to 38 so it's a bit better. The kids and I aren't bothered by it, we just hang out in our boxers/nappies.

The house was new when we moved in. All of that stuff appeared in the time we lived there. Mate don't get too wound up about your situation cos it won't change the anything, it'll just make you mad. Get some woosah going on and think long term. It will all be sorted out eventually. You might have to be assertive for a while but it will all work out ok. Think about it this way; off to work soon...money!!!! (and time away from annoying family lol) I found a good way to deal with GRRR is to hit the weights or go for a run or remind the missus what she signed up for lol. Ye'll be right mate