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  1. Encolpius

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Pinball!!!!

    Ever since I was a young man, I've played the silver ball. Apart from the period between ages 12 and 27 when I stopped going to arcades on holiday and discovered The Pinball Arcade on Steam respectively. And now I've got into it a bit heavily. Whenever I go anywhere, out comes my phone and onto...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Worrisome horizontal lines.

    Hello peoples. Not posted here for months. Looking for new job and all that codswallop because my current one's looking unstable. As an aside, if anyone knows of anyone or anywhere who wants to hire a moderately experienced property litigation solicitor, PM me. I'm single, own no property and...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Victor Meldrew was right.

    Because the utter idiocy, jobsworthism, and stupidity of modern life really does make you want to lash everyone you encounter with sarcasm and shout, "WHAT IN THE NAME OF SANITY" at them. Like for instance, today, the bloke delivering the stationery to our firm just dumped it outside the door...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Excessive optical drive noise.

    This is a problem that I've had for a while now but haven't really noticed since I very rarely use it as most of my stuff is downloaded. However I've still got a few items that require the disc in to run. Basically, when it's idling, it vibrates against the case unless I put a few objects on...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Worst song ever.

    So what is it then? Is is Barbara Markay, with "Give Your (Richard) To Me," The Reynolds Girls with "I'd Rather Jack," Father Ted and "My Lovely Horse," or maybe Shira ft. Asco with "Pound On My Muffin." Unless of course it's Komar & Melamid with "The Most Wanted Song."
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Hahahahahahahahaha

    You thought wrong:
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Swimathon 2014.

    Well, I've spent too long over the past 18 months on my backside (a state of affairs for which the Fat Cow below is partly responsible, alas) and as such am now a bit of a Fat (deleted). Accordingly, I have decided to attempt the Swimathon again next year in April. Basically, it's a 5-kilometre...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Most nightmarish game ever.

    Good evening. Which games are, in people here's opinion, the most terrifying of all time? Well, I'm going to nominate the 1990s pointy-clicky number "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream", based on the short story by Harlan Ellison and co-written by him. No jump scares, but old-fashioned mind...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Ugly Cases.

    Here's a trainwreck from Coolermaster (who have many uglies under their belt). It's a total mess because it's actually very large and bulky (full ATX sized).
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Ugly Cases.

    PC cases nowadays, especially the so-called "gaming" cases, are BUTT UGLY. Seriously. What with being way too wide, LED fans (why oh why oh why), front plates that look like tank treads, belt-hitching names, and other tacticool nonsense. What's wrong with "less is more" and all that. Sorry...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Do I need an upgrade.

    On a side note, I bet he gets all borsant if you say that to him in real life.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Do I need an upgrade.

    So, build is below. Thing is, next year we'll start seeing PS4 / XBoner stuff come out and probably a bump in system requirements. All things considered, how much life is left in my system, do people think, especially considering I'm hoping to be able to play The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 on...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Grindy PSU Fan.

    Well, when I turned the Fat Cow on this evening for the first 2-3 minutes there was a bit of a grinding noise coming from the PSU. However it wasn't causing any smoke or burning and the air was being let out just fine, although the intake fan on the lower left side was very dusty. Temperatures...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Migrating to an SSD.

    Well, I think it's time I did. However, I have a 1 TB hard drive and I have filled it up with over 550GB worth of gear. Given that most affordable SSDs only go up to 480GB, how am I going to do this without having to basically wipe loads of stuff? In an ideal world I'd splash out five hundred...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Best Ever PC Game.

    Hello, What do people reckon is the best game, ever, of all time, on the PC, and why? For me, it's a two way tie between Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Baldur's Gate II. The former because of its hard science fiction setting, finely balanced and intensely strategic gameplay, ladle-loads of...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt.

    Who else is looking forward to the third, and final, outing of everyone's favourite cats-eyes platinum-haired snark-firing monster slayer? (Not Michael Moorcock, who reckons he's lifted from his own Elric novels though.)
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Upgrading the Processor.

    So, I have The Fat Cow (see sig) and I'm contemplating an upgrade from my i5-2400S to an i7-3770. Thing is, I'm in some confusion due to reading contradictory things on the internets as to whether my motherboard will let me do that as although the H61 chipset (which is the B3 stepping on my...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST What do people on here do for a living?

    Just curious. If you must know, I'm a lawyer.
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Fifty Shades of Grey

    Read this a while back as part of my awful novels quest. However this has to be singled out for exceptional depreciation. It's terrible! Absolutely rotten! It reads like a Twilight fan fiction was additional gratuitous sex... which is probably because it started life as such, a Twilight fanfic...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Upgrading to 7870.

    Hello people. A while back I bought a mini PC with the specification listed below. I've been contemplating an upgrade from a Radeon HD 6870 to a Radeon HD 7870. However: - will I need a stronger power supply than the 450 W Silverstone block that I have. - which brands do people recommend. The...
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