DIV1D3

2 hours ago, mb67 said:

Beautiful evening at work, so I stopped to take a pic of my 2-Series.

 

-snip-

Good looking car, and a good looking background. 

Very nice. 

2 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

I wouldn't even worry about it... no one notices those little things, the rest of your car is really clean.

I have an SE that was specific to the US I think... though you guys got stuff pretty close to it. it's a 2002 SE in Titanium Grey(they made about 1000 of these in that color, another 1000 in yellow). Had it for almost 3 years now, and I've almost put 40k miles on it since(just crossed 131k!). Mine has quite the story... it's on it's third (and best) engine. The first one died under the PO's ownership, supposedly an oil change accident. It was replaced with a crappy rebuilt one that died about a year after I bought it, I got a used JDM motor and ECU from that 160 edition they had in Japan, and swapped that in... I think I might be the only one in the US to have figured out how to make that work without a custom ECU lol...

Fun car Love it. It's in need of some serious suspension overhaul tho.

Quite an interesting history, TEIN Flex Z (and then above that MCA Blues, though they're an Aussie business) coilovers is what I see a lot of people suggesting when it comes to upgrading suspension. 

Bought mine a couple months ago from a dealership in South Australia, which is over 2,500km from me, sight unseen, only went off pictures from carsales. 

As such, I didn't get much of it's history, dealership didn't care even though they run a fairly niche JDM dealership, so don't know about anything that's been replaced that isn't regularly replaced, or obvious. It has got an engine dampener, and a K&N air filter, and once I get my open license in less than a years time the plan is to pop a supercharger on top. 

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

welcome to the club.

 

Love the NB. all the smooth lines and curves

 

now excuse me while I drool over your hard top...

Cheers mate, as far as I'm aware it's its factory match, there's like 2 marks on the very back of it on the left, and chip just above the rear window, not sure how I'll flatten them out and make it look nice but right now it looks perfect from 2 metres or so.  

I assume from your profile pic you've got an SE? Was very much planning on getting one myself, but just ended up getting a stock NB8B. 

49 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Yet another mx5

There's a damb good reason for it too. 

They're fun as. 

Edit: 

At least they're not as common as a WRX or Lancer. 

3 minutes ago, CTR640 said:

That's called 'arrogancy'. It doesn't matter if he owns the fucking Earth or not, if he stays like that, not much people will like him.

I have no idea why he called someone a pedo guy as I haven't really understand the news article about that but calling someone a pedo guy publicly, wether it's true or not is not the right thing to do. He could have called the authorities to start investigation against that guy. You can either be innovative and massively successfull and act respectful towards anyone else and have a good personality or you can be innovative and massively successfull and be the biggest asshole on the planet.

I wouldn't have him fade from the public entirely, I am quite fond of Elon because of his innovation, but this was entirely uncalled for. 

He acted in the same way that a 16 year old girl would where she posts on Facebook calling Brittany a slut after Brittany got the spot of cheerleader squad captain instead of her. 

All of the points about making the decision between having 4x8GB or 2x16GB setups has been listed, but to summarise.

If you're going to get 4 modules of 8GB and are buying the same RAM, you really shouldn't have any compatibility issues.

It also subjectively looks a lot nicer to have all 4 slots occupied, but cancels out your option to upgrade to 64GB of RAM, though I doubt you'll ever need that much even before you decide to totally upgrade your RAM anyway. 

And 4 is more than 2, which means you have effectively double the chance to have a RAM stick die, but RAM is incredibly reliable, and very rarely dies. 

Sometimes Elon really is a bloody idiot, just far too vocal about stuff that has no well intentioned thought behind it. 

Hey guys, finally decided to pop in here and announce myself and my car. 

Had her for a little over 3 weeks now, but the last time I came into this thread I hadn't got any good pictures of her. 

She's a 2001 Mazda MX-5, second gen and basically entirely stock. I definitely intend on getting better looking wheels, I don't like the look of them at all. 

Also a new head unit is on it's way, the FM radio is dodgy (have yet to fiddle with the antenna though) and there's not even an AUX in the standard head unit. 

Haven't got any interior pics, but it's the black and red leather combo. 

And yes that picture is unedited, I've disabled the master AI feature on my P20 Pro. 

Hey guys, looking to buy a replacement back cover for my P20 Pro as I dropped it within the first week of buying it, and as it was the first it was the last. 

It still works 100%, but at such a price I'm not keen on keeping it in it's current condition. 

I've seen plenty of 'OEM' and 'Original' back covers listed online from around 20 USD to 30 Libyan Dinar, but they clearly aren't factory spec with most of the text on the cover not being present. 

I'd be fine with doing the repair myself, but does anyone know where I would find a genuine back cover, or are the ones advertised as 'OEM' just as good?

Cheers. 

I'd think the 10M fine would be an additional sum they'd need to pay out on top of the total amount that was incorrectly charged to users, but if Telstra is doing it on an inquiry-only basis than they won't have to pay nearly as much as what they reaped through this. 

You mean like, following the thread?

Whenever someone posts in a thread you've followed you get a notification. 

They respawn so to speak, kinda weird how after you chop some dude's head off, he comes back saying that you small like a molerat. 

Just now, YoloSwag said:

Sounds bad. I'll have to think about a bunch of other stuff and some detailed cost-based analysis before jumping on the bandwagon. Thought it was easy.

That's exactly the thing, getting into Cryptocurrencies before you know what you're doing is a really big hassle. 

Like anything, do some good research into what you can expect with what you have, and plan for any additional problems. 

Whichever way you think is most secure, or easy for yourself to deal with. 

If you have a non-modular PSU, it'd probably be wise to set the fans to Push as cables wouldn't have the chance to get caught in them. 

Just now, YoloSwag said:

Mining question - How does it work? I mean does it take long before you get your first coin or something?

You won't be getting it in whole coins, rather you get a fraction of a coin depending on how much you contributed to the pools progress (a group of miners). 

I mean, you could mine a crypto by yourself, but that's silly as it's the same amount of money/power but just more infrequent. 

Dunno about how quickly you can get it up and running, from what it seems nowadays it's really quick and as simple as downloading the miner and launching it. 

6 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

is that why lots of 280x's/7970s are so cheap used now and lots are easy and cheap to buy from GPU mining sites?

 

lots were advertised as ex-mining cards. 

 

it's not bad for the used market - it drives down prices and you can tell that it was used for mining by the age of the card. for example I've seen 3 months old 480s, asked the seller and he said it was running in an open air mining bench at 70 ish c while mining. why else would he be selling them? think about it. unless you're leaving the country or something, why.. 

If I was upgrading my components, I'd look to sell my old hardware. No use in keeping a 280X if you've just bought a GTX 1070 and have no other computer setups. 

As I mentioned, it's good for buyers, in some cases, but you'll have the off chance of buying a brutally used GPU that hasn't got a break since it was unboxed. For sellers, there's absolutely no upside, more competition which advertise for far less than average drastically reduces your returns. 

2 minutes ago, WPM-P36✠ said:

Well,  I will most likely get those two next month if they're still available from the store I've checked on as it's  20 euros cheaper than the four others I've checked on

That should be fine then, I don't think you can do much about your current CPU cooler, it's designed for small form factor PCs, and is wider to compensate for being shorter (they expect you to get low profile RAM if you're buying a SFF (Small Form Factor) PC). 

Edit:

I guess RGB is the current craze and take precedence over Low Profile

2 minutes ago, WPM-P36✠ said:

Getting a Hydro i115 along with a Corsair HX750i would be around 300~euro aswell.

If you have the money to blow on it, go for it, it's a really good future investment if you're interested in not having to worry about your cooling for either you CPU or GPU for a while. 

Dunno about the available TDP of the H115I, and the output of the 7700K + a 970/1170. 

Just now, WPM-P36✠ said:

Check here!

Will do. 

Just now, WPM-P36✠ said:

Using a low profile Noctua one, NH-l12.

Have you tried all orientations of the cooler? 

Can you take a pic of your case so we know exactly the interference you're getting?

1 minute ago, Valentyn said:

Most are likely sold off, although would you want a card that was so abused all of its existence? The poor PTSD alone.

That is why these bursts of popularity in Crypto Mining is so damaging to the used GPU market, not only are you polluting the pool of GPUs to select from (because people won't dare advertise their used GPUs as being ex-miners, they are assumed to be run at 100%, 24/7), but also degrading the overall prices of the used card market.

More Competition + Lower Quality Product = Reduced Prices for ALL

Not so good for buyers, and terrible for sellers. 

3 minutes ago, WPM-P36✠ said:

Thing is, I can't seem to use an air cooler for my RAM stick, using two RGB from Corsair right now and can only use one of them, hence a watercooler would be needed for my RAM to fit in.

There are different clearances for different CPU coolers, look into how tall your RAM is, and compare that with the listed RAM clearance on the product page of whatever you fancy. 

What's your current CPU cooler?

Unless you want to OC your CPU, you don't need a large AIO (watercooler) or aircooler. 

As 98% of people would suggest on this forum:

Make a post in the New Builds and Planning sub-forum, you'll get good advice on what to get for your needs and budget. 

The next step up from the 10XX series is almost certainly just going to be the 11XX series. 

As a general note, you can expect a similar performance increase from the 1070 to a 1170, as the increase from a 970 to a 1070. 

Without any specs and details of what you have and want (other than your mobo), I'd suggest you look at be quiet! for a CPU cooler. They're durable, sleek looking, efficient and very, very quiet. 

Edit:

Also don't rule out AMD's offerings as a comparable product to Nvidia's 1170 (if that's what you're looking at getting in the future).

Just now, Valentyn said:

These chaps say they have at least 10,000 cards mining in Iceland right now.

That's were most EU stock went

I wonder what happened to most of the older mass mining workplaces, like seriously, when the GPUs these guys are using now become inefficient compared to newer technologies, what do they do with them all?

I don't think I've ever seen an eBay listing for a couple thousand GPUs advertised as being ex-mining cards lol. 

As you said, your post is a long one, so I haven't read it yet. But I'd like to say first off that on behalf of everyone using the Night Theme, please use paste without formatting, otherwise you have to highlight the text to be able to read it.