[Battle of The Bulge - Testers Required Please]

I could take the notes - if someone could teach me to write

[Battle of The Bulge - Testers Required Please]

Yes, I'll come in for that too Col.

[Battle of The Bulge - Testers Required Please]

I'd be happy to assist Colin - when were you thinking for the test?

[Top Gun ;)]

This probably better than the real thing

[PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign]

signing in...

[and now for something completely different....]

Definitely squeaky bum time - impressive stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to get some footage of my lap of the Donington Park circuit when I'm there for the classic meet later in the Spring.

[PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign]

On 3/4/2021 at 7:10 PM, fruitbat said:

, when I get back from leave in Paris, and walk back into the mess its going to be like damn, am I in the right place 

Yeah, we kinda screwed up a bit but everything will be fine now - you're in charge!

[PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign]

14 hours ago, BluBear said:

And his new skin is available to download here:

Make sure you overwrite your existing skin with this one please Dogz.

Thanks Chris, that's great!

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

Ask them if they'll ship it for a reduced cost without the RAM and SSD and source those from elsewhere?

[PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign]

Replacement pilot 2nd Lt Roger Over posted to 402nd.

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

Mick's PC is still working!

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

No mate - from reports it would appear that the miners have grabbed most of the available stock and the scalpers had the rest - they never even came up for sale on Scan.

Scan did previously say that they'd only sell the stock they physically had (no pre-orders) so it looks like they hadn't even managed to secure any for launch day

 

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

I am pleased to confirm that Mr P's new rig (with bits of old rig) is up and working. Or at least it was at 10pm this evening - time will tell what happens tomorrow.

 

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

No, Shadow (at least) say that you can use your regular peripherals. The problem is that Shadow are not currently taking new customers (you can pre-order and start paying now though).

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

On 2/23/2021 at 5:04 PM, DD_Arthur said:

Wow. 

 At these prices I'm starting to wonder about renting a virtual machine instead of owning a box of components that will be obsolete by year three?

This option is definitely starting to look promising.

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

16 hours ago, Crash said:

Yes it seems cheap even when its expensive.

Is this the bondage club again?

[Does Anyone have DDR3L to sell?]

I'd do a straight swap for Painless' set mate - it's a better idea than mixing different types of memory

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

[Time for a new rig, probably.]

I feel quite a lot older 😉

[Flying Legends 2021]

I think travel restrictions are the main concern at present, but I suspect Bunter's speech tomorrow will give us some better ideas regarding the feasibility of Legends - looks like a lot of people will have been offered the jab by then at least. 

[PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign]

I probably won't be absent

[New Toy Mmm]

Like I said Kev, each to their own - I know I couldn't justify that, but I'll be interested to see how you get on with yours. And yours Crash too.

[New Toy Mmm]

Although crypto-currency mining is undoubtably a thing, I think the bigger issue is that the countries where there are big markets for these components currently in lockdown so instead of spending cash on holidays, days out, airshows (cough) etc people are building/upgrading PCs and so stocks get tighter as a result. Scalpers also are a problem and there is evidence that some companies are supporting this trend (MSI were called out on it recently).

The shortage of memory in the wild has lessened over recent months as factories in the Far East have come back on stream. Certainly I had no issues purchasing a 32GB kit a month ago.

Each to their own Kev, but I think 2K is too much to spend on a graphics card when soon you'll be able to spend half that and get an overclocked 3080 and have change. I'm not sure that the extra cost for the 3090 is borne out by the performance gains. What is happening for definite is that manufacturers and suppliers are hiking the prices of the cards they have which does sound rather like profiteering to me. 

Fortunately. in my case my antique 980 will give me 100+ FPS in GBS at 1080p with all the bells and whistles on so although an upgrade would certainly be nice, in the current insanity it's not really a necessary (or viable) course of action. In the meantime I have a big servicing bill coming up for the car and it'll need new boots before the summer so...

[PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign]

Me too!

[New graphics card wanted/needed/craved]

Thanks Llama, I'm in the market, but for now am happy to wait for the current insanity to calm down.