BluBear

Reporting in

What a horrendous state of affairs!

1st December 1944 - 402nd Mission debrief Upon ingress to the patrol area at angels 12, Red 3 spotted four bandits below us still within the frontline, N/W of Nettersheim. Red flight immediately dropped down to trail the E/A, now confirmed as 262s, with White flight providing top cover. Whilst the four 262s were duly dispatched by Red flight, White flight spotted and engaged a formation of six Ju 88s higher and to the North of Nettersheim. Red flight re-grouped with White flight who had already got plenty stuck in to jerry and assisted in bringing down all E/A. With the squadron reformed, we headed North to continue our patrol of the front-line, checking in with Snowdrop along the way. On the return leg heading 160', bogies were spotted to the East near the 410th target area of Zülpich, although upon closer inspection these turned out to be escort P-38s so we headed back to the Southern patrol point. Eagle-eyed Red 3 once again spotted a pair of low flying 262s N/E of Nettersheim that were duly taken care of by Red flight. With the squadron now brought down low, we looked for ground targets of opportunity to attack (Red 3 and 4 still had their bombs). After a number of successful attacks on Howitzers and AAA, with ammo running low, we headed 250' to recover at Florennes. Well flown gents, good teamwork all round and a decent tally of E/A destroyed, crucially to no losses on our side.

I'll be there

New pilot Capt. Sean O'Sullivan reporting for duty. Please download and overwrite my skin with this one all Dogz:

I noticed this last night actually, thought it might be a bug. Cool.

402nd? What 402nd? 🙈

And his new skin is available to download here: Make sure you overwrite your existing skin with this one please Dogz.

Tempting, but the mobo bundle is being overclocked and stress-tested by them as a whole unit (mobo-cpu-ram) so not sure they'll do that. As I said, I'm in no particular rush, so if I have to wait a few weeks, so be it.

A dark day for the 402nd and for me, the curse of promotion strikes again!

I'm in

To be honest, I think they are really suffering (as all suppliers are) from the scalpers etc and subsequent increased demand naturally now on the next range of components down from top end. Fingers crossed I don't have to wait too long...

Well, rather frustratingly I just got an email from Scan saying that two of the items I've ordered (RAM and SSD) are out of stock with no firm ETA, despite everything being in-stock at the point of ordering. Two other items (mobo and cooler) are due in tomorrow and 15/3 which is fine. Luckily, I'm in no rush (yet) but it's just annoying when it all clearly said in stock when they took my money.

Odd. I noticed the same thing in the chat box a while ago, whatever you posted there showed as a broken link but everyone else seemed to see it.

Yes! How strange. Is it a weird permissions thing on these boards?

I have a recurring problem seeing or rather not seeing images you post Kev. Happens on both my PC and here on my smartphone. Anyone got any ideas?

I wonder why this never caught on

Huzzah! That's good news. I finally pulled the trigger on my new set up today, awaiting lead time now from scan. Any luck with 3060s last night Nick? Noticed all greyed out on scan today.

I think if I upgrade now, this will be where I probably go next 'cycle'. We'll see.

That would explain why @Painless has been hammering his rig so much it stopped working

It's a stock response, insert 'football season ticket', 'green fees and clubs', 'bondage club' etc... I'm sorry you can't go golfing at the moment though old chap, but there is end in sight now. Besides, there's always virtual entertainment! 😀

Depends what you term as obsolete old bean. I built my i5 rig 8 years ago, admittedly it's had a few upgrades over the years, notably GFX and RAM, but it's still essentially the same rig and I'm now looking for something to set me up for the next 5+ years that'll be VR capable. Having said that, it is the GFX card prices that make me shudder. Still beats playing golf 😎

Has anybody used the Scan 3XS OC custom shop and is it worth it? From what I can see, for example one could order this R7 bundle for £850 delivered, from the standard Scan site presumably tested but at stock speeds. Alternatively for only £21 more, one can get the same bundle, overclocked with a 24hr burn-in stress-test. Helpfully, one can also spec this with the desired 32GB Ram as well. Is it worth it, if this is something I could do myself at home? I suppose that if it's OC'd tested and ready before it arrives means that if it goes bang, it's their responsibility? Hmm...