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Jelly. My work PC saga goes on. Someone insisted on getting a quote from the leasing company, they're supplied by Lenovo and they sourced a machine with a much lesser CPU than the Ryzen; only scored marginally higher than my current i9-7900x even though it's in the thread ripper pro range.

My biggest argument for buying out right is that under current tax law you can claim 130% of the value against corporate tax. It's called super-deduction, so as long as you're paying corporation tax more than a few grand you're effectively getting paid to take the computer. Same applies to servers too, a good time for companies to upgrade.

Feeling like a right mug for not fixing in October. The rates they offered then look very attractive now. Last time I listen to any self proclaimed 'money saving expert'.

Nah old ones were 2nd hand cheap clamp on jobs and not particularly aero, thought I'd treat myself.

New car has roof rails so I need new bars. Anything other than the obvious Thule I should be looking at?

Donated and bumping for the people like me that keep forgetting to / not getting around to it.

I must get around to doing this, I'm sure my noisy keyboard pisses my colleagues right off.

That and all the other, many, annoying habits.

Thanks

Is the Supernova E3 the one that supplies a DC out to the tail-light? i.e. it'll only work with Supernova tail-lights?

Also can it be mounted upside down?

CBS flo/ollin can be set up with a tablet mount. Very nice monitor arm, spendy though.

Yeah checked out the wording in the electronic communications code, and it aligns with what's on that form. Wayleave relates to poles, boxes, that kind of thing. They don't need any permission to run a wire over your garden as long as it's 2m+ from a building.

I'll just forget about any extra pocket money, or having a fire in my garden. The neighbors will be happy.

Cheers, I'll send an email to openreach to see if they'll send me any details. It wasn't mentioned in the conveyancing and I didn't think to ask until now. I'm still hazy on who's liable if they're damaged over my property. Obviously I'm not going to try and burn down my neighbor's phone line but a tree that sits on another neighbor's land and half overhangs our garden was leaning very heavily on another line last year, tree has been pruned back now.

Edit seems like they wouldn't need permission after all.

Is there anywhere I can see historic wayleave agreements relating to phone lines crossing my property? Tbh it's something I'd never though about until I was considering installing a fire pit in my new patio and realised I probably can't because there's a phone line 5m over the only spot it can be.

If I did go ahead and the cable gets damaged would I be liable? I can see lots of stuff about trees and phone lines, less about lighting fires under them. It wouldn't be the end of the world if it can't happen but it got me wondering whether I'm owed a historic wayleave fee as apparently that can take the form of a yearly payment, though not sure if that would apply to subsequent owners.

Anyone have a use for this laser detector? It's the red line version and I have a green laser. Bought ages ago so I can't return. Unused beyond testing. £70 posted?

🤦‍♂️ I think I was reading my own spec instead of yours. Pretty set I want air cooling now too (noise not a massive concern as it'll be in a noisy office anyway but reliability a concern with water cooling). I might see if they'll ship it without a cooler or with a stock one and we swap it out ourselves.

Any thought process begins specing that cooler? Seems like PC specialist have that one in stock so I may go for the same. 125 TDP vs the 110 required for the processor so should be enough. Going to spec 2 extra 120mm case fans also.

I would have thought a much lesser card would drive that monitor without too much trouble. I think I read somewhere that 2000 rtx cards don't represent great value at today's prices.

Also got the go ahead for my similar machine!

Can anyone make sense of which of these motherboards I should opt for?

Edit: pairing with a Ryzen 9 5950/RTX 3080 Ti/4TB M2 and 64Gb DDR4 RAM

https://www.asus.com/product-compare?ProductID=11010,R_10677&LevelId=Motherboards-Components-Motherboards

chip shortage will get worse now.

Because of the Ukraine sitch?

Speccing a machine for work use, so I can retire my current one to be a render slave and hopefully get a good speed boost in 3DSMax, Photoshop and AE.

Is there anything obviously out here? Would I benefit from having 2x2TB M2 drives, or is one 4TB better? Thinking of bandwidth when rendering from AE, though I'm not totally clear on how that works under the hood and whether there's other bottlenecks involved.

As stated previously I have no clue about cooling, the PC specialist options are limited anyway.

Plan is to hook the render slave up to this (server) via direct connection in order to bypass all the network traffic, so I may need to get seperate network card.

Case - CORSAIR 4000D AIRFLOW TEMPERED GLASS GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU) - AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core CPU (3.4GHz-4.9GHz/72MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard - ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM) - 64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 16GB)
Graphics Card - 12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 Ti - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st M.2 SSD Drive - 4TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6900MB/W)
Power Supply - CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Cooling - CoolerMaster Hyper 212 (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler Black Edition
Thermal Paste - STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Extra Case Fans - 2 x 120mm Thermaltake TOUGHFAN 12 Case Fans
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Pretty sure I had one of them for a bit and it had crazy backlight bleed at the edges of the panel. Would look fine for a few minutes and then get progressively worse to the point of being almost unusable after half an hour. You didn't have any complaints like that I take it?

Made a Babka. Choco & hazelnut.

Plaiting game needs work. Couldn't wait to cut it.

Anyone fitted an Android auto compatible head unit recently? Interested to hear what you want for and why.

A Chinese unit and DIY are tempting for price but not for the potential headache.

Should I incorporate a sunken fire pit in my patio, or will it just be a death trap for small children? Would make a wooden hatch for it if I did and air feed from the adjacent flowerbed piped under the slab.

I've been wondering this too. Probably going to stick one in for good measure.

I just priced up a very similar build on PC specialist today, £500 quid less. They don't have fancy brown fans though. In fact I don't have a clue about cooling so just upgraded the CPU fan and added a couple of case fans.