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  1. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST Can you see me waving?

    Now I'm gonna try and stalk you on the VR Google Earth, just by looking for that shaped Island from space and then flying in!
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    PCSPECIALIST Classics - Remind us of the ones that still make you move

    Love it, this is what makes Innervisions, pure gold.
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    PCSPECIALIST Lockdown - What's Worth a Watch?

    Just found this post, here's a few from me, sorry if I missed a post with them in: Spirited (on prime, might be ex-BBC, funny & well crafted ghost story. You don't even learn what the name is about until the second series) Pose (on netflix, performances, writing, humour are STUNNING but not a...
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    PCSPECIALIST Call someone you haven't spoken to in a while

    The first lockdown was fine for me but the later ones were a real struggle with anxiety (had my first jab last week and that really helped, it was like I was letting out a breath I hadn't realised I'd been holding in). I dug out the exercise bike and started cycling. I'm working my way through...
  5. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST Hi All

    Hi Snuggles, welcome to the forum! Can I ask what your games of choice were, when you were competing?
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    PCSPECIALIST 2021 upcoming gaming releases

    Baldur's Gate three, for me. I can't bring myself to join the early access and ruin it by overplaying the start and falling in love with a character that can't progress so I'm making myself wait.
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    PCSPECIALIST Anit-Virus and spy ware

    And two other things you should be aware of, if you are privacy conscious, are duckduckgo for a search engine and the cloudflare DNS: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/ https://duckduckgo.com/
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    PCSPECIALIST Acer’s new gaming monitor is capable of reaching a 390Hz refresh rate

    Got it, so that's why old farts like me get salty when I'm stomped on by Korean teenagers in PUBG.
  9. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST In the market for a new PC and came up with this.. thoughts?

    I think it is the 'pre applied' part that's the best thing about the Corsair cooler paste, less chance to mess it up in assembly!
  10. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST Will the RTX 3090 be beaten?

    Lets hope proof of stake reduces the energy waste that comes from mining! https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkby7z/a-fossil-fuel-power-plant-that-mines-bitcoin-is-about-to-massively-expand?fbclid=IwAR1A04A8h63SykATUEAwznlFmFvrszQfPVqIDCtdDfovAcI1S4lV_MpZ0CU
  11. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST Do I buy a 5800X...

    I'm thinking about this too (as an upgrade through PCS), but my system has a 2700x on a X470. Part of me knows I'd barely notice the difference in gaming, part of me worries about how much of the 5800x's grunt I'd even see on that mobo.
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    PCSPECIALIST Mathemagicians - Help my brain fog here!

    And don't get me started on stuff like this: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/math/how-to-prove-that-1-2
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    PCSPECIALIST Mathemagicians - Help my brain fog here!

    You're as right as anyone is. Putting things above and below a divisor makes it clear, as does adding additional brackets, but then people don't argue, so the clickbait doesn't work...
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    PCSPECIALIST Mathemagicians - Help my brain fog here!

    Here you go, the opening class for my foundation lot, so mostly about giving them some confidence and getting them to be clear in writing Maths.
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    PCSPECIALIST Mathemagicians - Help my brain fog here!

    As a Maths lecturer, this one never stops giving me grief - I have a session on it for a foundation year class I give. Fundamentally, it is deliberately written poorly to provoke confusion - you can do the same with sentences, it doesn't make the writer clever or the reader dumb, it is just poor...
  16. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST My warranty experience

    I don't think buying a (at least) third hand laptop from someone, with no paperwork, is going to give you any grounds at all to complain to PCS. I'm not surprised they can't give you info on the original purchaser, there are data protections issues here. *edit* ninja'd
  17. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST Just ordered this..... please can you have a look

    It lets you remove and fit cables as needed, so it is easier to fit and more adaptable for changes down the line: https://techguided.com/what-is-a-modular-power-supply/ Edited for fat fingers, and to add: PCS builds send you all the spare cables etc. with the PC, so you can tinker with stuff as...
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    PCSPECIALIST Just ordered this..... please can you have a look

    Also, the RMX models are fully modular, rather than semi-modular, like the TXm ones (not that the TXm are poor quality, they are good bits of kit). As SteveyG says, it is better for them not to be working flat out and it is a good idea to have headroom for future GPU upgrades.
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    PCSPECIALIST Just ordered this..... please can you have a look

    Hi, what are you planning to use it for? Just gaming or streaming, production etc?
  20. polycrac

    PCSPECIALIST Price drop day after purchase

    If it is just a placeholder so they can test the system, there are cheaper ones from the other (none m.2) drive menu. I only ask because with that CPU you have access to some superfast drives!
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