The UK Growers Thread!

TheHulk11

TheHulk11

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Anyone got a spare bed and can put a man up for a cpl day to a week? I need to get away from this shithole and my problems and don't want anyone knowing where I am. I'll happily pay my way.
And before anyone asks, yeah things are that fucking bad !!!
 
The Yorkshireman

The Yorkshireman

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R1b3n4 said:
Had a word with him over the phone an have written it down below as well as i can remember it ( im crap with computers)

he reckons its been a dodgy card since day 1, something along the lines of .........

"overclocking it in the top slot has further exaggerated the existing problem with the card and whilst its being overclocked there are not enough lanes to fully use all the power of the card anyway (analogy he used was imagine doing 70mph in a car but only in 2nd gear, you are revving the nuts out of it but not using the full power of the engine/gearbox that is available by using it properly,, i.e. correct gear for correct speed) and then by virtue of it being now used in the bottom slot, the bottom slot will not/cannot allow the full power of the card to be used simply because its the bottom slot and that is the way they are made/configured

Also he said being an ATI card its more than likely a minor failure due to the heat sink/thermal compound etc that ATI use being from different suppliers an some of the suppliers have history of cheaping out on materials/ingredients especially the thermal compound used on the heatsinks and also there is a known history of the heatsinks/thermal compounds not being installed on the card correctly in the first place (i.e. not covering enough surface area and causing hot/cool spots
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No offence to you mate but that is utter bullshit showing he doesn't know what he's talking about.



1) My motherboard at the moment is an 'ASRock 990FX Extreme3' with 3 x PCI-E 2 slots.

It supports 3 way SLI/Crossfire with the full x16 bandwidth each, motherboards haven't been made like he explains with the top slot having x16 bandwidth and the bottom slot only having x8 for over 8 years since before the 'ATI 580X' chipset (released in 2006, more than 5 generations ago), which was the first chipset that allowed x16 + x16 on both lanes meaning full power Crossfire (ATI dual card) systems were now possible.
This meant that the days of Master and Slave graphics cards were over, the first graphics card that supported this technology was the ATI HD3870, I know this for a fact because this PC was originally built around that platform, I was one of the first if not THE first person in the country to own a fully working x16 - x16 Crossfire system because I spent around £600 pre-ordering the ATI cards and motherboard from Hong Kong before the new technology was even out on the market (by at least 2 weeks in Europe).

2) Software at the driver level overclocks a graphics card, this doesn't come into play until the PC boots up to a Windows desktop then the graphics card driver software kicks in shortly after with the 'Startup' programs allowing you to do this.

You can't boot up into windows and overclock the card with software if the card is dead in the slot preventing this.

3) There's not a single or dual graphics card setup invented yet that is bottle necked by the PCI-E 2 x16 specification, not even dual Nvidia 'Titans'.

His analogy is laughable.

4) Every single graphics card manufacturer ever has used cheap crappy thermal paste on every graphics card ever sold, just like every console ever made and every PC processor/heat sink ever made, because they're mass produced units.

I personally use professional thermal compounds like 'Arctic Silver 5' that is made from 99.9% silver costing around £10 for a 3.5g tube.
Every time I buy a new processor or graphics card first thing is it gets stripped with a professional solvent cleaner and Arctic Silver applied before it goes near the machine.
I never have and never will run or install components with standard shitty thermal paste, even my Nintendo Wii has silver paste applied! :lol:





I don't know what your mate does man but he obviously doesn't know his way round a modern professional rig.

You can tell him I said that too. ;)
 
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R1b3n4

R1b3n4

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The Yorkshireman said:
No offence to you mate but that is utter bullshit showing he doesn't know what he's talking about.



1) My motherboard at the moment is an 'ASRock 990FX Extreme3' with 3 x PCI-E 2 slots.

It supports 3 way SLI/Crossfire with the full x16 bandwidth each, motherboards haven't been made like he explains with the top slot having x16 bandwidth and the bottom slot only having x8 for over 8 years since before the 'ATI 580X' chipset (released in 2006, more than 5 generations ago), which was the first chipset that allowed x16 + x16 on both lanes meaning full power Crossfire (ATI dual card) systems were now possible.
This meant that the days of Master and Slave graphics cards were over, the first graphics card that supported this technology was the ATI HD3870, I know this for a fact because this PC was originally built around that platform, I was one of the first if not THE first person in the country to own a fully working x16 - x16 Crossfire system because I spent around £600 pre-ordering the ATI cards and motherboard from Hong Kong before the new technology was even out on the market (by at least 2 weeks in Europe).

2) Software at the driver level overclocks a graphics card, this doesn't come into play until the PC boots up to a Windows desktop then the graphics card driver software kicks in shortly after with the 'Startup' programs allowing you to do this.

You can't boot up into windows and overclock the card with software if the card is dead in the slot preventing this.

3) There's not a single or dual graphics card setup invented yet that is bottle necked by the PCI-E 2 x16 specification, not even dual Nvidia 'Titans'.

His analogy is laughable.

4) Every single graphics card manufacturer ever has used cheap crappy thermal paste on every graphics card ever sold, just like every console ever made and every PC processor/heat sink ever made, because they're mass produced units.

I personally use professional thermal compounds like 'Arctic Silver 5' that is made from 99.9% silver costing around £10 for a 3.5g tube.
Every time I buy a new processor or graphics card first thing is it gets stripped with a professional solvent cleaner and Arctic Silver applied before it goes near the machine.
I never have and never will run or install components with standard shitty thermal paste, even my Nintendo Wii has silver paste applied! :lol:





I don't know what your mate does man but he obviously doesn't know his way round a modern professional rig.

You can tell him I said that too. ;)
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As i said before im shit with computers, either of you could be talking complete bollocks and i wouldnt have a clue lol
 
The Yorkshireman

The Yorkshireman

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R1b3n4 said:
@yorkie, one for you if you spot it, £10k reward if they get he car bk :-)

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/boy-racers-driving-around-south-yorkshire-in-stolen-classic-car-1-7170777

I imagine that would fund at least 1 or 2 of the little experiments you wanna play with lol
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Oh my days how fucking beautiful a specimen is that car!?

It's gorgeous, I proper feel for the guy.

That will be stashed in some private collection now, you don't see many of those and none in that condition.
 
Ghettogrower187

Ghettogrower187

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Ain't everyone full of good news on here Lol....I used them plastic maxibright ones for about 3 years running no problem just hoping I can run this on 1k no problem
 
The Yorkshireman

The Yorkshireman

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Ghettogrower187 said:
Ain't everyone full of good news on here Lol....I used them plastic maxibright ones for about 3 years running no problem
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Lol, yeah they don't all set on fire obviously but I know of 6 different people who have all had one go up in flames.

It's called a 'fail rate' in quality control terms.

I've had a MK1-MK2 xbox 360 with no problems but that doesn't take away from the fact that they have a confirmed 47% fail rate resulting in a 'red ring of death'.
 
R3l@X

R3l@X

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Oploadinf a vid burbage the second.. Pic to follow I broke my bong lok second time nice pieces but wow first time in retarded u live the stuff that n 14 vals help u suppose am I the only one that liked the taste was the same with sowes real you.my after a but, total tmp_14893-20150323212511_noexif994376982.jpg tmp_14893-20150323211641_noexif435632301.jpg cost association with euphoria.. I'll fleas pic upload long but I'm.struggling first pic in bong is defo the one that broke.my bong n I've taken a ton of vals.on tops 22 bug scoops 2 in the first you'll see in the vid
 
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zeddd

zeddd

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doin well on the benzo tolerance there man good swallowing with that many plus ludes and kief btl you must be having a chilled day?
 
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