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I had my 2010 Honda Insight ES insured with LV until this year, then the premium nearly doubled, so I've moved. Could have been worse though. They are apparently refusing to insure pre-2008 Honda Jazz models, on the grounds of vulnerability to catalytic converter theft...

I'm supposed to coordinating attendance for others using Teams Shifts app. In theory it's supposed to push notifications to the team's personal phones. In practice it works for a while then randomly stopped updating. After that it's a lottery as to wether clearing app data or cache will get it...

All the Springbank Distillery CV bottlings were superb. The Longrow especially.

That's excellent value. Ordered, as I was looking for something like that to manage HDMI devices for for my Sonos Beam and HDArcana Fury.

As for sound, recent software sound in games has just about got us back to what an XFi with macrofx and elevation filter was capable of in terms of 3d audio back in 2005, before Microsoft killed of Directsound3d with the introduction of Windows Vista. A properly set up X-Fi using headphones or...

I usually start thinking about upgrading when I hit a noticeable CPU bottleneck in a game I'm playing. And then it's look for the best bang for buck at the time. No cycle really.

A stock GTX 1650 is rated at 75w - but yours has a 6 pin connector? Not all do. OC versions may draw more. The GTX 1650 Super is rated at 100w and usually has a 6 pin connector. In either case the PCIe slot can provide up to 75w. Not a huge additional power requirement from the cable. I...

Just thinking back to 2004 releases. Half Life 2, Far Cry, Rome: Total War, World of Warcraft, Counter Strike: Source, Doom 3 and my personal favourite Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (although released in a dreadful state before patching). Huge leaps forward that year - some of those still...

Very happy with my Michelin Crossclimate 2s. I used to run separate summer and winter wheels - but these save the bother. However the price has gone up a bit since I got mine. Happy with them for general driving. But when it has snowed, they've been pretty much on par with the Continental...

Nope still on original motherboard with Xeon w3565 and 12gb RAM. Adapted in the sense of being repurposed for home and gaming use. It was a cheap eBay purchase a few years ago for about £70. A pleasant surprise when I opened it up was it had a PCIe full fat x-fi in there (which is working...

I was planning on upgrading my son's PC with my old Palit RTX 3050 StormX OC. The PC is an adapted Dell T3500 with the original PSU, which is around 500w. He's currently running a MSI GTX 1050 ti and the fan is getting increasingly noisy, hence considering replacement. I think it's fan bearimgs...

Apple TV on Windows is utterly awful. Recently bought LoTR extended editions (which I own on DVD) on Apple TV mainly for the Atmos soundtracks. At least on my PC, it's incapable of showing full-screen video without weird artefacts at the top of the screen, and aspect ratio distortion. I...

Added a pair of Symfonisk bookshelves (Gen 1) to my Beam Gen 2. It may be a little cheaty but we don't have much space around the sofa, and after finding the surrounds rather harsh at first I eventually settled on placing them a bit above head height but facing the ceiling. The sofa is right...

Updating: Onboard 2mb ATi Rage Pro Voodoo3 3000 RadeonVE (or 7000) Onboard Geforce 4MX (shortest lived PC part ever - lasted 1 day - Geforce 4 my foot) Radeon 9500Pro Geforce 6600GT Geforce 6800GT Radeon X1800XT Geforce 8800GT Radeon HD4850 Geforce GTX 460 Geforce GTX 970 Geforce RTX 2060...

Quite a few changes since I last posted. Speakers wise it's a Soundblaster Z into an old Aiwa XR-M78 stereo when gaming at the desk. Sometimes it's RTX 4060 ti via HDMI into HDFury Arcana which splits DHMI video and audio then Sonos Beam Gen 2 plus 2 symfonisk bookshelves for a virtualised...

Another attempt. A Grade Beam Gen 2 from CEX, £50 cheaper than when I ordered it the first time. After removing the packing materials, it is very obviously a Beam Gen 2, the correct item. This could work out quite well. Also, I made a lot more money from selling my RTX 2060 for a CEX voucher a...

Yes, I expect it should work fine. Just check the tehnical info for the motherboard. Sometimes using the 2nd PCIe slot causes the primary to run in x8 mode.

It's noticeable. Sold my RTX 2060 to CEX for a £313 voucher. It's still in the same store for £300 cash just now.

I've not had any problems with the Palit, though only a few hours gaming in there. Many hours of low load use, with no problems. No crashing. No freezing. All good.

Pops head in. No problems with my Palit RTX 3050 here so far.