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Ah, I can remember buying my 1800X at launch. £500 and the dreams we all had for XFR. I regret nothing. :D No doubt I'll go full ham again when the 7nm Ryzen's appear.

43 Total Warhammer 2 X-Com 2: War of the Chosen. So many neat new features and the remixed music from the TLP DLC is utterly awesome, but I wish it had received the the Long War treatment. I feel like I'd have to really try to lose any mission.

Finally got in to the whole Pi thing at the end of last week. I've already bought my second case and now I've fallen down the rabbit hole of Retropie. At times it's been terribly frustrating, but today things seem to falling in to place. Discovery Amiberry (for Retropie) in particular has...

Mine was bought back in 1993 from some beige box shifters called Footprint Computers. AMD 386SX-33 2MB RAM 40MB HDD Graphics card was either Cirrus Logic or Trident. 14" SVGA Samsung monitor. PC Speaker Sound I had to get all heavy with them after I inevitably trashed my Windows 3.11 install...

It started raining, so I went out! First drops I've felt in what... six weeks or more. :eek: Nothing serious so far though.

I won't miss this heatwave, anything above the low twenties and I start to suffer. As a result my job has been a bit of a torment these last six weeks or so. There's a very nice and a times quite gusty southerly breeze that's built up since late morning in LU7. At the moment the breeze is...

Downloaded the backer build this morning. A couple of my squaddies got blown off the walls and in to the abyss when they got killed, which was worth a lol and the Firaxis XCOM muscle memory kept kicking in when trying to press Y for Overwatch and other actions. I do like the pseudo action...

Laser Squad. I've been doing a semi decent/terrible job of restoring my old CPC 464 over the last week or so. This afternoon I finally managed to get my first game to load, and it just happened to be one of my all time favourites. Of course while wrestling with the charming late 1980's...

Bought this a few of days ago and while I'm still almost completely inept at combat, the stuff in between the bouts of button mashing is enchanting. I think I've probably done 12 hours on this first proper go at things, yet I feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

They hadn't done it seven hours later when I came back the same way. One good pass with a plough was all that was needed to get rid of the snow drifts. I wouldn't have minded if it wasn't a link between two towns. I was in 'angry letter writing' mood when I got home, now I'm just wondering...

My knackered old TT (fitted with PS3's/4's) earned a grudging tap on the roof after excelling on the roads around Leighton Buzzard after the council couldn't be bothered to treat/plough/close certain popular roads out of town early this morning. The 10 mile journey took an hour and I was a bit...

Felt this in my second floor flat in Leighton Buzzard. Pretty rapid set of shakes!

After selling some guff on ebay I had a roam around the used PC parts sections and was even more shocked than I was a few weeks ago. People moan about RAM prices but the price of graphics cards is almost beyond insane! Even broken 1080ti's are going for mad cash. It's not often I get on the...

Rogue One Strange film. I actually liked the first half, but once all the shooty, shooty bang stuff kicked off in the second half, I grew steadily more depressed. Call me old fashioned, but I don't think that's how Star Wars is supposed to make you feel. Most of the music just felt so off...

Just this morning I changed out my BeQuiet (Special Edition) 600w PSU. After 6-7 years heavy service I finally realised the always on fan was now the nosiest component of my system. With this new Corsair RM750X, my rig is all but silent.

I bought a 'mint condition' 1080 Strix for my main rig and 8GB of dirt cheap DDR 3 for my Mum's PC in the last six months. It's a shame my main PC is now 'virtually bleeding edge' because I think I've overlooked some proper savings over the years due to my prior snootiness over buying used...

I haven't played any sort of racing game since Forza 2&3 and recently had an urge to rectify that. I must say, apart from obvious graphical and FPS improvements, that I'm not entirely convinced it's much of an improvement on either of those previous installments... I miss chasing times while...

I'm enjoying the new ME campaign (and some of the extra DLC), but not the "extended" battle loading times I seem to have acquired during this update. :( My 1440p Vortex campaign battle map loads were quick and snappy, but in DX11 mode the Mortal Empire loads are glacial by comparison, ranging...

I bought this mainly as a heavy duty stress test for my system, as it's the only game I currently play that isn't modded to the eyeballs and as such I could rule it out as the cause of my systems occasional instability. That's still an ongoing investigation, but at least the WH2 is turning out...

From my own experience DPD seem pretty sound, but if there's the chance of compo, then go hard on Twitter.