PCSarge

1 hour ago, bonami2 said:

Just noticed Thermalright as one too just ordered it for 14$ cad on Aliexpress

he did say the cheaper ones have looser clearances than the expensive one

4 hours ago, Diffident said:

Since you posted the Hip. I'm the one person outside of Canada that listens to the Hip....maybe because I've been Screeched In and became an Honorary Newfie at a bar in St John's.

 

 

ah yes...those newfies and thier alcohol XD tragically hip was kinda a band a grew up with...the music related to me alot as a kid and even does still now

i saw this post after i ate it but...roast beef with garlic mashed

I'll start this off simply:

Commercial:

and for TV show:

11 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Uh oh, it BSODed.

Uh oh, Spaghetti O's

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

Not exactly breaking news. ADL owners have known this for quite some time now. But always love to se GN videos on topics.

honestly alot of folks find steve boring. but i think he has more knowledge than alot give him credit for.

Gamers Nexus has found that intel's CPU socket retention mechanism is flexing CPUs and causing uneven thermal compound distribution, source below.

these :

and only canadians will probably know this one : 

On 26/06/2022 at 09:54, Andrew said:

I'm still up for the moderator role.

as am i!

the real question is what if a moderator needs to moderate themselves? 

MODCEPTION!

1 hour ago, bonami2 said:

I wonder what kind of motherboard those thing got. Back then capacitor failure was high haha.

 

Maybe this thing is going to come back on earth one days.

or itll just pop a capacitor and stop dead on mars forever. allowing humanity to efficiently dispose of old technology

On 25/06/2022 at 14:04, Bastiaan_NL said:

Bant because you did the same to that EVGA card back in the days...

bant because i didnt burn them, faulty drivers melted them into the motherboard slots.

22 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Ban for test questions on a Saturday.

bant because being answered on sunday

you asked for it! 

10 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

I volunteer

 

bant

bant because you burn GPUs

On 24/06/2022 at 07:54, bonami2 said:

Well my 400$ cad Samsung m51 with developer option ANIMATION disabled run probably faster than all those phone. Hardware is overpowered these days and people think there phone is slow when my 3 years phone open facebook faster than their new phone just because the UI is less bloated than flagship for some reason.

Android optimisation is key. Meanwhile 3g will be shutdown soon in the usa and after canada.

 

Kinda exhausting that you have to pay 2 grand for an upgrade. My m51 as like 10-18h screen on time meanwhile the s22 ultra 7-8h i think.

 

I just want LTE and 5G and a better Camera but not alot of option here in canada. 

i have an S21 ultra, go for that and leave the S22 on the shelf. theres zero difference between the two phones that youll notice in daily use. also if remember right last i looked, the S21 ultra has gotten cheaper

@UltraMega this is a good idea, alot of us on the content creation side tend to push out what we can, but having a community reviews section will cut us time for some more polished content.

i shall post more pretty things. (dont mind the roughness, i printed at 0.28 layer height for a scaley look)

4 hours ago, Andrew said:

Twitter handed over all of the information they had according to Elon Musk himself, stating that all of it can fit on a flash drive. Now Twitters legal team are preparing a lawsuit on making Elon Musk buy Twitter.

 

The entire thing was a publicity stunt he did to get attention. He does this all the time. He had no intention of buying Twitter. He's since moved back to Dogecoin to get attention with the help of this $258B lawsuit having tweeted about Dogecoin at least twice in the last 24 hours.

 

Look at the facts.

• He started off saying he wants to buy Twitter because there are too many bots and his solution was to get rid of it.
• He appeared to do things that made it look like he was intending to buy it while having no intention of buying it.
• He then tried to weasel his out of it, like he always does but couldn't find a good excuse at first.
• Starting bringing in the whole "I'm going to stop censorship" "they don't want me to buy Twitter" and "I'm a free speech absolution" nonsense to pander to a certain demographic while at the same time firing Tesla and SpaceX employees as well as cancelling peoples Tesla orders for using their free speech.
• Thought he'd go back on the whole thing about bots. Which doesn't make sense, stating that there are "too many bots to buy Twitter" even though the entire reason he wanted to buy Twitter in the first place was to get rid of those bots.
• Twitter said this isn't true and handed him all of the data they had.
• Now he's stopped talking about it, because like I said, he had no intention of buying Twitter.

 

He did this exact same thing with:

• Hyperloop
• $420 Tesla stock buyback
• Buy Teslas with Bitcoin
• Buy Teslas with Dogecoin
• Flamethrowers
• Solar roofs
• Full Self Driving coming next year
• Space tourism
• Ventilators for hospitals
• Colonize Mars

 

He goes through cycles very consistently. If nothing else comes up in the next few weeks, he's going to be back on solar roofs as well as house batteries but never deliver, then back to space tourism but never deliver, before going back to the hyperloop and never delivering.

pretty much this. i see elon musks name on anything and call it BS immediately nowadays. hes cried wolf too many times to have anyone believe what he says anymore.

3 hours ago, damric said:

Enterprise: "I'm shutting the door"

 

Community: "No you're not!!!"

nah dude, we're a closer community than OCN i think. coming here as a group made us realize who were really the ones who mattered over there.

we're proud of our friendships, community, and im sure just like me, all of the other content creator guys are absolutely proud of the content we created on here. this place is truly special to us.

non replaceable, non refundable, exceeds monetary value to all of us. the community coming together here. symbolized something that forums used to be back in the day. a set of people who will do anything to help eachother achieve what needs to be done.

the next thing in line we have to arrange at some point. is our first LAN event. and fly @ENTERPRISE and @Bastiaan_NL and anyone else overseas who want to come. over here for the event.

but that comes after this, and any other stepping stones we must climb as a community.

and yeah i may be crazy and nostalgic, the old man ive become. lol

13 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

I certainly appreciate the thought and idea. Migrating to another forum software would be fairly disastrous to the sites health and growth. Migrations are always a setback and unless you have a big dev crew to get everything back to "Normal", migrations are costly for those reasons and more 

 

Ultimately the cost of the software is a minimal issue in the big scheme of things

Appreciate the thought bud!

Ad integration is on the way. However I need to check in on that. Apparently all is green for go, but Google has to learn the site before ads pop up, however that is taking longer than expected and needs looking at.

A little like a migration, this can be a setback so far as search engines and SEO. Mothballing a site/replacing it with a temporary version would virtually bring your standing with Google to Zero. However I see your logic so far as a strictly saving money point of view

Appreciate it

Thanks bud!

 

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I just want to say that the support is very heartwarming and just goes to show what community is all about. I thank you all for your kind words and support of every kind!

 

After thinking about it and speaking with my partner, we both know why I founded this community and both agree that walking away completely would be a mistake. That being said, it is also clear that I need to better delegate some of the sites operations to a staff for the sites wellbeing, as well as my own. It is a win win. 

 

From a financial point of view. Hopefully once the Ads come in these will help. However I do not foresee that making much of a dent (at least until we see growth). So I think for the community to remain and prosper, I would have to take those who are able/offered up on there generosity with helping with site costs.  

 

If you are happy to help with costs, please post here, as some of you have or send me a PM. 

 

Regarding Staff and helping me to run the site, leave this with me to come up with positions and we can go from there. My goal is to be active, but ultimately being a watchful eye.

 

So far as site development. This is halted, but was halted anyway as there was nothing else to be done at this point so far as site features.

 

Monthly running costs will be reviewed and we will be moving to a more cost effective hosting solution, possibly VPS rather than full dedicated. SEO will be stopped. @iamjanco. I will speak with you regarding server side bits and bobs via PM. 

 

More to come, this is a post from my phone lol. 

 

With gratitude,

E

 

 

i will gladly help as much as i can, we're in this together dude. we've all been together as friends for this long. now its time to pull together and share the workload of a place we all love.

sign me up for whatever you need. i was already excited to get some of my knowledge down in content for the community, putting in a little more time cant hurt.

14 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

 

1. Buy me a winning lottery ticket

2..... 

 

So a breakdown on costs that I can recall at this moment, but I believe this to be a correct list. 

 

Monthly Costs

 

£150 - Server proactive maintenance (I have a really decent guy for this who I was happy to pay to keep it off my hands and he is far more experienced in this that I)
£20 - CloudFlare 
£180 - Dedicated Server (Dedicated over cheaper VPS as originally wanted a rock solid platform, this could be reduced obviously)
£150 - Basic SEO (Was £300-400 at full tilt)

 

£500 GBP/ $616 USD Total

 

Yearly Costs

 

$100 Invision Community
$99 Fonticon Icons (Font Awesome)
$40 Tag System 
$35 Discord Integration 
$20 Marketplace 
$30 Carousel Slider
$60 Video/Stream System 
$25 AWS Mailing Sytem 

 

Total $409 USD/ £330 GBP

 

These are running costs. This does not include bespoke development for the site or one off feature costs. Custom Dev which would include things like :

 

Rig Builder 
Latest News/Review Blocks 
Award System (Ready but not active yet)
Dark Theme/Theme Adjustments
EHW Premium (Any and all perks included in Premium packages) 

 

Obviously these are one off costs for custom dev. The other one off cost features....is another list.

 

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Perhaps my mistake in all this is trying to do everything, which I have been guilty for...forever lol. I have no issue with remaining the owner and doing what I can moving forward. But If that were to be the case I think we need to get a staff going here and re-structure possibly what we have on the site. A NEED vs want. I would love to keep all of it as it shapes the site well. But beggars cannot be choosers and ultimately it depends if people are wanting to collectively pitch in and help out etc. There is of course no obligation to do so. 

if i had income i'd help in a heartbeat.

i'd be sad to see it go, but life sometimes does truly get in the way. and i think in your current situation you have hit that spot E.

i'm sure theres plenty of us who wish it could keep going. we were just getting content and traction going.

looks scarily sentient to me reading through it.

Skynet engage. 

i got this running the other night:

the vertical monitor is a new addition, 1080P 75hz IPS wall mounted

the presonus audiobox 96 was also an upgrade, the komplete audio 1 that i started with crapped out on the phantom power circuit

the gator frameworks micrphone arm was also an upgrade from a worn out one i had

in all honesty,everyone is looking over something else important.

a decent chair (if you dont already have one)

a mic/interface setup to go with said headphones