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Added you on bookface, I upload the photos to an album on there

To quote Monty Python.

Congrats again, so are you taking your own wedding photos?

Unfortunately I've not ridden any bikes in anger in a couple of years now, getting old, babies and life do that! I have learned to snowboard, started climbing and currently building a campervan in the last two years ago so not just wasted time

Wait till they're older, teenagers are quite happy living in a room ankle deep in shit without any issues, only come out of their pit for food and occasionally to use the bathroom

@Ali C, have you not considered vanlife full time or do you need more space? edit: just had a remortgage approved for another 15k so we can extend the house, replace the windows and rewire if needed

Holy shit, I watched a random gtx1070 on eBay and it finished at 341 quid with 34 bids. Whattheactualbadgerf**k. Could have been bid up by shills but that's for a second hand card that is 4 generations old!

Yeah, I don't think we were being angry enough!

I recently flattened and rebuilt all of the cad workstations at work, they're i7 4770Ks and were originally built with win7, I did the upgrade to win10 when it was released and they hadn't been reinstalled since. As such they were effectively 6 year old windows installs and had really bogged down. Formatted and reinstalled direct from fresh win10 install media (usb stick) and the difference is night and day. I think the licenses had actually attached themselves to the cpuid, on installation I clicked the "I don't have a license key" option and it activated straight away with no issue. If you're concerned about win10 licensing, set up a MS account (linked to your normal email) you can link your current activated license to the online account and then it will automatically reactivate when you reinstall.

Got an ssd? Overclocked? Fresh install of windows 10 (not an upgrade) and memtest86 to check the ram. I would do those things first before upgrading

Good price for the 980! My 2500k, asus sabertooth and 16gb 2133mhz ram went for just under 120, you might get a bit more

Mine was super straightforward as well, saw the house, made an offer, accepted that afternoon and I think I was in within a month. There was no chain though and the sellers just needed it sold asap as they had already moved into the new place I moved everything myself in my E reg polo breadwagon, took an afternoon and about 4 trips to drive from one side of lichfield to the other

Generally in the past for each generation, the relative performance per model number steps up by one, so a 1070 is about the same as a 980 give or take. There are occasional jumps though, there was a massive increase in VR performance with the 10xx cards over previous gens, likewise I believe the 30 series is a significant jump over the 20. Toms Hardware gpu hierachy is a pretty good estimate to how the performance has increased gen on gen, looking at it, the 1070 is above the 980ti. I reckon you'll still get 120-150 for it https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

Well the 980 was about the same performance wise as the 1070 so not wholly surprised it's doing well. I think the 9 series will be starting to lack with vram shortly though. My gtx780 with 3gb was trounced in vr by the gtx1070 with 8gb but in 2d it wasn't the same magnitude of performance increase.

My gtx170 came from a decommissioned mining rig when it had starting costing more in electricity than it was mining, I either got a stonking bargain back then or prices have held well. Personally I wouldn't consider a 20 series for the prices they're going for, I'll be holding out for a 3060/70 when it's all stabilised a bit.

My R5 3600 wasn't actually much quicker than my old i5 2500k (admittely overclocked to 4.6ghz) with the stock AMD boost clocks, it also built heat super quick despite the fact I've put my thermalright TS140BW on there. Manually overclocked it, fiddled with the voltages and it now runs @ 4.4ghz across all 6 cores and never gets above 60°C all whilst remaining virtually silent. Top end fps increased a little (maybe 15-20% or so) but the bottom end fps increased quite a bit

My 1070 cost me 200 quid almost two years ago, they're still being offered for more than that now! Can't justify the jump up to a 3060 when the 1070 does just about all I need it to do

I'm far from organised enough to manage a credit card, never used one but had plenty of full term loans so my credit score is generally very good I think. Certainly never been refused to borrow any money. Area the current mortgages fixed rate for a term or trackers? I fell on my feet with the mortgages and rejigged them all a month before the banks crashed in 2008, the interest rate has since plunged and it's only gone down since

What sort of interest rates are people getting at the moment?

Yeah, I did buy it in 2002 though! Even though I'm sole earner in the house and I'm probably about 10k below where I should be we're sitting quite comfortably If and when we move somewhere else, this house will rent for 800 a month all day long so will earn it's cost back and turn a tidy profit.

We're currently looking to take out an equity loan so we can build an extension across the back of the house, current outstanding mortgages are 240 and 35 quid a month on a 1% base rate tracker and less than 40k left to repay so we figured we can get some more space in the house* At the same time we're going to get the windows replaced and get the wiring checked and renewed if need be, should add another 20-30k on the property once done and almost triple the original purchase price, not bad for a house I paid 62k for *3** bed mid terrace ex council house is quite cramped for 6 of us especially when 3 of the kids are full time homeschooling! **really only a 2.5 bed house as one is a 6x8 box room!

Just drop them in some diesel, plusgas is mostly diesel

I think in general if you've been supplementing it then you'll have gven yourself your best chance on that front. Especially with it being winter, levels are typically lower anyways so it's always worth upping if you can, it can make a huge difference if you're just not feeling right in yourself

How are your vitamin D levels? Try mainlining vitamin D and see if it helps any, the wife's past reading showed a correlation between case severity and vitamin D deficiency. Good luck to you all!

Because scrotes are always talking to their phone on speakerphone and gawping at the screen whilst blaring (inevitably shit) music. For normal people the phone is in the pocket or on the desk, locked and headphones connected so we don't pollute the airspace for everyone else