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    Rave's chain of Irritation

    I have, to be frank, had an irritating day.

    I woke up after about 5 1/2 hours sleep with a tickly sore throat. Shrugged it off, went to work at 6.05 am (only 5m late), had only mild irritants with bus drivers mucking about. So far, so normal. My wife asked me to pick her up from work as she's got fluid on her knee, and asked me to call her when I was 5 minutes away so she could meet me outside. So I did, and got a constant engaged signal. Then my T-Mobile pulse crashed. So I reset it, only to get a call straight away from the wife asking where I was. It turned out that she'd left her work phone off the hook.

    So anyway, home, where I'd been looking forward to some serious overclocking. I've just bought an E8300 from a fellow Hexite on the FS/FT forum, and I was looking forward to winding it up well beyond the the 3.45GHz (11.5x300) that my previous E5200 had managed- a decent overclock, but hardly boner-inducing. So I spent a couple of hours winding the FSB up and testing with UBCD- first memtest86 and then Prime. 500MHz FSB would pass most of the tests but fail instantly on test7 in memtest, so eventually I established that 480 was totally stable without any mucking with FSB termination voltages and other obscure bios crap I can't be bothered with. So, into Windows at 8x480 (=3.84Ghz) for some dual core Prime action while I caught up with the news. Fired up Asus PC Probe too. It crapped out after about 20 minutes of Prime- as an old-skool Athlon overclocker, to me that's as near as damnit, so I set about googling for safe voltages for 45nm Wolfdales. Apparently 1.35V is safe so I went into the bios and bumped it to 1.35V. For good measure, I bumped the multi to 8.5 for a smidge over 4GHz, then started Prime64 as soon as it booted.

    Both cores got through the 1024k FFT test. Then on the 8K test core #1 crashed out. CPU temps had been ~70 degrees throughout the test according to PC Probe. So I decided to have a feel about inside. The heatpipe arrangement on the motherboard (an Asus P5K Deluxe, in case it matters) was proper hot to the touch- not unbearable, but about 15 seconds was as long as you'd want to keep your fingers there. The CPU cooler was cool to the touch all over (It's an Akasa 965 or summat, big tall heatpipe thing with a 100mm fan). I took it off to see if it was making good contact. Found plenty of thermal goop and a couple of cat hairs between the proc and HS, so I reinstalled with a very thin layer of my 5 yr old Coolermaster goop. Processor still at 70C, still crapped out ofter 10 minutes. I poked my fingers down onto the copper plate of the cooler which sits on top of the proc and gives the heat to the heatpipes. It felt barely warm. So I figured that I needed some new thermal goop, as the old stuff was obviously too dry to be useful- if there were parts of the processor at 70C while I could rest my finger on a copper plate less than a centimetre away....

    So onto Ebay to find the quickest and cheapest tube of thermal paste. £3.15 for a tube of AS Ceramique delivered by first class post- that'll do. So I hit Buy It Now, before being reminded that Paypal have restricted my account for no good reason whatsoever. The letter they were supposed to send me in the post a month ago never turned up. In hope more than expectation, I followed the "I've lost my password" procedure, only to find that....my Virgin server inbox is full, something to do with the settings I changed when I decided that I'd like to be able to collect emails on my new computer, while my wife could still get the ones that were relevant to her on the old one. Apparently keeping emails for 25 days is enough to fill up your crap Virgin mailbox, and when it happens they just send you a singularly unhelpful message about how to sort it out.

    So, as it stands, I've got an almost stable awesome overclock that I don't want to try out for fear of frying the chip, I've not received a sensible email for three days, and there's an ebayer out there who probably thinks I'm a timewasting knob and who may well neg me.

    Bunch of arse.

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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    So basically.. You couldn't get in touch with your wife at some point, your CPU won't overclock as well as you'd like and your email inbox is full?

    Think yourself lucky mate, some have it much harder.

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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    paypal's a bitch.

    say that house prices are exactly where market forces dictate and not overvalued, donate £3 to a good charity (not a stupid hippy one like peta) and PM me the details i'll run it through on my paypal for ya... Then no one can say i'm simply a seething couldren of hatred.
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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    yes, I know this is about irritation rather than a whole life meltdown, which is why I titled the thread as such.

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    paypal's a bitch.
    A **** more like.

    say that house prices are exactly where market forces dictate and not overvalued,
    You know that's never going to happen, sweetheart. I know full well it was market forces that drove prices through the roof- but if you want to step up and argue that it wasn't bank rescues, 0.5% interest rates, and quantitative easing that have prevented a crash so far, prepare for a slapping.

    donate £3 to a good charity (not a stupid hippy one like peta) and PM me the details i'll run it through on my paypal for ya... Then no one can say i'm simply a seething couldren of hatred.
    Kind of you to offer, but I've already emailed the seller offering a bank transfer- he has 100% feedback and we're talking about £3.25, so what have I to lose. I also bung a pound a week (tax free) to both Sightsavers and Action for Neurological Disorders. Oh, and £10 a month to the OU, split between subsidising pupils in the UK and pupils overseas, and £10 a month to No2Id since that's entirely the right thing to do.

    So...a kind offer Alex, but if you think I can be bought for £3.25, think on. And any time you want to get involved in a charity bitch-off, go ahead. I've already bunged £100 to the DEC for Haiti this year. I daresay I'm just warming up.

    We should hook up for a beer some time. I get to travel up to the city for free on my days off.

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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    Karma is a funny concept.

    Lately I've been loosing my faith in capitalism, the in-efficiencies of humans are all to often compounded.

    But the important thing is you get your thermal compound.
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    LOL, cheers mate.

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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    As much as I'd like to pretend otherwise its true, sometimes the incentives offered to people are so country to what they should be. Its a failing of companies, of management, of team leads. But capitalism is still less vulnerable than communism to the human disorder mind!...

    Yeh next time ur about the city (i'm down by bank/st. pauls atm) drop a note (actually you like Trappist beers don't u?)
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    Could be a whole lot worse... I've just found out that 2 mates died yesterday...

    Just refreshes the feeling of fragility circulating the human condition...

    Our existence is short and yet we still insist on fretting over the mundane rather than viewing the bigger picture, holding those who are dear close to you and remembering what actually holds value, beyond self indulgence.

    Edit: Sorry Rave, i just needed a vent :'(
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    Rave, annoying, but seeing TheAnimus's reflections on capitalism might have made it worth it

    Taktak, arse. We are indeed fragile - if you need to talk about the circumstances or anything I'm sure the Hexus collective are here for you.

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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    Lately I've been loosing my faith in capitalism, the in-efficiencies of humans are all to often compounded.
    Are you suggesting that society should be run by a benevolent yet emotionless hyper-computer, who primary goal is to run the world for the benefit of all sections of humanity?

    And getting back on topic, life does indeed suck a lot of the time but it also has a tendency to improve when everyone works together to help one another out
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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    Slightly OT. Rave - not to Liberty ? I would have thought they more likely to have an impact rather than No2ID.
    Just wondering how you choose which is the best of the orgs out there.
    Society's to blame,
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    Yeh next time ur about the city (i'm down by bank/st. pauls atm) drop a note (actually you like Trappist beers don't u?)
    I'm down in town next week on training....this gives me an idea...
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    Re: Rave's chain of Irritation

    I can meet for a swift pint.
    I'm in Canary Wharf but can get there around 6pm.
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick View Post
    I'm down in town next week on training....this gives me an idea...
    I'm free Monday and Wednesday only next week, if that can work we could go to the dove tail again!

    (but I can't be drinking too hard, I'm off Thursday eve for a 3 day weekend)
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    Hard drinking on a school night ? - I'm a responsible adult these days
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick View Post
    Hard drinking on a school night ? - I'm a responsible adult these days
    They also have two 'light' beers at 0.2%.

    But the mean average is probably still 9%......
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