Dicehunter
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The OC3D Discord server is having issues at the moment, Wraith invited me a couple of times and I could accept the invite but not see anything or anyone and I didn't even show up in the member list.
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The OC3D Discord server is having issues at the moment, Wraith invited me a couple of times and I could accept the invite but not see anything or anyone and I didn't even show up in the member list.
WYP
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Try it out now. I edited your privileges and hopefully, that should get things working for you.
AlienALX
Well-known member
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-Ryzen-...adripper&qid=1579367656&sprefix=thread&sr=8-4
Bloody heck that's cheap. Bit annoyed but hey it was only £28.
I think Steve on GN said it best "but Intel won't drop their prices but AMD do".
Bloody heck that's cheap. Bit annoyed but hey it was only £28.
I think Steve on GN said it best "but Intel won't drop their prices but AMD do".
Kei
Member
£28 is definitely not that bad. Try being one of those who bought one in 2017, the difference between what I paid and the current price there is over £550. :banghead: I expected the price to drop by 1-200 but nothing as much as it has. The biggest kick in the balls though was TRX40 as it means I can’t even drop in a worthwhile upgrade like I had planned. :nutkick: First time amd have managed to actually cheese me right off. £1100 system that is a dead end in under 2 years, smells a lot like Intel, except it’s not.
£28 or £228?
AlienALX
Well-known member
Ah. I paid £228.
TBH you have loads of options. 16 core, gen 2 etc.
I've kinda limited myself to what I got because of the board. 8 phases IIRC.
I did it for many reasons though. My old cpu boosted to 2.8ghz. so even though 4ghz doesn't sound like much and there are far better gaming CPUs out there I still get an extra 1.2ghz, with a nice IPC gain thrown in. In AVX I get 1.8ghz. Big numbers.
What I paid? Meh, I'll just use it til I fancy something else. However what you paid and when you paid it it was dirt cheap. Remember, Intel were still selling the much hotter and far slower 5960x for £900.
I was predicting a core war for 8 years. Anyone here will remember me bashing on about it. I didn't expect it to take this long, but yup, full blown core war.
What's nice is that unlike Intel AMD drop their prices massively. You just need to bear that in mind now and adapt, avoiding new and shiny. The CPU war is now raging at top speed, so 3 months is about the top now and then it's onto something else.
The only thing I'd ever consider buying new at launch is a GPU. Mostly because it buys you more time. GPUs are an epic waste of money and I've learned to accept that but everything else I'm very frugal with.
TBH you have loads of options. 16 core, gen 2 etc.
I've kinda limited myself to what I got because of the board. 8 phases IIRC.
I did it for many reasons though. My old cpu boosted to 2.8ghz. so even though 4ghz doesn't sound like much and there are far better gaming CPUs out there I still get an extra 1.2ghz, with a nice IPC gain thrown in. In AVX I get 1.8ghz. Big numbers.
What I paid? Meh, I'll just use it til I fancy something else. However what you paid and when you paid it it was dirt cheap. Remember, Intel were still selling the much hotter and far slower 5960x for £900.
I was predicting a core war for 8 years. Anyone here will remember me bashing on about it. I didn't expect it to take this long, but yup, full blown core war.
What's nice is that unlike Intel AMD drop their prices massively. You just need to bear that in mind now and adapt, avoiding new and shiny. The CPU war is now raging at top speed, so 3 months is about the top now and then it's onto something else.
The only thing I'd ever consider buying new at launch is a GPU. Mostly because it buys you more time. GPUs are an epic waste of money and I've learned to accept that but everything else I'm very frugal with.
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big fat mama jama power cables with overkill plug.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
So as of today my daily indian scammer call count is up to 12, I've changed my number 3 times over the last 2 years, So, Does anyone know of any landline phone that has the capability to block numbers that are both withheld and international ?
Pretty sure any provider should be able to, but you might need to call them.
The problem is these scam callers are spoofing UK numbers to get around the blocks being put in place.
trawetSluaP
Member
Can your service provider not do that for you?
they use MSISDN spoofing. You cant block them. But it does prove a flaw in your mobile/land provider that they aren't protecting their number analysis properly. Everything Everywhere is a bit poop at that. Scammers basically use spoofing to "borrow" a real phone number to call you. Often if you try to call back you reach some genuine subscriber somewhere in the country.
So if you think you are annoyed. Pray for the person victim of their number being used and abused and the people who call back angrily.
Actually it doesnt even have to be your provider. If one provider has a weakness in its security, they can borrow a number to call literally anyone in the UK.
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Dark NighT
New member
Spoofing is a huge problem for things like this, the only way to minimize it is not to answer strange numbers and not register the number to accounts online that might sell your data, and even then it can still happen.
not registering wont fix it either. They literally are snooping on any given network, looking for a way in. You can be totally off the grid, but, if you make a call, they capture the SS7 signalling, and boom, they have a number to use for spoofing and calling anyone.
Mobile networks need to be heavily fined for this weakness. We were caught out once due to opening a new number range and forgetting to re enable signalling firewalls. They used us to spam 20 countries in Europe with fake lottery sms.
Dark NighT
New member
90% of mobile fraud, is committed by ex network engineers who know what to snoop, and look for via tracing. Once they find a network weakness they hammer it hard.
Basically travel europe and pick up sim cards. Then continue to roam europe testing different networks, e.g. Norwegian sim cards in Romania. As soon as they see a network that allows call forwarding to a premium number they will set a sim box up with 50-100 sim cards all ready to call numbers that they already own via fake paper work.
Then via explicit call transfer, can make around 50,000 euros in an hour easily. For every sim card we shut down, they start another. Once all the Norwegian sims are blocked, they start working on e.g. O2 UK sim cards they stacked up on their travels.
Its an easily exploitable industry
and this Microsoft scamming is just a minute portion of it.There was even an Iranian gang in spain that targetted norwegians landing at the airport. Paying 1000euro for your phone (didnt matter how old) and using your sim to call fraud destinations. The only promise was that you didnt report the phone stolen for 12hours. It was the unlocked sim card they wanted more than anything.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Play along as long as you can, then call them benchode scammer and tell them you love wasting their time.
They won't call you again.
So I see a deal for the Asus 27" LED 4K G-Sync PG27UQ priced at £1600 instead of £2300.
Would I be stupid to go for this?
We are talking 4K Gsync ultimate, IPS with 144hz and 1000:1, HDR quality. Someone talk me out of it quick!
On a lighter note. Been playing with the upcoming Galaxy S20 and the new Galaxy Z "Flip" its massively better than the failed fold. S20 camera is going to destroy everything on the market
Would I be stupid to go for this?
We are talking 4K Gsync ultimate, IPS with 144hz and 1000:1, HDR quality. Someone talk me out of it quick!
On a lighter note. Been playing with the upcoming Galaxy S20 and the new Galaxy Z "Flip" its massively better than the failed fold. S20 camera is going to destroy everything on the market
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Well the price drop is because of Jan sale, and also new models coming. Its not like you see 1080ti same full retail price now.
