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Wraith
Bettyswollocks
There's only one solution
Parcel Farce or DPD would still lose it! :lol:
how the f**k is yours 60kg? my 1000D full loaded with 3 480 rads dual GPU blocks etc etc only weights 53kg. And that case is HAAAYUUUGE
I thought you were using Alienware cases. There are no where near as heavy.
AlienALX
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Stock config the 2008 Area 51 ALX is around 38kg. It's double walled alu, then plastic, then sub frame made from steel. The chassis itself is also double walled all around the bottom, then a full metal floor and etc. Then add in all of the wc stuff, coolant, fans, rads and the enormous 1500w PSU and I reckon it's touching 60kg. Don't forget that there's 1.5m of 3mm acrylic in there (1500x500mm).
Why do you think the original plan was to put it on wheels dude? Think ridiculously over engineered Dell server for construction. Just that roof section with the vents and motor etc weighs about 5kg. I did put it on my ex's 50kg postal scales and got "err" as it was too heavy.
There's a reason why that model had a £700 premium on it, and why I've never gone to another case (because I was always disappointed with the build quality)
NeverBackDown
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AlienALX
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So basically what I read is it's a mini tank
Yeah totally. It's ridiculously heavy, which is why one with no dents or damage is almost impossible to find.
AlienALX
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When I was younger (teens and early 20s) I was into audio. Not audiophile, but DB. So I had this Cerwin Vega Stroker 18" 1600w RMS. It was housed in a 15000 cubic inch enclosure made from 1" MDF. The day I built it I was bass testing it and my brother caught me. He went mad, and told me not to ever crank it again as he was worried it would cause structural damage. Now that thing was bastud heavy!
On a 20hz test at about 2000w @ 2 ohms it actually shook the wine glasses from the shelf of my neighbour. Boy, she was peed off.
I never really cranked it after that. It was literally dangerous.
Ah the good ol' days of the loudness wars
Always remember my hack job cinema build where I hooked up 10 book shelf speakers to my old creative surround sound subwoofer and sat from the sofa in my uni bedroom watching a dubious copy of LoTR when it was first released.
So "awesome" that I almost started charging people for wanting to come in and join the sound experience... of course ladies got in for free!
Was wondering why there's like 50 accounts that turn 36 today at the bottom of the main page and then noticed they all haven't been touched since 2006 with most of them having the same last activity days lol.
I don't think the PM could have messed up any worse, offered to quit if MPs backed her deal, so all those with a chance of leadership U-turned and decided they will back it(To give them a shot at power). DUP came along and took a dump on the whole concept, Mays deal is dead to them, and now she's going regardless. Looks like a General Election awaits.
I don't think the PM could have messed up any worse, offered to quit if MPs backed her deal, so all those with a chance of leadership U-turned and decided they will back it(To give them a shot at power). DUP came along and took a dump on the whole concept, Mays deal is dead to them, and now she's going regardless. Looks like a General Election awaits.
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g0ggles1994
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'sigh'
You know what? If a general election happens, a lot of MPs are going to lose their seats, especially in constituancies where the people voted Leave and their MP is still backing Remain. My constituancy being one of them, there's a lot of noise about voting independants in our council elections to get rid of the Tory council we currently have.
I've got to point now that I hope the EU say 'no deal, you leave on April 12th' because it will force Parliament to start working on sorting it out rather than fighting with each other constantly.
I dont because that literally destroys the life I created in Norway. I left because I disliked life in the UK. Nothing Great about Britain, and nothing united about the kindgom. Even so, I would still support it as I was raised there and have 50% of my family residing all over. By support I dont mean follow the sheep and choose "leave" because it sounded fun.
If I have to move back I will despise every single person who voted leave. (petty but no one has any idea how hard I have worked to achieve the success I have now. I am also in the process of trying to revert back to my french citizenship since it now feels an embarassment to be British. Every norwegian here is scratching their heads about the whole decision and basically laughing at it. Leaving me to answer the same generic questions. My brother and his wife already lost their EU funded jobs in Wales due to cut backs.
g0ggles1994
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I agree wholeheartedly with the bold bit mate. United in name, not in spirit. Everything is a sorry state of affairs right now.
I don't think you'll have to move back though, the EU commision has already requested countries to keep expats if no deal happens and it wouldn't surprise me if all of them do honour it since it shows humility and makes the British goverment look worse -if that's even possible- if they won't do anything to secure the rights of UK expats. Personally, I said from the word go, all expats -both UK in the EU and vice versa- should be allowed to stay where they are and have their rights protected no matter what the Brexit outcome would be.
That bit about the EU funded jobs is downright wrong since we actually haven't left yet so the company should still be receiving EU funding for their jobs, granted it was probably in anticipation of no deal and whatnot.
All Brexit has done in my view is show the utter incompetence of parliament. They should have had an entire no deal contingency drafted well over a year ago that covered all this stuff but they haven't.
I reckon if the Remain campaign just ran "Brexit is going to be a complete and utter farce" and show what a mess has become of it, they would have had a total landslide.
A lot of Remain MPs did do that to be fair, "Project Fear" I think the Leave campaign called it? No matter what experts, economists, politicians, ect said about their predictions the right wing papers just called it Project Fear and said it was because all these people were on the EU gravy train or whatever and that seemed to be the end of the argument for many.
g0ggles1994
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Aye, what I remember seeing of "project fear" was about how bad it will be if we Leave, but that would usually be countered with: "Well rather than going 'Leave bad, leave bad' all the time, show why 'Remain good, Remain good' instead" while completely missing the point that a bit of thought should make the connections on their own.
I just want it over with now more than anything, and I pray that we don't get another General Election either
I just want it over with now more than anything, and I pray that we don't get another General Election either
Greenback
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The problem with project fear is they used it during the referendum, and nothing they said actually happened, so now when they say this will happen if we leave with out a deal nobody believes it.
during the referendum leave lied and remain didn't put any effort in they assumed they'd win, the peasants would do as they are told, as many said after government have lost touch with the people and that still hasn't changed.
I'm just waiting for the headline Theresa May offers blow jobs to those passing her deal, she seems to be getting that desperate
during the referendum leave lied and remain didn't put any effort in they assumed they'd win, the peasants would do as they are told, as many said after government have lost touch with the people and that still hasn't changed.
I'm just waiting for the headline Theresa May offers blow jobs to those passing her deal, she seems to be getting that desperate
To be fair we haven't actually left yet, nothing they talked about could have happened yet. All the harm it's done on the economy so far is a combination of the uncertainty and companies moving early to cover their backs from expected future damages. I think it's disingenuous to say none of the stuff is going to happen when we've already had thousands of job losses and a massive hit to the £ as a result of these early moves in anticipation for it.
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It was their company that cut back even though the funding hadnt stopped yet. Citing it down to "we may need to stockpile incase things go bad". Funding was continued for critical positions only. It's disgusting, but project fear or not, I cannot ignore it.
g0ggles1994
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I don't blame you mate. Big glaring injustice in my view.
So regarding 'stockpile' do they mean EU money they were supposed to be paying people's wages with? If so, there has to be a law against that somewhere or something because that sounds like fraud to me.
