Rab

Panadine Foirte (500/30mg) and nurofen from the bathroom let me get to sleep last night

Broke my friggin pinkie toe yesterday - sore, but sort of forget about it til you try to sleep or knock it - whole leg aches :( .

Email through to Ford with your VIN and questions would probably be the way to the answers.

Where abouts are you staying? How far do you want to drive?

Injectors, tune, intake, cat (or debung if it's a MKII), intercooler would be a decent 1st step - should get you to 300ish Tune by itself should see some decentish gains over stock if on a tight budget and don't want to go higher.

Just a heads up for anyone running a skylake/kabylake processor - check if there's a new bios update for your motherboard in the last few weeks. There's been a hyperthreading bug discovered recently with new bios's being released to correct it. Applied a new bios this morning and seem to be able to run the CPU higher and cooler than before (auto tuning was giving me 4400 @ high 50's - new bios it's giving me 4500 @ low 50's)

Better inside than out

Shafted?

Yay :D

Just got a call from him - happy ~80yo on the train with the crowd. That's b/day, fathersday and xmas sorted

Cheers - I've seen the issues people have with "pastel" colours and using stuff like glycol/antifreeze etc or the wrong PVC pipes for the fluid, but this is the 1st I've heard of an issue with the "proper" dyes being an issue. (I didn't put the dye in - it's a branded/recommended one from the manufacturer of the blocks and all the other gear - EK-Cryofuel from EK Waterblocks - has got corrosion and bacterial inhibitors in it. That said - it does warn that it is "Suspected of damaging the unborn child")

Half is normal. It's winter.

Hmmmm J@t's new flight sim on a treadmill - will it take off?

Pfft - you'll need some cushions on the seat to see over the steering wheel

Not sure if photobucket is the same as imgur, but a lot of the pics I've posted I wasn't even logged in for - would be impossible to locate again.

Not if uploads are capped at 4 rather than 40 edit: oops - was giving them too much credit - it's 100/2, not 100/4 :(

Half your luck - probably 18 months before I see anything here. Cable keeps going ok - probably getting better as people closer by are switching to the NBN as they get it available, but some decent upload speeds will be good (100/4 means you notice when you need to upload anything)

Cheers Can't get the GPU's up to 40c yet or the CPU up to 60c (38/58 is the highest they've reached so far) Will be some fun blowing all up tonight

Yep - will be happy to fix broken links due to photobucket extortion if anyone needs a hand. Easiest way may be to "Report" the affected post, and include the new photo link in the report rather than start it as a new thread/comment or PM to a particular mod.

Contact?

Plastidip or carbon fibre wrap them Have you got the front covers for them?

Have finally shown up on the NBN rollout site (now showing as "Planned") - Mid July/Dec 2018 Am up for FTTC - Fibre to the Curb. How does that compare to FTTH and FTTN? Any up/down sides? Does that mean they'll just be jumping onto the existing Optus Cable to get the NBN into the house or a whole new connection?

17c, 15c, 16c were the CPU/GPU temps this morning when I got up. Can still see a few air pockets in the blocks and am sure there's more in the rads to trickle out. That said, ambient felt like -32c. Will see how they are once the heaters warm up the house. Fans are awesome - about as loud as a hard drive spinning. Most of that is the original 140mm fan in the front of the case - will add that to the MB fan control and slow it down or get a new, quieter one. Can feel air coming out of where the rear fan was (I removed that) so the pressure in the case seems good. Cheers, please do - I haven't really looked at anything other than the built in overclocking and fan control sliders. When I get the box back to the office(room) I'll reinstall windows (want to RAID 0 the 2 NVME drives and the Gigabyte OEM tuning software/client has been playing up).

Leak test Bottom GPU leaked - o-ring on the connector didn't seat properly. Does now. All up and running Unicorn poop: UV is surprisingly effective Temp seem great - 30's for CPU, 20's for GPU's (idle) Late now - wrapped with the result so far. Stress tests and benchmarks tomorrow(ish)

Bloody extortion isn't it - $US400 a year if you want to continue to use it they way that was previously free. Glad I ran with imgur instead - hopefully they don't do anything similar