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On 20/01/2021 at 22:38, Oh How Original said:
@Guns - see my point.
PS5 and newest Xbox are responsible for a rise in graphics cards...
Not all the guys who were buying 10 and 20 of them at a time, silly you
Hold up a minute Mr sarcastic, TSMC make the Ryzen, all the 6000 GPU,'s, All the PlayStation and Xbox SOC, AMD book what they want produced months in advance, Along with everyone else, They can't just tell TSMC they want more GPU's and TSMC just flick a switch.,This means we have a shortage of GPU's, More demand cos people are at home building and buying computers, so the price go's up, Exactly for the same reason we have a shortage of PlayStation and XBox, and the price has gone up, So indirectly, Yes, The PlayStation and XBox are responsible.
And there is not a shortage because of scalping, There is scalping because there is a shortage, Thats why you won't make money scalping an XBox 360.
And actually, Samsung can deliver wafers, Thats the reason why Nvidia has signed a new contract with them, Its the reason why you still get a daily drip feed of cards at Scan and the like, But absolutely nothing from AMD since launch, Samsung has capacity were TSMC has none, The RX6000 was a paper launch as there was no stock at all, The RTX was not a paper launch as there was stock, The reference card sold out quick on launch,But it was being restocked pretty regular ,You just had to be quick and beat a bot.
Nothing I said there is factually untrue.
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8 minutes ago, Oh How Original said:so that was another reason I didn't vote.
My god, Seriously, You didn't vote, But moan about the outcome.
I'll leave it, I don't really care to be honest, I've gone through my life losing and winning and losing again, I've lost stuff due to the actions of others out of my control, So if I lose due to my own actions and decisions, That will actually be a win for once.
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17 minutes ago, Guns said:
Wasnt graphics cards rising due to the mining of crypto currency?
That, And other stuff, AMD problems are because of the TSMC 7 nm fab there on, They have TSMC making all there GPU's and CPU's, All the SOC's for the XBox series and Playstation 5, TSMC also make chips for Apple, Qualcomm and a host of others, Basically they have more work than they can handle, Nvidia use Samsung fabs which are not under the same demands, Probably why you see more Nvidia cards come up as opposed to absolutely zero AMD 6000 cards.
Crypto isn't were it started, Bikes were like gold dust, And still are at the lower end because everyone was home and wanted to keep fit, The same with graphics cards, Everyone is at home and wanting to play games and call it work, And now the Crypto price has gone up and just added to it all, But everyone at home and not being able to go out and spend is were I come back around to the disposable income, There is loads of it about at the moment, Think of all them £5000 rail season tickets that got cashed in.
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As we know, 17.5 million was more than half the voting public, So some is not correct.
And what is happening as a result, It's been 3 weeks, Give it a chance, OK, Some shellfish are having some trouble getting through, And even the fisherman have said it has more to do with the technology than Brexit as such, And they voted for it, I'm not saying there aren't problems, Or will not be problems in the future, But it took us a good 6 months to a year to get ourselves in order after a house move, So this is gonna need more than 3 weeks.
And I'm not gonna listen to all the so called experts, The ones that said we would crash if we didn't join the Euro, The ones that said we would crash if we just voted to leave, The one that only six months ago said it was a disaster and unforgivable that we opted out of the EU Vaccine Joint Procurement Program, Look how that's going for them.
I really don't know how you can categorically say it's down to Brexit with nothing to back it up with, If it is like you say, Then you tell me were the 500 quid increase is if it's not greed or just the way of things, It's not VAT, Cos we always paid that, And out of the 28 EU nations at the time, 18 had the same or higher VAT than us, Just give me a rough idea off the top of your head were the 500 quid has gone, And I've seen know other price hikes, Before Christmas I could get a 75" Telly for less than a grand, I can get one today for less than 800 quid.
Our greedy Government, The ones that put more of our money into a Vaccine than any other country in EU or the world, The US was all Big Pharma money, Our greedy Government that said from the very start the Vaccine would be sold at cost price and not 20 quid a shot, That greedy Government.
Well, Graphics cards for one, They have doubled in price, And you say over night, In 2016 Modelsport had the 5ive AVC listed at £999 with RRP of £1174, Not stocking Losi in 2017, In 2018 it was £1499 with RRP of 1689, 2019 we have the 5ive 2.0 at £1389 with RRP of £1649, And today, 2021 we have £1590 with a RRP of £1799, So today, The Losi 5ive 2.0 is £100 more than the 5ive AVC was back in 2018, And the RRP has only gone up 150 quid since 2019, Prices go up, And Prices go down.
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On 18/01/2021 at 20:13, Oh How Original said:
Tbh, I don't think it'll kill RC.
The prices have been rising across the board since all this voting business started.
There's some RCs I have previously bought, that I just wouldn't now, because the price is ridiculous.
Losi 5ive-T for example.
Why would I spend £1,600 for an RC that was £1,100 before some people voted to leave.
It's not going to help the RC hobby, but I don't think it will kill it.
We can all still run what we already have, at the very least, if pricing goes insane.
Not sure I would class 17.5 million, As some people.
Jens is right, No company is gonna turn it's nose up to the 5th or 6th biggest economies, With one of the biggest disposable incomes in the world because of some forms, Just try and buy a bike of graphics card at the moment, RTX's of any kind from £500 to 1200 or more are out of stock everywhere, And go out of stock within seconds, Same with AMD.
There is a reason why this little country is always one of the first to get the latest technology, Sometimes first, Even before the yanks, Because we have a high living standard, And have been happily paying through the nose for stuff since before I can remember.
Not every price increase will be down to Brexit, A lot will come down to plain old greed and some companies just taking the michael, And just using Brexit as an excuse, Horizon Hobby is not your friend or mate, If they or any other company feel they can use this situation to squeeze more out of us, They will, We just need to remember who the micky takers were.
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10 hours ago, Oh How Original said:I agree with Guns, I've been saying for so long, it's not going to go away, that bloody water they are injecting people with as a vaccine is nothing.
It won't do any good in my opinion, that actually reminds me of a colleague, she'd never had flu in her life, she got to 50 and the doctors were very very insistent that she had to have a flu jab, so after a few letters, she had one (this is going back about 5-6 years) she said she was in bed ill for over a month and gets flu once a year now.
Not saying there is some big conspiracy, but there is evidence of something else going on.
Not least since these vaccines appeared.
So, it takes them what, 14 months to sort a vaccine, we get a "new strain" and a new vaccine is figured out in a couple of weeks.
There is no logic to this "virus" I have been in contact with many people who later tested positive (yes I did immediately self isolate until they got test results)
I have probably met around 5,000 people in my job face to face in the last year (128 today alone) many of them probably had it without symptoms.
Yet you can have someone who stays home, wears a mask even to drive the car for necessary travel and they catch it.
I've said it before but I am going to continue applying logic and safety to what I do and how I think about it.
I'll stay home, if they want to deliver me a free Chinese take away every night
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1 hour ago, MrAlexTech said:The difficult part is as soon as I start accepting what the Gov are saying, they go and make a complete U-Turn and do something like this:
Which totally undermines the 'recreation' rule.
But could you put as much off this down to the Angling trust not doing there part and telling there members to knock it on the head for a while and give the fish a holiday, Your are right, They should have just told the Anglian Trust to do one and tell there members just that.
I'm just gonna get something off my chest that has kind of been winding me up off late, I don't think our government has done everything right, You could say they have done more wrong than right, But what they have done right, Is they have done more for the world as a whole than any other government in the world.
Bare with me on this, I remember right from the start they put in and cucked about loads off money to science, Now we have to keep hearing how well the likes off Sweden and New Zealand have done, And how they have been held up as the beacon, But let's take New Zealand, What have they done, Nothing, Yes they locked off there borders and kept the virus out and saved lives in there own country, You could say that's all a country has to do, But what have they done for the the world and human kind as a whole through all this, Nothing.
So, We have lost more to this Virus than most(This is assuming everyone in the world uses the same death within 28 days calculation, That will come out in the wash when this is over), So you could say we have failed next to New Zealand, But, We as a nation gave the world the use of Dexamethasone in the first months off this, Something that has saved thousands of lives since, We have also just give the world the use of Tocilizumab for the same thing, Another thing that is cheap and could help to save thousands.
We also found the new Virus variant, Not because we are the only place in the world that had it, The new variant wasn't just coming here as part of a package holiday, It was everywhere, It's just that we have the best Genome Sequencing labs in the world bar none, Along with South Africa who coincidently happened to find it after us, But what happens, We do the right thing and straight away we tell the world about this, And what dose the world do, They close there borders, Which is right, Pointless, But right, Then they proceed to talk about us like the plague nation, As if with are so backward useless that's why we have this new variant. Funny thing is, Right from the start all the nations off the world couldn't understand why China never said anything, Wonder no more.
Then we come to the final thing we did right, We gave the world a vaccine that is non profit and 2 quid a does, The good old US pharma industry give the world a couple for 20 and 28 quid a dose. So, When I looked at it like this, New Zealand has done nothing, And they are still doing nothing, They are actually at the moment waiting to see how the vaccine unfolds, Vaccines they had nothing to do with or put money into. But will be reaping the rewards of that very same vaccine because of us.
So, Maybe at the end off all this we may be up there with the most lives lost than any other nation in the world, But at least we'll also be able to say we have saved more lives than any other nation in the world.
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10 hours ago, Tug said:
Forget the pandemic, imagine that doesn't exist. Then it's the same with gyms. Don't pay fifty quid to go use a running machine, just run to the gym and home again. Save yourself fifty quid.
Your get no argument from me, We have one of them national gyms on a trading estate next to Iceland and all that, The amount of people that pay membership, Drive their and run on a running machine, I just don't get it.
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3 hours ago, Redback said:
"Two women have described how they were surrounded by police, read their rights and fined £200 each after driving five miles to take a walk.
The women were also told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were "classed as a picnic"."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-55560814
If you need to take the car to get to the excersise its to far.Redback is bag on
How about this, They come out there front door, And instead of getting in the car and driving 5 miles to get out the car and walk, They come out there front door, Walk a few miles in one direction, Then turn around and walk a few miles back, Job done.
Some people just leave me scratching my head sometimes, I live by the beach, I've seem plenty of people who live as close as me drive to the beach to have a walk and then drive home, WHY, Just walk to the flaming beach will ya.
I get that the rules don't make sense and they keep changing, So you have two options, You go above and beyond and do all you can the best you can and put up with a little inconvenience for a time , You go to work, You come home, You go for a walk, You come home, Pop to shops for food, You come home, No one can ask more.
Or, You go to work, You come home, You then think of all the ways you can carry on doing all the things you want to do by looking for loopholes,
.The line that keeps popping up is that 'I'm standing in an empty field', So can we all come and stand in that empty field, Or is it just for you, It's just your empty field is it to stand in, Get out of my empty field, Cos if you come in, It won't be empty anymore and I might not be able to play with my toy car, This is why it's right that no one stands in that empty field with there toy car, Cos if you have the right, So do we all, And at his moment in time, It's wrong.
And just to add, There has been a Major Incident in London for the last 4 years, Sadig Khan, Bloke is a plank.
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My first ESC was
followed by the 150amp, If you want to know if your ESC is bombproof, Just throw one of these at it.
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1 hour ago, Iain .R said:Sod that iv just got my car working again and I use a empty works carpark near me . Anyway I was thinking of putting a toy dog on my carnage so if any fuzz see me I'm walking the dog
This is the problem, Whatever side of the fence you are on about lockdowns, The taking of our rights and all that, If lockdowns do or don't work, We all know what the rules and the laws are as of now, So maybe if more people stopped looking for grey area's and thinking there being clever, we could all get out of this a bit quicker.
I'm down in Kent and Tier 4, My little girl who is 11 has not seen any of her friends other than facetime for over a month solid, Not including all the stuff that has gone on before, She missed our 2 years in the waiting Disney holiday that was booked for 26th March 2020, Then February 2021, Now October 2022 She's now got another 6 weeks off being home alone with just grumpy me and her mum, And some days with none as we have to work.
So if my little girl can do and lose all that, Is it asking much for some grown up men to not take out there toy cars for a while.
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People that voted leave and them that voted remain will never see eye to eye, Maybe there were some good things with being a paid up member that I and others will miss when there gone, But it wasn't all good, And them that voted remain not accepting the result didn't help, The only thing that has ever come across to me is that the leave voters feel that we can be stronger and better outside and have faith in the people of this country, And remain voters just want to say 'I told you so'.
Without a shadow of a dought some will look at this as a good opportunity to jack up prices and blame it all on the turmoil, It's been going on for years, You know what, I don't care, I'm used to it by now, I've never known any different.
Lost cause or not, I would still like a remainer to tell me what I'm gonna lose or miss out on, I'm still waiting for the big change of not joining the Euro to swallow me up.
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12 hours ago, Oh How Original said:And so it begins... Thank you Leavers.
Your welcome.
They should all really have got together and wrote up one statement they could have sent out.
Due to the democratic decision of the United Kingdom to leave the EEC, Sorry, Europe, No sorry again, The European Union, It turns out that the United Kingdom has slowly and physically been moving away from the continent of Europe, The unforeseen circumstances that has come of this is that all courier companies can now not find the UK on a world map.
If and when they do locate the UK and because this democratic vote was taken 5 1/2 years ago, They have not had time to work towards a worst case scenario of WTO trading, Not having a free trade agreement(Not sure how it's was free as it cost you 10 Billion a year to be a member) with the European Union makes it difficult for them to deliver to the UK from said EU countries, The fact it's not a problem sending parcels from said EU countries to the United States and China who they also do not have a free trade deal with is by and by, There is no bought a DHL van is running up the streets of Syria at this very moment, But expecting them to be ready to deliver to the UK with only 5 1/2 years notice is pushing it.
One happy consequence of the United Kingdoms democratic decision to leave the EEC is that we now have yet another reason to screw you over, A free trade agreement with the EU has been voted through by the British Parliament as of 30th December 2020, But we had already put the wheels in motion when it comes to jacking up the prices, And no trade deal of any kind will make us go back on that as it's already been factored into 2021 profits.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, But next time you will remember to vote the way you are told, And not the way you want. If it dose help, The UK has been a member of the EEC for 40 years, And you have been paying more than pretty much any other EU country for pretty much anything for them 40 years, Why do you think your in such a tiff about not getting your cheap hobby bits from Germany, So us sticking another 50 quid on the price of that 5ive is something you should be use too by now.
Once again, Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, We will do everything within our power to get parts and models flowing again, Not because we care, But because so many companies of the European Union and the world see the United Kingdom as the Goose that keeps on laying the golden egg, And under no circumstances will we allow Brexit or Macron get in the way of that cash cow.
Yours
Every company that needs a cash injection before the end of Tax year.
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Been done before, And better.
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So, I wonder if the Shogun got in the wedding pictures.
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Well, You know that bit about wanting an AIO for the new PC build, But couldn't resist that cheap Chinese air cooler with the flashing lights, Well turned out that when I went to put it on, The fan covered 2 of the Ram sticks, Now I didn't pay 110 quid for 4 sticks of RGB ram for 2 of them to be covered up by a black fan, So that went back, And back the other way came that AIO I should have got the first time around.
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Not been too active around here of late, Just fell back into that falling out of love with RC part of my life, But I have been putting the bits together for a new PC build, Just picking up bits here and there as they come up cheapish, And the last two bits turned up today.
First we have the case which is a Cougar MX410-T Mesh, I accept it's one of the cheap brands, But since people don't really move there cases about to Lan parties like they did in the old day, I'm not sure you need to spend a 100 quid on a case to just sit on or under your desk, 44 quid gave me a tempered glass side, 4 ARGB fans and 2 RGB light strips down the front.
Next is the power supply, Won it on eBay for £45 delivered new and still wrapped, So that was a bargain.
Then we have storage, Took advantage of Prime day good and proper, A 250GB Kingstone A2000 NVME for boot duties for £27, A 500 Gig one for £45, And a Crucial 480 Gig BX500 SSD for £38, And a spare 250 Gig I had laying about.
Also we have 32Gig of ADATA Spectrix D60G RGB Memory, Another bargain at £110, Bought one set for 60 quid, Then the next day it went down to 50 quid, After I got over having the hump with it going down a tenner, It would have been rude not to buy another kit.
Then we have the cooler, Now I was all after getting an AIO, But I was on Amazon and saw this for 22 quid, And I just had to have it, To be fair, It's pretty well built and all RGBed up, And for £22 it's gotta be worth a punt.
Then we have the motherboard and Processor, I was just gonna get a B450 of some sort and save myself 50 quid, But I picked up this and a Ryzen 3600 for £309, And I liked the look of it, And I can get a £25 rebate with Rate My Gear from ASUS, Now I know some are gonna be saying why not just wait for the Ryzen 5 5600X, Because the 5600X is gonna cost at least 260, 270 quid, Making it £100 or more over the 3600, And the supposed uplift is just not worth that over the 3600. Your better off putting that £100 towards the GPU.
Last we have the Graphics card which is a Strix RX570, This is a cheat cos I already had this laying about from a build from last year that I never sold cos you never know when you may need a graphics card, But this is just a place holder until we see what Big Navi has to offer, And see were the prices fall with the RX5700XT, And see if Nvidia adjust the price of the RTX3070 after seeing what AMD want price wise for Big Navi.
Pretty pleased so far, I've come in at £640 minus the graphics card, So if I can pick up a RX5700XT or equivalent for about 250, (Which is the most I will shell out for a graphics card) I'll be under a grand and happy.
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I think that's pretty good for that price, 100w on each channel will see you OK, And it's an original SkyRC, I'd happily have that on my charger list.
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9 hours ago, Jumper said:
i think before they were closed because they are too busy doing online sales rather than afraid of getting ill. The staff dont actual man the counter, normally when i go in there is nobody there and like John said, its not even a shop, its more like a showroom with click and collect anyway. I normally just look what i want online and then write the part numbers as they have to go into the back and pick it out. The business is really gear for online rather than shop sales, which is really annoying sometimes if you dont specifically know what you want.
Fair enough, Take it back, But only in there case.
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1 hour ago, John Booth said:
I'm glad of this as I'm not too far away. But, it's not like you can go into Modelsport and browse. There are showcases and a counter, you tell em what you want and they go get it out the back. ! Glass screen and compulsory face mask...job sorted ! 👍
But why have a glass screen if we have the wear face masks, Next it will be full Hazmat Suit, I am the last person on this planet to entertain a conspiracy theory, But something don't smell right about all this now, We were doing all this to save the NHS from being overwhelmed, Pretty sure we've done that, Our Covid death count has been revised down by 6000, Sage now says the All knowing R-Number is not reliable because our case count is too low, People are having to pay silly money and be out of pocket again to get back from France and the likes to avoid some stupid quarantine they bring in 2 minutes before it go's into effect.
And I still wouldn't put money on them lazy(Harsh but true)teachers going back in September, Off subject a bit, I know, But it's starting to wind me up now, Just open the shop, You've got more chance of dying from a car crash or getting run over going to work than dying from Covid-19 got at work.
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On 20/08/2020 at 11:23, Nick said:
Oh man myself and a lot of people have had that argument with RM! Having to pay for something you've already paid shipping on, the VAT - fine but a handling fee? Come on... grr.
Always leaves me scratching my head, You pay a postal service to handle your post, Then get charged a handling fee by a postal service to handle your postage, This is just Royal Fail being too lazy to get a handling fee from the US Postal Service, Which is were it should come from, Royal Fail handles my postage way before it gets to me, But do all of that for free.
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No impact on me, But think it is ridiculous that ModelSport or any other shop is still closed, Money is being unnecessarily taken out of the Furlough Scheme, Just cos something is there, Doesn't mean you have to use it.
This is all getting a bit silly, There are 66 Million people in the UK, 2 died of Covid-19 yesterday.
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On 15/08/2020 at 11:29, mydoddy69 said:
There’s a real simple answer here patent your products so others can’t
If this your defence for Traxxas then it's way off an naive, Under this criteria the Revo would have never seen the light of day, And Schumacher would be the only ones running the ball diff, Also under this criteria Traxxas wouldn't have a Patent to there name having never coming up with any original ideas of there own.
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This is all easily fixed, We come away from RTR, Which it never is, And go back to kit, Why in gods name they can't even give you the option by throwing all the RTR parts into a box and just saying,'There you go, Fill ya boots'.
As has been said, There starting to take the rise now, QC and testing seems to be an afterthought across the board more and more.
Will Brexit kill rc.
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I see you mention Free Ports there, Is that were the Free Ports that Boris and Gove have been talking about come into this.
This is on the Government website.
Freeports bidding process opens for applications
Bidding process in England opens to establish at least seven new Freeports. The first are expected in 2021, as part of at least 10 across the whole of the UK.