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F**k me, that channel is terrible, Arsenal fans can't all be like that surely?!

Easy 3-0 Win. Mane, Pelle and Schneiderlin.

I detest the US and everything it stands for. It is essentially a police state where the citizens are controlled by Propaganda. Massive inequality, and everyone's armed.

Cringeworthy nonsense I think, all this fuss over asking out a bird

Nigel Farage is the scumbag of every year.

Received my PC from Scan on Tuesday, took a couple of pics:

Picked up all these in anticipation of my new PC: Broken Sword Trilogy (PC) - £3.99 Lone Survivor (PC) - £5.49 Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (PC) - £4.74 The Stanley Parable (PC) - £4.99 To The Moon (PC) - £2.44 Among The Sleep (PC) - £7.49 Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition (PC) - £3.99 State of Decay (PC) - £3.74 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PC) - £3.99 Broken Sword 4 (PC) - £2.79 The Detail Episode 1 (PC) - £3.59 Broken Sword 5 (PC) - £7.59 The Banner Saga (PC) - £7.49 Sid Meier's Civilisation: Beyond Earth (PC) - £17.99 Day Z (PC) - £19.54 Kairo (PC) - £0.74 Slender: The Arrival (PC) - £2.74 Speedrunners (PC) - £1.74 The Fall (PC) - £3.49 Dead Space 2 - £2.49

It made no sense to me at the time either, I still get annoyed that we let Puncheon go as well.

It's crazy that we're only 1 point worse off than at this exact date last season, identical to the last.

Cheers pal

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it, the only thing I may regret later is not upgrading the PSU to a 750W/850W unit in case I upgrade my GPU in a few years time, although with the 970 I would've of thought I'll need a new GPU for a good few years hopefully.

This is the spec I went for in the end: 3XS Black Friday Promotion "Train with a Pro" 3XS Pro Gamer Training with a either Zaccubus, Device, or NVC of Team Dignitas - 2 Hours - RRP £40 £0.00 inc VAT 3XS Black Friday Promotion "Gaming Peripherals" Free Corsair Corsair Vengeance M65 Performance Laser Gaming Mouse - RRP £50 £0.00 inc VAT Cases Corsair Graphite 230T, Various, Steel/Plastic, 270x490x560 (WxHxD in mm), 2x USB 3, Headphone & Mic [Grey on Black with Blue LED with Window] £65.08 inc VAT Motherboards Asus Z97 Motherboards [Asus Z97-K, CrossFireX, 6 SATA 6Gbps, 1 PCI-E M.2, SATA RAID, ATX] £83.96 inc VAT Intel CPUs and Overclocking Intel Core i7 4790K, Haswell Refresh, Quad Core with Hyperthreading, 4GHz, 4.4GHz Turbo, 8MB Cache [Overclocked - CPU professionally overclocked up to 4.6GHz.] £263.00 inc VAT CPU Coolers 3XS Customised Corsair H80 hydro cooler with single SP120L fan. £60.60 inc VAT Memory 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance Pro, 2133MHz, CAS 11-11-11-27, 1.5V [Gold Heatsink] £149.52 inc VAT Graphics Cards 4GB EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0, 1165MHz GPU, 1664 Cores, 7010MHz GDDR5 [single Card.] £281.96 inc VAT Graphics Card Overclocking Not Selected Power Supply Unit 600W Corsair CX, Semi-Modular, 80PLUS Bronze - Any Single Graphics Card £55.92 inc VAT Storage - Solid State Drives 256GB Crucial MX100 - 550MB/s Read, 330MB/s Write, 85K IOPS £78.30 inc VAT Storage - Hard Disk Drives System Drives - These drives have been hand-picked as system drives as they are the highest performing conventional spindle based disks, this is primarily due to the higher 7200rpm speed. Although fast an SSD is still the ultimate in performance storage. [2TB Seagate Barracuda, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache] £60.24 inc VAT Optical Drives Samsung SH-224DB - 24x DVD Reader & Writer £12.58 inc VAT Sound Cards Not Selected Network - Wireless Adapters Asus PCE-N15, 11n Wireless Internal PCI-E Card - 300Mbps £15.58 inc VAT Operating System Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit [Microsoft Windows 8.1 64Bit] £75.37 inc VAT Gaming Peripherals 23" Asus VS239HR LED IPS Monitor Full HD HDMI/DVI/VGA 1920x1080P 250cd/m2 80M:1 5ms Black [23" Asus VS239HR LED IPS Monitor Full HD HDMI/DVI/VGA 1920x1080P 250cd/m2 80M:1 5ms Black ] £114.28 inc VAT Network - Wireless Adapters Asus PCE-N15, 11n Wireless Internal PCI-E Card - 300Mbps 3 Year Warranty - 1st Year Onsite, 2nd & 3rd Year Return to Base (Parts & Labour). £0.00 inc VAT Upgrade Assurance Upgrade Premium - Scan will upgrade your graphics card, add extra HDDs or SSDs or upgrade a non-overclocked CPU. £0.00 inc VAT Build Time £1459 total. Ordered with Scan Computers, should arrive next week with any luck.

Thanks for the advice. I've been looking around and Utopia and Chillblast are my prime candidates right now. Utopia advised I drop the 16gb Memory, go for 8gb and instead get the GTX 970 instead of the 760, which puts the price up a bit, need to price up a custom system on Chillblast still, was also considering the Alienware Alpha 'Console' but think I've reconsidered since.

Hey everyone, I'm thinking about getting a Gaming PC but don't really know an awful lot about PCs to be honest. What I want is a gaming PC that can run games like Assassin's Creed Unity, Batman:Arkham Knight next year etc. on Ultra settings, would something like the spec below be enough, would this be 'future-proofed' for a good few years or would I have to spend more? CPU: BX80646I54430 - Intel® Core™ i5-4430 Quad Core 3GHz [6MB Cache, up to 3.2GHz] CPU COOLING: RL-S12V-24PK-R1 - Cooler Master® Seidon™ 120V CPU Water Cooler MOTHERBOARD: H81M-PLUS - Asus® H81M-PLUS Intel® H81 Micro-ATX (Socket 1150) MEMORY: 16GB-WMACH - 16GB High Performance DDR3 1600MHz (2x8GB) GRAPHICS CARD: NE5X76001042-1042F - NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 760 2GB GDDR5 [Rating: 8.0/10] HARD DRIVE BAY 1: SV300S37A/120G - 120GB High Speed SSD SATA 3 6Gb/s HARD DRIVE BAY 2: UT1TB - 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 64MB Cache POWER SUPPLY: CP-9020050 - 550W Corsair® VS Series 80 Plus Certified PSU OPTICAL DRIVE: SH-224DB/BEBE - 24x Dual Layer DVD±RW/DL SATA Drive SOUNDCARD: AUD-ONBOARD - Integrated High Definition Audio - Standard on all systems NETWORK CARD: ONBOARD-ETHERNET - Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet - Standard on all systems OPERATING SYSTEM: WN7-00614 - Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit inc. DVD + License [utopia Recommended] INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE: BG-FREE - BullGuard Internet Security - 90 Days free trial UTOPIAN DIGITAL PERFECTION: DP-001 - Manufactured in Scotland - Flawless craftsmanship & cable management UTOPIAN NO-FAIL GUARANTEE: NO-FAIL - 30-day No-Fail Confidence Guarantee WARRANTY: 2YEAR-WARR-RTB - [silver] 2 Years Return to Base Part Replacement - 30 Days FREE Collect & Return* Doesn't include a Mouse, Keyboard, Wi-Fi or Monitor, but still seemed good for £881

Hamilton's win was f**king amazing. 2-time World Champion, c'est incrediblé.

Was never trying to slag off FIFA, FIFA 15 is a great game...I just think some people may prefer PES 2015 this year for the first time in AGES, give the demo a go, report back to me, you never know you might like it Anyway....spent about 8 hours with this about 10 days ago before AC:Unity came out. Really, REALLY impressed with it, it is just a phenomenal Football game, it really is. Yesterday the servers weren't up yet so I couldn't do anything online so just messed about with all the various competition modes you can do (Copa Sudamerica, Copa Libertadores, Europa League, AFC Champs League, Champions League) to see what the diferent 'skins' are like so to speak and to see what the different difficulty levels are like, and how the AI ramps up. Settled on Professional eventually, think it's just the right level for me but I was surprised that I could win a few games on Super Star. Went back to it today and was able to log in to the servers for the first time, honestly opens up a whole nother half of the game. Started off by trying the netcode out in the 'Seasons' mode and it held up pretty well, started off with a couple of draws and then went on to record 3 wins. After that I decided to try out PES' FUT Rival 'myClub', like FUT I found the Tutorial incredibly deep, complicated and confusing but once I was left to my own devices I figured things out quick enough, all works similarly to FUT really but I found it a bit simpler really after I'd got used to things, there didn't seem quite as many menus/option windows but maybe that was just me. As part of the Day 1 Pack you get with a pre-order I got a guaranteed UEFA Team of the Year player to use in myClub, it is luck of the draw which one you get, I got David Alaba (Bayern) rated 87 which is pretty damn good, but I would've loved an amazing striker like Ibrahimovic or something but it's no big deal, I got a pretty good AMF right off the bat and bought a decent-ish goalkeeper and striker with my GP points I had accumulated and got from the pre-order bonus pack. Incredibly impressed by it so far anyway, the only thing I'm struggling with is the defending in my own box, I'm never quite sure what the best tactic is to tackle and get the ball out of there ASAP but I'm sure I'll get used to it. It is funny that some of my old tricks I used to do to score 'cheap' goals back in 2007 still work though good ol' PES!

Have you got a Playstation camera, stthrobber? If you have, then you could've turned 'head tracking' on by accident which means the camera tracks your head and recreates your head movements on screen with the playable character, I've never tried it, but I'd imagine this could very easily cause nausea/vomiting. Personally, I played through the entire game on Hard for 20 hours and experienced no problems...ironically Mario Kart 8 sometimes makes me feel a bit dodgy, but nothing so bad as I have to stop playing.

So you never lose posession of the ball? You just pass it about and then eventually walk it into the opponents goal every time?

Could you not just replace the graphics card?

Well it depends I guess, if you just want a phone first and foremost and don't care about your phone having cutting edge technology in it then pick either, it doesn't matter, but Android has been at the cutting edge of technology now for a number of years, 1080p AMOLED screens, Octo-Core and Quad-Core processors, the iPhone just can't compete anymore as Apple need to make a phone that fits everyone's needs, so a median needs to be achieved. I had an iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and an iPhone 4S before switching to a Samsung Galaxy S3, now got a Sony Xperia Z1. Going Android is the best decision I ever made, I've sampled both and know which is best. Probably the best phone out there at the moment is the HTC One M8.

Aldershot, my local team, beating the dirty skates, hilarious.

Go Android, iOS have been catching up with Android tech now for about 3/4 years, iPhones are no longer at the cutting edge of technology, they're just implementing features that Android phones have and have had for years.

It's all well and good saying 'keep hold of the ball' but this is quite a difficult thing to do on FIFA (and most football games in general), especially when playing online. In PES you can slowly build it up from the back, through the midfield and utilise wingers and strikers properly to score the goals, you can also use adaptive formations that change whether you're in posession of the ball or not. PES is the superior game this year, just try the demo if you want to see it with your own eyes

Got sick of this last week and sold it, just feels like everyone is spamming the through-ball button all the time, annoying as hell and feels more like you're playing ping-pong than Football.