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#1 · (Edited)
This title explains itself. No porn, bondage, or basically anything under the 18 year level.

My first random thought:

When I did my taxes the other day, I had a feeling that I would end up paying the Man around $1,000 like I payed last year. My taxt rep was looking through my info when he looked up and said "Do you love me?" This took me completly by surprise. Taking my agape jaw as indesicion, he asked again, "Im serious, do you love me or not?"

At this point I was planning my escape route (break his leg, leap over the cubicle and jump through the glass wall), I said "Well your.....um......ok....*tensing to run*
He said good, because I just saved your @$$ and you are a lucky b***. You owe the state $932. Wait for it, the Fed is kicking you back $934. And with some legal wrangling, I can increase the return so you can get an extra $75, which will go directly to me won't it? Now get out of here"

XD
 
#26,161 ·
Finnish ? what do they have to do with anything, i'm talking about about romanians who got their children taken from them by norvegian child support, and then even though proven wrong have refused to give the child back to its rightful family. They don't even take time doing an investigation as soon as they snatch a kid they send him to a new home, i have no idea what putin said, but there definetly is a big push to take other countries children for themselves.... Polish, Slovacian, and it happened to us as well, its no longer at the level where you can just brush it of as being over protective...

Or are you saying that there's no norwegian child support and that its actually run by Finland ? oO

Don't get me wrong it seems i may have started this wrong, i'm not holding it against you or anything related, i just had to take it out of my system since irked me seeing the family trying so desperately to get their children back while facing a brick wall. Another romanian family pretty much went "3 days later" route and mananged to get their kids back safely...
Well, this:

Radix your awesome but your countries "child support" is fucked up, its pretty much designed to legally kidnap other nationalities chidlren residing in your country....
...definitely sounds like you're talking about "my country", and I'm Finnish so I presumed you meant Finnish child services. And the Russians thing? They're making claims that the Finnish child services are taking custody of Russian children, so I thought it might be related to that but I guess not.

And then I was kinda baffled when you said "Norwegian" in the next post. I have no idea about Norwegian child services, kinda sounds like they suck too.

This has been a weird conversation...
 
#26,164 ·
Still can't decide if i should go with Windows 10 or Windows 8.1 .... damn i just like how i have better support for my headphones on 8.1 and i can manage it and control it like i want to, on the other hand 10 has DX12 support and it might perform better and seamlessly (though i dunno how much i can trust my previous experience with 8.1 considering i just swapped the mobo and CPU and didn't even bother to uninstall the old drivers)...
 
#26,165 ·
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Shoot, looks like I'll have to get a gpu sooner or later.

My XFX 7950 DD is very loud and still getting high temps, giving display driver stopped errors when playing demanding games.

I ordered a cabinet fan to help the airflow next to the case but I dont think that will be enough. Plus is so annoyingly loud in my room.

Better start saving for the Asus 970.
How are the noise with that one guys, know some people here have it.
 
#26,167 ·
Better start saving for the Asus 970.
How are the noise with that one guys, know some people here have it.
Every powerful GPU will be loud and while the Asus Strix 970 can be quite it only does it when browsing the web or doing usual tasks but as soon as you run a game is gonna get loud, annoying loud like any other GPU out there. If you want to have absolute joy playing your games without any annoying noise you will have to stream your games and put your gaming machine in a place where you don't hear the noise like i did. I can say that the Strix 970 is better than my old GPU but is still loud and annoying nevertheless.

A good start could be using a low-powered PC to stream your games to or a Intel Stick. A tablet could do the trick but you always avoided Windows tablets so your fault :p

@ruantec has it, but i don't know how a good source he is because he keeps his PC secluded lol.
I had my PC here in my livingroom for almost a year and it was recently when i decided to do that because the noise and cables were extremely annoying here in my livingroom. Another reason is because of my son as he is starting to walk and cables, computer leds and other stuff are extremely attracting XD
 
#26,168 · (Edited)
Luckily, it's fairly simple usually. You will lose a lot of coolant when you remove the lines, so pick up an extra bottle.

1. Remove the cap from the coolant overflow tank.
2. Top off the radiator fluid, start the car, turn the heater all the way to hot.
3. rev up the engine to about 2,000 RPM or so.
4. Keep the fluid topped off as your doing this.
5. You'll start to see little bubbles of air make their way into the overflow tank (after a few minutes). When the air bubbles stop, keep the car running for a few minutes to get any stray bubbles.

The most important part is the keep the coolant reservoir topped off during this entire procedure. If you let the tank run dry, you'll suck more air into the system and be back at square one.
@ElijahTW

Seeing as it looks like I won't be doing anything with the car until spring I got everything put back together. Temps are going to plummet so I want antifreeze ran throughout the system. I'm going to need to start the car to keep the battery charged. When I finally get back to it I have some small obstacles to overcome..

I can't drain coolant through the plug underneath. I turned it and no coolant drains from it. So I unhooked the upper radiator hose but that's messy, coolant goes everywhere but where I want it to. Plus I don't think it got all the coolant out of the system.

For some reason the coolant in the overflow tank isn't being sucked down through to the radiator etc.. when trying to burp the coolant system. The car started running a bit hot, needle was past halfway on the temp gauge. The coolant in the overflow tank started boiling and splashing out. I shut the car down for right now, not taking any chances.

It looks like I'm going to need other tools. There is some kind of nut holding the lines to the transmission. It's a real tight fit to get down in and I have no idea what size wrench, socket I need. Am I gonna need some other tool(s) to do this?

Just to be clear on step #2 I only turn the heater to hot, don't turn on the blower fan? On step #3 do I keep the engine revved at 2,000 RPM's steady or only rev once?

Edit: Btw what size clamps am I looking at if I need to replace one of the spring clamps on the large and smaller coolant hoses?
 
#26,169 ·
Every powerful GPU will be loud and while the Asus Strix 970 can be quite it only does it when browsing the web or doing usual tasks but as soon as you run a game is gonna get loud, annoying loud like any other GPU out there. If you want to have absolute joy playing your games without any annoying noise you will have to stream your games and put your gaming machine in a place where you don't hear the noise like i did. I can say that the Strix 970 is better than my old GPU but is still loud and annoying nevertheless.
Speaking of Asus Strix my 950 GTX is crazy, usually it should boost itself only up to 1300, mine boost itself regularly to 1500 lol, people OC to get that value, mine does it on its own, i have no need to OC double lol.
 
#26,173 · (Edited)
For some reason the coolant in the overflow tank isn't being sucked down through to the radiator etc.. when trying to burp the coolant system. The car started running a bit hot, needle was past halfway on the temp gauge. The coolant in the overflow tank started boiling and splashing out. I shut the car down for right now, not taking any chances.
The coolant in the overflow tank likely wasn't actually boiling. You were probably just seeing air move through the system, which is good. It's not abnormal for a car to run a little hot during this procedure, so long as it doesn't get too far past 3/4 on the gauge it should be okay. Basically, it'll run a little hot until enough of the air gets out of the system. The thermostat, which when closed doesn't allow coolant to run through the radiator, doesn't really function correctly with air in the system.

Just to be clear on step #2 I only turn the heater to hot, don't turn on the blower fan? On step #3 do I keep the engine revved at 2,000 RPM's steady or only rev once?
I've always ran the fan. While I don't think it makes a huge difference, it will help the engine run cooler until the thermostat pops open, as the heater core acts as a small radiator. (Also good to know if your car starts to overheat while your driving - i.e. in the case of a clogged radiator. If it's not too hot outside sometimes just running the heater on full blast can keep the engine cool enough to get you where you're going.)


It looks like I'm going to need other tools. There is some kind of nut holding the lines to the transmission. It's a real tight fit to get down in and I have no idea what size wrench, socket I need. Am I gonna need some other tool(s) to do this?
I wouldn't imagine you'd need anything more special than a regular wrench, but if it's real tight they do sell wrenches with thinner heads to them. Don't know what size it'd be, though.

Edit: Btw what size clamps am I looking at if I need to replace one of the spring clamps on the large and smaller coolant hoses?
The large (upper, lower) radiator hoses are, I believe, 2 inches, and the small ones should be something like 1/2 - 3/4 inches. You don't even need to know the exact size, as hose clamps are quite adjustable, i.e. 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 inches.


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Also worth mentioning, if you're doing all this kind of work, it might not be a terrible idea to replace the radiator hoses while you're at it. If the radiator hoses are as old as the car, they may be near the end of their life.
 
#26,174 ·
Thanks and yeah that's a good idea. Btw I'm pretty sure coolant was boiling because there was steam coming off it when it was splashing out and the sound it was making sounded like what boiling water sounds like. I found that I may need to elevate the car in the front to properly "burp" it. But still there's a problem with the coolant not being sucked down into the radiator from the overflow tank. I know there isn't enough coolant in the system unless it didn't drain all coolant from d/c'ing the lower radiator hose. In any case I'll figure it out one way or another. Just as long as I make sure the car doesn't overheat and shut it down if it starts getting a bit too hot then no worry.
 
#26,175 · (Edited)
Well, the sound of boiling is the sound of air bubbles, and a little steam is normal and like I said, the thermostat has to open before coolant can cycle through the rest of the system.

You shouldn't really have to lift the car so long as the overflow tank is the highest point of the cooling system (it usually is), but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to hack that corner of the car up a bit.

Edit:
Sometimes squeezing the upper/lower radiator hoses during the bleeding procedure can help move the process along.
 
#26,177 ·
Fellas,

I'm going from nvidia to AMD videocard wise and was wondering if there is anything special that I need to take into consideration regarding driver uninstallation. I understand that it's easy to go to add/remove programs to remove nvidia's drivers, but is there a more modern procedure that is recommended in TYOOL 2016?

I'm thinking of using Display Driver Uninstaller found on Guru3D, however I'm open to any ideas that could be better.
 
#26,180 ·
I use DDU whenever I install a new driver, so far it works quite well. By default, starting DDU will give you the option to reboot in safe mode. Afterward, DDU will disable the option allowing Windows to automatically download/install a new driver (giving you the time needed to freshly install your own).
You'll also be given a few options depending on what you want to do. There's a "clean and shutdown" option for people switching cards.
 
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