Recent content by lewisner

I used to have an MSI AIO water cooler and to start with it was fantastic but sadly they suffer from a buildup of sediment in the CPU block which effectively stops them working. I switched over to a Noctua NH-D15 Chromax which is vast and rather ugly but itt does its job and I don't have to...

There are companies on Fleabay and other sites which sell computers to novices and they advertise these computers as "i7 CPU" but CPUs go in Generations with the current being the 14th Generation. A 4th Generation i7 CPU will be pretty useless now. Although I'm British and unfamiliar with US...

That's happened to me so many times it's not even funny. I do my best to save stuff but Trainz always finds some way to defeat me.

Hello everybody , I got a bit burnt out with Trainz months ago but following a major computer rebuild I'm back. This time round all I've lost are all of my map tiles o_O Here we see 60084 Trigo heading south through Lamesley station which was closed in 1959 and razed for the building of Tyne...

It depends whether you want a computer "just sufficient" or what you would like. I'm 66 and a couple of months ago 3 friends in a similar age group died. The wife of the man next door died of cancer and now he's a hermit. You can't take it with you so it doesn't hurt to have something better...

In the 1980s i worked trains out of Hornsey carriage depot in north London. One of the fitters there was suspected of theft and when police went to his home they found it fitted out with seats and tables from class 313 EMUs . He had a cab / cab radio as his front door bell.

They made a First Class job of the conversion.

In California 2 Caltrain employees allegedly embezzled thousands from the company to build themselves apartments above the station and nobody noticed they were living there...

You can buy a small ( debit card sized) monitor which be mounted internally in your PC or externally and used with the Aida64 software it will monitor everything. I have the monitor but sadly didn't realise you have to pay for Aida64 and it's not cheap.

Push the boat out (no pun intended) and get a Cooler Master Shark X for £6000.

I just rebuilt my PC with an i7 14700K CPU and 64 GB of DDR5 RAM and the existing RTX 3090 24GB GPU. Not tried Trainz on it yet but I expect good results.

If it's any use I often find that when I'm having a pint I get a Eureka moment and see how I can do something. I'm off for a pint now and will report any progress 🍺 🍺

Hi it's Penshaw Monument or more correctly The Earl Of Durhams Monument. I laid the base out on an OS map then the base is a rectangle of Stone Retaining wall dirty with cobbled road inside, the columns are IBS Factory Chimney and multiple splines of Wall Low Brown box fashion to make up the...

This is my route at Coxgreen with M:URST trees on the left (as I normally use) and st_rmm trees on the right. Coxgreen woods 3.1.25 by A1 Northeastern, on Flickr

I'm not so worried about the performance as the appearance. If performance suffers I will upgrade my computer which it probably needs anyway.