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Recent content by ChimpMaster
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Help me with buying NAS
The marketing spiel looks like you can plug and play any 3.5" HDD and even SSDs but I won't be using those for this. The 2 NAS disks will be further backed up onto my main PC, and again on an external USB HDD. So in effect I will have multiple backups overall. The main purpose of the NAS is to...- ChimpMaster
- Post #36
- Forum: Technical
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Help me with buying NAS
I just want a simple NAS where the family can backup their files/photos/videos and access them centrally and remotely. Bonus would be to install something like Plex so that we can watch home movies on TVs around the house. I think the 2-bay Ugreen will suffice. One disk will be for access and...- ChimpMaster
- Post #28
- Forum: Technical
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Help me with buying NAS
All these years and I've never used NAS but now it's time I set one up at home. I'm trying to learn on what I should get. I'll only be using it as a 'shared drive', for storing household documents and photos/videos for the family to use and access. Nothing fancy - no Plex or music etc. I will...- ChimpMaster
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- Forum: Technical
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Where to buy Office 24 or 365?
No just need the software on my home PC. Ideally on 2 or 3 PCs.- ChimpMaster
- Post #3
- Forum: Technical
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Where to buy Office 24 or 365?
Where might one acquire Microsoft Office for a less than retail price these days? And would I go for Office 2024 or 365? To paint a picture, I've been using Office 2010 for the past 15 years until it wouldn't let me install on my new Win 11 PC. I just use Word and Excel, nothing fancy. I've...- ChimpMaster
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- Forum: Technical
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Where to buy RAM?
As per my other post I've just bought a gaming PC from Palicomp. might be worth taking a look there : DDR5 RAM - Palicomp- ChimpMaster
- Post #3
- Forum: Technical
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Afternoon all
It was all luck. I thought stock markets were due a crash and bonds/gold would thrive. I was wrong about stocks, whilst bonds remain neutral and metals have boomed.- ChimpMaster
- Post #13
- Forum: General
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Afternoon all
Speaking of aging agists, my voyage into semi-retirement at 47/48 is going OK and I'm fortunate that a large part of me pension is in Gold :tongue and I'm just a couple of years away from cashing out the lump sum. It's nice not having to work for money now :yay:- ChimpMaster
- Post #8
- Forum: General
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Where to buy a gaming PC nowadays?
Prices have gone a bit crazy. Have settled on the build below at just sub-£2k. Will install Windows 11 myself. I'm sure there are plenty of holes that can be picked on this or any spec, but for the money this is a build I'm good with. Case: BEQUIET! Pure Base...- ChimpMaster
- Post #8
- Forum: Technical
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Where to buy a gaming PC nowadays?
Given the extortionate prices now, but the fact that I quite desperately need a new PC, does this appear to be a reasonable option now at £2k - bearing in mind future-proofing for a few years ? CyberPower, AMD Ryzen 7, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForc... My only additional cost would be to...- ChimpMaster
- Post #6
- Forum: Technical
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Where to buy a gaming PC nowadays?
I last purchased a PC from CyberPower 10 years ago. It was specc'd well for its time (see below) so lasted me well, considering that I'm just a casual gamer and didn't need anything too powerful. I want to upgrade now to Win 11 and to a better spec, but of course am caught up the RAM price...- ChimpMaster
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- Forum: Technical
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Writing off inter-company loans
I used mmti.co.uk Apologies for delayed response. I don't use CUK much now.- ChimpMaster
- Post #9
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Pension ex.USA
Look at historical movements in markets: the US will ALWAYS recover and will outperform UK by a significant majority.- ChimpMaster
- Post #4
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Has anyone used Clarke Bell or Frost Group
I used Frost a few years ago - you can probably find my posts if you search the forum. All good and well.- ChimpMaster
- Post #8
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
