The VT Boys got back together again for a weekend

The VT Boys got back together again for a weekend in Bognos Regis, after a long drive and a few stops Mr.Gadget arrived to see Mr.Garfield and his girlfriend for the weekend. They had a very good time and done lost of eating, present giving and viewing the sides.

Mr.Mac Senior received a phone call letting me know that all was okay and Mr.Garfield had a good time and he missed us a lot.

The VT Boys had a visitor this week

The VT Boys had a visitor this week which was lovely, Mr.Mac Junior was showing off his new temp car, as he is waiting for his new one to arrive at some point before Christmas he hopes.

I made a lovely Balti Curry for us with Nam bread and pilla rice and we spent a nice few hours together which we have not done for a while. His temp new car is fantastic Audi A4 S-Line with all the toys and trimmings - it even has Apple Car Play which works really well.

Mr.Gadget is going to see his big brother this weekend and will spend a few nights in Bognor Regis, eating and drinking with his mum, Ella and Mr.Garfield. Pictures to follow on this event.

 

The VT Boys had Pizza today

The VT Boys had Pizza today to celebrate a special occasion - Mr Gadget is 16 Years old and he is looking forward starting to drive in the next year or so. He is very happy with the new house he is living in.

He was telling me today he was using his iMac more than ever and perverts it over Windows 10 Pro, however Windows 10 Pro is awesome and Microsoft Windows has come a long way from a buggy operating system, blue screens and endless updates. Even security and virus protection is better.

We drove over to King's Lynn and had late lunch at Pizza Hut, we both had a meat feast and I believe Mr.Gadget had a eye on the waitress (She was pretty nice lol). After our lunch we drove to Curry's and had a look at the new iPhone X - wow what a great phone, but we both agreed the Google Pixel 2 XL was better value for money.



 

The VT Boys had a birthday again

The VT Boys had a birthday again last weekend, Mr.Gadget is 16 years old, time fights so much, I can remember the day as yesterday when he was born in his home in Cambridgeshire. We spend a nice but short day together as he wanted to go to the Hunstanton fireworks display that evening and have a nice meal out with is older brother and soon to be sister in law.

Max Last year receiving the first Fallout 4 game

Mr.Gadget had even time spending two hours with his little sister playing Minecraft, which they both enjoyed. We had an nice birthday cake for him (Chocolate creme) and we had a small dinner as we had a late Mc Donalds breakfast that day.

The VT Boys are making an Hackingtosh again

The VT Boys are making an Hackingtosh again - Last weekend we had great fun making an new SandyBridge Intel i5 hackingtosh, this one was going to be fast, however we had a few issues, for a start we did not have a proper processor cooler, as the one we had did not fit. So Mr.Gadget improvised one, but after fitting we smelled a burning smell coming out of the computer so we switched it of. 

We are going to purchase a new fan, power supply just in case. Mr.Mac Senior made a Balti Curry which we both enjoyed and because Mr.Gadget was staying over we had on Sunday, sausages, leek, roast potatoes and gravy - yummy.

In a few days Mr.Gadget will have a birthday coming up, so we are going to cook something nice for him as well. We also had time to do up an Apple iMac 21.5" late 2009 model with MacOS 10.12.6 Sierra, it had a few issues as well but was running fine most of the time.

The VT Boys and Girls had play in Necton

The VT Boys and Girls had play in Necton a few weeks ago, when needed to go over there to have a look at the old school VT Girl No.2 has been going to. It looks very poorly, all over grown with wild grass and wheat, windows smashed in. The building has been empty for over 10 years now and nothing has been done to it.

After looking at the old school we had a nice walk and made it all to the play area in Necton, of course the girls wanted to play on the play equipment and we all had great fun.

Mr. Gadget had with the Air Cadets an competition building model airplanes - he said it was very easy, but a fun thing to do.

The VT Boys & Girls have a relaxing day

The VT Boys & Girls have a relaxing day as things have been a bit busy over the last few months, Mr.Gadget is about moving house and have started the last year at school. VT Girl No.2 is enjoying her college, learning about animal care and VT Girl No.3 is trying not to get in to trouble all the time.

VT Girl No.1 is waiting for the big arrival - we can't wait. The last weeks or days are the hardest, you can't sleep properly and everything is moving inside. We truly pray that all goes well and whatever it is a boy or girl we will be very happy.

Yesterday Mr.Gadget spend some time with VT Girl No.3 to play some games, and tried out the New Apple iPad, he was very impressed. We also finished of the new server and are now copying over all the data (Lots of it)

The VT Boys and Girls had visitors last Sunday

The VT Boys and Girls had visitors last Sunday, Mr Garfield with Girlfriend are in Norfolk seeing the family. The reason was because Mr.Mac Junior and girlfriend got engaged and they gave a big party in March. So Mr.Garfield was also invited for the weekend, that was the perfect opportunity for him to visit us.

We had a very nice day together and talked a lot, we also had to do some shopping so Mr.Garfield was able to use his Tesco discount card, not bad.

We had fish and chips for dinner and ice-cream for afters, in the evening Mr.Mac drove them back to Cambridgeshire - so that the next day they travelled back to Bognor Regis.

The VT Boys done a Kaby Lake Intel i7

The VT Boys done a Kaby Lake Intel i7 this week, here are the specs: Intel Kaby Lake i7 7700 3.6Ghz processor with 16Gb DDR4 2100Mhz RAM, WD Black M.2 256Gb Flash drive, ASUS NVidia GTX 1060 3G Graphics and NZTY Elite 360 Case. See pictures below.

This machine is fast - really fast, the CUDA Score is about 2000 higher that a GTX 970, and Geekbench 4 reported just over 15000, not bad. 

Boot times are fast - just under 2 seconds and we are not even talking about the new WD Black M.2 flashdrive just shy over 1800mbps - wow. Over the next few weeks we are going to put this machine to the test and see if it is really the one to go for.

The VT Boys had to do a repair

The VT Boys had to do a repair on the AMD FX8350 computer as it was running very slow, especially when running high graphics games, at first we thought it was the graphics card (GTX960) however after checking the temperature of the processor it run in the high 60 celsius which is for a FX8350 to high, so it only could be two things - the CPU was faulty or the terminal paste was gone.

We opened the case and removed the water cooler (Thanks Mr.Gadget) and cleaned the CPU and applied new paste - turned the water cooler around - closed the case again and switched the computer back on.

We opened Project Cars and run a few test laps - wow that made a real difference, now the CPU only stayed at 48 Celsius, great improvement. So now we can run the games on the higher settings and we have no delays in graphics. Great stuff.

Mr Gadget also had time to play Minecraft with VT Girl No.3 and some other games on the iPad - snakes or something. We had Lasagna for tea which I made and ice-cream for afters.

The VT Boys had a trip to Twickenham Rugby Stadium

The VT Boys had a trip to Twickenham Rugby Stadium this week which was very interesting. I am not a rugby fan but is was fascinating to see how it all works. We where invited for a VIP tour last Thursday in London with a stay in the Marriott Hotel with a lovely meal in the Royal box.

The stadium was big, with beautiful grass and over 82000 seats, lots of history attached to this stadium and it is the home ground to the International English Rugby team.

The VT Boys have been building a Super computer

The VT Boys have been building a Super computer this weekend, we ordered in all the parts, new AVP Cube case, 750 Watt PSU, ASUS 1050 Motherboard, Kingston S400 SSD flash drive, Intel Haswell 4130 i3 3.4Ghz processor, AMD 6850 1Gb Graphics card and 16Gb DDR3 1600 memory, now you would think this makes a good Windows Gaming computer, however we had other plans with it.

Of course Mr.Gadget build the computer because he is very good at that, all the cables have been routed properly and secured. We build a few week ago a new USB stick with MacOS Sierra 10.12.3 and booted the machine up.

We installed the drivers, setup iCloud and Microsoft Office 2016. Everything works great, before we had trouble with the sound, wifi, and Time Machine and the machine will Panic Screen, but not this time, it is fast doing about 7600 points on the Geekbench App - not bad.

In the next few week we are going to build  - a better one, based on a Kaby Lake i7 7700K, Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics card and M.2 flash drives, watch this space.

The VT Boys & Girls have been to the Mini Meet in King's Lynn

The VT Boys & Girls have been to the Mini Meet in King's Lynn last weekend and it was great, not only have we met Minky for the first time, but more than 200 other mini models from very new to the very old ones.

We pickup Mr.Gadget from Wisbech and drove strait to the meet in King's Lynn, we parked in the main King's Lynn car park, paid by phone for the ticket and we set course to Tuesday Market Place which was not to far to walk.

We meet up with Keri & Paul who proudly showed us Minky the 57 year old Mini, it was in perfect state and everything was original out and inside. Lots of Mini's had been done up with bigger wheels and spoilers. There was a live band playing all sorts and lots of people about. We stated for 1 hour made several pictures and drove back home.

We had bacon butties for lunch which was very nice.