KunMatt

So as for my other question about the mandatory health insurance which we now need to buy for the application. For the fiance visa that we plan to change in a Spouse Visa, we need to buy 2.5 years at £200 a year, right?

As said, stress the date you want the visa to start in your sponsor's letter, which should be submitted with the hard copy of the application form and other supporting documents when she attends her appointment. Maybe even make a separate request as well.

Remember, the figures I linked to and quoted from are for decisions made in March; there is no guarantee that an applicatio0n submitted now will be processed as quickly; it depends purely on how busy they are. May is getting close to the influx of student applications; submit at the end of May and you may not get a decision until August!

As long as the ECO sees your requested start date and that date is no more than 3 months ahead, then the visa should be dated from that date.

But, as said, check it as soon as received, and if wrong go back to have it corrected.

Understood. Thanks again for the info.

KunMatt the 3 month post dating is addressed in this post The new UK visa process for settlement applications . I don't know whether anyone has recent experience of this happening. As 7by7 says it is the ECO who makes the decision so the request to post date has to be made in the application and I cannot stress enough to, as we have both said above, make it absolutely clear as to the date you want the visa to start. Having said that I had absolutely no problem with the post dating but I was very worried until I actually saw the visa.

Well we have already submitted the online application yesterday. My sponsor letter did state the date we plan to travel one time but it wasn't emphasised and overstated.

If 98% of applications are completed in 30 days and we want to travel at the end of June then we should probably rebook the appointment to submit the paperwork on the 20th May, right? Better slightly late than too early.

When you make the application at the VFS can you tell them the day you wish to travel and they make the visa so that it fits in with that date?

I'm more worried that if we submit the application on 11th that it comes back in 2 weeks and then we would have to enter the UK by the 23rd June or the whole visa is void and we have to start all over again.

VFS play absolutely no part in the decision making process, so whatever you tell them will have absolutely no effect.

All decisions are made by Entry Clearance Officers at the embassy, who are employees of UK Visas and Immigration, an agency of the Home Office.

As said above, at busy times a settlement application can take up to three months to be processed. The latest figures for Bangkok (for decisions made in March) show that 90% were processed in 15 working days, 98% in 30; but past performance is no guarantee of future performance.

Once the visa is issued, the holder has 30 days in which to travel to the UK. If they don't, they wont have to start the whole process all over again, but will have to apply, and pay, for a new visa vignette; see this topic.

You can ask in the application that the start date be post dated for up to three months, but should also make this clear in your sponsor's letter as well. If you do this, check the date immediately the passport is received back. This request can be missed, and mistakes cannot be rectified later.

Thank you for this helpful reply.

When I applied for a settlement visa for my wife and step daughter late February we got the visa within 3 weeks but it might be taking a bit longer now as student numbers might be increasing. That was under the old system and I was able to post date the visa for 3 months and then I have another 3 months to get to the UK. Under the new system the assumption is that there is still the ability to post date the visa for up to 3 months but you do need to make this request very obvious when you apply as there are posts on this forum of requests being missed. The new system does make it very difficult to plan such a major life change.

Thank you for this reply. So we are able to state the date we plan to enter the UK in case the visa is issued 30 days prior to our planned date. This is what the visa shop had told us but, for obvious reasons, I wanted to check.

And I agree, the new system makes it difficult to plan this big life change when we are told that the visa should be issued within 60 days and you have to enter the UK 30 days after that and then marry within 6 months after that, especially with short windows for school and work needing to coincide with the move.

When you make the application at the VFS can you tell them the day you wish to travel and they make the visa so that it fits in with that date?

I'm more worried that if we submit the application on 11th that it comes back in 2 weeks and then we would have to enter the UK by the 23rd June or the whole visa is void and we have to start all over again.

Well of course I am concerned which is why I created this thread.

We've used this agent twice before to do the 6 month UK tourist visa and their service was fine.

So has anyone here gone through the process and how long did it take to get the visa after submitting it?

I'm assuming that the agent has only booked the VIP Premium Lounge service which will cost us 3,000 baht. I think she has got her wires crossed about the 8,600 baht fee.

Hello

I hope that somebody who has used the VFS to apply for a visa recently can help me with this.

We are now applying for my partner's UK Fiance/Settlement visa. We are using a local visa agent to do the application for us but I believe they are confused about the services that the VFS is offering. When booking the appointment for us they have selected a "Premium Service" which they say I have to pay to the VFS when submitting the paperwork of 8,600 baht. However I can find no such price on the VFS website. The VFS website states that they offer a VIP Premium Lounge service for 3,000 baht and they offer a Priority Service for 5,600 to process the visa in 3 to 5 days, so I assumed that the visa shop is combining the two and getting a Priority Service to make the visa and we will use the VIP Premium Lounge when we submit the paperwork to the VFS, but they said no, the 8,600 baht is for a "Premium Service" which just means that the visa process takes 1 month instead of 2 months.

So this is why I am confused. The options the visa shop originally gave me was;

Standard - no extra charge and visa process could take up to 2 months

Prime - 5,600 baht and visa process could take 1 month

Premium - 8,600 and visa process could take 1 month.

No mention of a Priority option.

Again this makes no sense as they couldn't distinguish between the Prime and the Premium service for me. The Prime Service is supposed to be for appointments made between 08:30am to midday according to the website. They insisted that a previous customer used this 8,600 baht Premium Service a couple of months ago and the visa took 1 month to make.

So the dilemma I have is this; we plan to move to the UK on 30th June, I am working until the 23rd June. When the visa is processed and returned the new rule is that you have 30 days to enter the UK or the visa is expired. So given this circumstance I don't want to make the visa too quickly so that the 30 days expires before 25th to 30th June before we can get to the UK, and I don't want to make the visa so it comes back too late and we have no time to move before I go back to work again at the beginning of August.

Can anyone advise on the turnaround times of the standard service and the priority service?

When you make the application at the VFS can you tell them the day you wish to travel and they make the visa so that it fits in with that date?

Is there a 8,600 baht Premium Service??

Oh, and one more thing I just found out that we've been lucky enough to be a part of; this new health insurance that just started for £600 that we apparently now need to apply for this fiance visa. What and how??

Thanks in advance.

Today's "20 people killed/injured in a single vehicle accident" is brought to you by Samut Sakhon.

I wonder where tomorrow's will be set?

Bali 9 executions: Final insult as accused pair denied pastor, outraging families

Tom Allard and Jewel Topsfield in Cilicap

Indonesian authorities have refused Bali nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran the right to have a pastor of their choice to witness their executions, outraging their families and Australian diplomats.

In heartbreaking scenes, the families of the condemned men arrived at the port of Cilacap for their last visit to Nusakambangan prison island, surrounded by friends.

Their last bit of dignity has been denied.

Michael Chan, brother of Andrew Chan

Sukumaran's sister Brintha collapsed as she wailed in grief, surrounded by a large media pack. His mother Raji was also deeply distraught.

Chan's family arrived soon after, protected by embassy officials. Brother Michael was ashen faced, his mother Helen covered her face as she sobbed.

As they walked to the port, police with dogs tried to break up the media pack, with at least one journalist bitten on the leg.

Full story: http://www.theage.com.au/world/bali-9-executions-final-insult-as-accused-pair-denied-pastor-outraging-families-20150428-1muvxv.html

-- The Age 2015-04-28

Most people in Australia are atheists any way so don't see why this would be much of a concern...Besides, not much a preacher could but mumble some useless inanities.

Thank you so much for your amazing insight into the minds of these people who are about to be shot to death after languishing in prison hoping for some sort of pardon.

How did you manage to empathise so well with people about to be executed in a barbaric way after 9 years of sitting on death row?

This will REALLY motivate cabbies to deal with alien customers if they are fined for something they don't understand. Thainess at its best; I wanted to flag down a car and he passed with open window "no farang"! Must have been among those fined lately I guess....

If you follow the Thai social media, taxis rejecting passengers is a hot topic with the locals. They hate it as much as we do.

They do indeed. And they have this persistent paranoid notion in their heads that taxis reject them because they prefer farangs (more easy to cheat), but as a farang I have been rejected by Bangkok taxis innumerable times. So forget the paranoia, the real reasons for rejecting passengers are :

1/ You're not going far enough,

2/ You're going to (or through) a heavily congested area,

3/ The guy has almost finished his time and taking you to your destination would considerably extend it.

The 3 reasons are, I would say, pretty universal, and definitely not limited to Bangkok taxis.

Is this was the case then they wouldn't stop their car and roll down their window to ask you where you want to go and then say they won't go. The real reason that most of them reject you is probably cuz you are not a tourist and you won't pay the extortionate off meter price they asked for. They know that 5 or 10 minutes later they will find a naive tourist to pay them 300 baht for a 40 baht fare instead of wasting time with you.

I've only been rejected by taxis around tourist areas, ie. Soi 11, MBK, Panthip etc and it happens pretty much every time I am flagging down a taxi there. The rest of the time when I am not in a tourist area then I've almost never had any taxis stop and then refuse to take me wherever I wanted to go.

So all the excuses that it's because the route is inconvenient for them or they are about to go off shift are just the usual BS excuse for their lazy greedy behaviour that finally they are being called out on.

Taje the proper action and use a service like GrabTaxi so these selfish cretins get none of your money and hopefully it gets to the point where they either change their ways or change their jobs.

I used to just laugh it off, they are trying to make some money etc etc until i was standing in the pissing rain with my 15 month old baby and 5 taxi's would not take me. So much for good Buddist values but a definite for Thainess. Only and always about themselves.

Try the GrabTaxi or EasyTaxi app, if you want to spend more for a nicer luxury car then use GrabCar in the GrabTaxi app. I never use street taxis anymore if I can avoid it.

No need for fan controllers all motherboards and vid cards worth their salt use software to control that. (P.S. Not knocking the guy that bought one).

You can even set up how many RPM you want per fan and even set slopes of how many RPM you want per given temp on the CPU.

You state a 610W PSU how efficient is it? Lenovo don't state that.

eg...a 610W PSU with 80% efficiency is only really a reliable 488W PSU. Capacitors lose capacity over time especially when running hot.

For PSU I would go for Corsair they are stress tested in prolonged 55 degree C heat. Heat kills PSU's.

For RAM I would go Corsair vengeance (cheaper than dominators) too as they have a lifetime warranty. Don't get the ones with the fins on unless you are going for water cooling as no decent heatsinks can be fitted on the CPU as the RAMs fins are in the way, Fins are a gimmick anyway wish I had bought the regular profile as I wouldn't have to have gone the water cooling route.

If you decide to choose your own components its a good idea to download the manual for the mobo you want.

Websites and sales can say oh it supports 2133 mhz RAM, but when you read the manual that's only if overclocking. natively it might be 1600.

8 gig RAM will do you and you can always upgrade in the future.

For CPU and gaming an i5 is adequate if you want to save some money as most of the work is done by the GPU.

If you want an i7 I suggest the older sandybridge or Ivybridge models as they are cheaper and run way cooler.

If you want quiet and cool GPU I would go for whatever GTX model you want but a Gigabyte windforce 3 model, 3 fans and they are silent even under load.

Totally agree with all of this, and you've pretty much described my own system!

I have;

2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600Mhz

ASUS Motherboard - they have an incredible BIOS configuration software

Corsair RM750M PSU

I got my Recon fan controller before I got my new motherboard. It is overkill and my new motherboard can do pretty much the same thing but I like it a lot, looks great too.

So what's the situation OP, have we convinced you to build or spec your own PC?

OP, if you do spec this yourself I would recommend a bigger HDD than you are current looking at. You can get a 2TB for 3k but a 4TB is about 4k. Games are about 10GB to 40GB these days and they will only get bigger.

Also, get additional fans for the case to keep your system cool. I have a Corsair Carbide 400R case (which I recommend) and I spent days choosing and trying fans all over the case to keep the graphics card and the CPU cool. I'm not overclocking so I didn't want to mess around with water cooling so I just bought as many fans as I could and they work very well at keep the temps of everything down. I have 2x 120mm inlet fans on the side of the case, 2x 120mm exhaust fans on the top of the case, 1x 140mm exhaust fan on the rear of the case, plus the case comes with 2x inlet fans at the front to keep the HDDs cool. You can get a motherboard with a fan controller for all of tese but I bought a Bitfenix Recon Fan controller so I can manually set and monitor them independently with a bay mounted controller.

What I did was total overkill (as usual) but I recommend at least one fan on the side of the case blowing onto the graphics card and a decent exhaust fan at the back. They are cheap, decent quality fans (Corsair, NZXT etc) are 500 baht, I have a couple of Cougar 120mm fans from JIB for 250 baht and they are great too,.

I see that Lenovo Thailand has an Erazor/x510 PC desk top- would i be able to put a GTX 970 video card in there ?

• 4th Generation Intel® Core™i7-4770K Processor (3.5GHz, up to 3.9GHz, 8MB Cache)
• 16GB DDR3L/1600MHz (2x8GB)
• SSHD 2TB (7200rpm)
• nVidia® Geforce GTX760 2GB DDR5

610W PSU

That PC can already play Skyrim at Ultra settings, the GTX760 graphics card is 2 years old but Skyrim is about 4 years old.

See here http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=625&game=The+Elder+Scrolls+V&p_make=Intel&p_deriv=Core+i7-4770K+4-Core+3.5GHz&gc_make=Nvidia&gc_deriv=GeForce+GTX+760+EVGA+SC+2GB+Edition&ram=16&checkSubmit=#systemRequirements

As I said before, you don't need an i7 for gaming, an i5 is the gamer's choice. Also, why buy a pre-build if you are not going to use the graphics card it comes with? It's a waste of 7,000 baht.

If I was you I would spec your own PC and get the shop to assemble for you if you cannot do it yourself. You will get better specs for less money. Pre-builds use cheap generic components for things like the PSU and RAM so you can choose your own brands when you do it yourself, I prefer ASUS and Corsair for just about everything.

All you need to spec is;

CPU: i5 4690 3.5GHz = 7.5k Baht

MB: H97 = 3k Baht

RAM: 2x G.Skillz 4GB 1600Mhz = 2.5k Baht

SSD: 120GB (for OS) = 2k Baht

HDD: 2TB (for Data) = 3k Baht

GFX: GTX970 = 13k Baht

PSU: 700W with a PCIe connector = 3k Baht

Case: 2k Baht

So for a total of about 36,000 baht you could build a pretty high end gaming PC that would smash that Lenovo you're talking about.

How much is that Lenovo on sale for?

Not sure the price here. In the US it's 1300$ . That's very useful the specs you give. But is the computer as reliable if it's custom built by the shop like this?

Yes of course. I would trust my own or JIB's build over a Lenovo, that's for sure! Lenovo's suck!

I know it seems daunting if you've never built a PC before but there's really not much to it. You literally just put the components into the case and connect the power and data cables and setup the BIOS. As long as everything is compatible there should be no problems.

If you are a beginner then go to JIB, spec it with them and let them build and test it. Any problems you can always take it back to them, everything has a warranty.

You will also know a lot about the rig you built and you can upgrade it as you go.

I see that Lenovo Thailand has an Erazor/x510 PC desk top- would i be able to put a GTX 970 video card in there ?

• 4th Generation Intel® Core™i7-4770K Processor (3.5GHz, up to 3.9GHz, 8MB Cache)
• 16GB DDR3L/1600MHz (2x8GB)
• SSHD 2TB (7200rpm)
• nVidia® Geforce GTX760 2GB DDR5

610W PSU

That PC can already play Skyrim at Ultra settings, the GTX760 graphics card is 2 years old but Skyrim is about 4 years old.

See here http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=625&game=The+Elder+Scrolls+V&p_make=Intel&p_deriv=Core+i7-4770K+4-Core+3.5GHz&gc_make=Nvidia&gc_deriv=GeForce+GTX+760+EVGA+SC+2GB+Edition&ram=16&checkSubmit=#systemRequirements

As I said before, you don't need an i7 for gaming, an i5 is the gamer's choice. Also, why buy a pre-build if you are not going to use the graphics card it comes with? It's a waste of 7,000 baht.

If I was you I would spec your own PC and get the shop to assemble for you if you cannot do it yourself. You will get better specs for less money. Pre-builds use cheap generic components for things like the PSU and RAM so you can choose your own brands when you do it yourself, I prefer ASUS and Corsair for just about everything.

All you need to spec is;

CPU: i5 4690 3.5GHz = 7.5k Baht

MB: H97 = 3k Baht

RAM: 2x G.Skillz 4GB 1600Mhz = 2.5k Baht

SSD: 120GB (for OS) = 2k Baht

HDD: 2TB (for Data) = 3k Baht

GFX: GTX970 = 13k Baht

PSU: 700W with a PCIe connector = 3k Baht

Case: 2k Baht

So for a total of about 36,000 baht you could build a pretty high end gaming PC that would smash that Lenovo you're talking about.

How much is that Lenovo on sale for?

How old are the children? If still young then toys from Big-C and even 7/11 are fine. I've bought loads of toys over the years for 3k to 5k each from shops like ToysRUs, and Siam Paragon, toys which in the UK would cost 1/4 of the price they are in Thailand, and they barely get played with. I always find that large and complex toys never get played with or appreciated, and kids appreciate quantity over quality.

Yes, the quality of the Big-C toys is not fantastic but as long as it is not dangerous or containing small parts etc then it will be fine and instead of wasting 3,000 baht on one toy that will be broken or not used you will only be spending 100 baht, so you can just buy a bunch of cheap toys and the kids will be happy, The Daraemon brand makes toys which last OK.

in other words they need guides that tell all the chinese tourists they are not to sh*t in the hand basins or in the streets, not to wash their feet in the hand basins, use the floors as the toilet, actually line up in queues instead of simply forcing their way to the front and to stop starting fights when they dont get what they want. Might be easier to simply ban chinese tourists full stop, either that or have education classes for them before they leave china on how to behave outside their own country and what is acceptable for them to do

Have you personally experienced any of the above??

actually yes I have, on more than one occasion too

How many positive occasions have you had with Chinese ?

Much much less than I have had compared to negative experiences. I mean, it is constantly everywhere you go. I don't think I even need to list the massive shopping list of ill behaviour that I experienced there all of the time. Things which I have never felt or seen during the other 15 years I have lived in many other Asian countries.

Too cool. Obama is negotiating with Iran while he helps bomb the Iranian supported Houthis.

The Saudis consider the Houthis proxies for the Shiite government of Iran and fear another Shiite-dominated state in the region.

Isn't he also assisting ISIS and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula with these attacks on the group they want to destroy in Yemen?

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I refuse to get bogged down with straw man arguments and deliberate misrepresentation......

Translation: "I cannot refute the evidence which shows my arguments are built on the sand of prejudice rather then the rock of facts; so I'll ignore it."

IS and other terrorist groups may claim to represent Islam and Muslims; but as has been repeatedly shown, the overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide do not agree!

Except that ALL Muslims all agree on the same barbaric principals which are clearly laid out in the Koran, it's just that groups like the ISIS are the ones actually doing it. I know you always try to argue that 99.99% are peaceful, merciful West loving people with the same values as the rest of us but the fact is they all agree and want to live by a fundamentally pre-medieval system of law and culture, which in no way can co-exist in a modern Western civilisation. It is not just a handful of confused Muslims in the world that are responsible for all of the atrocities done in the name of Islam, the blatant truth is that they are all taught from the exact same book and they are all on the same side.

As if any proof is needed, watch this for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYAcLudBbhg&feature=youtu.be

There's a massive room full of those "moderate Muslims" that you are always talking about, and they all have extreme views that people should be stoned to death for blasphemy, apostasy, adultery and just about anything else. Every one of them. Does that really seem moderate to you? These people are the "moderate Muslims" for the religion of mercy and peace that you are always always talking about and using as examples to counter the extreme views of ISIS and they all agree on exactly the same principals as ISIS.

So what so you think the end game is here? Do you think that all of these Muslims who have moved into Europe will change their beliefs and religion? Do you think they will have a modern day re-writing of the Koran so that they can peacefully co-exist in a Western culture? Or do you think that they will push their way onto their host countries using threats, violence and terrorism until the country buckles and Islam eventually takes over?

do not hire the car in the airport NOT!!!!, the owner is looking to rip u off, owner is sitting in the airport at a desk for car rental and taxi and when tourist get their bags and come out of baggage area u will see him sitting behind desk making arm movement like u calling a dog to lure customers. i hired an old toyota with 300 000 km from this guy cause his newer cars were already booked, paid 1000 bath a day, first he wanted to give the car from his wifes friend and i asked him if the car had class 1 insurance he said yes which is mandatory by thai law,if u don't have class 1 and u get involved in an accident then all the cost are for you!!!!, but 5 min latter the friend of his wife came and i asked her bout insurance she told me she had class 3 insurance, then that guy doing a cinema discussion with her to save his face, just an old lying bastard! after that i told him dont want her car so he gave his personal car with 300 000 km on it already an old toyota, didn't had a choice cause needed a car asap. he told me if had accident then had to contact him and uncle, thats how he called himself, uncle will take care of it , ok with that in mind, days latter a cop backed up his truck infront of the 7-11 store and hit the front bumper, so the cop tried to blame me cause i was standing still in red and white zone, surprised by the fact that i can speak fluently thai cause my mom is thai i told him ur parked in red white zone too!!! so after discussion i told him " gia kap jawgoong lot" wich means solve it with the owner of the car, after getting the cop details i called the old lying basterd owner and said a cop backed up into his car, didn't even had the chance to explain that there was a scratch on his front bumper just about 4 cm lenght! had to search for it cause his front bumper already had scratches and bumps into it cause was an old car! so didn't had chance to explain there was a skratch in it because the old bastard went nuts and was shouting i did the accident so i had to pay for it all, he said this 5 times and was going nuts on the phone, gave my phone to my gf cause i couldn't say any word cause he was just doing nuts , my gf couldn't say anything too so she just hang up.

Now 2 days latter i went to airport drop gf off cause she need back bangkok and i went to the old bastard sitting behing his rental car desk , and i showed the scratch, he said " uncle only take 1500 bath to fix " i told him the cop that made the scratch is willing to pay for it already wich i arranged, wich is not my job to do, but he still wanted the 1500 bath , i said ok i fix it for u and all the other scratches in front bumper wich is not even mine too, his answer no no " uncle have a shop too where uncle fix it himself, uncle have paint and everything uncle do self, wich is bullcrap.

then another farang customer called him on the parking cause he had other new customer, and he just turned his back and left without saying anything, so after my gf took her plane i went back to him and said how we going to solve this, he just said he will keep 1500 bath off my 5000 deposit, again i argued and say the cop will pay for the damages, after this he start threaten me by saying "i kno big police chief" after i said so what, he called the big police chief to ask bout the cop and trying to intimidate me. after that he start saying "pai pai and doing arm movements like u chase away a dog" and smiling while doing that, i answered him thats nice customer service u giving, then his last effort to get rid off me was threating me by saying that his taxi drivers will "chakan" me, wich mean will teach me a lesson. i say ok uncle, tomoro is my last day i have the car anyway so after tomoro we will solve this.

2 days latter i bring the car back and i brought my thai cousin wich was released 6 months before from sakon nakhon prison after 12 years inside, reason is if something happen i can not do anything cause i didn't want to compromise my application for thai nationality, and i knew the old bastard is going to try to rip me off, so i told my cousin that the amount he try to rip me off i rather give to him than to that lying bastard! offcourse he tried to rip me for 1500 bath, we wouldn't give in so he called the cop that backed up into the car and got 2000 bath from the cop, took 45 min for the cop to show up with 2000 bath!, after that everything solved right but noooooo! we thought wrong....now the bastard wanted 1000 bath cause he said the car was 1 day late wich was not true, i was thinking in myself this guy reallyy wants to get kicked in the teeth and looking at the facial expression of my cousin i could see something is going to happen, after hearing the discussion is escalating his wife came outside and suddenly ...she remembers my cousin , turned out she was befriended with his mom! so u think the bastard would stop ripping us of but he wouldn't back down, after showing my copy of the agreement and showing date as proof i got back my full 5000 bath depossit .

i hope someone will take my advice and do not get involved with that old scammer cause took me a lot of typing to explain this! in sakon city u have other places where u can rent a car, car is newer and no problem with them at all! you have a car hire on ROP MUANG RD. exactly 100 meters from raksakol private hospital, he's sittuated on the corner of the road , another place where can hire car is 200 meters from BIG C superstore, so take my advice seriously and don't get involved with the car hire at sakon nakhon airport.

Interesting story and a lot to be learnt for any foreigners here as if you were not Thai then you would have had to pay the police, the owner for the damage and the owner for another day's rental.

Unfortunately most foreigners have neither the language skills, the balls, the backup or the connections to be able to solve a problem as you did, which is exactly why so many foreigners get scammed and ripped off at everything they do when they are in Thailand.

Again, an interesting insight into how to do business and survive here. Thanks.

Thanks for feedback.

The pc I'm thinking to buy is a lenovo i7 3.4ghz, 8gb ddr sdrm, 2tb sata hdd. Would that be able to deal with a top of the range card for maxing out games?

An i7 CPU is overspec'd for a gaming PC. No games use 8 threads and I read somewhere that it can even have a detrimental effect on gaming performance. I can't find the price for an i7 3.4GHz on www.jib.co.th (I'm guessing it's a 3770 which is now out of date and uses the older 1155 socket) but you could save yourself about 3,000 baht and just get a newer i5 4690 3.5GHz using the newer 1150 socket which you can upgrade later if you wanted to.

I would recommend building it yourself instead of buying a pre-build, it's kinda like a rite of passage and a lot of fun to build your own rig, or at least spec it all up and get the shop to assemble it for you. JIB are very good at this and you can see their catalog online. You can build a decent i5 gaming PC for about 17,000 baht plus whatever graphics card you wanted, I guess GTX970's are around 13k now so 30k for a decent gaming PC that can play any game at max settings, will be future proof and can be upgraded.

Thanks for feedback.

The pc I'm thinking to buy is a lenovo i7 3.4ghz, 8gb ddr sdrm, 2tb sata hdd. Would that be able to deal with a top of the range card for maxing out games?

Yes.

Like I said before, you don't need a top of the range gfx card to play games in max settings, I can run most games over 120fps on Ultra settings which is more than any monitor can properly display, you will probably be aiming for 1080p60 on Ultra settings.

The latest top of the range is an Nvidia Titan X and it's $1000 but you would only need it if you want to play games in 4k resolution. If not then a Nvidia GTX970 for about 15,000 baht would be much more than enough for the next few years.

Thanks thats v useful.

If you are not too bothered about the cost to performance ratio then take a look at the Nvidia GTX980 which is the current best card on the market until the Titan X releases soon.

Also, if you are building this PC yourself make sure you get a PSU with a PCIe connector to power the graphics card.

Thanks for feedback.

The pc I'm thinking to buy is a lenovo i7 3.4ghz, 8gb ddr sdrm, 2tb sata hdd. Would that be able to deal with a top of the range card for maxing out games?

Yes.

Like I said before, you don't need a top of the range gfx card to play games in max settings, I can run most games over 120fps on Ultra settings which is more than any monitor can properly display, you will probably be aiming for 1080p60 on Ultra settings.

The latest top of the range is an Nvidia Titan X and it's $1000 but you would only need it if you want to play games in 4k resolution. If not then a Nvidia GTX970 for about 15,000 baht would be much more than enough for the next few years.