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Bought a couple of 2tb drives off Amazon last night for £80 each, they were limiting it to one per customer (got my girlfriend to order one). The same drives are £115 this morning. That should last me about a year. I'm just worried what I'd do if one of my hard drives fails? I have all my...

This. When you are fairly certain that you will never use anything other than the problem free ports, this little setback is particularly infuriating.

I posted a build request in gen hardware a month back, and Danny recommended a seasonic x-650 to meet my high demands for efficiency. After reading reviews I fell in love with that PSU. My friend changing his mind about buying my old rig has delayed my new rig until now (will pull the trigger in...

I'll wait for other people to weigh in, but for $1900 with only $200-300 on a GPU, you could probably get a 2600k, decent SSD, 24 inch monitor and still have money to spare. Edit: Damn, basically what jeremyshaw said, but he was more useful :p

Why not just get an acer revo or something, off newegg? $349.99 and I haven't even really looked for any better deal. (I live in UK too so i dont exactly know how your sales tax works) If its just browsing and emailing, you wont be able to make something as compact and energy efficient as one...

Anyone notice that at the moment you have to pay a hundred bucks extra to get a p67 mobo that isn't blue? Here in the UK I just cannot find a motherboard that isn't blue outside of the Maximus 4 or UD7 for £270+. Theres the sabertooth too I guess... bit of a weird one though. For people who...

From what I have seen the 2500k is not that far behind 2600k in anything that doesnt take full advantage of hyper-threading, and if you are trying to set yourself a limit of how much you can spend on that system, there are lots of things you might wanna put that extra $100 towards first. I think...

Now you've gone and done it! I'm back to being unsure about my case :D I think I'm gonna add a window in myself, but if you can order a window panel and its anything like the one from the white 600t special edition they just showed off, then I may do that. I definitely cannot hold out until...

Danny Bui recommended it to me, and every review I've read since has made me quite excited for it.

Wow thanks for those comparisons meatsauce. I am moving from a 900 to a 600t for by SB build and those were exactly what I needed. Its quite a bit bigger isn't it? Still, im really looking forward to it. So far my build will vary depending on what else is released in the next 2 to 3 weeks, and...

While I think more blue would be improvement, its only because I think a tiny bit of blue is stupid. Why not make an all black motherboard? Then if you are going for a nice internal look, the motherboard is the blank slate you put your flashier stuff on. It would go with everything. Other...

This. This seems the best way to me. Double the charge or even triple the charge of unlimited seems like a good compromise. I'm pretty shocked at the people who think a simple tech mistake like this is worth ruining life over.

Yeah I really hate gift cards. People think that it is somehow more thoughtful than money, but if you get one for me, you are just showing that you don't know me. Its basically going to a shop and exchanging no strings attached real money for their T&Cs-apply fake money. At a 1:1 ratio. I only...

Well at least with RAM I can just add some more down the line quite easily. Now I've just got to pick a case, which means I will now be on the internet looking at pretty pictures for the next 10 hours. Moving to a case thats not the antec 900 and getting a modular PSU will hopefully make wiring...

Wow thanks for the quick response, and even for pointing me to Scan. I've used them in the past, but a long time ago and I guess I've gotten complacent using eBuyer for things. No worries about the case links, thats gonna come mostly down to personal preference any way and thats a great list...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming, perhaps light video encoding too (to be moved to my HTPC). 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? £800 is my ideal budget, but another £100 on top if anyone can see a substantial performance...

Did anyone notice how much of the presentation he spent explaining resolution? Yeah I understand thanks. I could barely make out pixels on my iphone now, so this one will be super smooth. I didn't need charts and a special code name for that resolution to get the point across. Now I have to...

Back in the day, BULLFROG hands down. More recently, and in no particular order Valve EA Bethesda Blizzard (just in terms of pure hours that WoW has taken from me) Rockstar Maxis Nintendo Those guys have consumed a lot of my life

I find it really annoying in movies. Most people have said how its more suited to action films, but I think it works against them specifically. I find the faster the action, or more complicated the visuals, the more it is blurred and distorted by 3D vision. I remember watching Alice in...

Yeah I'm definitely gonna check out some sign shops, find some vinyl cutters. It wasn't something that even remotely crossed my mind, but so many people are suggesting it! I found a few websites, I'll start making some calls and emailing some people.

She likes this sort of stuff, I'm trying to do something nice for her...

Wow. This is absolutely amazing. Bioshock. Steam punk mod. Watercooled. I'm gonna have to change my pants.

Haha, funny you should say that. My name is Chris, but when I was a teenager every time I tried to say Bad Grammar, I would accidentally say Brad Gamma. It caught on :D Yeah a guy on the best case scenario forum suggested this, sounds interesting. Any worklogs showing someone using a vinyl...

Yeah there lies the problem. I really would like to get the bulk of the painting done at the powdercoaters, especially since I'll only be putting the dots on 2 of the 4 sides that will be painted. If push comes to shove, I can just wuss out and have a nice plain green finish (her favourite...

haha, that sticker pack idea thing is pretty clever, I'm gonna have a look around. Man, this is gonna be one hideous computer! :D

Hey guys. I am about to start ordering things for a new modded case for my girlfriend, and I have a few questions about the paint job I want. I am most likely going to order a Lian Li a05n, and do a custom paint job on it. The outside of the case I want to sort of replicate the style in the...

Ah those zalman controllers are seem close to what im looking for. A perfect solution to me would output to a small subtle lcd screen I can place anywhere, rather than a full-blown 5.25 bay fan controller (My final plan for my next build will have no visible 5.25 bays). Getting closer though :)...

Is there any way to monitor your computers power usage internally? Using software and possibly some extra compenent to read your wattage (preferably your wattage from the wall socket, although I don't know how this would work). My aim in my next project is to have a small LCD screen somewhere...

Hey, while there is an active tj07 thread, can I ask how the power button feels. I recently bought a silverstone case and the button felt loose and tacky. Also let me know when you get the logo off succesfully, I'll be doing the exact same thing soon. :) EDIT: whoops just saw Charles_h answer...

Have you tried finding an optimal power/brightness setting on your monitor? I found I could lower my power usage on my samsung 24 inch from 75 watts to 25 watts, lowering as much as i could while still finding it acceptable. My rigs Gaming Rig (in sig) Idle - 120 watts Normal Gaming -...

Thats what I thought. I might end up getting this one and pull out the one inside or get a different case. Might be heading over to the cases forum soon.

Hey there :) I have some questions about an upcoming build. I want to put together a mini-itx rig for my girlfriend since her PC just broke. I am currently looking at this case to house the following components: e5200 2.5ghz cpu DG41MJ mobo passive hd 4550 250gb lap-top hard drive slimline...

I recently bought an antec nsk2480 case that came with a 380W earthwatts power supply. My system when Idle, draws about 38 watts from the wall, and peaks at about 55 watts (from what I use it for, I havn't done any benchmarks maxing it out). I can find sites telling me that it will operate at...

If this means that more artists have their own site then great. I hate how band websites are mostly just a link to myspace. I knew some cool bands who had awesome creative and fun websites, but slowly abandoned them and put a placeholder with a link to myspace instead.

Over the summer I would really like to make a custom case for a HTPC/retro gaming machine that I plan to build. I have a rough idea of how to make all of the parts, but my idea for the front panel I'm not too sure about. I've built basic things out of metal before, such as frames and a gear box...

First time? Well I gotta say, the front panel is the best bit so good job. I might try it out one day, sounds pretty versatile.

Wow, this is one of the most interesting and well done case mods I've seen. Well done man, you could probably make more of these things and sell them. Small form factor + awesome performance + professional kick ass looks = WIN

Didn't like DMC4 that much. Action was good as always, but I found the cutscenes to be obnoxious and annoying. This sums up my opinion beautifully Zero Punctuation - Devil May Cry 4

I think games like Deus Ex/System Shock will just slowly get dumbed down so that the console crowd can embrace them. I'm not a pc fanboy, I have a 360, ps3 and Wii on the other side of the room, but if you look at invisible war and bioshock, you can see what I mean. I loved bioshock to bits, and...

I dunno. If they priced these boards right, they could dramatically change the ITX market and take a decent share of it. Most of the reasonably priced ITX board have either a soldered low end processor, or a VIA cpu (which I'm not a fan of, but im looking forward to their isiah chip). I have a...