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I like the HP Compaq's for something no-fuss and reliable, my HP Compaq nx6325 is 2 years and still going strong :) HP support has been surprisingly helpful more than once too. That, and the battery life (when new - old battery needs replacing :P) was pretty damn good for a 15" laptop with a...

ATi, ATi, ATi... :disgust: We thought you would learn from NVIDIA's mistakes... Big :thumbsdown: because you're making work harder for the regular family nerd! I would complain more, but the fact is that they will sell... And it only makes the playing field level between NVIDIA and ATi...

G'Day Brawleyman, No offence intended, but man, you're nearly as fussy as me! :P Thank goodness you're not looking for low profile... Compare 2600 to 7600? Okay... I 'upgraded' from an X1600 Pro to the HD 2600XT - The 7600 GS outdoes the X1600 Pro every time by a small amount - and must...

G'Day all, A friend of mine recently asked for help with their PC, and when I finally got to have a look at it, I found that, well, it was in a really bad way, hardware and software, but hardware is another story. In order to do anything at all I needed to start Explorer manually at startup...

This debate is always good... P4 vs Athlon... :D In past, I shared a P4 Northwood @ 3.0GHz w/Hyperthreading with family, and currently own an Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0GHz of my own. Not a direct comparison, but pretty close, as the P4 is still lurking in the family for me to reconfirm my...

Thanks for that again Zap, and true, I haven't had a problem yet (through sheer luck)... Although I can throw away plans of an upgrade without a new PSU :D. ...When you think about it, it's pretty sad that Apevia (or any reputable company) would tarnish such a good product by so heavily...

I was serious before Quicksilver, but... Well... Holy cow! 0_o Thank you Zap and Quiksilver for the corrections, it seems I've been recommending a POC PSU on this page... :o How embarrassing... Anyone know some good short-length DVD drives? lol I still say the X-QPack case is great, but now...

I don't mean to be a pain, Zap, but... Proof please? I know that Antec gets theirs from Seasonic (i.e. GREAT power supplies) as an example, but I thought Apevia made decent, if not good, power supplies... If the PSU's are indeed made by someone like Ritmo, then avoid, but otherwise... That...

Certainly, but you may want to make sure it's not too long, or the cables don't come out of the back - it can get mighty tight between a non-stock PSU and the optical drives. That said, considering that you can't find many SLi/Crossfire boards in mATX, under general circumstances I doubt...

G'Day again MotionMan, My recommendations are similar - Antec is very good when you need to combine a good case AND PSU. But another two brands come to mind for me... Apevia make good cases (if you don't mind blue lights :P) and CoolerMaster's are strong and fairly cheap. Watch CoolerMaster...

Personal computer longevity... I love the conundrum of it, and agree that I have a few stories about old PC's out-living expectations. I had our family's first laptop hiding in a corner and that had a Pentium (133MHz?), 16MB of RAM, Windows 98 and 1GB HDD. No battery life, but it saved my...

G'Day WCAJoker, As far as I know... If VPU Recover is coming in to play, your graphics card is basically throwing up a white flag. It could be overheating, or badly overclocked... Have you checked to see if the card's fan is still running when you start the games, or if there's enough air...

G'Day Motion Man, Before I make a recommendation, a couple of questions... 1) What is your budget? 2) Are you concerned by size? (e.g. space requirements an issue?) 3) What form/shape are you looking at? (HTPC, Tower, etc) 4) Do you want a power supply with it, or bought seperately...

Checked the cubby hole last night (I like that name...) and it'll fit the case mentioned, just. Thankfully the desk is open at the back in that space, so hot air can be pumped out. That's a good sign! Unfortunately, the LC13B is still a little tall for my liking (17cm vs 14cm...) But I knew...

Thank you WoodButcher, that was quick! Well, no doubt that I'd not be wanting for space in that case... And the best thing is I can get that one in Australia (saw the name Silverstone and nearly fainted, they're usually expensive, but this one seems to be around $AU150, so not bad). But WOW...