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    advice requested: dvd divx player

    that looks quite good :) and silver too - will match i'd noticed amazon list philips dvp 630 & 720, and also toshiba SD340. i don't mind spending the extra few quid to get a player that will do what i want it to (up to the £120-£140 tag). any ideas what the extra money gets?
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    advice requested: dvd divx player

    hi, have aked this about 6 months back but I'm sure it's all changed now... does anyone have some recommendations? I've sent this email off to a couple of manufacturers.... *divx 3/4/5 playback & xvid *mp3 playback CBR/VBR, for files 5MB-200MB *audio CD *DVD and DVD-R...
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    advice: standalone divx/mp3 cd player

    hi, have aked this about 6 months back but I'm sure it's all changed now... does anyone have some recommendations? I've sent this email off to a couple of manufacturers.... *divx 3/4/5 playback & xvid *mp3 playback CBR/VBR, for files 5MB-200MB *audio CD *DVD and DVD-R video...
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    Google & schrodingers cat....

    thanks. theory confirmed. that was easy ;) next subject :)
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    Google & schrodingers cat....

    :cool: (whatever that smiley looks like) i was chatting with a guy at work who deals with putting our companies page up on the net, which made me think about it. thought about it on friday, and just now. same thought on two seperate days :s or, whether I'm right or wrong, no one cares :D
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    Google & schrodingers cat....

    a very wierd thought i just had. was considering that google is basically as close as you'd get to being a "contents page" for the entire internet. Except that i presume it doesn't actually "exist" as a contents page, but it comes up with it's results after you enter in your search phrase...
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    UK Telephone wiring

    superb cheers...that matches what i found from a googled website for wiring, just wanted a double check.
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    UK Telephone wiring

    in my new house,the extension cable has this white wire, blue stripes (number 5?) white wire, orange stripes (number 4?) orange wire (white stripes (number 3?) blue wire, white stripes (number 2?) the phone connector that i need to wire up to the end of this cable has this: red (may be...
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    NFS underground

    i use keyboard only, fine. PROBLEM i have just run the 4MB patch, and now the game hangs with a mouse pointer over a blank screen. i've just emailed EA and told them about it - has anyone else experienced this? when i ran the patch i got "missing or invalid registry entry" d'oh.
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    Multi Purpose Cd player

    (please move if in wrong forum) http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=04061219431217&moduleno=-674 they look nice but a friend just told me he has heard of compatibility/playback issues with some. can anyone tell me if this product, or ones like it, are any good? will be...
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    how hot does your

    i've just plugged in my front case fan :) makes it a tiny bit louder y'see :| would a passive zalman vga heatsink affect temps much? (geforce 3 ultra)
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    how hot does your

    i'll check the volts. gigabyte GA-7VTXE+ board cheers
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    XP2100+ overheating?

    i have an 80mm rear fan. both sides of the case are off at the moment (my comp has about £150 worth of silent pc kit installed :D no reason to add panels tbh). ambient temp is about 25, system temp (according to gigabyte SIV) is 45C (hmm) cpu is 62C at the moment.
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    how hot does your

    i've only been running this for an hour ;) the first thing i did after bootup was to convert an mp3 to a lower bitrate - i was freezing INSTANTLY consistently when doing this before...so it's positive news so far. Nexus cooler from quietpc.co.uk by the way, standard white heatsink gunk. could...
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    how hot does your

    i think mine will be about 65C which is warm (whil;e playing mp3s). believe threshold is ~ 85C. just wondering, thanks. :)