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Excellent - cheers for that guys. It does sound that having an academic license will not end up with features disabled (and that's important!)

I do qualify for an academic license. I'm just after confirmation of any difference in the software. For instance, a local online retailer states that "academic versions are usually not upgradeable and are intended for educational use" and I'm not 100% sure what that means when applied to Vista.

Hiya. Does anyone know if there is any difference between the Home Premium Upgrade and Home Premium Academic Upgrade versions (apart from the price)? My preference would be to not pay the NZ$120 difference if possible. Cheers

Hi all. I've got an Audigy 2 ZS hooked up digitally to the Inspire 5600 5.1 system and I want another connection from my PC to my Sony 5.1 home theatre in another room so I can play my WMAs in there. Unfortunately, the few digital media receivers available in New Zealand are expensive and...

The one I'm looking at is the Coolermaster Real Power. However, if that is a crap one, only ThermalTake and Enermax really fall within my budget. I take it 450W would soon need to be upgraded.

Heya. I'm putting together a build and want to know if the 450W PSU I'm looking at will have enough gas or would I need to get a wattier one. The setup I'm looking at is: AMD64 3200+ Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe (supposedly available here in NZ next week!) 1GB RAM (prolly Corsair TwinX or GeIL...

Thanks for that guys. I originally intended to just get the DDR2 sticks as prices are fairly comparable here between DDR and DDR2 but I somehow got the notion that splitting the memory up more might be more efficient (using the same theory as dual-channel and dual-SLI). If that's true about...

Hey all. I've got a rookie question that I hope someone can help me with. I'm building my first PC and can't work out what configuration of dual memory sticks I need to make up the 1GHz I want. The mobo I'm getting has 2 slots of DDR2 533 dual memory and 2 slots of DDR 400 dual memory...