Recent content by Sean6180

Yeah after seeing how similar the X1900XTX was to the XT I also decided it wasn't worth it. Do you think I need the cooler if I'm not going to overclock, or is that mainly for the noise. How quiet is it compared to the stock cooler? Thanks

Ah, ok thats just cleared it up for me, thanks. :)

Ah yes I read this earlier this morning. You mentioned that DDL wasn't necessary for music, does that mean that all music has already been encoded. Also what mean encoding into DDL isn't going to make anything sound better than a good analog card, isn't the whole point that you have actual...

Why would it? Like corkyg says either through a serious economic recession or one maker dominates the market with very little competition but generally there is only a matter of time before another company breaks through because the dominating company slows down.

I just had a look at some GPU charts and it doesn't seem worth it to get anything higher than X1900XT. Does it matter what brand (they are the board makers right?) I get (eg sapphire, connect3d, ATI)?

These are the reviews for the PS, they seem to be fairly well done (obviously some better than others) -http://www.techspot.com/review/5-thermaltake_toughpower_750w/page3.html -http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=266&type=expert&pid=5 -http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=940&pageID=2436...

Nice response. I posted pretty much the same in THG forums and got one guy who replied. BTW I'm not overclocking at the moment, maybe later. Scan isn't that bad. £12 delivery. I checked the processor scan was cheaper, checked the MB ebuyer was cheaper. The main difference is the diversity...

This is the PC I intend to build (mainly for gaming and music as I'll be going to uni ;P); Btw I am British so unfortunately I don't have newegg, however there is scan.co.uk which I shall probably use for most of my components. Intel core 2 duo E6400/E6600 Asus P5W DH Deluxe Corsair 2GB...