Recent content by SuprSi

Definitely check out the Thrustmaster pad... http://europe.thrustmaster.com/products/d_prd.php?p=T39&fam=5 I use and love it, and I've used a good few controllers in my time as well. There's also a force feedback version though I'm not sure what that's like. Si.

I'm considering buying an external USB hard disk, purely for backup purposes, and I'm curious about what sort of reliability I can expect from such a device. I realise that it's basically a hard disk, so it's open to the same sort of problems as your standard hard disk, but I'd only have it...

Definitely stealth them! There's nothing worse on a sleek looking aluminium case than a couple of horrible beige Cd or DVD drives sticking their ugly heads out

Generally speaking when you're trying to trigger a device through Cubase you have to select what midi channel you are going to be transmitting on. It's kind of difficult to explain, but when you click on an individual channel in Cubase, on the left of you screen is the channel details column...

Hello, Over the weekend I installed the heater core from a Ford and two 120mm Papst fans into the inside of my Lian-Li PC-68 case. All is working nicely, but now I need to get a fan grill for the top of the case. I've looked at some laser cut grills, and they're nice, but I remember seeing a...

Hello, I'm thinking up upgrading my motherboard and I use quite a lot of USB devices, most of them over a year old. The board I'm looking at has 6 USB 2.0 ports - will my older USB devices still work/fit in these ports? Cheers, Si.

Hello, I've got an Abit KR7A 133-R board and want to upgrade my processor. I'm looking at the AMD 2400 (cos it's cheap!) but it doesn't look like it'll work with this motherboard. I remember reading somewhere that some modifications can be made to the motherboard for the two parts to be...

You can't beat playing games on a 21" monitor! The only problem is lugging the thing around if you go to LAN parties - they're not light!! Si.

To be honest, I don't think you could do it without a huge amount of hassle. Any programs or registry entries will point to the OS running on whatever drive it was initially installed on. Changing this drive letter would probably corrupt Windows. It wouldn't be so bad with a clean install...

I've got a 30Gb drive, with all my OS stuff, programs, games, etc, that I would like to transfer to a new drive I just bought. I know I could use Ghost to create an image, then place this image back onto the new drive, but is there another way around it? I don't have a floppy disk installed on...

I've used the Zalman Cu6000 cooler for about 6 months now and it's quite good. I can't give you an idea of the temperatures I'd be running because of the unnatural humidity here at the moment but suffice to say that when the fan is turned down fully you can't really hear it at all. I don't...

Nice one, my drive is listed and I can update it when I get home. Thanks a million, Si.

I've got a Creative DVD player which won't run any movies outside region 1. No matter what software I use, I'm unable to change the regional settings. Usually you're allowed 5 changes before the region is set, but I don't even get this. Is there some sort of procedure to allow me to change...

Heh, mine is the noisest thing in my computer! Still quieter than the IBM 75GXP's that I had though.

I'm not sure if this type of thing exists, but is it not possible to have a fan with a cooler filament attached to it that sucks air from the outside and passes it over the filaments which then gets cool?? Like a mini air conditioning unit. This would be really cool for your CPU or case fans...