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    Have I forgotten anything?

    Not entirely sure what it's worth.....The card is discontinued in most places but still selling in one other place for £195... Ebay has them for around £90 ish......I think £80 would be a fair price.....I may make a cheeky offer of £50 and see what he says as I have that in my wallet right...
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    Have I forgotten anything?

    My flat mate has just told me that he wants to sell his OC'd 560 TI so that he can get something better...it's only a 1GB card but that may keep me going for a while....will certainly be miles better than the HD4000 IGP chipset. not sure about the value though....may go in at £80 and let him...
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    Have I forgotten anything?

    It's not so much the budget as it is hiding the transactions from my wife :)....I know I should "man the F' up"..
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    Have I forgotten anything?

    I'm personally leaning towards cutting the graphics back a bit to get a SSD.....I have a 60GB original Vertex in my HTPC (got a few TB's on a NAS so don't need any more) and the speed difference when I installed that was amazing....I can always add a newer graphics card down the line a...
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    Have I forgotten anything?

    Thanks for the help Termie.. I have been an XBOX gamer for the last 5 years or so without keeping up with PC's at all due to family commitments (had a couple of babies which stole the computer room as a nursery!! little bu***rs).. Was recently exposed to a reasonable PC running Battlefield 3...
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    Have I forgotten anything?

    lol not posted on here since 2007...just seen my signature...that system has long since been replaced by a Core i5 with IGP in my HTPC.
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    Have I forgotten anything?

    For around £530 GBP I am looking at building this: Processor: Core I5 3570K RAM: Corsair Vengeange 1600 CAS 9 8GB Power: Corsair CX 430M MOBO: MSI Z77 Case: Coolermaster Elite 344 Graphics: Possibly Radeon 7870 2GB Main use...
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    Laptop as HTPC

    Hello all....not been on this site for a long time... I am currently using my PC to watch movies etc on my HDTV in my sitting room. Specs are in my signature. My wife is getting fed up of the sight of the huge PC behind the TV and the fans on the PSU and graphics card are a bit noisy.... I...
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    My win xp cd is no longer bootable. What should I do?

    If I were you I would hit bittorrent and get yourself a backup. If you have a legal CD key then there should be no legal implications with this.
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    So I gotta buy, not build, a desktop for my father....

    lol phantom....... Has anyone actually thought of asking what his uses are going to be....video editing, gaming, email, internet etc.... Different uses = different requirements!
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    BSOD after OS installed

    do you have norton installed? Does the computer boot OK in safe mode....does your BSOD still appear in safe mode... go into safe mode and use msconfig to remove everything that starts at start-up and try again.. If it works fine then enable the programs again 1 by 1 until it dies again...
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    Some bitch just threw her kids in the bay to die.

    How can people say that because she is psycotic(may or may not be in this case) that she should virtually be let off with murder.....so what she doesn't know any better....psycotic or not she did the crime let her die slowly and painfully... Being psycotic is probably more of a danger to the...
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    Xeon dual core run hot and eat power

    Does the 400Watts consumption not put you off??
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    Xeon dual core run hot and eat power

    Don't know if this has been posted already but here is a link to Slashdot 400Watts during idle for the Dual core Xeon that gets its ass kicked by opterons
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    URGENT!! NEED help!!! PAYING!!!!!!!!!

    lol you are screwed!! no Hong Kong trip 4 U.....no Belize embassy in Canada that can issue temporary travel documents???
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    How old are you? How much do you make?

    WRONG.......He is a rent boy!! There are downsides.....he can't walk down the street without sh!tting himself!!
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    WTF

    10Mb is a new thing.....was a free upgrade a few days ago......went from 2Mb/256kbps to 10Mb/386kbps......I love blueyonder when they do things like this.... I live in Edinburgh, Capital of Scotland so I guess it is a major city... We have a bit of a war going on at the moment between ADSL...
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    WTF

    Blueyonder is Cable(fibre optics) in the UK......they supply my digital TV, phone and Internet for around £65 per month..... 10Mb/386kb line is about £35 ($60 at $1.7 to £1) Andrew...in what way is it slow....after you get past about 512Kb broadband then the differences to web browsing...
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    make windows read/write ext2 partition

    I have tried that program already.....spent a day searching the net and it seemed like it may work.....but it doesn't seem to do what I want...but then again I only played with it for about an hour...I have a day off today so will try again... Thanks
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    make windows read/write ext2 partition

    Have breezy badger(ubuntu 5.10) installed on 1 partition and win xp pro on another partition. Have managed to get Linux to read (but not write) NTFS partition of Win XP but now I want to get my Win XP to Read (and hopefully write) the Linux EXT2 partition... Anybody have any bright ideas?
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    How old are you? How much do you make?

    26 in the UK...£13 ph around £22k....contract finishes a week today.....gonna have to live off the wife for a while!! Chemistry Degree +4 years experience and can't get permanent work!! Need a job to go back to Uni to get masters degree !
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    WTF

    I'm in the UK on an ISP called Blueyonder!!
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    WTF

    Andrewbabcock......please stop double posting...I have just replied to your original thread on this matter! I have 10Mb down and 386kbps up...why is mine so slow?? Because that is what my ISP gives me dumb-ass!!
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    Why is my connection so slow?

    isn't that what your ISP says you have or is it underperforming? What connection speeds should you be getting...? Or are you asking how to uncap your modem? <---probably won't get much help on this one....slightly illegal...where I am anyway!
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    tracking down anon user

    Will that person still have the same IP now as when Email was sent?? DHCP usually has a lease system and expires after a certain time...be sure that you are not attacking the wrong person!
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    How long can you resist without lusting?

    What he has forgotten to mention is that he now touch types because he went blind through excessive w*nking!!
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    How long can you resist without lusting?

    Damn some of you guys really are a few sandwiches short of a picnic!......where is the proof!!!!!!!!!!! God sent his son Jesus as a sacrifice to save us......What a bad father......Does that mean everyone should sacrifice their babies for the greater good?? Surely he could have made a...
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    Wireless bridge?

    just get a router that can spoof/copy your MAC address and you will be able to connect all your stuff through the router fine...
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    wireless networking cuts off with bittorrent

    not likely to be a specific port overloading more likely that the router can't handle it...
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    wireless networking cuts off with bittorrent

    I would hazard a guess that bit-torrent is accepting too many connections and your router gets overloaded...thus causing it to reset! I had that problem a while back with my old belkin router.....see if yu can limit the connections..
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    Anatomy of a well-intentioned Linux Troll

    I have now shifted 90% of my computing activities to linux in a bid to learn i.e drop myself in the deep end......Breezy badger 5.1 is quite capable and reasonably easy to learn........I only go back to (my somewhat questionable version of) windows xp when I need a BF2 hit. I could have...
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    How long can you resist without lusting?

    So...If you bang the bishop/slap the salami etc once..then you go to hell.....what about 5 times a day....Do you get a special prize? How about if the GF/wife helps..... If it is sinful to think about women....go find a sheep...or does the bible mention that... Dip it in honey and let...
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    help!! errors popping up and computer rebooting!!!

    Originally posted by: muzj ""it came out with the message: please reset your CPU frequency"" this may give you a clue!!!! Try resetting your CMOS to defaults!
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    is my teachers statement correct?

    so does this mean my colour laser would need a hell of a lot more memory than a comparable B/W?.....Me got 40Mb.....never had any probs and as someone said earlier the toners last ages! bubblejets just can't compete with the quality......laser printers are getting cheaper all the time too!
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    TAX online ? any online stores that dont charge tax ?

    I feel your pain George.....Based in Edinburgh myself....tax is sh!t...but the petrol takes the biscuit.....nearly 70p in every pound goes to the government!! To be fair there are some lower tax rates too such as on educational books and some other things that are zero rated (no tax)
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    for those who drive manual trans vehicles

    Just a quick question about point number 1......why do you need your foot on the brake to start the car?? You should already have the hand-brake(e-brake) on! Point 2...the way I was taught to drive was to use the gears to slow down(with some brakes).....may be right may be wrong....just...
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    Ok, Valkyries pics

    maybe when I get older and the wife starts denying sex I may get desparate....But My tastes won't change.....will still fancy 18year olds even at 60!!! The only thing that will change is what/who is willing to sleep with you at that age....rough 40yr olds may turn into an attractive prospect...
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    My upgraded rig is up and running, but something is not right...

    were you running tighter timings on your old system? you didn't mention them..... The RAM increase alone is probably responsible for BF2 and photoshop speed increases... It may just be down to a different brand of SATA/raid controller!
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    Am i being too protective if i dont let my girl...

    damn ....I love it when my wife wears sexy clothes....(not slutty...keep that for the bedroom :) ) if Other guys look at her I don't mind...I just realise that I have something that other people want.....As someone else said earlier...she comes home with me so I'm happy