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The 5970 is two 5870's on one board. I'm not sure why they dropped the x2 ending. Is there a 5890 on sale? Either I was just being a mong, or I'm still traumatised from my trip to the Chinese computer market yesterday... I meant the 5970. Oh, and pictures will have to wait - the quick snap I took w...

Case, SATA backplanes and PSU are bought. Piccies later. Most of the rest of the parts will have to wait until the end of the month when I get a trip to Hong Kong, though :( Mobo-wise I'm thinking Asus P6X58D Premium , HDD-wise I'm thinking 160GB Intel X25M G2 ... anyone have any other ideas? Oh, an...

MORDETH LESTOK wrote:Triple head?

Pffffft.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Jesus fuck, you're not dead.

Not dead, just married.

Hello again, bummers. I'm back. So, I've finally decided to pull the trigger on a new PC for home/office/entertainment. I will therefore be scouring the local PC emporia for a Lian-Li PC-A77B ... the rest of the parts I'm not so sure about, other than a proper Core i7, lots of RAM, a brace of Radeon...

FLAPS!

Well, eionm actually.

Conflatulations!

Baliame wrote:I present you
Codename: SZAR GÉP 2.0

I really hope that's Hungarian for "cat AIDS 2.0".

Dr. kitteny berk wrote: No, you're a forum whore and you will continue to be until you get a decent connection and play proper computer games.

Pffft. I voted for myself as a forum whore anyway.

Can we have a "WERD" option, please?

HereComesPete wrote:Pffft, whatever.

When I went to see Brokeback after it had been out for a good month and a half, several people walked out as soon as they got jiggy the first time... this was a very publicised thing about this film ffs! What did they expect?! In fairness, it might have been the sight of you masturbating like a saf...

ok i have everything now. anything i should be wary about putting it together? Among other things, static. should i put more thermal compound on the processor/heatsink? it has some on already but it isn't a huge amount, its kind of three strips NO. Less is more when it comes to thermal compound. If...

Lateralus wrote:
O RLY?

YA RLY

fabyak wrote:Nothing is where you expect it to be, it's naaaaaaaasty

Pffft, having used it since it was in beta I now much prefer it. It's hard when I have to go back to Office 2003.

HereComesPete wrote:Rapid temperature change can affect a hdd in the respect that high heat may warp a platter or melt the solder, but we're talking fire for that to happen.

Not this, as a significant number of the people who bought an old IBM DeskathStar 75GXP can attest to.

HereComesPete wrote:Rapid temperature change can affect a hdd in the respect that high heat may warp a platter or melt the solder, but we're talking fire for that to happen.

Not this, as a significant number of the people who bought an old IBM DeskathStar 75GXP can attest to.

Might as well just spend the extra money (which would probably translate to about £500 knowing the way things are priced in the UK) on a better laptop. Unless you can't get the functionality you need in any laptop, which could well be the case for several of the applications they've listed. Also, m...

bomberesque wrote:I got frustrated and bought a long cat cable

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