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Thanks for that mate. I'll have a read! :D

Cool. Ta. :D

Thanks peeps. I'm thinking of building a new games machine. Buy a different bit every month etc. Should be a laff! I take it these are ok? http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/1134621/Connect3D_Radeon_X1900_CrossFire_Edition_Graphics_Adapter/Product.html I have a 9800xt atm...

Are Intel's Core 2 Duo' better than P4 Dual core?

I have been out of the computer building scene for a long long long time now. Do all the new motherboards take Dual core cpu's? Also, am I right in thinking that if you get a dual core, that is sated as 2.8ghz, you are really getting 5.6 ghz equivalent as there are 2 cpu's doing the work? Or...

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System Requirements - Windows PCs # Windows XP or 2000 # 500 MHz Pentium class processor or better # 128 MB RAM minimum/256 RAM recommended # Latest Windows service packs recommended Upgrade time!

I normally take a big screwdriver to the IDE connector at the back, snap off a couple of the chips on the bottom, then use the same big screw driver and a big hammer and smack it a couple of times. Wear some goggles though, coz the little bits that fly off can do some damage!

JamesRT - as a rule, if you are doing anything inside the pc, turn it off first. ;)

Raid 5 is striping with parity. Every time a block is written, a parity block gets written. Therefore if one disk goes down, you can slap another one in and re-create the data from the parity blocks.

You want to format it or destroy it all together?

Re: Think i've f**ked up my PC Well it won't do it any good either mate. Try it with the hard disk and see what happens! ;) (That was a joke btw!) :D

You have probably blown something. I would backup any critical data asap, just incase.

Re: Think i've f**ked up my PC He works in IT and told you it was ok to disconnect the cd rom drive from a pc when it was switched on?!?!?!? I think he should be reconsidering his career! :D

You did this when the pc was on!?!?!?!?

Way, way, way too much time on their hands..... http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2006/10/18/Battlefield_2142_Butterkneter/6.html

DO NOT USE RAID 0! No fault tolerance. If one disk goes down, you are fooked. Keep the disks separate or buy a SATA raid controller and 3/4/5 disks and configure RAID 5

Cheers :)

Just bought it. I'll let you know my thoughts when I have played it for a while.

Our content filtering device allows you to monitor internet usage via an ip or machine name. It would have to be setup on you internet gateway / router as that what all the internet traffic goes through, rather than the server. There is software out there that allow you to do it, but it must...

Sold! Might get one today.

Are gaming mice any good? What benefits do you get over a normal mouse?

Oh well. Personally I'm not that bothered about the in game ads. I don't think it will influence me to buy any of the products one little bit. I'm really thirsty........ can of Pepsi anyone? ;)

I heard that the adverts are only on if your in America, not anywhere else. Might be bullsh1t though.

Anyone buying it apart from me? :D

Had it for about a week now. Really enjoying it. Its fooking hard on medium difficulty though! Great game.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68766

Looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! I loved the first one, infact, I loved all of the lucasarts point and click games. Quality!

Cheers! I'll give them a try.

I'm wanting 1Gb of ram and a 200gb sata hard disk. Any suggestions on where is best / cheapest?