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AFPMSL! http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-review-bfg/15 A modern day, £500 graphics card not able to run Crysis at max settings, in a rig that's not a million miles away from mine. That's possibly the single reason I'll hold off until the next generation of cards - if Crysis is...

HTC Touch Diamond 2.

SAS drives aren't too noisy TBH - it's not exactly quiet anyway as there's 4 Noctua fans cooling the radiator + chipset, plus it's got the Crossflow fan to cool the RAM. It's a bit of an ugly fucker though: But it was an epic machine back in the day...

Upgrade every 2 years really, although I'm going to push to 3 this time as I've also got a house to save for... Haha! Current setup: ASUS Maximus Formula 8GB DDR2-800 Intel Core2Quad eVGA SSC 8800GTX, Watercooled and clocked to Ultra Black Pearl speeds. 4x 2.5" 15k 146GB SAS disks 4x WD...

Haha - well, it probably won't make it to the final list as word from a friend at Logitech is that they may have something lined up to replace it, but they aren't sure. Ahem. Loving the Lian Li case, looks fantastic - much better than my CM Stacker in terms of build quality.

Mushbetter.

Supercharger is already fitted to the car I'm buying, although it'll be getting upgraded. Cheers for that thought though! And yes, today's OS's can use 8GB RAM. Mine currently uses 8GB :)

Onto another reinstall of Vista, as my registry was all over the place it seems - no drivers were installing, Code 28 (subtitles, your registry is fucked).

As I said at the start, I was hoping to hold out for 6-core... Cheers for link though!

Looks like it may have been firmware/driver - downgraded everything to 9.5.1 and it's booted up first time twice now. Will have to speak to 3Ware on that one! With a bit of luck, I'll be able to hold out to the DX11 generation of GPUs.

I think I can have restarted my current rig the 3 times it needs to to boot up before that one will be booted up... I may roll back the firmware on my SAS controller, and maybe even swap back to my old 74GB Raptors first though. I really wanted to make it through to at least Christmas before...

Absolutely flol at this car... Hats off to you mate, it's an epic thread showing why blokes bought cars back in the day - reminding us all how dull car ownership seems to be nowadays!

Thinking I quite like the EVGA Classified board... But then I'll be watercooling it... And that's the plans back out of the mailbox for the £1000 case... Must... restrain...

SSDs did click on the radar, but they still have a finite life which is degraded by the use of a RAID controller. The RAID will use onboard (hence the 4x300GB) as my HDD controllers are 'only' 8 port. Whilst it's tempting to get the 12-port, I don't think it's worth doing as it's another £800...

F'ucked if they're having any of my normal running mammaries, that's for me and my interwebs/Photoshops.

Plenty of power connectors - the 4x2.5" caddy I have uses 4-pin Molex and I'll just use a 4-pin Molex to SATA converter for the ODDs. GPU wise it's got 6 6+2 GPU connectors... HDD controller, I have one of each of the following...

Yeah, as £1500 is HDDs! The F/C is for the Lian Li fans (which will be replaced, bad habit of mine!) and also for power consumption and temperature monitoring - got an MFC-2 currently in my rig and wouldn't be without it! 12GB RAM because I do run VMware Workstation on it as I also use this...

6TB in RAID6 for data storage, and OS HDDs will be 600GB (RAID 1+0).

Nah, not watercooling - no need to as it'll run stock settings and I wanted the two 295s as the sequel to Warhead will need it. Hell, Warhead needs it with the settings up full...

Got a Dell 2707WFP, and I do enjoy my games - Crysis/Warhead + sequel, BF2142 although that runs on my laptop... FSX/Acceleration and Race '07 although rarely as I don't have any form of wheel currently.

Not going watercooled on this rig, as I'll be sticking to stock clocks. TBH I've found very little to be had other than benchmark improvements on my current rig, even going to a 50% overclock - although it did make my dick feel bigger, all I need it to do is sit there in the corner and play...

Mine's started misbehaving, and I've been toying with the idea for a while just didn't want to unless I really had to... Well, it's now taking 5-6 boots to get into the 6th fresh rebuild of Vista, and I'm running stock settings. I may try getting rid of the SAS drives, but TBH I don't see it...

Try booting the Vista setup CD. If it works, then it's all good, if it doesn't then it's broked. However also check that someone hasn't played a trick on you like I did one of the guys at work - stuck a label over the 'eye' :D

If/when Apple release an iPhone which caters for my needs, then yes, I'll consider it. Unfortunately, the current one doesn't which is why I resent having it thrust down my throat at every opportunity by a group of people of whom the majority have bought one to 'fit in'. As it stands, it's...

I use paving slabs as a ramp up the kerb to get my bike in the back garden. 100+bhp and no traction climbing a kerb when the bike barely fits through the gap is a recipe for a broken hand, bike and fence!

I fairly often send MMS videos to my mum. Who doesn't have a 'mobile email' device, so that strikes out iPhone. What about video calling, which is helpful to switch to when you're doing on call work and trying to explain something to someone, and using my SE or my work's Nokia, I can just...

I quite like it, and can't stand the SE bashers. Did it ever occur to them that the iPhone never appears to break is because the threads where it breaks are the same in number as any other phone - it's just it's only iPhone people who start thread after thread of 'OMFG look how ace my iPhone is...

Ah, finally on my 4x 2.5" 146GB 10k SAS disks. Much better!

Technically, it doesn't waste less space - what it does is the equivalent of HP's 'De-duplication' - otherwise known as on-the-fly compression. Whilst great, it's a marketing spin on something that if people found out about 'directly', they'd probably avoid using the product. After all...

Can install all the stuff to do that on a computer - and get better technology... Again, depends what you want!