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Which platform, m8? D.

Awesome result from a worrying thread title. So glad that everything worked out ok! :) D.

The sharks are already circling.... ;) D.

Might be of some use, m8.... http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/triple-channel-ddr3-i7,2128.html I've got triple channel stuff with my current i7. But I had a first-gen quad-core Phenom before running DDR2, so I can't really compare! :) D.

This thread was always going to end up derailed or going so far left-field that its sat somewhere on the mid-Atlantic Ridge. Closed. :) D.

Why does that seems so ridiculously over-priced wherever I've seen it? I fired up the original StarCraft last year as I missed out on it the first time around. I still don't really get the appeal - both with that and the older WarCraft games. I know they sold in their thousands, but compared to...

RAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!! I am MAN!!!! PMSL! - good find! D.

Looks like it says BMW on the side of the can, m8? D.

Got it copying across in 20mins, m8. :) Whacked the old mobo in a PC carcass and it still had the CPU, HSF and memory bolted onto it. I just attached it to the chassis, found an old drive with WinXP preinstalled on it and added the chipset & RAID drivers when it booted. Shut it down and added...

I'd definitely leave the Clio badge on the rear. It will look a little too bare without it, imo. Doesn't the boot Clio badge have a peg on it too for the mounting, iirc? Does look very smart, however. :) D.

Waited months and months to get hold of Hankooks but the delivery just kept getting pushed back. The two tyres on the front were definite 3-pointers a piece, so I took the plunge and got Dunlop SP Sport Maxx's fitted. Tbh, they are probably the best 'all-rounder' I've had, though I think the...

Will do. I've just come off an hour of L4D2 and going straight to the Asus Probe again, it's showing 32C and it's pretty warm in this room now - lol. I've made the first step in OC'ing it - up to 3.2Ghz and its been fine. The stock HSF was absolutely shite - either that or the miserly blob of...

Ah well, it's close enough I guess! ;) I have to say that the build quality of the Noctua product, together with the accessories provided and the fitting instructions are nothing short of exceptional. So long as it keeps it cool during OC'ing - I think these guys will be my standard HSF of...

Went picking up a Noctua HSF in the end. Their TIM seems to get some very high ratings, so I'm assuming their HSFs are just as good too. ;) http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Noctua-NH-U9B-SE2-Dual-Fan-Quiet-CPU-Cooler-Intel-and-AMD-S1366-1156-775-AM2-AM2plus-AM3-HTPC-Ready I'll be fitting it...

:eek: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/4GB-Sapphire-HD-5970-Toxic-PCI-E-20-%28x16%29-4800MHz-GDDR5-GPU-900MHz-3200-Cores-2x-DLDVI-miniDP D.

Yup. :) D.

Anyone? :) D.

I've been looking at that one too m8. Looks like they have them in at SCAN, so I might bob over and get one tomorrow. D.

Just the rear is a little low for me - the front seems ok though. Loks very tidy for an 8-year-old...... (jesus - there's a Pedobear comment if ever there was one! ;)) D.

Might have another look at the Zalmans - I last used them as a replacement HSF for my 4870 some while back. I've had Akasa ones before and they've been good too. I definitely need a replacement - the genuine Inte LGA1366 one on coolingshop.co.uk is only £6.99 - cheap s**t!!! Just deciding...

Aye, that be Jainy! :) D.

"witch is know a 230 bhp up rated brakes" Hmmm. Is that with or without a broomstick? D.

Just checking if this is the norm, guys. Having been firmly in the AMD camp for nearly a decade and a half, are the retail boxed Intel heat-sink and fans usually poor in terms of performance? I've been tinkering with the i7 which has a stock clock of 2.8Ghz. I only just got it to 3.2Ghz when I...

My first switch back to Intel this week in over 14 years! :) D.

Some mental OC's on the CPUs in this thread. I think I might have to start dabbling with the i7 from stock now. :) D.

Cheers for the suggestion rogue. I think I'll put the old mobo into a spare PC carcass and use a crappy little IDE HDD to put an OS onto. From there, I'll attach the RAID1 volume and plug in an external drive to copy the data to - like I should have bloody done in the first place! :) D.

Yikes. I actually understood all that! It did take three reads, mind! ;) Good stuff! Makes sense now how game patches can sometimes promote frame-rate increases and optimisations with relatively little code... D.

That's exactly the same issue here, m8. I'm hoping that some Linux Guru will come on here and recommend a bootable CD that reads all sorts of RAID arrays! ;) D.

Chaps, Just head-scratching a little here. I recently replaced my mobo and a few other bits, together with a reformat of Windows 7. I had the OS on a RAID0 volume and Steam backups, patches, downloads etc on a seperate RAID1 volume. Both RAID volumes were controlled by an nVidia nvRAID...

Sounds like the dealer has been OVERLY helpful there to me - really gone out of their way. I would have taken it back for the bonnet cable alone, but probably not have the cheek to mention the tyres, if I hadn't done so before buying it. :) As for the Janspeed - keep it. I have one on mine...