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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...

Great pics Lee. Not much in the way of boobies though - were you being civilised and on your best behaviour? ;) I see you got a cracking picture of the Poison Dwarf in there as well. Jesus. He's got a face like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle. D.

Sounds like a bit of a pig for the programmer, I would imagine? Adding more polygon count to an object is one thing, but I guess you have to keep true to the original 'shape'? Can graphics cards take that big increase in polygons easily in their stride these days? Or is that purely down to the...

Parked deep into the Door Ding Zone. Non-standard alloys too. Don't they give you a public flogging for doing that to a Cup? ;) D.

Definitely looks better with tesselation! Strangely I can select it on the first main menu, but it doesn't actually get added in the benchmark? :S D.

Just ran it on mine - two 4890's in Crossfire on standard clocks... No idea what Tessellation is, but it was greyed-out on mine. D.

Ah - you were clearly posh. I had to make do with a SoundBlaster 16ASP! ;) D.

Lol - I had one of those too. I'm sure it was a full-length card that as well. Had acres of green circuit board for apparently not much circuitry! It was a massive card - I'm pretty sure Clio V6's could do a 3-point turn on there with room to spare! ;) D.

Was this an '04 plate, m8? After-market exhaust on it too? See it loads - I think the owner must work at The Village in Bury as it's quite often parked up there when I go swimming. D.

I just never get rid of CDs/DVDs - too much shelf space, I guess! The card itself went years ago, so feck knows why I still have them! D.

Lol - look what I found. Bring back any memories, Sharky?! ;) D.