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Lee - that looks like an old FTL Dungeon Master clone? The ones on the PC were a side-view top-down view, pretty much on a hexadecimal turn-based strategy game. HOMM2 was ok, but HOMM3 was much better. Then they tried to go all 3D on HOMM4 and it was turd. :) D.

Lol - not far off. Just thought I'd stick Heroes of Might & Magic III back on (best of the bunch by a country mile). Just checked the back of the case and it says copyright 2000. I didn't think it was that old! D.

Time for an upgrade, methinks..... ;) D.

I forgot to add that both Vistas had SP1 applied as well. I take it that you're using an Intel CPU, Griff? D.

Just thought a few people on here maybe interested in the results. At best, I use 3DMark as a guide-line only - there are far too many variables of system builds to put in a true performance figure. It is also heavily CPU biased, so if you have a decent CPU (re: Intel) then your figures should...

+1 There's no real benefit of having that third stick in there for now. D.

I'm actually finding the prices getting more reasonable. Still stupidly high, but within a region where I don't cringe everytime I put some in. My 182 has been pure Tesco 99RON fed for months now and I chucked another £30 in only today. At £1.14.9p, I don't think that is too bad, tbh. In...

Awesome. One of the best RTS's out there, imo. Did you get the original Company of Heroes with it as well, or just Opposing Forces? D.

:cry: :cry: :cry: D.

^^^^ - looks the tits, that. :approve: Only ever been a passenger once in a 1.7 version. I had my Punto GT at the time and the Puma simply embarrassed my car in the way it handled. Sounded like the engine loved to be thrashed and seemed to tick a lot of boxes in what made a very good drivers...

I'm normally quite against snobbery and one-up-manship - but there are times for exceptions. This being one of them. Unless of course, he's going for the Clio 4x4 look, in which case I can see where he's coming from. Still looks rank though. D.

....I'll definitely give FLAC a try too - cheers guys. D.

Balls - now I am confused. Is there the potential for the media to have any impact on the recording quality and stock volume? I can chuck the original CD and happily have it on 10 or 11 on the 182's volume setting. But with the copied CD, it has to be 15 or 16 for a similar level and sounds...

Right chaps. Bit of an unknown area this for me, but I'm after getting like-for-like rips of audio tracks for me to make my own CDs. I've got a raft of original CDs, but like most people, just want the odd track off the album, here and there. What's the best thing to use? Even Windows Media...

I've tried that on the ones we have at work m8, but its still no show. The driver gets installed fine - no errors or anything, but there is just nothing at all through coming through the speakers. Try it with SP2 alone and all is well. I'm up for giving it another try though. We've got another...

What's the model of the Samsung monitor, btw? D.

Could be that the output DVI is defaulting to a resolution far beyond that that the Samsung monitor can support? I recently bought an ATi 4870 card and that does exactly the same on my Iiyama 19" TFT running Vista. When I run it with XP however, it's fine. Have you got an old CRT monitor...

Do you get any picture while it's booting up? D.

Haven't really noticed anything good or bad about having SP3 installed. The only issue I've come across (usually on laptops) is with the Microsoft UAA sound support. If the chipset requires this to be installed - it works fine on SP2, but gets killed on SP3. That was a few weeks ago now, so...

Exactly. I think for a good majority of businesses that have the likes of XP desktop/laptops, using Office (XP and beyond) and communicating with 2003 Servers - there is absolutely no reason to move forward with Vista. The same with Office 2007 to a certain extent. There are only so many ways...

Had a few on the home number these past few weeks, actually. In amongst the foreigners who do actually want to speak. They are the ones annoying me more - usually at the weekend too. :mad: No, I don't want to transfer my f**king credit card balance. No, I don't want a Talk-Talk, Talk-Shite...

They did try making Shadowrun as a DX10-only title. Not that it was much cop and there was a DX9 workaround around anyway. You do need admin rights for XP to install stuff - that's right. But apart from you own little kiddies accessing the PC, who in their right mind uses and creates a mere...

Both XP and Vista are very good O/S's imo. Certainly Vista32 seems a lot more happy from a gaming point of view than Vista64 does - if you dabble in SLi, that is. But then again, the issues of Windows XP64 were never really given the chance to be sorted out (and probably because it was simply...

Welcome dan! Any plans for mods or are you keeping it standard? D.

Hehehe! Join the club! :cool: D.

I'd be utterly amazed (and impressed) if the chipped Vee could manage that. Porsche's 997 Turbo has the benefit of larger engine capacity with two turbos bolted on and is only a mere 30bhp on top of the figure you're quoting. Also, its official 0-60 is 3.8secs. Drop the 4x4 benefit of the 997...

Sophos is great in the work (aka - paid for) environment. For free home use, AVG-Free is pretty good. Just be sure to read carefully what tick boxes you have on when you install it. Seems overtly paranoid with its scans and slows the PC down a fair bit...

Lol - you're right. It is a bit overkill for simple netting! We've had a few of these at work recently... http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/HPPC1205 Not the cheapest, nor the best out there. But they are a very good base unit for straight forward jobs. D.

Pretty much all versions of Vista are fine with 4GB. In fact, most versions (especially the 64-bit ones) support way beyond 4GB... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_vista Windows XP32 had the issue with the 4GB limit as did the cut-down...

Not half! :cool: D.