Picked some nice gear there m8. I was tempted to go for a 790i ultra board but as you said... the cost of the board alone and a few gigs of good ddr3 is VERY expensive.... least the 780i is DDR2. A 42'' monitor is insane m8. Not sure what you mean by last 5 digits..... there are heaps on the box hah...

Hey IN4ME, Nothing wrong with the Q6600 at all. Comparing all the CPU charts if you are encoding or doing anything along those lines that will take advantage of multicores then you can't go wrong. However if your ONLY gaming it might not be the best option atm. Check the cpu charts and decide for yo...

Hey IN4ME, well I ended up settling on an ASUS striker II formular with an E8500, 4G ram, raid 0 wd raptors and 2x8800GT's and only just loaded vista 64 and got it up and running ...... really happy with it so far. Goes like a cut snake. Haven't done any o/c'ing as yet.

Quick question..... got an E8500 today and noticed that its HFS is half the height of the Q6600 I have. Is this to be expected as the E8500 is only dual core and has a lower thermal design power? Anybody else got one that is in the same boat?

hey everyone..... not trying to hijack tis thread but looking into a new pc and want to go dual vid cards. I'm not up to date with all the new gear out and wanting to know what may be some good options. It seems there are far less nvidia sli boards out there than what ever there is ati crossfire. I ...

Smart cookie...... that has great potential.

Zoom Zoom.....

One thing some people may not consider when buying a laptop is spare parts! If your mobo shit its self and you have an uncommon laptop prepare to loose an arm to pay for a new one.

I know some people really hate dell (I agree to some extent with desktops, custom builds are better). But my brother has had a dell laptop for over a year now and its rock solid. I also have 2 dell Axim pda's and they both have been excellent. If I were you i would also consider dell in your purchas...

If its anything like my work HP laptop you'll need all the luck you can get!! ......... i'm not joking either. Over the past 6 months 6 work laptops out of about 20-25 have died. Not fantastic figures. Mine has been going ok as a general rule. However it does lock-up occasionally (once a month or so...

Didn't know this is being made into a movie:

GB if you haven't already done it, you may want to consider removing any hardware/external devices that aren't mandatory to install windows. Also if you have 2 or more sticks of ram, try each one individually and see how you go, also try a different IDE/sata cable, and lastly (if possible) try insta...

Interesting ME ... i'm with them for cable and used utorrent scheduler and haven't herd bo from them..... hmm

What ISP you with ME?

Been looking on ebay for a while and have seen several of these go cheap around the syd melbourne area, but there doesn't seem to be many around bris..... and I'm wondering do any of you know of anyone that may travel from syd/melb to bris on a semi regular basis that is willing to be paid to bring ...