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If I woke up, and her head was on my arm, just so I wouldn't wake her, I'd chew my own arm off... Bet she used to work in a bakery. They pushed her face in the dough to make gorilla biscuits ;P -D

They might dig it actually Give them an excuse to put the white nurses outfit and do some bandaging... Like these guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3icDB3kRKPg Heh -D

Hrm I used to listen to JJJ back when I was in highschool. after that, the music on all the stations got worse as did the presenters. That fitzy guy is a joke. Why is he even famous? Big Brother.... guys as phony as they get, has to put on some boofy blokey larrikin type voice to make him seem more ocker... makes me wanna punch the guy in the face half the time... I don't listen to the radio, but everytime I see that mongoloid on TV..... theres only so many things I can throw at the TV.... -D

Or towed on a flatbed trailer for that matter... Private property is private property. If your vehicle or anything else for that matter, is within the boundary of the property as defined by the council and their surveyors, you're well within your rights to deny entry and co-operation. If they want to get a search warrant, they can try, but you generally need a good reason to get one... -D

Yeah... isn't she only on the radio cause she was one of Princess Mary's bridesmaids? Its like Nicole Cornes and Amanda Blair... totally opinionated without having half a brain to look at the other side. As for childbirth, I've known some girls who've given birth and said it was nowhere near as bad as they were told. And no woman out there knows what its like to get kicked in the balls or come off a bike and rip ya scrote open.... happened to a mate of mine and I can guarantee he was screaming a lot louder than a woman in labor... -D

Well I used to have an R31. It was my first car and I loved it so. And I was a car noob, but spoke to lots of dudes and ended up spending about what I paid for the car in mods. It drove awesome. The aus r31's are truly a very well balanced car. Problem was it had a tendency to understeer, it looked rather boxy, and had one of the worst interiors since the pontiac fiero. Then I saw the R32 GTR.. A friend told me about the godzilla, and I didnt have a clue what he was on about, he showed me the 20 odd magazine articles he'd collected and I was sold. The 32's always been my favourite looker of the GTR's..it has the sexiest arse, an aggressive nose (not as aggressive as the 34 id admit), and has the sexiest side profile..especially with those flared guards... its the smallest, the one which started the GTR pwn trend and the technology in it made me want it. Truth be told I'd have settled for a GTS-4, but I told my friends that I was almost certain to modify it and they said 'just get a gtr ffs'. I've had it for a year, but I wanted it for around 5. Its been everything I wanted in most parts of your poll... its not the most luxurious or economical car, I got it mainly for all over excellent gadgets, looks, power and modification. Best thing tho, you can tune it to how you want it. Road or Track, its a winner, whatever the application. So I guess put me down for 4/6... could care less about economy or comfort

Yeah but Im anal about stuff and I dont do it by halves. I just did a quick shopbot search for the components that I'd need to justify the upgrade and it takes me to $2k easily ;P Money I'm gonna be spending on new gearbox and buying the conzult/eee combo -D

Matthew Mitchell soliciters on Prospect Road have helped me a couple times when I was younger ;P They didnt charge me that much either. Good guys -D

It depends on what you're running. When I had the p3800 and i was overclocking, one of the first things i noticed was how snappy the windows 2000 gui was (and this is without animations or eye candy before and after, tests done after the system had settled)...it was noticably quicker by a fraction of a second... i notice such things I noticed the performance games with stuff like SOF2, cause it was notorious for swapping textures from the HDD to the Ram on the pre-load and the Ram to the Vid-Ram during the actual game. Had less stuttering (telltale sign for a bottleneck between the ram and the vidram, which is why a mass memory overclock can be very beneficial for gaming because you're speeding all 3 major factors (Ram, CPU, FSB) which get hammered on IO operations... and if you were unfortunate enuff to not have a locked PCI/AGP clock regulator, sometimes the FSB overclock would turn a 66mhz PCI bus into an 82mhz pci bus hehe.... which caused me all sorts of hassle when I had a pro-audio soundcard... tore my hair out over it tbh but ahh well And yeah, Vistas a ram whore, you're always gonna notice a 200% jump no matter the application tho ;P I'd still never buy kingston or anything lesser tho (thats just me talking cause I do tweak the hell out of systems once I have them) $149 for OCZ is pretty good, they make good stuff, again worth the extra $50 imho Oh and like you said, with a decent board u can do a hell of a lot more for your money Thats one area ya never skimp on -D PS. Cant be stuffed upgrading. I can do everything I want here aside from play the latest games, which suits me fine since I've just stopped my 2 year world of warcrack addiction. I'm getting an ASUS EEE 901 next week to put in my GTR and run Conzult logging constantly, and that little guy will do everything I want excluding gaming, dvd and encoding stuff.. current system does all that fine (And being in IT, i've spent more money than I care to think about on technology thats become quickly obsolete. I still have servers and rackmount shite from 2002/2003). Still I have an AMD64 3.2 ghz, 1 gig of tuned corsair ram dual channel, and a radeon XT PE x800 which is more than enuff... 74gb raptor for OS/programs and 500gig storage drive. Still plenty Just doesnt run stuff like Grid or Biosphere etc

Since you have 2 demerit points, I doubt a magistrate is going to look too kindly on you. Otherwise I'd be taking it to court because the police going to your home is >possibly< improper considering he has no evidence, that your car was in your property at the time etc (assuming you weren't parked on the road). He can threated to defect you, but he cant defect a stationary vehicle on public property, especially when its an electrical problem like that (replace the light, voila). Thats why I'd be contesting it. You perhaps wouldn't get such a good reception, with 2 demerit pts, but you'd need a decent lawyer and one that isnt going to charge you more than $200. I'd do it just to make the cop get a verbal earbashing by the magistrate and having them pay my court fees. Oh, and it'd also tie up the officer in question for a good half a day on paperwork, so thats a comforting thought. -D

Aha but I always let there be a possibility that he's found 8 kilos of cocaine and sold it to lindsay lohan... -D

Yeah I can't really call it here since Ive been on the same system for 3 years... we use Intel at work but we use stock cheap ass ram. If its a matter of a few hundred bucks on ram I'd agree with ya... $50 on a system isnt gonna break the bank and I don't think it'd particularly get him a much better vidcard. Perhaps a more reputable brand name *shrug*.... I guess it all depends on what hes gonna go for, cause if I wasn't a gamer I wouldn't bat an eyelid when it comes to ram -D

I cant argue with you there, but aside from overclocking, the only way hes going to get more cpu cycles is by buying a beefier cpu. And I'd never recommend a layperson to overclock, too many horror stories about people with overheating systems trying to watercool their own rigs *shudder*. I think the main point I wanted to make was even if he doesnt overclock, the low latency ram can make the system feel more responsive at stock speeds and that it didnt really cost that much to do so anymore... $200 for 4 gigs is bargain territory, Hell, I'd buy corsair just for their warranty to be honest ... I just cant say that getting higher specced ram on a stock frequency is going to be better than low latency ram built for that specific frequency, esp cause the higher specced ram reads the bios CAS/RAS defaults and scales back to the stock frequency anyhow.... by default that is... -D

I agree. Shopping around is the best thing u can do, dont ever walk into a single shop and buy everything if you want to save ur dosh. I haven't upgraded my pc for 3 years and I doubt I'll bother for another 2, but by that time I won't mind spending $2k on the stuff cause I know what I'll be using it for. Sure you could get the cheapest quad core cpu, the 8800 instead of the dual 1950's, etc etc but it all depends on how often you'll be upgrading. If you do it every 3-6 months you'd be mad to spend over a grand but if you're going for 2-3 years between stops, then $2-3k isnt too much to ask. I spent $2.2 on my last system and it does everything nowadays except play the best games, adn thats only cause I have an AGP slot and cant upgrade the vidcard to something recent... Ultimately that was just a guide, hes free to check the unit details and shop around. Could probably get something very comparible for $2k if you shop around, wait a bit or get some lesser specced components. Get rid of the Monitor and the Speakers and he's very nearly there. Change the quad core cpu to the $200 edition, probably will be almost set... just dont skimp on memory or motherboard cause ultimately theyre the backbone of yr system and will dictate what your pc will be able to handle in future. -D

Thats the point. Low latency ram scales when you overclock it.... not to mention a 1-2% increase in >transferred data<. The latency is measured in the amount of time it takes per IO cycle, which translates to snappier memory recall. You can overclock your FSB as much as you want, it still isnt going to make things faster by default, its merely going to have a higher capacity per cycle. You very rarely max out a front side bus unless you're transferring live High Def video uncompressed from a TV tuner, or that sort of application. Playing videogames is not affected by a faster front side bus, IO affects it more. What >does< make a memory overclock worthwhile is the fact that the CPU runs on a multiplier and uses the FSB frequency as a baseline. Back in the old days you used to be able to overclock a CPU without needing to modify the FSB, provided the cycles matched up. SO eg my old P3 800.... 133mhz fsb = a multiplier of 6. If I changed that to 7, it'd become a 931mhz CPU (based upon the FSB). Since CPU's these days have a fixed multiplier, the only way you can increase that is by amping up the FSB aka 150mhz x 6 = 900mhz. The FSB itself is just a messenger service, its the CPU cycles that make the difference. Its the reason why server hardware runs at a fixed frontside bus (comparitive to desktop systems) but their CPU's are much more expensive because theyre doing a bunch more processing, and handling a lot more IO. So say you do get 1-2% on a stock system using low latency ram (which isnt expensive and generally comes with a great warranty), if you overclock your 1066fsb to 1200 odd, you're getting a 12% increase on your FSB, which in turns a theoretical 2% gain into a 24% memory bandwidth gain cause its simply able to discharge and recharge faster, get the memory in and get it out again. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,1637776,00.asp A decent read. Summarizes it nicely. -D

Tweaking latency isnt an overclock. Its a fine tuning. Its not about getting more speed out of the system, moreso how responsive everything is (which in turn does make the system faster). Think about it. You have ram which needs to discharge, have a pause then recharge. All of that takes time. When you minimise the amount of time >per cycle< then it adds up when you're talking 1066 mhz (1066 million cycles per second). and at $200 for decent 4gb ram, why wouldn't you, when you're going to spend much more on CPU and mobo ? -D

OK Using Pccasegear.com.au as a guideline (cause I'm impartial here...) CPU - $412 (One of the more expensive Quad Core CPUs) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=7108 Mobo- $329 http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...products_id=100 Ram - $207 (Corsair Low Latency, 4 gigs worth) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=7510 HDD For Operating System + Programs - $239 (WD 150gig) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=3095 HDD's for Data Mirroring - 2x $245 = $490 (WD 1 terabyte, mirrored) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=7155 Graphics Card - $735 (Dual core single slot Nvidia) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=7228 Keyboard - $89 (Logitech Gaming KB) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=3028 Mouse - $89 (Logitech Wireless mouse) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=4230 Monitor - $439 (24" BenQ w 5ms latency) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=6057 Speakers - $339 (Logitech 5.1 Dolby) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=6183 Aftermarket CPU Fan - $75 (Thermaltake Orb) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=5264 This comes to around $3500 before the below essentials. If you have a monitor, speakers, existing HDD's you want to use then you can chop loads off the bill. Re-use as much is practical (unless it'll give you a performance handicap) Case - Anything with sufficient cooling, expect to pay up to $200 PSU - Anything with 800 watts or more, expect to pay $150 or so Software - Vista or XP, your choice, between $150 and $800 ;P Optical Drives - Blu-ray or Dual layer DVD, your choice, between $40 and $500 Those numbers are using good hardware. Not the best/most expensive and not the cheapest. You can check out the product catagories and compare components on a feature by feature basis but I think this would be a nice Mid range system.... it IS $3.5k worth but that'll see you for 2-3 years easily. -D

Overclocking is not the answer, not when you're a lay-person. Not only would he have to tune with a lot of trial and error, but he'd be running most of his hardware past its recommended frequencies, not to mention the cooling issues you have... for me and you, sure, overclocking can be worth it with the right hardware but considering he's not a guru, I'd never advise overclocks. It'll cost him $$ for technicians in the long run. -D

I would never recommend anyone get cheaper ram. Especially when you're overclocking. The ram is rated upon the FSB ratio which is bandwidth. Bandwidth is useless if you have high latency. And if you get high latency ram, its generally stress tested at higher FSB ratios while keeping the recommended latency settings... -D

Yeah I got a bit of an idea.... decent graphics card, dont worry about SLI or X-fire cause thats shit. the 8800 GT is one of the sweet gfx cards atm, and I think it plays most games at the moment rather well. Get a reputable motherboard, anything over $200 will be decent but if you spend the extra $100 it'll be well worth it. An Intel Core2Quad or a Core2Duo will be the best bet, I think the Q6600 is still a nice price. Dont skimp on ram, something with low latency and a decent brand (like corsair or OCZ) will handle the system nicely. Low latency is more important than ram with a faster front side bus ratio... as for hard drives, I'd recommend getting either 2 SATA-II Hdd's in a Raid 1 Mirror Array OR A WD Raptor 10k rpm drive as your c: And get the two SATA-II 7200 rpm drives as data storage, again in a Raid 1 Mirror. This way if one of the data drives fails you at least have a live backup of your data and can simply replace the dodgy hdd in the series. Theres a lot of cash you can spend on HDD's, it really all depends on how diligent you are when it comes to backing up data. Dont bother with an aftermarket soundcard, the sound chips you get on $300 motherboards usually have 7.1 Dolby audio... get a nice keyboard and mouse, nothing cheap otherwise you'll end up with RSI and carpal tunnel. Get a decent monitor, something with a nice contrast ratio and refresh rate are much more important than size or widescreen... you can get a blue-ray dvd burner if you have loads of money to burn but for now I'd just settle on a dual layer dvd burner cause theres not a huge amount of blue ray stuff out at the moment. If you can reuse stuff from your current PC, bonus. Other thing I would recommend is investing in some extra cooling in the way of silent case fans and perhaps a big aftermarket heatsink and fan. I dont overclock but I've found that having a big HSF combo keeps the system performing silently in the hottest weather. Logitech make nice 5.1 speakers if you're going to invest in some nice audio... Could go on and on for ages ;P It all depends on what u wanna do and what ur budget is. I don't sell hardware anymore but I've been in the IT game for 15 years now so if you have any questions, shoot me a pm... -D

Haha. Whenever anyone says they're an expert at anything IT related, you know theyre talking out their cornhole Other thing is to replace the kb with one of those touchtype keyboards without the letters printed on them. Really screws with novices... http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8396/ heh.... -D

the other thing u could do is use a screwdriver/ruler to pop the keys off her keyboard... then put them back on in random locations... it'll confuse the hell out of her muahahaha -D

If she has a cubicle, tape the entrance off and tip a few hundred litres of packing beans into it. Laughs ahoy -D

yep

Theres your standard, baseline ram which is good for what its rated for.... but barely... Such ram is made by Hynix, Legend.... then you have the really good stuff for overclockers and system tweakers, usually its made by Corsair or OCZ or Team Extreme.... not only can they deal with faster FSB's (for when you're overclocking the FSB) but they can also support more aggressive latency timings (which makes the system more responsive as opposed to FSB which is just how >fast< the memory transfers...)... Will definately be buying corsair next time but that wont be for another year.... need new turbos first > -D