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well he'd be likely buying Ivy Bridge lol, theres something like 18% difference between 1600 and 2133, if its only 10-15 bucks difference, it's worth the outlay IMO. XMP is a piece of piss, literally one little setting in the bios and forget (unless like me you have to do BCLK overclocking, which can make getting everything right a bit more of a juggle) AMEN RE: SSD

it's that bad?! I get 12.4 l/ 100 avg (mixed highway and street driving) from a 6L V8 lol, and i dont go easy on it. I would think you should be getting at least 500km a tank / MAX 10L / 100 on a N/A skyline.

please quailfy that statement

go the fastest speed rated ram thats reasonably priced (latency isnt as much of an issue) steer clear of Antec Earthwatts PSU's, they review terribadly, at least get a Coolermaster / Corsair/ Silverstone / higher end Antec as it's a component you want to last for several builds Fairly sure Photoshop can use the CUDA cores on NVIDIA cards, well worth looking at case is personal preference and reccommend going i5 over i7, i recently got our fleet pc's at work changed because literally nothing users Hyperthreading of relevance (i.e you'd need something specific to warrant it, and even then you'd probably be better off with a Xeon anyway). I also cannot believe that people still reccommend 7200rpm spindle drives for custom builds these days, HDD IO is the BIGGEST single bottleneck of your average pc and has been for a couple of generations now. Crucial, Samsung and Intel SSDs I highly reccommend (had too many issues with Sandforce ones to advise anyone to get one!) if you really need lots of fast storage then get 2x WD Velociraptors in RAID 0, but even a mid range SSD will be faster than them. if you're finding it all too hard, get a Dell XPS on their website, spec an SSD into it for the boot drive, and go from there

yeah just like black ops was going to have all of these new cool "features", that nobody used lol.

i think most of the IT savvy people on here on the east coast use PCCG lol, i still staticice prices for bigger things, but have found in general that its within $10 which im happy to pay the difference on, knowing that in most cases the part will be in my hands within 24 hours

the points made in this thread are contributing factors as to why I didn't get an R32/33 GT-R when it came to new car time. Great if you're after a weekender or track weapon, but pain in the ARSE for a daily / lots of kays / always parked outside etc like my old R32 was. Also cost more to maintain. If you can afford 2 cars, I'd say look into it!

haha bet its essentially the EXACT same game as the past 50 I actually had reasonable hopes for the last one, riiiiight up until they retconned modern weapons into the Cold War era, exact same game as every title since COD 2 notwithstanding

it was all a terrible rumour; no one from valve has met up with anyone from Apple, shows how bad the reality distortion field is these days lol to my thinking, Valve and Apple are mutually exclusive, as Steam is an app ecosystem of the same style as Itunes.

make sure you get a 128gb OS SSD, you'll thank me later

sounds more like it, I was going to suggest a RevoDrive X3 but the fkn things take forever to boot with

Nice R32, looks awfully familiar haha

Castrol Edge 10w60. Can't even buy Motul oil locally any more, but I used to run 8100 Xcess in my R32, looking back I think I would have run Castrol like all of my mates did.

haha punkbuster is the biggest farking POS i've ever seen, and like the other gaiz said, its bee like that since quake 3. still hooked into skyrim, so chances are there will be another bad company game out when I'm done with it lol. HOPING that DICE will eventually lern2make single player campaigns

aaaand not a single f**k was given that day

that's a fair point; I work in an IT department of 6 people, everyone NEEDS to be multi talented; that said we also have maintenence contracts with some of the vendors / integrators for stuff of an overly technical nature, but then some are not particularly interested in supporting enterprise, or so it seems at the same time.

you forgot to mention gen 4 small block chev and I meant IRL, not just on SAU

Those who bag out Aussie made cars should really have a drive of a late model Falcodore before making such assertions, as quite a few people I know have been surprised (import bogans are getting as bad as falcodore bogans with brand loyalty IMO). +1 for not bothering - some imports are better off left standard as the aftermarket here lacks so much + specialised systems and OEM parts etc etc

utorrent + peerblock or IPT for the paranoid (not really much more protection though IMO). I only used Usenet for obscure porn archives, I do think however that the tech savvy types will end up returning to it if they keep taking down torrent sites.

gregor: I work for a government organisation and all 3 sysadmins have in depth knowledge of all of those systems, with a specialised network admin who runs the CUCM / Cisco router and switch initial configuration / node installations etc. Even myself as a regular tech has to have a good knowledge of Exchange, Hyper V / VMWare, SCCM 2007, Commvault Archiving Systems, Windows Server, Papercut, Apple administration (inc Admit Mac) and deployments, as well as the basics of SQL, Sharepoint etc etc. We also don't get paid obscene amounts, however the experience gained over simply being a "have you tried turning it off and on again" level 1 tech is invaluable IMO. So therefore I don't find it that far fetched, but one would hope that it's paying AT LEAST 80k lol. At least I don't have to state times on our internal helpdesk system taken on jobs, but I could see it happeneing one day

heh i deal with products from all of those vendors at work, and the products listed, just don't have the experience or desire to move. How much is that paying out of interest?

ahh the point is moreso that events like Summernats give enthusiasts the chance to tear it up without fear of police intervention (or they should be anyway). I doubt there would be a single "legally" modified Skyline on here, and if they cant find anything and decide they want to dick you, they will.

you got an SB-E and 6990, but no SSD!? :S

Well Terry you have pretty much the pinnacle of Skylines IMO, car looks fantastic, must be a great feeling to be able to have your hands on such a rare, pristine example!