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needed more burnouts, Summernats style nah seriously pretty cool video, hope to see your car in a magazine someday soon? I linked it to the HR31 obsessives I know

haha yeah wish modern games would hit the levels of gore seen in SOF 1 and 2, they were great games at the time.

dude their drivers have always sucked, you get one stable release then it's lottery for the next 4 or so until they get another stable one. Used to have a 4830 and run ATi in our workstations at work. If they got their shit together again I would switch back, but after spending hours f**king around with drivers just to get games to work and not CTD or hang the system, I probably won't.

haha ATi and shit drivers have been an issue for years. If it wasn't for their shit drivers they would be much more of a competitor to Nvidia.

i have a Dell Latitude XT at work, it shits on the Ipad from a gigantic height (due to running Win 7 and not a cutdown OS that dosen't integrate with any business productivity services properly). Costs a fortune and heavier though. I didn't mind the Telstra T Tab tbh, cheap and cheerful, runs android

yeah +1 to putting windows on and f**king off poo leopard. in all seriousness, if you have a Sandy Bridge one and you intend on gaming or doing other intensive tasks watch out that you don't burn yourself on the underside of it; yes they really get that hot!

true, tbh after working with a tri ultrasharp setup at work, coming home to my 24" Benq is godawful lol

haha one of my workmates has a U3011 on his workstation, looks good man I'd be happy with the same U2711 at home as I have at work, but 800 bucks is a little extortionate for a monitor

I run SLI and 4 drives on a 700w lol, though I'll likely up it to an 850 just to be on the safe side

z68 is only useful if you are going to use Quick Sync. Were I to upgrade (happy with the i5 I have, ill just overclock for now), I'd be all over P67 + NF200 (for teh SLI) Small SSD + data on spindle drives are impractical and self defeating for gaming for obvious reasons. I'd be inclined to get a 240 gig SSD if anything other than Raptors. There is no real reason to go for a 2600 if you're gaming and not running a bunch of multithreaded workstation apps (hyperthreading being the main difference); the price / performance ratio drops right off between the 2500 and the 2600 (2600 is still great value though!) Don't bother with a multiplier unlocked CPU if not overclocking though lol. The dual GPU cards are a waste of time and for those who are scared of SLI which is faster for the same price or at times even less. I haven't had any issues at all with mine, despite a lot of naysayers still being convinced things still are like they were during the time of the 8xxx series. AFAIK, LGA2011 will be the uber expensive 'enthusiast' chipset and processors (given Intel's usual "tick tock" product releases). Overpriced to the max. Go for more RAM speed over latency (I'm a Gskill fan myself), most people I know myself included are running 8 gig these days.

yeah I played the first one, reminded me of Driver. Not the worst thing I'd ever played, but when compared to GTA, was found very lacking.

if teh R32 wasnt in at the panelbeaters I would have already gotten some 450 gigs, thats nice cheap pricing compared to say the Vertex 3's!

yeah fairly sure they are some fairly long duration cams; you'd have to pm Gurkz n ask him, I don't remember what the specs were, only that they needed headwork to fit LOL

hahaha you went from plantronics to razer!? at least plantronics specialise in headsets, razer gear full stop is generally crap and prone to breaking. TBH the best headset I've owned was an Exsound Conch, but I can't find anyone who still sells them (only cost $20 too!)

I use a Plantronics Gamecom 777 headset, but TBH I'd probably even look at the stereo version, sounds good, my ears dont get sweaty when gaming, and the mic works well. Only gripe is that my ears get sore from it pressing on them after a while (fat head)

one of the nicer Skylines in town, hope it stays local! Can vouch for the car being in good nick and barely ever being driven, would be a good buy for someone who dosen't want to part with the cash to mod one themself!

haha Ash, thats why I found people buying SSD's and putting games on spindle drives to be complete idiots!! one of my workmates got an OCZ Ibis drive today with the propietary interface (uses a seperate PCI-E card which is included), initial results look quite promising, loaded Win7 Ent x64 even quicker than striped Velociraptors or a Vertex 2! That said, it's still 800 bucks on a freaking drive!

you'll see better boot times, but games won't really run any quicker. I looked into it for mine, and thought "nah f**k that" and didn't have the cash for 2x VelociRaptors, so Caviar Blacks it was! 2x Velociraptors in RAID 0 will kick an average SSD and have al ot more space!

i don't think it's as bad as it used to be; for example the difference between a computer made in 1997 and 2001 is huge, 2007 - 2011 not so much (ie multiple cores, decent graphics cards that can still actually run games etc)

pretty much. Completely unneccessary rip off, like the later Driver games

i was like FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU when I heard the news

the 6870 is probably a higher binned 6850. So whilst it may work on most cards, there is potentially a portion that won't work after flashing it. I could be wrong though, cbf researching. BTW that directx 11 shot seems to be showing off tesselation more than anything

i got 6383 in 3dMark 11 performance mode

well i've updated mine a bit Case: Antec Three Hundred Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4 CPU & CPU Cooler: Intel i5 760 2.88ghz RAM: 4gb dual channel G Skill Ripjaws 1600mhz Monitor: 24" Benq Graphics Card: 2x Gigabyte GTX 460 1gb OC Edition in SLI (currently running @ 840/1682/2004 mhz until I get a bigger PSU) HDD(s): 2x 500gb WD Caviar Blacks in RAID 0, WD RE3 750gb, 1tb Caviar Green OS Used: Windows 7 x64 Peripherals: Gigabyte keyboard, Logitech MX518 mouse

how many horsepower does a donkey make then?