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I want 3, 2 in SLI and 1 for Physix and then a lovely 40" monitor (were is that lotto when you realy need it)

sabc is starting broadcasting digital from next year and then there is a fazing out period of about 3 years so that the people who still own the old tvs to buy a converter wich is rumerd to cost R800 to scale from hd down to 800 by 600 for the normal tube tvs

Compro VideoMate Vista E600F PCI Express TV Tuner w/FM + Remote is the best bang for buck at the moment and recomend it a qiuck google and the best price on compro products is from Sybaritic
The E900F is realy good but a bit pricy

if there is still any 1 in the durbs area that would like a copy of the 64bit flavour just let me know

The compro cards good and I would recomend windows 7 as your OS it does not need a monster machine to run and the new windows media centre in it is realy great

I am with scavenger on this 1 you cant go wrong with T240

My problem is that I only have 1 testicle left and there is no way I am selling that

Nice system I would recon change the RAM especialy if you also want to overclock it a bit

WiK you took the words right out of my mouth
Check tour RAM!!

Here is one of the best changes in windows 7 rc1 for me Windows XP mode XP Mode is the big RC "secret". The RC allows you to run older Windows XP applications in a virtual Windows XP environment on Windows 7. The feature is an additional download. The feature will allow you to run legacy X...

I we need to rename this forum post to ATI & Nvidia vs Larabee after reading this monts PCFormat

Luckly and sadly it is only still a conscept board of what we can expect from asus On a side note ASUS had the biggest display booth this year at cebit than any other http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data/articles/2009/2826/asus-booth.jpg and here is some of the other goodies http://static.i4u.com/im...

I couldn't get the Huawei E220 to work, though I didn't try installing from the CD. It doesn't know anything about my HTC TyTn 2, and Activesync won't install from the CD, so I'm not too sure what to do about that. I'll have to check for a Vista version I guess. Obout your TyTn 2 use Mobile device ...

Would like to know if there is any clans here that would be interisted in playing online friendly matches

Here is yet a nother nice tweak that i found Windows Explorer’s default landing folder is the Libraries directory, but some of us are more comfortable with using “My Computer” as the default node, especially if we use multiple hard drives and external storage devices. To change the default node, fin...

This is very nice Tool The primary reason for releasing the Windows 7 Beta was for Microsoft’s developers to get feedback from users. (Notice the glaring Send Feedback link at the top of every window?) In addition, the devs have built in a diagnostic tool called Problem Steps Recorder that combines ...

Windows 7 Beta comes with the Betta fish as its default desktop wallpaper, but it also includes six desktop backgrounds catered to your region (as identified when you first installed the OS). US users, for example, get six 1900x1200 images showing off famous National Parks and beaches. The available...

So far this is the most stable and reliable beta that I have ever tested, its just mind blowing to test a BETA and not have 1 BSOD so far.
Have been runing it for a week now and the only problem was to get my Huawei E220 vodafone modem to work witch I finaly got right.

It even got a SAS - Serial attached SCSI controler only problem is the HDD surporting SAS aint cheap looking at about $248.95 (R2200) and that is only for 73GB of storage space on the Seagate 73GB 16MB SAS 15000RPM [ST373455SS]

Here is a sneak peak at ASUS's new i7 mobo with the X58 chipset Realy wont mind getting my hans on this http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1366/p6tdeluxe733bd7.jpg Asus P6T Deluxe - Intel X58 Begins With all the kerfuffle surrounding Intel's IDF this week and Nehalem news pouring out of almost every...

And dont forget that the X58 mobo's will also have SLI, the only downfall is that it is only going to be DDR3 by the look of things

it wil be 1366

NVIDIA has released its highly anticipated PhysX Power Pack, which officially enables PhysX support on all GeForce 8 series and above graphics cards. If you head over to NVIDIA's Force Within web page, you will find the 2.78GB Power Pack, which consists of a wide selection of free applications and d...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2008 – Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company's upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed "Nehalem") will be formally branded "Intel® Core™ processor." The first products in this new family of processors, incl...

Cant wait to get my hand on this its so sexy and Asus finaly usin a Creative chip for there Soundcard Overclock.3D techPowerUp bit-tech http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/05/first-look-asus-p5q3-maximus-ii-formula/max1-8.jpg http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2008/05/14161628855l.jp...

No not realy sa long as it does not cool it below ambient temps