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Also I think you can still get free delivery if you create an avforum account and link it to your scan account, saving you around a tenner. Link below. http://www.avforums.com/forums/scan_offer.php Aye, good point. They've upped the minimum spend to qualify to £100 if I remember rightly. Not a both...

(Something like this helps pass the quiet times at work) Of course you can swap out any parts you like, the BluRay drive was more to show you could get a lot more for your money. I'd possibly keep the ATi 6950, drop the 2TB HDD down to 1TB and revert to a DVD-RW - you still get a damn fine spec what...

Quick (!) comparisons..... IMAGES INCOMING!! The last spec you listed, built using identical (or cheapest when no brand is provided) parts bought from Scan : http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/6091/smooprice2.png £761.82 delivered - Not a bad price and certainly not a bad list of components. I wonde...

Only 'probably'?

If you can wait till tomorrow morning I should have time to have a check through things and maybe even draw up a component pricelist that shows how much you could save if you have a go at building yourself (or bribe a mate into helping). I'd rather you ask questions and end up with what you want tha...

The MSI 6950 seems to use a very similar dual-fan cooling system to the Sapphire. Since it's down the road there's no harm in supporting local industry and picking it up on the way home - if you have any issues it's nice and easy to get some Customer Service as well. ;) Aria are Manchester based and...

That's actually not a bad collection of bits at all.... Yaaaaaay, people are paying attention! As for your questions: RAM - I'd go for This 8GB from Corsair instead of the one you picked. It's got a slightly lower latency (the 24<>27 difference in the numbers) and runs at a lower voltage (1.5V vs 1....

Which base model did you start with on CyberPower? In PCPro's recently announced 2011 awards , they scored a creditable mid-table position for desktop sellers. The motherboard looks to be one of the more basic Z68 chipset ones that Gigabyte sells, it has a single PS/2 port (so you can connect either...

How many guests would you be hosting at any one time? You ideally need 1 CPU core (physical or, at a push, hyper-thread) per guest + 1 for the host at the very minimum for smooth operations. The OS you're putting on will have minimum/recommended RAM requirements - Server 2008 isn't very happy on les...

At work we're cheap enough to use HyperV for our virtualisation so aside from a dabble with virtualbox my knowledge stops there.

Sorry!


What did you want to know?

Ups & downs, ins & outs.... that's what it's all about!


*starts humming the Hokey Cokey to himself.


Knees bent, arms stretched.. RAR RAR RAR!


*Starts compressing files hurredly.



*dances with Ashee

For now, the i5 2500K is definitely the sweet spot for bang:buck - though the i7 2600 is definitely faster, is it £70 faster? I'd be putting that £70 into upgrading the VGA card or maybe a nice 60GB SSD boot drive. If you're adamant that you don't want to buy bits and build it yourself you might fin...

What a great system.

Ah well, it was nice to be called He-Man again

I got an email to my old Yahoo account this morning... telling me I had a new PM to read. Having retired from UT 10 years ago it's been a while since I'd been anywhere near ClanBase! http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1858/clanbase01.png He-Man! Oddly enough I've forgotten what my password is but inst...

You tit

If anyone wants to use the code:
I've posted it on facebook too so if you want to sneak it into your basket, get going!