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Hi everyone, Looking for a 17" laptop for some web design malarky and have around £900 to spend. Desired spec as follows: - Haswell i7 Quad Core - 8gb RAM min - GFX - GT 740M (or something thereabouts) - 1920 x 1080p display I've been looking for sometime now and the HP ENVY 17-j053ea seems...

If anyone wants to see an exagerated effect of 2 grippy tyres up front or down back then check out the link below. Ignore the fact that it's a Michelin promo video for winter tyres. Watch it until the end and you will see how your car handles with two grippy tyres up front vs down back vs all 4...

Congrats on the new job. Only just saw this thread tonight or else I would have replied sooner as I have a couple of comments that may well be relevant to your situation but before that, a tiny bit of history about me. I used to work at Free Radical Design (eventually bought by Crytek, soon to...

I do have a bank statement but not much good if OCUK don't keep tabs on anything other than the order number. Proof of purchase isn't the issue. My issue is I don't know what the order number is :( As for getting in touch directly I'll have another gander at their support. First time around...

Hey all, Slightly frustrated in that my gfx card is seemingly having issues (rig works fine with another card inserted but crashes with this one inserted). Bought from OCUK about 18 months ago direct from the store it seems that because I can't find my original receipt I'm shafted despite...

Not for sale on that site anymore that I can see :( Ah well, not going to pay £1k for it. Back to the drawing board for me.....

Hmmm, will give it a punt then :) Thanks for the info!

Ah thanks very much. Did JL agree to a 5yr warranty? If so, fair play you because a 2 yr on PRC totals the PS51D6900 to £953. How the heck did you wangle that :p

Where did you get them to price match? Looking at buying the Samsung myself and the cheapest I can find it is £899 with 1 yr warranty or £999 with 5 yr (actually at John Lewis). Cheers!

It's not just the fact that it tripled the size of my file though (Although I don't fancy my 120gb camera needing minimum of 360gb each time it is full). It is the added faff of waiting for it to convert. Might as well wait for it to churn through the AVCHD files because although that bit takes...

Ok, so I've just updated the potential spec by halfing the amount of RAM but instead spending the money on a bigger and crucially faster SSD drive. Takes me a bit over budget but not too much of a problem. So will my new spec work together ok? Anything else I should be considring before I hit...

Ok, been reading about it....once processed can I still then just edit it in pinnacle/FCP etc?

Hmmm interesting.......although I actually quite like pinnacle for what it is :) Might have a download of their trial and have a play. EDIT: Where were you 8 months ago :p

Using Pinnacle Studio as it is the only decent app I've found that lets me edit AVCHD files. Even Final Cut Pro on my mac wouldn’t play ball with them. So 16gb ram is overkill then you think? Any particular reason for this? Is it likely to be sat there not being used? Oh and as for what the...

Ok, I should probably go bed but I've been dabbling and have just rigged up a 2nd 15gb raptor that I have making that 3 drives in use in total as suggested above: raptop 1 = OS raptor 2 = storage Seagate 250gb = rendering This has since improved the hard drive performance (thanks :)) and now...

Hmmm interesting........gonna have to sleep on this now :o Thanks for all your advice :) EDIT: Unless I'm missing something OCUK don't sell a P45......I take it this is an old school mobo that is just renowned for its overclocking abilities?

Ah indeed.....I've been watching my raptor max out which is why I need to get some SSD goodness in my life. However my current rig won't support SSD as far as I am aware so need to upgrade the mobo anyway. Once I do that I need to change my ram (currently DDR2) and before you know it I'm into a...

Nah, everything is completely stock. Except for the SSD though I am running what I thought was a fast drive i.e. 10k 150gb raptor (OS) + 7200k everything else :) Not sure I can have SSD on my old Intel 975XBX2 board either. I did look at overclocking from 2.4ghz to anything above but I've not...

Hmmm.....maybe.....I just thought the more the better :)

Ah sorry should be more specific. I have a NAS raid 5 box for archiving along with current system drives in my current rig - raptor 150gb + Sata 250gb Seagate (old school I know :p)