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    Chromecast and Hifi Amp?

    I have one. It's connected to one of the HDMI ports on my Onkyo amp. I use Google Play music and it works great, you get the album art displayed on the telly or I can turn the telly off and just hear the sound via the amp.
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    Southsea & Spinnaker Tower

    A couple from yesterday: 1. 2. 3. Any good?
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    Your Favourite Beatles Album, And Why?

    Don't think anybody has mentioned Help! yet. It has some of my fav Beatles tracks on it such as: Help! You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Ticket To Ride Yesterday
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    Should I get a good laptop? or cheap laptop & a desktop

    My Vaio with built-in Blu-Ray drive sits at around 25% - 35% CPU load while playing a disc, this is with a Merom 2.2Ghz, and hardware acceleration via an 8600 GS. So I would say it's worth shooting for a 1.8Ghz CPU minimum for smooth playback, depending on the HW acceleration available.
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    Awww, plugged my laptop into my amp and am getting lots of noise when it's on charge.

    I had the same thing with mine and in the end I bought a USB SB Live! - not only is the sound clean but you get many more outputs including digital optical etc. They are pretty cheap so that could be a solution for you.
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    XBox 360 3RLOD - Launch day console

    I've gone from a non-working console to 50+ hours of Forza 2 by removing the x-clamps and using M5 bolts/washers instead- so it does work! :)
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    Anyone else 360 scratch their discs?

    My thoughts on the subject In my experience when I get a DRE, there is indeed what appears to be scratches on the DVD but they are in fact scuff marks which can be removed with a soft cloth and possibly some cleaner fluid. This has happened to be several times where a game would literally...
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    TVersity and video streaming

    The core system will work as an Extender just fine - this functionality does not run from the hard drive.
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    Some demos are not on Live?

    Same here... I have the MS site set to UK, it still lists Table Tennis as an available download, however it does not show up via Live for me :(
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    Now the dust has settled - DS3 or P5B-D for E6600?

    Hmmm, I did actually want to use the onboard sound and ditch my aging Live! Value card... I also notice that despite being cheaper the DS3 does not have Firewire, whereas my current motherboard does... Decisions, decisions...
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    Now the dust has settled - DS3 or P5B-D for E6600?

    Which one would you say is proving more popular, both from a general features point of view and from an overlclocking point of view? I've got the E6600 chip, I just can't decide between these two boards...
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    Does the Asus P5B-D from OCUK come with wi-fi?

    Sorry if this has been asked before but it's not clear from the description, and on other sites it seems to be specified like it's an optional extra? Thanks
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    Do I need a new PSU for this system?

    I'm going to be putting the following system together very soon: E6600 Gigabyte DS3 / Asus P5B Deluxe 2GB DDR2 6400 7800GTX 256MB ...along with about 4 SATA hard drives (mostly 250GB) and a DVD-RW. I've got an Enermax 451W PSU (EG451P-VE) from a few years ago (coming from a...
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    PSU Problem?

    So the PSU is not currently connected to the ATX power connector on your motherboard, or did it not work there either?
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    P4C 3.4Ghz/6600GT ---> E6300/7600GT?

    Just finished reading that 7 page thread, thanks. It appears some of you have seen some issues with this board, I'm guessing the VIA chipset/drivers are playing up. The tough decision point for me is if I went for an "expensive" motherboard and DDR2 I would literally spend twice the money...
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    P4C 3.4Ghz/6600GT ---> E6300/7600GT?

    Zefan that boards supports both DDR1 and DDR2 which is why I've selected it...
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    P4C 3.4Ghz/6600GT ---> E6300/7600GT?

    Hi there, I've spent some time pondering and researching about where to go with my current system, which is: Pentium 4 800 512 Northwood HT @ 3.4Ghz Abit IC7-MAX3 2GB PC-3200 DDR (4x512MB) Leadtek 6600GT 128MB AGP (overclocked to 575/1100) Apart from the graphics card which was added...
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    Wolfmother

    I wanted to give it the thumbs up, some parts of this album are great but in places in gets a bit annoying/irritating (for want of a better word). Perhaps it needs a few more plays...
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    Razorlight - Razorlight

    Really enjoyed Up All Night and the in-between track "Somewhere else", but when I listened to this album I wondered what the hell I was listening to after a while... not especially impressed tbh.
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    Poor signal?

    Nice find! I can see from that that I have several "blue triangles" near to my house ;)
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