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Thanks. Yeah, I was looking at that bundle. I'm guessing that if later on I wanted to upgrade the graphics card to something more modern I might need a newer PSU? I helped a friend diagnose a faulty PSU he recently bought by letting him borrow mine, and we found that we couldn't connect my...

Hi, I have a system that I built in 2007/8 that I have upgraded a few times (last time in 2011/12) and overclocked, but it is starting to show its age and I don't have the cash to start fresh at the moment. I'm not sure if it is worth it with my current budget. My current specs are: Case...

I have an acer 1810tz that is 2-3 years old now and still manages to get 5 hours of battery life with its original battery despite significant use. I am thinking about upgrading its 5400rpm 250GB hard drive to an SSD for a cheap performance boost. I can't really afford to buy a new laptop atm...

Perhaps I've been unlucky over the years, but it seems to me that the two components that have the highest rate of failure are the HDD and graphics cards. I can understand HDD because of their moving parts. However, I can't understand why graphics cards are like this. They are essentially...

Just got the 460 in the mail this morning. I know the 8600GTS wasn't even a good card when it came out, but the difference between this and my 8600GTS is huge. Off to play more Civ V.

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I need an upgrade from my 8600GTS. When I got the 8600GTS I was always intending it to be temporary. Three years later artefacts start showing up and I need a new card! My budget is in the region of £150, and if the trade off in performance isn't too great I would like to go below that.

Does anyone know any services where I can send some old family vhs tapes to be encoded to h.264 or MPEG2? We have about 10-15 hours of video. I don't know whether I want to invest in hardware that will likely only be used once, and there is also the issue of finding the time to encode myself...

I don't have any old glass worth talking about, but I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I think I'm going to wait for the D3100. In this case I would prefer something new with a warranty over buying used, and the weight of a semi-pro dslr is a factor, but thanks for the tip p0ss3s3d - I know where you are coming from.

I used to do a lot of hobbyist photography with a SLR (Nikon fm10), but I kinda fell out of it. However, I want to get back into photography and I'm looking to buy a DSLR. However, I have no idea what I should be looking at in a DSLR other than that Canon and Nikon seem to be the kings at the...

I currently have the windows 7 RC and I need to get the final release (I dual boot linux, and have not used windows for some time so the need to resolve has not been pressing). I don't have another version of windows to downgrade to. Will an upgrade edition for windows 7 work with windows 7...

Out of curiosity, why an i5 over an i7, and how do AMD and intel match up these days?

mobo, case, ram, cpu, optical drive, fans, psu and anything else important I can't think of

I don't need any software

What sort of build could I get for £600? I do not need a keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitors, hard drives, software, and GPU. I may consider OC'ing at some point.

I need to buy a capture card so that I can backup all of my family's old vhs cassettes as they are getting very old now and my mum is afraid of losing them for good. However, I don't see the sense in going to the expense of buying a capture card for a one off task (even if it is important), so I...

I'm pretty sure I'm about to buy a 311c today. What I need to know is whether it matters what 311c I buy. I'm seeing a lot of different 311c models: 1010SA; 1020SA; 1030SA; and 1101SA. What version does OCUK sell, and will the models have any affect on what I want to do; namely upgrade the RAM...

There isn't really any such thing as the "latest" linux, unless you are talking about the latest stable linux kernel (which is 2.6.32.3, and for the average user most changes with each increment are invisible | see here for more: http://kernelnewbies.org/). When we say 'linux' we tend to refer...

Well looks interesting, but the Alienware brand is one of the few brands I actively tend to avoid - because you would need be an idiot or ignorant of costs to buy most of their products - maybe this will prove me wrong! What can I get right now?