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  1. uphillcastle

    best monitor for text

    any ideas for a monitor that displays text perfectly? under 500 quid? I got a 29 inch dell ultra sharp but hate the way it shows text :( (video looks fantastic, but text not so much?) Thanks
  2. uphillcastle

    streaming video to tv from laptop to xbox

    i'll give it a shot, cheers
  3. uphillcastle

    streaming video to tv from laptop to xbox

    And I am getting stuttery playback. On the laptop the vids are fine. My desktop is out of action, but it hasnt got a great graphics card installed. You think if i buy a mid range card for the DT and stream from there it should do the trick?
  4. uphillcastle

    Best Laptop under 500 quid

    Any ideas? Not for games but for dad...thanks :)
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    wd scorpio black 2.5 500gb clicking?

    could it be a problem with a faulty power adaptor? And is it normal for a hard drive to click every now and then? I have ran a few checks and it has passed each test...
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    wd scorpio black 2.5 500gb clicking?

    the hard drive crapped out on my dell m1330 laptop so i replaced it with a wd scorpio black 500gb that was about 1 weeks ago. but every now and then there is a clicking noise - the same clicking noise on my last hard drive, only far less frequent. about 3 - 40 mins between each click, but its...
  7. uphillcastle

    laptop hard drive failing

    cheers bud
  8. uphillcastle

    laptop hard drive failing

    My hard drive is failing on my laptop. (dell m1330) now I want to get all of my movies onto my desktop computer...whats an easy way of connecting them both? can I plug an ethernet cable into the laptop and into the desktop and be good to go or do I have to have some network set up, i was...
  9. uphillcastle

    laptop to hdmi monitor

    :) thanks guys
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    laptop to hdmi monitor

    hi, i want to hook up my dell xps m1330 to a samsung t260 via hdmi, could I get 1920 x 1080 from that? thanks
  11. uphillcastle

    laptop to hdmi monitor

    If I hook my laptop up to my 26inch monitor is there no way I can get 1920 x 1080 res if my laptops limit is 1200 x 800 ? would the gfx card on my laptop effect this? (Nvidia 8400m ) thanks
  12. uphillcastle

    007 spyware?

    ****. Is running spybot in safe mode going to sort it out? i think its gone...not sure how i picked it up....
  13. uphillcastle

    007 spyware?

    hi guys just got back from holiday run SPYBOT and it came up with 007 spyware --- was reading what it is used for, snap shots screen etc,, sounds pretty heavy is it cause for alarm? thanks
  14. uphillcastle

    Best courier to post Monitor with?

    same here...parcel force insure monitors?
  15. uphillcastle

    ****OFFICIAL I7 980x HEX CORE OVERCLOCKING THREAD****

    I dont want to hijack this thread...but I know nothing of overclocking. I dont play games. But I do lots and lots of 3d work (started last year) so I obviously need to do lots and lots of rendering. Was wondering whether this CPU would kick ass on rendering speeds compared to my Q9650 that I...
  16. uphillcastle

    Blue screen of death...

    its been running about 2 hours 14 mins... 3 passes and no fails/errors...do you think I should run it all night or........?
  17. uphillcastle

    Blue screen of death...

    hmm haha yeah thought so...cant remember now when it went bad...installed some strange poker software maybe...but i just put a new windows on today and it still crashed...will try the memory thing,,,thanks
  18. uphillcastle

    Blue screen of death...

    Thanks man, no I havent overclocked it...Although on core temp it keeps saying that the multiplier is x8.... leaving my q9650 chip at something like 2.4/2.6? Well I turned the mulitplier up to 9 to make it 3.0ghz(thats what it said on the box!:D)...just thought id mention it for what its...
  19. uphillcastle

    Blue screen of death...

    So I have heard about this and now its happening to me...I built my desktop and now its getting the BSOD intermittently which is annoying as i need to do serious work on it... Heres what the computer said: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version...
  20. uphillcastle

    overclocking noob question

    I dont have any water cooling or anything, but I picked up a Tuniq tower which is a bit of beast for air I think...I will have a little tinker around and see how I fair, cheers
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