check my new rig for me?

[staffsMike]

Could always make your way to bolton to pick it up

[lost eden]

Could always make your way to bolton to pick it up

It's actually not as far as I thought, only 264 miles each way! Still, that's a long way on my bike & I don't know what tte police would say to a guy cycling up the M74 balancing a PC on the mudguard!

Ironically, that's the distance Apple expected me to travel to get my MacBook repaired.

[staffsMike]

But surely the macbook "just works"?

[lost eden]

I was half expecting them to tell me that the distortion on the LCD was a 'feature'.

But seriously, it arrived broken, they don't send out technicians nor do they send out couriers, so you have to take the machine in person to 'your local Apple centre' which happens to be 125 miles away across a country border. Then they take 2 weeks to repair it & expect you to do the trip over again to collect it! In the end, I travelled over 500 miles, spent £30 on train tickets & lost 2 days to the blighters. Suffice to say, buying a Mac was a mistake that I pay for every day & I will never buy another one in my enture life!

[staffsMike]

Careful with the language you will lose that free delivery if you're not careful

I agree though apple are pretty bad, I would never touch one but my brother loves them.

[lost eden]

I can't wait until I can justify upgrading to a nice new Linux-running Thinkpad...

[amjedm]

Is the PSU in the Asus TA-37 any good? If its usable its on Today Only (about half way down) for £12.91...it doesnt look great but at that price...

I ordered one last time it was at that price.

As they say in the ad - the psu alone is worth that much. It has 120mm rear exhaust and IMO for the price you can't get better.

staffsMike:

Lanky123:

I wouldn't trust a 360W Asus considering that I will be running 4+ hard drives & possibly a beefier graphics card in this thing sometime in the near future. Plus, that case leaves somethings to be desired visually in my eyes!

The case doesn't look as bad as in the picture IMO.

[lost eden]

Well, I've just bought a cheap dualhead quadro (PCI) so that I can run triple/quad screens when I'm all set up. This is going to be fun

Edit: got a question. Which will provide the best analogue stereo output, the Intel HD Audio onboard the motherboard, or my venerable SoundBlaster Live! Value which currently resides in my media machine? I run a stereo setup through a 1970's amplifier, so I'm not worried at all about the extra channels, digital outputs or anything like that.