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    Building a $1600 Rig for a friend

    thanks... I am going to upgrade to a thermaltake toughpower 600W instead... the 12v rails are 18amps each, a total of 36amps for the 9800GTX+.
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    Building a $1600 Rig for a friend

    I've changed the graphics card to a 9800GTX+ (galaxy), it's silent at idle so i ditched the zalman cooler and saved money
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    Building a $1600 Rig for a friend

    lol I think the joystick would be fine, the pro is $50 in aus(don't even need that many buttons!!). Made some revisions and I'm about to order everything, I'll take heaps of photos for you guys. I'm not aiming for overkill silence, but economical silence. The total 'silence' budget is $110 if...
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    Building a $1600 Rig for a friend

    Okay, my friend is getting a new rig and they couldn't avoid my expertise. I'm about to order all the parts, but first I'm open to comments to see what I can change. This would be for Gaming and as an All-rounder. I'm aiming for extreme reliability and very low noise level, I will not be...
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    I need to low-format a fake Chinese USB Drive from 32GB to 8GB (actual capacity)

    Yeah my friend bought a few of these in China and they're fakes lol. Does anyone know what the exact formatted capacity of an 8GB drive is? I need to low-format this drive so I can sell them off as 8GB so they work fine. Basically in windows explorer it shows 32GB but it corrupts after 8GB, so...
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    Broken Hinges and Severe Cracking - Where can I find new Upper Laptop Enclosure??

    I'll be needing 2 new hinges and the enclosure for the top half, the damage hinge is bent, the LCD in the picture should be parallel to the bottom half, and the other one is about to fail also. This was only slow wear and tear damage lol!
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    Broken Hinges and Severe Cracking - Where can I find new Upper Laptop Enclosure??

    My Laptop is an MSI Megabook ex600. 2.4ghz T7700, 2GB DDR2-667, 15.4", 8400M G 256MB. I don't know how to fix this, I'm looking for a complete replacement for the top section of the enclosure(housing the lcd screen, webcam, and apparently antenna). See for yourself: Everything works...
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    Planning some upgrades: new motherboard, ram, monitor

    Okay. My graphics performance isn't that good, I blame my x4 Pci-e slot. Crysis and Flight Simulator X aren't played that well. I also want to go past 1280x1024, and my tiny monitor, I think it's well old. It's 17" and 16ms. The motherboard, It needs replacing, which mean I'm going to need some...
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    New TV and Home entertainment system

    Guys I have no idea what tv to buy. My budget is about $2000-3000, I'm looking for the biggest full-hd tv possible, a good speaker setup (I might buy them all separately), and a blue-ray player (either a PS3, a htpc which I'll build, or just a standard blue-ray player) Suggestions would be...
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    How do I paint my '900 black, It will look awesome

    I'm not much of a painter/DIY person lol Can you please explain scuffing, primer, clear coat
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    How do I paint my '900 black, It will look awesome

    I want to paint all the unpainted metal visible, the hard drive cages, the pci slots, the back of the case, I can't be fucked about the bottom Do I need to remove all the case fans?
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    How do I paint my '900 black, It will look awesome

    Do I spray the paint directly on my case, or do I sand it or something first? Heres what it looks like before And after :D *A quick photoshop job lol, to bad I can't photoshop reality :( It should look like that though I just need to know how to do it, and what layers ect should I do
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    2 email accounts open at the same time?

    my favourite is windows live mail desktop, it should run all the standard email protocols, and It runs all my emails (like 5) at the same time, and I can drag emails into other accounts folders
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    Built-In case firewire not working

    I have an antec nine hundred my motherboard is an Asrock 4CoreDual-Sata2 I can't get the firewire to work. I plugged the two identical plugs, one for usb the other for firewire, Does this mean I need an integrated firewire mobo for this feature to work?
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    Need a presentation remote for huge distances afew hundred meters

    yeah, It's pretty much a powerpoint
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    Need a presentation remote for huge distances afew hundred meters

    We are renting the local greater union cinema, the distance from the projection room to the floor must be afew hundred meters. We have to use hand signals and hints in the microphone lol to get the next slide changed. Anything that can go so far?
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    Update from Geforce 8600 512mb to 8800 512mb Gts?

    Heres a full article with benchmarks about it: SLI performance boost! GeForce 9600GT Review - Expreview.com
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