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Ashley

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I thought it wasn't too bad until you said Currys, just never let them fix it.

 

Otherwise, I had a HP a long while back, lovely machines.

 

I'll just ask the IT guy at work :p

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Bought nearly all my components to build my first PC today (for gaming), takes so much longer than you'd think to research what the best / cost efficient components are. Should be fun working out how to put most of it together!

 

 

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£55 - Antec 300 two case with usb 3.0 (ebuyer.com) - Has front USB 3.0 ports, apparently very airy to prevent overheating. Woot?

 

 

 

 

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£110 - ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 Motherboard (dabs.com) - Seems pretty slick from reviews and supports crossfire/SLI with front USB 3.0 connectors too.

 

 

 

 

 

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£39.97- 8GB Corsair CML8GX3M2A1600C9 Low Profile Vengeance 1600MHz RAM (Amazon) - Wow, RAM sure got cheap these days.

 

 

 

 

 

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£175 - Intel Ivy Bridge Core i5-3570K Processor (Amazon) - almost the same price as the Sandy Bridge and marginally better. It's unlocked (hence the K) so should be able to get this up to at least 4.5GHz.

 

 

 

 

 

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£28.50- Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO processor cooler (ebuyer.com). One of the best apparently.

 

 

 

 

 

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£89 - Crucial 128GB M4 SSD (ebuyer.com) - Should make mincemeat of OS bootup and general load times

 

 

 

 

 

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£109.26-Corsair CMPSU-750HX Professional Series 750W Power Supply (ebuyer.com) - Quite pricey but worth every penny. Modular so no cable clutter, 7 year warranty and one of the most efficient and trusted. Got more wattage than I needed to allow for crossfire if I want to do that at some point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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£10 - 2 x Antec TriCool 120mm 3 speed fan (amazon). - Fans...umm...fans. :p

 

 

 

 

Still need to buy:

 

 

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£200 - Radeon HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 Twin Frozr III graphics card (awaiting stock on Novatech). Seems to be an amazingly efficient/low temperature card that can easily be overclocked to equal top tier cards.

 

 

 

 

Already have:

 

Keyboard/mouse/HDD/DVD-RW/Win7

 

Comes to a fair bit but should last quite a while. :)

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Just spent about £50* on (3) tickets to see these hipsters from Mars play in London and Birmingham in October.

 

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Means I'll see them 4 times these year! Shame I can't make the NYC tickets I booked, would be nice to see them 5 times in a year.

 

 

*seemingly most of that on Ticketmaster handling charges. £12.50 ticket plus £1.25 booking fee + £5.50 delivery. In fact that's half the cost of the ticket itself!

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I did see the birds, but I'm still having a hard time seeing it's a scarf. :heh: It looks pretty, though. :)

 

I think it's already bunched up. Imagine it spiralled up with the neck hole at the top.

 

 

Or it's not bunched up, and nigthwolf has a really weird shaped neck.

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