im just a bit worried this new HD might be coming from Japan. If so it could have a oleg 2 week delay! Pushed the boat out and got 16gig ram :shock: im greedy! also went with the gtx 570 Need to start thinking about buying ROF :D Dec Think a couple of my components comes with a free copy of that gam...

Graham not sure if you've ordered your parts yet but I can't see any probs with these sata 3 drives working at full speed. The Asus P6p67 pro supports sata 3 so should run at full speed. overclockers.co.uk a new drive due in on wednesday. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-071-O...

Not had a chance to have a look Nix but ill check it out tonight.

Classic!

well so far it doesn't seem to make much difference. Having a card in 16x16 or 8x8 seems to produce similar results when benchmarked. http://hardocp.com/article/2010/08/23/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x8x8/ http://hardocp.com/article/2010/08/25/gtx_480_sli_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_...

Duel core GTX580 just around the corner, this will push card prices down or maybe you would like to buy one!

Looking at motherboards today I noticed with a lot of boards with 2X PCIE 16X they drop in speed when running in SLI or Crossfire. Example, the board I was thinking of buying (Asus P8P67 pro) will drop from 16X to 8x per card when putting in Sli or Crossfire. Not sure how much of a problem this woul...

Before you go out and buy the new sandybridge processor have a look at this

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/31/inte ... um=twitter

throwing another spanner in the works!

New cards due for feb. If i do start my pc build ill hold out for a few weeks to see how these new cards do. if anything this might drop the price of top end cards http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/1024-cuda-Cores-GF110-dual-GPU-Geforce-GTX-590,news-34914.html interesting to see how hot and much power t...

Noter was speaking with Gadje lastnight and he spoke about a new Nvidea card just released. GTX 560ti (mid range or affordable super fast GPU) For me this would be around £200 this looks to be more than you want to spend but i would really consider this card, for the price it's not too far off the p...

Nice 1 Vranac, you've been very helpful.

Now get back to making rudder pedals from old sewing machines!

Thanks Vranac

I think the OEM's are sold without the standard cooler.

right..... so thats the processor sorted!

I7-2600k OEM version £254.99 good price!(better if it was a tenner) will look at alternate coolers.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productli ... subid=1859

Vranac spoke about these processors lastnight. Not being an intel boy im not really up to speed with these processors but ill change to this if it's more suitable for gaming. Think the 950 is probably more suited to graphical design and rendering.

I'll have a wee look at these Sandystanes!