Morpheus

Sorry, my fault for pointing out the obvious.

I found these last night... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180587025528&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Just buying a VVTI so how much for the reader Chris?

Not much better I'm afraid! 50% = 12/24 questions in 8 minutes. Shocking! I knew I should have cheated! Let's hope SupraSteveo doesn't do better after my rant last night! Taxi!

Hmmmm, I didn't think about this being an issue. Must test it sometime. Anyway, after all this, CJ's telly probably has Component video input (analogue RGB and CMYK) and a VGA connector!

What about respect for the millions of foreigner's that 'we' have killed for no good reason, like the mindless, hypercritical thugs that us and The U.S. have become in the eyes of every other nation? One of "Our Boys" dies and it's headline news for a week whilst we drop cluster bombs on villages that are the same size and colour as yellow food packets so that children lose their feet looking for food. We are the world's biggest hypercrits. It's a testament to the courage and grace of Muslims (though not just them by any means), that you don't have real terrorism in this country on a daily basis. You can't have a war if no-one turns up and the sooner everyone figures that out the better. Personally I find the OP's lack of discipline and English language skills somewhat more offensive and frankly, quite disturbing after 10 or 11 years of schooling. People are easy to manipulate when they don't think for themselves and you're being told what to think and how to REACT. Try to imagine why someone does something that you disagree with instead of judging them unfit to breathe the same air. My Grandfather didn't survive D' Day to defend a country where people can't even be bothered to learn their own language. Most Asians on here have better English than the English.

I have only one concern Scott; it says that they're manufactured in The U.K. Now I know that they're lying! Make mine Graphite with grey, NO BLUE binding please! Black logo? NO, scrap that, BLUE logo anywhere visible. Midway centred. How do we pay? Paypal?

Awesome! International Karate+ is exactly the same as the original, even the jumping fish! I've still got it on the Atari 520/1040ST fully working. Must have been 1986-7 that this came out.

Cool CJ but I think you missed the bit where I said that you can still connect VGA to HDMI. Just not the sound. Use phono. VGA, DVI and HDMI all use three wires called RGB (Red Green Blue) but through different connectors. HDMI just integrates sound too for convenience. I'll find an adapter to show you.

Good choice I may have bought mine from Gearknobs.co.uk in their ebay shop, just found the card they put with it. Should be good though, either way. You can pull the handbrake surround off and feed the leather through from the bottom for a nice neat fit but it does make the rubber hard to stay put at the back unless you screw it perhaps.

Yep, Kingston are one of the best by all accounts. Not perhaps as good value as Scott's OCZ suggestion but if postage is an issue and taking into account that we're talking Euros now, look at the second and third on the list for 38 Euros each 2GB Pair. Not sure what D2 and B1 mean though. Can be looked up. Maybe Thorin knows? Proper good stuff though. I'll let someone else say that it all looks Greek to them! DOH!

CJ, what are you looking to do with the pc? I may have missed a meeting. If games are your thing, occasionally of course, you could do a lot better for the money than that card, adequate as it is for general stuff but onboard graphics chips are too. Infact, these days they're pretty good. All that matters with today's graphics cards is the ram being above 640-768MB (per board if it's a dual one like the ATI 3870X2, Nvidia 9800GX2 etc.) if you want to use AA (anti-aliasing) and the GB/s bandwidth figure. Clock speeds in MHz etc. are where the final GB/s number comes from, so forget them when comparing cards. GB/s goes up with the core clock speed and memory speed. It's the only number to use when comparing 'frames per second' performance except when using AA and quality settings when memory capacity is critical, since you're buffering 16 frames per displayed frame in memory for example. Then it uses memory more and it has to be above 640MB so 1GB is great. This card probably has only 40GB/s memory bandwidth though (if that) and for the money, you could get one with twice that and more. Mine are 136GB/s for example and now cost about the same as this 5550 second hand but in perfect condition. Seriously, you'll get a stonking card for the same money and if the seller has 100% feedback (as a seller mind) with say a hundred items+ sold then obviously you'll be fine, even if something should go wrong. That's why ebay works - feedback. So if you looked at second user cards, you'd get far better value. So what would it be used for most? Sorry if it's already been discussed.

Awesome job and just needs one of these to finish it off I reckon; http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOYOTA-SUPRA-MKIV-HANDBRAKE-GAITER-RED-LEATHER-93-02-/280453731403?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item414c58544b Look in my garage or below for the fitted item. Proper quality thick leather too and very strong stitching. Best fitted before the grip if you can find one. Don't know what mine is. Wtf? Had the car since May and I only just noticed that my left hand window switch plate isn't red like the right one! Ignore where they tried to pry the switch out and broke the plate! Ignore the 4 red switches too. Some donut thought it would look cool, I guess.

Absolutely all of them can be connected. All the newer ones will have HDMI but if you bought one it would say in the specs. Phono is the correct term. Yellow is composite video and of course, red and white are right and left audio respectively. You can use a stereo Phono to 3.5mm Jack plug Y cable from the green 3.5mm audio jack on the pc back or front panel directly to those on the t.v. for sound, though better quality I'm sure with your hifi or surround system etc. Then use a VGA adapter (15 pin D-Sub, the blue trapezoidal shaped one on the p.c.) to DVI for the picture. All older cards come with a DVI to VGA adapter (or two) and you probably have one already somewhere. I've got several unused ones.

Does the car have an engine? Can't beat a good bonnet shot if you ask me Always gets me interested anyway!

What graphics card have you now CJ? Got an old ATI X800XT which is fast enough for Half-Life 2 fully cranked up (as a reference, for those who know) and an Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB which also requires only one 6 pin PCIE power connector. Adapter if needed too. If money isn't so tight, look at the DX11 cards from ATI, e.g. 5850 or 5870 mid range. 5770 is also good value. You don't need anything for browsing and non gaming.

I'll second that Scott; good price. Our IT bloke at work uses ebuyer but I never really looked on there much. Must have not had something in stock or something and was put off. I did already suggest that I have some decent DDR2-800 (PC6400) going spare if you want it CJ (or anyone else for that matter), 4 x 1GB Supertalent CL5 and rock solid up to 1066MHz. When I 'upgraded' to Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 (my P35 board takes both DDR2 & 3) there was no appreciable difference. 3D Mark '06 went up just over 100 points from a 13000 odd score at the time. Great stuff and yours for whatever you'll offer?

Ebay in my opinion, as you'll be guaranteed to find what you need, plus it may well be cheaper and not necessarily second hand. You can pick up some real bargains, especially p.c. components. Most decent stores have an ebay shop now anyway. I always look there first. I have 502 positive feedback @ 100% as a buyer. Only had about three items not turn up in over 5 years. As long as they have 99. something % feedback, you're ok. Amazon.co.uk are also excellent but be careful. They have the same item at wildly different prices depending on which item batch you first clicked on. I guess they have different shipments at different prices but as with all purchases online, if you want the best price atleast, once you've found the item you want, re-enter it from the main search box and see if it comes up cheaper. Ebay can be annoying in that you spend ages looking and when you pay for it, they immediately show you all the other exact same items at sometimes cheaper prices that you 'might also be interested in'. I used to use Dabs but their security system during payment frustrated me so much that I cancelled my account. Scan.co.uk are great. Novatech are too. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ if they have it in stock, are also superb and reliable for next day but not sure about CityLink going to Greece!

I have a laptop and two pooters and have seen the Win 7, 3 user family pack on Amazon for £120 delivered. Can I get the standard one and still use it on three machines? Also, can I upgrade from a full version dvd like in XP or Vista if I don't want to start from scratch with any of them?

A fair point, to be sure! I just paid £165 for a 120GB Vertex from the States but I'll be using it for a new install of Win 7, if I can be convinced that it's better than Vista. Yet to be.

As would the OCZ Vertex II Sandforce SSD that I mentioned ages ago. It reads and writes at 250-275!

Win 7? Someone said Vista. Oh well, whatever, I'd just go with the ram first to make sure and if you don't see the improvement that you though you would, you can try the other options one by one. No point upgrading more than one component at a time or you won't know which was responsible for any improvement; same as a car engine unless you know what will definitely work.

Sorry, it makes sense to me! Seriously though, if the calendar is still damp, try to seperate the pages and press them between cardboard or cloth and stack something heavy on it to keep it flat whilst it dries out. Otherwise it will end up permanently wrinkled.

"More sense that than that"? I keep making similar mistakes myself. Takes me ages to post anything! I reckon it's something they put in the water and genetically modify into food and spray us from aeroplanes and add to so-called 'vaccines'! In the words of Kurt Cobain, "Just 'cos you're not paranoid, don't mean they're not after you". I think that Harvard's postman is infact an agent provocateur, probably working for The Mossad or MI6, deliberately trying to increase public unrest in order to justify mass surveillance and give an excuse to impose Martial Law and One World Government. I could be wrong (unlikely, I know) but how can there be any other logical explanation? To prove it, 'they' even modified the weather so that it rained on the exact same day as the calendar delivery. I mean, how did they know? I rest my case.

I don't want to step on any toes here but just overclock the processor to 3GHz+ CJ, if you even need to. Costs nothing except time. With Vista use 4GB Ram, period. XP you're ok with 2, even for setting the world 3d Mark '06 record. Clearing up the desktop & taskbar might help if you have dozens of icons on it as they're all memory resident. There are loads of programs to "Speed Up My PC!" as well but they vary in quality and can corrupt your registry. Try RegistryBooster though. I use it all the time to make sure it's ok. It's the main index for Windows and if that gets muddled up, you're in a world of hurt. I'd not recommend overclocking for a RAID setup though but I don't think you have that. More trouble than it's worth in my experience but then I clock the hell out of my cpu's, (5GHz E8600, 4.7GHz QX9770, 3.8GHz Q6600 etc.) and RAID keeps getting corrupted when the cpu voltage is a bit off. You don't have to go that far to get a noticeable improvement in some applications though. Memory speeds only decrease game level type loading times in any noticeable way and then only if you get the timings 'sweet' with the board and cpu etc. so capacity will make more difference to you with 2GB Vista. What board do you have? I have 4GB (4x1GB) of spare SuperTalent DDR2 800 (1066MHz) or 2GB (2x1GB) of DDR3 Corsair XMS3 1333MHz that I don't need but you'd have to have the same already to add that. As already said, just get another 2GB of what you have now, if you can find it on ebay. If not, I'll find it for you, trust me ;-) To get an idea of how fast your system is though CJ, for reference purposes if you do decide to change anything, download a copy of PC Mark Vantage (http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/pcmarkvantage/download/) or 3D Mark Vantage (Vista & 7) or the older 3D Mark '06 for XP onwards for those with gaming systems). That will give you absolute proof of any upgrade speed increases and where they occur. Run it before adding 2GB more memory, then after, to prove the difference but don't expect a miracle. Processors are just set to different clock speeds to make more money by tailoring them to an individual's finances and needs so it's ok to overclock them within limits. They could simply make and sell the top end processor (thus saving on tooling, packaging, marketing etc. of all the inferior derivatives) but the cpu would still be more expensive than the lower end chips so they have a couple of basic designs (e.g. Duo & Quad) and sell various clock speeds of the same chips depending on batch quality, stability etc. and the very fastest handpicked ones get sold for a LOT more but with very little physical difference. Your E5300 was it, is a downclocked version of my 45nm E8600, essentially. That runs at a standard clockspeed of 3.33GHz but will happily do 4GHz all day long on safe voltages with good cooling, as should yours. A good SSD will make the most practical difference once memory is up to 4GB in Vista though. Hope that all makes sense and doesn't make you wish that you hadn't asked!!?