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I'm staying with my Thermaltake Xaser III case. PSU will be my current Zalman 500 watt one, only if it proves to be insufficient will I replace it, its the only part of my current machine thats anywhere near new and I'm lead to believe that it'll do okay. A hard drive enclosure is a possibility, but it'd mean removing one of my current 5 inch bay devices, two are expendable in practical terms though. Of course, things like that add on and add up. Yes, I have, but the capacity issue is a secondary one, is the issues of seek time under load and possible high noise during access for the raptor that are larger concerns. My music drive is 320 gigs and has more than enough space free, 250 gig for the storage and video drive, and thats also got enough space because I dont tend to keep all the video I download. By those standards, the 300 gig of the Velociraptor is going to be more than enough. I think that the terminology youve got is backwards, the hard drive is always the biggest bottleneck in any system faster than say, a thunderbird core athlon, particularly when it comes to the general responsiveness of the OS, and so, for me, is of far more important concern (and difficult concern) than the CPU (Core2 Q9450 or 9550 for this build). I'll have very little fan noise at all, the case fans in the Xaser are whisper quiet, only very slightly louder than the PSU fan. I'm going with an aftermarket passive cooling for the ATI HD4850, so the only fans turning will be the CPU fan (16db) PSU fan, and however many case fans it takes to generate negative internal case pressure. Which should hopefully be 2. Vista and OSX optimisations for SSD aren't relevent because I'm stayign with XP for the time being. Maybe a dual boot with Vista, to see if I can stand it. I'm also considering sticking with the old raptor 74 for a wee while, to see if OCZ drops prices or does worse as competition for mainstream SSDs picks up.

I'm going to build a new PC to replace my crumbling AthlonXP system, I've sorted out almost everything I'm going to go for, but I'm still having some indecision over the OS drive. Either the OCZ Core 64Gig SSD, or the Western Digital Velociraptor. I had the 74gig raptor in my primary Athlon XP system before it went unreliable and I was forced onto this crappy shuttle. The Raptor74 is so very crunchy noisy these days, I really don't want the Velociraptor to end up being that way, in spite of the claims that it is quieter than the previous raptors, and of course the SSD is silent. The rest of the PC is going to be as quiet as I can realistically achieve on an LGA775 platform and noise will hopefully be well under 25db so the last thing I want is a clunky drive, but the 300gig capacity and superior write speeds, and read speeds and seak times being far better during writes, make me want to go for the Raptor. Noise and read/seek time not-under-load tempt me to the SSD. Capacity is an issue too, 74 gigs was fine on my previosu system but having a new pc means I can catch up on games that I've missed out on like farcry, bioshock, tiberium wars etc, and those have got big installs. Anyone here got a Velociraptor and can comment on the noise level? Any opinions on the choice? Only other thing I'm not set on is a new monitor but thats going to wait a little time anyway.

Spend the money on books that tell you how to do the stuff you don't know, so that when you have the money to do the stuff you do know how to do, you'll know how to do it.

It is my opinion that you do strive for rudeness and thus your opinion is wrong.

I'd get a compact system. Squeezebox 3

Wanted electrostatic speakers since high school. I found the principle fascinating, far beyond my means tho. Killed off the Zalman 5.1 for the Koss ESP9 at the start of uni, replaced by Stax 2020, after that, it was a slippy slope to where I'm at now, which is where I've been for a while now. 2 years with the O2/AMT. Chunk of summer monies this year going to source upgrade though...

Frankly, its a good thing if the focus and money is on the E7/E9, it pulls market enthusiasm away from other, more worthy players, lowering the going rate. Edition 7 is the best headphone ever made tbh. Even if supermansears says the HF-1 is better.

Tabletop needs repainted black. Also the volume dial. Then the setup will collapse in on itself and form an auditory singularity.

Worked a 14 hour split shift. Time now for 6 hours kip before work tomo.

Comes with a 3-cell. I'll certainly have a 6 cell as well by the time uni starts again, and depending on how it changes the proportion of time i spend on certain machines, I might bump the hard drive up from the 80 gig stock to something more capacitous. Then I just need to get a Pico to plug into the side....

Advent 4211 (MSI Wind rebrand) and an extra 1 gig ram sodimm. It'll be nice to have a new laptop, my current one has a 33mhz 486 and 8 megs of ram.

^ Best avoided by actually gathering the gonads to do the asking. I lolled in an endearing way though.

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Turns out my HD414 must be originals, what with them being terminated with two 2-pin DIN speaker lugs. The connectors look the same, can I just whap an HD600 or HD560 cable onto the 414?

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I have decided that David Bowie is the next artist that I'm going to dive into after my past two dive-ins which were the far less famous Beggars Opera and Renaissance. Both of which were a while ago. Articulate for me, if you would be so willing, those of you who like a bit of Bowie, which of his CDs I shoudl begin my dive with. For an artist of his level of fame and influance I am basically, utterly blank listening slate, all I really know is Space Oddity and Starman. Thank you in advance.

My Hercules Prophetview 920 Pro broke, so im usng a Mitsubishi Dimond Plus 92, 19" CRT, which is about 2.something times the size of my computer. I'm gonna go for the 24 inch Iiyama flatscreen as my new TFT. Even though its a budget 24 inch panel, itll still surely be a world ahead of the 6 year old Prophetview.

Your penis can be inserted into a toaster, common sense dictates that it ought not to be done. I recon that the reason that label is there is because there has been at some point a lawsuit over someone very thick doing something very stupid.

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Grey is easier to get the bloodstains off of.

Leon Redbone was my entry to jazz. Hurrah for him.

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