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[PAH]

Possible liquid cooled processor and graphics card.

Liquid cooling is great. Get the temperature right and you can put tropical fish in the case, which is why so many have those windows in the side. Just remember to tape up all the gaps before filling with water.

[The Lone Gunman]

I went and built exactly the same 3 weeks ago, all wrapped up in a nice and shiny/girlfriend friendly Antec Fusion v2/430 case, 2x500Gb Samsung Spinpoint SATA II's disks, 8Gb high speed Kingston RAM, Intel quad core Q6600 and a silent set of fans (again girlfriend friendly).. complete overkill i know for a HTPC but it makes for a great gaming pc when on my own.. let me know how it goes TLG.

All in cost around £1,000, although i did shop around and visit the usual suspects:

Dabs
Aria PC
Microdirect
The Cooling Shop

<Chef in "it was cold, i was bored so I bought a new PC" mode>

I am looking at a Zalman 160XT+ box with a 7" touch screen. A 150 Raptor main drive and 2 Western Digital 500 gig secondarys. 8600 with hdmi out for graphics. Possible liquid cooled processor and graphics card.
Not sure on motherboard but want the core 2 quad core

The raptor has a viewing window (god knows why) and there is a chassis designed with a window to show it. Not sure if thats cool or kitsch.

[bogeyman]

Hercules mono.

Bah! Trust you to be stuck in the Silurian age.

I'm a CGA man myself. Nothing less than 16K static video RAM will do for my demanding applications.

Just look at those eye-popping magentas, groovy cyans and those jaggy circles.

[Churchill]

I went and built exactly the same 3 weeks ago, all wrapped up in a nice and shiny/girlfriend friendly Antec Fusion v2/430 case, 2x500Gb Samsung Spinpoint SATA II's disks, 8Gb high speed Kingston RAM, Intel quad core Q6600 and a silent set of fans (again girlfriend friendly).. complete overkill i know for a HTPC but it makes for a great gaming pc when on my own.. let me know how it goes TLG.

All in cost around £1,000, although i did shop around and visit the usual suspects:

Dabs
Aria PC
Microdirect
The Cooling Shop

<Chef in "it was cold, i was bored so I bought a new PC" mode>

What do you run that uses/stresses your quadcore and what display adapter do you have?

[chef]

The LG multi blu reads and writes blu ray and reads HD.
HTPC is home theatre pc as previously stated.
HD is not necessarily dead yet as (I believe) it is quicker and may be the pc gamers platform of choice.
May revise the choice of drive if HD is dead.
Other features are graphics card with HDMI tv connection. 7.1 surround sound card and dual tv and satelite TV card allowing unit to be a PVR. Watch one record another digi recorder.
Planning v fast hard drive wit 1T of secondary storage.

Looking at approx 1500 quid dependant on spec. Mine will cost that in components.

I went and built exactly the same 3 weeks ago, all wrapped up in a nice and shiny/girlfriend friendly Antec Fusion v2/430 case, 2x500Gb Samsung Spinpoint SATA II's disks, 8Gb high speed Kingston RAM, Intel quad core Q6600 and a silent set of fans (again girlfriend friendly).. complete overkill i know for a HTPC but it makes for a great gaming pc when on my own.. let me know how it goes TLG.

All in cost around £1,000, although i did shop around and visit the usual suspects:

Dabs
Aria PC
Microdirect
The Cooling Shop

<Chef in "it was cold, i was bored so I bought a new PC" mode>

[Churchill]

Is the processing speed as slow as the owner?

It's nowhere near as fast as me but considerably better performing than you.

[oracleslave]

It works very well too. Just like its owner!

Is the processing speed as slow as the owner?

[Churchill]

Ah well don't worry too much. At least it looks nice.

It works very well too. Just like its owner!

[TheFaQQer]

Good job you don't work for Sony then. It would cost you more than in the shops.*


* assuming it's true that they make a loss on each unit sold.

Wasn't much cheaper for MS.

But buying games at cost + 5% saved me LOADS, since that's where all the money is

[oracleslave]

Vaio with a blu-ray drive...

I did!

Ah well don't worry too much. At least it looks nice.

[Churchill]

Get a PS3

HTH.

Vaio with a blu-ray drive...

I did!

[PAH]

I got the console for cost + 2.5% when they first came out.

Good job you don't work for Sony then. It would cost you more than in the shops.*


* assuming it's true that they make a loss on each unit sold.

[TheFaQQer]

Get a PS3

HTH.

I used to work with the Microsoft distributor for Xbox - the staff discount scheme means that a PS3 is not an option for me

I got the console for cost + 2.5% when they first came out.

[oracleslave]

Hopefully Microsoft will do something quickly to put a dual player into an XBOX 360.

Get a PS3

HTH.

[Spacecadet]

BUT - are Blu Ray still refusing to do p0rn??? Good job that bitTorrent does is fine

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