Sunday, July 27, 2008

£250 for a Quad Core PC!

Need a PC upgrade? Want a quad core? You can get the following for £257 including postage and VAT. This will get you a 2.4ghz quad core that should easily overclock to 3ghz with little effort.

Case (inc PSU) - Asus TM982 Black MicroATX Case with 400w aPFC PSU £27.50 £32.31
CPU (includes heatsink) - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 SLACR, Kentsfield Core, Socket 775, 2.40 GHz 1066MHz 8MB Cache, Retail £99.49 £116.90
RAM - 2GB Dane-Elec Celenade Major, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 6, Retail £18.99 £22.31
Motherboard (with VGA, Sound etc on board) - Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L iG31 Express, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX, VGA £31.00 £36.43
HD (sata) - 160 GB Maxtor STM3160211/15AS DiamondMax 20, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 2MB Cache, 9 ms £21.33 £25.06
DVDRW (sata) - Samsung TS-H653N 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x12 DVD-RAM SATA Lightscribe Black OEM £12.49 £14.68

Although if you have a little spare cash, I'd personally get 2x 1gb as the ram or 2x 2gb as ram so that it's being run in dual channel mode (quicker), and upgrade the HD. You can also get free postage (basically £10 off) if you're a participating member of Hexus.net forums.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Apple iPhone 3G Reviews...

Here's a quick 3 person review of the new 3G iPhone. It still lacks some pretty essential multimedia phone features that have come to be expected for several years now, and I'm pretty sure if your latest Sony / Nokia / Motorola / Samsung phone didn't have these features you'd be pretty "pissed off"... and yet for some reason people still buy the iPhone, even when it's missing:

Video recording
Copy and Paste
MMS message sending
Java
etc

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Neat Opera Tweak...

here is a great tweak for Opera Speed Dial - it lets you add more "buttons" to the speed dial. For those of you not familiar with Opera speed dial - it's basically your home page but with 9 links to your favourite sites... this tweak lets you add as many sites as you want. If you haven't tried Opera or don't use Opera, then this feature may convince you otherwise! :)