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Desk mount monitor arm installed

Thought about getting a desk mount monitor arm for a while, so decided to ask for it as a gift. Below is a photo of it installed and the Kogan TV I use as a monitor/tv attached. Think it’s great, … Continue reading

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HP Proliant N40L

I know am a little behind, but I too am considering the purchase of a HP Prolian Microserver. Considering a N40L, which is the replacement to the N36L. With 4 x 2Tb drives, I figure it would make a good … Continue reading

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Thinking about getting an SSD after all.

My birthday is around the corner, and I am out of ideas on what to get, but the first thing to spring to mind is an SSD. So considering the purchase of a Corsair Series 3 2.5″ 120Gb SSD. As … Continue reading

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Purchased another 8Gb of ram

With the price of ram still dropping, I thought it was a good time to buy another 8Gb kit. So I did. My i5 2400 now has 16Gb of ram total. System seems to boot quicker just by adding the … Continue reading

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New mouse purchased

I bought myself a Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse a while back and was waiting on it arriving. It arrived while I was on holidays. Just plugged it in today and must say I am quite impressed. The tracking is so … Continue reading

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Excellent Service

You have to give thanks where it is deserved. I’d like to give a thanks to Arc Computers in Liverpool, who assisted me today with the swapping of a front case (and all associated cables/PCB’s) of a Fractal Design R3 … Continue reading

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New machine – Intel i5 2400

Purchased new bits to build an Intel i5 2400, as I wanted to get a reasonable good machine put together that will allow me to purchase and play battlefield3 when available in October. Not only that it will allow me … Continue reading

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Purchases from Dell Outlet site

Was going to build up a machine to use for the Hyper-V labs I need to do later this year, when I finally get up to the books dealing with it. However kept looking around at other options. I purchased … Continue reading

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Mythtv and PS3

As per Simon Rumble I found the PS3 to have a reasonable good UPnP client too. Although the PS3 wouldn’t play back recordings that had obivously had some modifications done. ie. cutlist changes etc. Once the recording goes into nuv … Continue reading

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Lots of screen resolution = sweet

Just purchased a Benq E2200HD LCD monitor. It’s a 21.6″ widescreen with 1920 x 1080 resolution. Has d-sub, DVI and HDMI 1.3 inputs. All I can say is that running at native resolution is unreal. It’s like literally having dual … Continue reading

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