Recent content by Brynadinaling

I did hear that intel themselves set the prices, and that only "microcentre" in the US was giving away i5's to walk in costumers for any less than the online price. Its certainly true in the UK, Amazon, Scan, Ebuyer, Overlockers all have the same price.

Thats about £140 which is at least cheaper than it is over here

Ah, I see. Although the point could be argued that with the many features that more recent consoles have to incorporate (online multiplayer, TV & films streaming, social network access, Multimedia functions including blu ray, cloud usage, rumours of constant internet requirement ect ect)that...

Ok thank you for the advice, I shall research more into the 3570k. I'm happy it would be more powerful than the consoles although would you not say Nvidia's constant driver updates for specific modern games would also keep up with the optimisation of the Console games? I am an Nvidia person...

Despite my aware of the difference between Heat & temperature, I'm wary of the 3570k high running temperatures, and its 10% performance increase can be met easily by a slight overclock on the 2500k, and I'm interested in the sandy bridges stable overclocking potential (Although I'd probably only...

Hold up here man,your talking banking and loans, thats not my bag. I suppose I'll just save up and buy it all.

really it depends on the age of the game, The driver support and how well the game is optimised, I saw a video of someone playing Farcry 3 on one at respectable settings, either they were lying or had a few of them overclocked in SLI cause the reccomended Card for Far Cry 3 is a GTX670 (around...

In my expected time scale Id rather purchase it as I go along to keep me motivated over the coming months, else If I just hoarded the money I'd probably just go and buy a f**k off massive TV

I'm in the process of purchasing and building something of a Midrig, the specs are as follows Corsair CX-600 PSU (£52) (already have) Casecom CS-13 Full tower case (£32) (already have) GTX660 graphics card (£168) Pioneer Blu ray drive (£60) Pioneer DVDRW (£19) 8gb Corsair Vengeance LP (£42)...

the 650 2gb is a little limited on power, I would save up and get a GTX660 which wipes the floor with it, or get a Radeon for a similar price thats more powerful, the mid range radeons are generally better power for the money at mid range level. the same goes for your FX CPU, if you can get an...

I have to underclock my 610 on my 280w PSU just slightely to around 731mhz for it to not freeze, but it depends on how much power the rest of your pc is using. I quite surprised by the power of it though, able to run S.T.A.L.K.E.R shadow of chernobyl and Prey no problems at around mid...

Depends how much you have to spend, the question is AMD 4 core FX 4100 or 2 core intel i3 which both go for the same price. surprisingly in bench mark tests overall the i3 is still better due to the FX chips using of slowing down when not really being used. gaming are mostly better on intel, its...

How backwards compatible are these new PSUs?

Ah thats no worry, I've a mountain of cable ties, a Full tower case and Ill try to use as many of the leads as I can.

Oh and its a Corsair builder series 600W just in case you wanted to know.