Recent content by Toxteth O'Grady

Thought I'd buy a new i5-2500k rig as a Xmas present, so where better to look than OC3D reviews for the best components. This is what I've chosen to for my i5-2500k / Asrock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen 3 build: CASE PSU (Review was Cougar 1050W but decided 800W was enough for this rig) RAM...

Got a 3 year old rig. It's an ASUS P5K Premium / Q6600 / Enermax MODU 625W psu. I'm thinking about just upgrading the gpu from the 9800GTX. Any recommendations? What would be the best upgrade before bottlenecking by the rest of the system kicks in?Looking at Futuremark ORB a 560-ti would...

I think I've just had the best customer service experience ever. I bought a Dell 2408WFP monitor 3 years ago from an Ebay reseller. The monitor power supply died after about 18 months and Dell did a next day replacement with a brand new 2408. Recently the replacement monitor had begun to show...

For those who use MSE as their AV, Version 2 has been released. Not on Windows Update yet but can be manually downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft...32-33d813687a7f TOG

Gonna use a single C300 64G as Win7 64bit boot drive on the R3E.  There's topics all over the www about using the Marvel SATA 3 controller or the Intel ICH10 SATA 2 on this board for the C300 (single not RAID). Looks like it boils down to either using the Intel with TRIM and slower sequential...

Hi, Been out the loop for a while and it's been a couple of years since I built a rig (6600/Asus P5K).  Anyway I'd like to build a new gaming rig (W7/air cooled) and would like some help with where it's at right now in terms of best h/w.  Cost isn't an issue so if you guys could fill in the...

Just wasted 2 hours of my life and a Gig of my download bandwidth trying to update my iTouch to the new v2.2 firmware using iTunes pos. Anyway after 3 attempts at downloading 247 megs and getting an Apple network timeout error each time the downloaded just finished, I managed to find an answer...

Hi all, Been out the loop for 5 months doin' my bit for Queen and country. Anyway I've been asked to build a rig for somebody's 21st and would appreciate your up-to-date recommends for the components. It's mainly for gaming and cost isn't that much of an issue, although best value for money...

On sale at Maplin for 10 quid! Link :cool: TOG

.........would you guys recommend? Or suggestions for better/cheaper brands/versions of the 1950pro, please. http://www.advancetec.co.uk/acatalog/HIS_agp.html http://www.shop.bt.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4CTP#imagegallery http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?HIS-X1950P PC...

This is a genuine MS offer, see........ http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk/eligibility.asp :cool: TOG

Just bought a new gigabit switch and enabled jumbo frames on all my adaptors. Anyone know a good freeware app for testing actual bandwidth/throughput? :cool: TOG

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/6918675.stm Read more at the url in this poster then please go and sign the petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Headley :cool: TOG

Just bought this Buffalo HS-D300GL-1 LinkStation Home Server 300GB from Amazon UK for £129.99 inc. tax/shipping (US $256). Cheapest price I could find in the States, $323 inc. tax/shipping (£164) from Newegg. Cheapest other price I could find in the UK, £158 inc. tax/shipping from Dabs. In...

Looking to do an upgrade. I've got an X800 XT PE that I can't afford to replace yet, so I'm looking for advice on what would be the best performing AGP mobo/cpu combo to go with that graphics card? Money no object, I'd replace all three and obviously upgrade to pci-e but nowhere near enough...