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Ive had a 2496 for about 18 months now and its been perfect the whole way, no issues at all . Might try something higher up the m-audio ladder in future but for now the 2496 will do me fine :)

Fixed. :)

The problem is you've had 3 different people handle the case who obviously don't communicate. As others have said, just call them on the hellophone and start yelling, works all the time.

I'm pretty sure that the RCA speaker wires were used with the original batch of z5500s but they removed them and went back to normal black/red speaker wire so people could cut it to length. If you order one youll most probably get one with red/black speaker wire (like i did). could always...

I had the original/XT ratpad and then the GS but wasnt all that impressed. The original/XT was very good, a thick piece of plastic that didnt bend and took ages to wear down, mine lasted around 12 months before the wearing down became noticeable. The GS was the biggest piece of crap. They...

Who the hell buys an mp3/video player for those features anyway? Thats what phones are for As for the Zune, i'm in Aus and they havent even announced a release date yet which sucks but i'll be getting one the day they come out (mainly due to its sound quality)

The general rule with heatsinks IMO is the more surface area the better, mass of the fins doesnt weigh in nearly as much as the amount of surface area they provide. Damn OSU lol, posted while i was writing :p

No factions, no neon and no etherals? sounds like you spent most of your time in Trammel at the bank prancing around in Daemon Armour on a Nightmare with a Glacial Staff. Sorry, but factions and ridiculous haircuts were the basically the only good things in UO.

Final Fantasy 7 for sure

I dont care how much people will complain that these results are 'stupid cause its done with LN' and 'not an every day system' but 23,000 in 3dmark06 is friggin crazy :p

Sounds like the most boring thing i could possibly imagine.

Flight sim.

Another big reason to get a Dell is warranty. If you get 1 dead pixel you can get an advanced replacement monitor within 2 - 3 days pretty much no questions asked. Plus, the Dell looks nicer :)

just copy the save game folder out and fresh install the graphics drivers then farcry then just stick the save games back in, should work a treat.

Simple answer: A cheaper card (AV-710 for less than $40 for example) is able to output just as good if not better digital signal than the X-Fi. The Z5500 has just as good if not better DAC (digital-analog-converter) than the X-Fi plus your minimising the possible interference the signal...

Yay for another sucker to Creatives marketing! Like others have said, positioning has pretty much nothing to do with EAX let alone any of Creative's technologies. As for the Auzentech, i must say it looks rather awesome, I especially like the caps they used and the fact you'll probably be...

If you use your speakers for music i highly suggest you get a digital cable (optic or coax) as itll increase the quality of the sound by a tonne. Also, as 99.9% of music is just 2-channel stereo the fact digital might not do 5.1 shouldnt matter. You can make the Z5500s output 2-channel stereo to...

The cable theyre refering to is probably just a digital cable (optic fibre or coax cable) which transmits the music to the amp/speakers as data instead of an analog signal(its not application dependent, all sound will be sent as data). Digital is used to get a cleaner signal to the amp with less...

Yes. You could even run 8 30" monitors if you had 8 dual-link dvi ports.

Freespace 2 - One of the best games ever made Freespace 2 w/ Deralict - One of the best games ever made with one of the best mods ever made

I'm a massive Razer fan but this soundcard looks terrible. If it had digital-out, digital-in, 5.1 analog-out, analog-in and a built in 2 channel headphone amp equal to a Pimeta or something and wasnt designed to be linked to a tacky pair of 7.1 headphones it'd be great, but it doesnnt have...

Just use the X-Fi's digital-out, itll sound the same as the optical (same 1's and 0's). Ive got mine running through digital on a M-Audio 2496 and the z5500s sound excellent. Only thing is you cant use them to power headphones to any degree, but apart from that theyre awesome.

DEFCON!!!

The D620 is better built out of better materials and comes with a far better warranty(3yrs business). The e1405 is a nice laptop but i'd take the d620 every time based on the above mentioned advantages alone. You may not get a glossy screen but id hardly get swayed by that. The quadro you...

ive used a cobalt flux and its friggin awesome, even better than the arcade machines id say. Its built incredibly solid and you can use it your shoes on which is a nice change to most other pads which break after a couple of weeks. It may cost alot but its worth it cause itll last for ages...

Well i know for a fact that the 120m (in the d820) is just a 7400 with different drivers so my guess would be that the 110m is probably just a 7300 with dif drivers but im most likely widely innaccurate about that. But as others have said itll perform between a 7300 and a 7400 so itll...

QFT. The Firingsquad article explained the merits of their system versus HardOCP without simply saying that HardOCP's system was 'BS'. I personally really dislike HardOCP's style of reviewing because it just confuses the issue. When i read a review of a CPU or Video Card, i want to know how...

Are mac's bulletproof? No But toughbooks are :) News article

Opposing Forces definately is (explains how Black Mesa ends) but Blue Shift is more a side-story, doesnt have too much story but its definately worth playing. No idea bout Codename Gordon but my guess is its nothing to do with the main story.

Hero: Twinsen Villain: Dr Funfroc

The two are very different but the overall differences are clear. Oblivion - Incredibly shit storyline(what little there was) with no emotion, no depth and a gameplay style thats very mediocore. Nice graphics though, if you can run them. Final Fantasy - Awesome story, in-depth characters...

Theres a cooler which was going to be released later this month by arctic cooling(which is now slated for August) called the accelero S2 which is a massive passive cooler which has a 7800gs version (the only aftermarket cooler either out or in planning that will fit it). Though its passive...

Best game scheduled for release this year is definately DEFCON. Made by the guys who did Uplink and Darwinia, it'll be out round September and is gonna be awesome. It focuses on gameplay and strategy as opposed to eye-candy and 'new tech' which is something too often forgotten these days.

Sennheiser Orpheus....:p Nah man just buy some HD-280 Sennheisers or Allesandro MS-1s and call it a day. Any headphones built for 'gaming' (such as the siberia) are always pretty crap and 5.1 headphones all suck big time. Also, stay far far away from Bose, they suck so hard its a joke...

Seems like a nice idea but as others have said, its been talked about for ages but not actually implemented. That and the fact companies would just rather use tapes because theyre faster and higher capacity, you just cant put them near really powerful magnets lol. Holographic disks are nice...

I know that, PCs will always be the testbed for new technologies because the turn-around time for new technology is so short on PCs as opposed to a console which cant change for multiple years. The demand for new graphics technologies however isnt limited to that of the gaming sector, yes it did...

Actually its more Dell, HP etc buying miriads of low end video cards, mobile video chipsets and system chipsets that keeps them going, high-end cards are just for bragging rights and publicity. Don't forget the millions of gfx processors in consoles round the world too. Most 'gamers' are on...

'Streams' was just used for explinations sake but your right in the sense that the PPU doesnt do lots of different things at once, it does tonnes of things one after the other. Just replace 'Streams' with the word 'Processes' and it sounds better :)

USB and SATA people are missing the point. It doesnt matter if USB or SATA could carry 10000000gb/s, they're all too slow in terms of latency. SATA may have 3gb/s but thats a sustained single read or write, not thousands or millions of different streams a second(which is what the PPU will be...

Like i said before, english dubs always suck, nothing to be surprised about.