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Where can I get information to see if my laptop is compatible with Ubuntu?

Pagefile will be disabled anyways, so looks like it's gonna be a waste of money for a little improvement. Thanks.

Basicly, is it worth getting one if the main storage is SSD anyways? For £37 extra is it worth it?

If it's equivalent to an 8 series I should be ok with most titles. I did just buy the stick of truth though.

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/ultraNoteII-14/EbCAs5GU67/ Looking to play 1080p over HMDI and old games / indie titles also over HDMI. Is it powerfull enough?

Found one :)

Did look for Defy XT but could only find other Defy models. Need UK site or site that ships to UK for a fair price.

Built like the proverbial "Brick Shit House", small, easy, full frequency, FLAC supported, no wireless connectivity, long life. Any pointers?

One of my drives is failing and needs to be RMAd. Can I image the whole array using an external HD, and continue to run windows from that image?

Does RAM consume more energy when full, opposed to empty RAM?

So, that's a yes but do it in the freebee section?

What's the forum policy on posting discount coupons for game referrals?

Can someone explain why "committed memory" isn't treated as being "in use"? If all my memory is committed then applications will start to fail from lack of "free memory" even though the amount "in use" is less than 20% of "available". It seems that if memory is committed then it is infact not...

Actually the Steelseries 7G caught my eye before, nearly bought it on impulse. Is the logitech g110 mechanical? The website doesn't say.

Mechanical keyboard sounds good. So recommend a mechanical keyboard. Actually I think my current keyboard is mechanical, only problem is it is beige and the multistroke is bad, 2 tops.

There are logs and they are related to the graphics card. However none are marked as critical and it doesn't look like they have occurred prior to the hangs.

Where are the event logs? (win7)

My current keyboard is comming to the end of its life (11years or so). The amount of crap that has worked is way in is starting to make me drop letters when typing. I need a gaming focused keyboard without fancy gimmicky crap. A few extra keys I can set to launch shortcuts of my choice would be...

You herd wrong, that would insulate the heat.

Something is crashing/stalling my PC overnight. I find the monitor blank with no signal comming from the graphics card, and I am unable to rouse it. Also the fan on the card is silent when it should be going full pelt from crunching. There have been no other faults or crashes. I assume it is a...

Gone with the Zalman, couldn't find a Katana over the pond. Anything is going to be better than the rubbish I have atm. If it is still too loud I can always fit a wifi card and hide it under the stairs.

If you have money to burn I recommend the zalman reserator V2. Silently cools my i7-975 @4142MHz and is very easy to install/run.

I want to turn an old PC into a dedicated box for distributed computing. I need a silent fan for the stock heatsink or a new heatsink/fan combo.

Is a killstrip really necessary when using (proper) distilled water? The mineral content of distilled water will be practically if not absolute zero, not to mention the osmotic potential. Isn't that enough to prevent algae? Or at least prevent significant growth? Wouldn't a killstrip cause...

No it really is passively cooled. If you want to get that picky then I move that no water cooled setup is passive, all of them using an active pump. The whole point is to eliminate/reduce the need for fans. BTW the ambient temp would actually be marginally lower with more radiators due to the...

Copper pipes no good unfortunately, has to be all aluminium to avoid the possibilty of galvanic corrosion

The case fans are slow and quiet. Barely audible in a silent room, and completely unoticeable against the computer audio. The temp of the exhasted air is far from hot, not even tepid. Switching them off is not an option, as air would then be able to enter the case without going through the air...

No amount of computer cooling is going to stop this from happening. It could be the biggest problem in your cooling setup i.e. you may be better off getting an aircon for your room to improve your temps. The most uber computer cooling system isn't going to do jack if there is nowhere for the...

Since december my zalman reserator v2 has done a nice job of cooling my i7@4.1GHz. Now the ambient temp is climbing and I'm relying on the rear fan on my tower more and more to keep cpu temp below 81 celcius under heavy load, by blowing cool air across the radiator. Speeding the fan up increases...

On the first board yes, but with voltages well below what has been used elsewhere e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3593&p=2 Second board I didn't even get a chance to OC.

1st one died in less than a week, 2nd one died in less than 2 days. A quick google reveals this is not uncommon. Wish I done that before I bought it. Bye bye ASRock. Hello ASUS P6T.

Well I got that backwards.

I have two WDC 500Gb drives in RAID 0. I was under the impression that data is duplicated and therefore I would have 500Gb usable space. However windows is showing 931Gb space. Is this right?

That would be a no then. Cheers.

Do I need an active miniDP->DP if I'm only using the mini displayport?

nvm

Do you own the AV40's? The Creative's have a wider frequency response 50Hz-20kHz vs 85Hz-20kHz.

Gaming, any music will be put through my Harman.

How about these? http://uk.store.creative.com/products/product.aspx?catid=4&pid=18020

Can you recommend some desktop speaker (2.0) models? Good to high quality <£100. Preferably with bass and treble control.