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How? If you screw up soldering you can either use a solder remover or cut the wires and try again. Unless you were stupid enough to turn it on before checking you'd done it right.

You can't fix dead pixels. Stuck pixels are different.

Don't pay $40 for a PSU. If you open up your PSU you may be lucky enough to find that the fans use normal 3-pin connectors - in which case you wouldn't have to do any soldering. Otherwise, if you do decide to solder, make sure the colours of the wires match up and the PSU has been unplugged for a long time before operating on it (common sense).

If you had a head crash then there will generally be plenty of inaccessible sectors and you're better off getting a new drive.

My plans are to chastise my fianc̮̩̉̉e for subscribing to an over-commercialised, meaningless day. If she makes a fuss over me.

Objectiveness FTW. I am a hardcore PC-only-ist, yet the games I have spent the most time on over the past month have been emulated versions of Mario 3 and Super Mario World. If you think graphics are all that make a system then that's fine. You're just wrong, is all.

Good god: Good thing I didn't already say EXACTLY THE SAME THING a few posts ago. Does no one bother reading anything other than the first post?

I know I for one don't use them to remove wax; I use them to scratch the inside of my ears when they're itchy. Which, thinking about it, may be because of wax, but considering how often I do this I'd guess that it isn't.

And what would it accomplish? What would it actually do?

So there is stuff between the router and the laptop then. That's totally not true... You will easily reach 1Mb/s (128KB/s) when downloading files. If it were true then there would be no market for 2Mb/s+ connections.

I know nothing about this movie, but I saw a trailer for it before I watched Borat. All I remember was thinking "sounds suspiciously like Aragorn."

802.11g uses adaptive rate selection to choose a data rate appropriate to the signal strength. If you're far away or there's lots of material between you and the router it will switch to a lower data rate to maintain a decent bit error rate. Otherwise you'll end up getting loads of transmission errors and the data rate may effectively be slower anyway.

I would be very surprised if that CPU was running at 20. It is more likely that the sensor is either very inaccurate or you're reading the ambient case temperature rather than either the CPU diode or socket temperatures. As far as I recall P4s run hotter than the equivalent Athlons and are still fine, so they should run perfectly under 60-70 celsius.

I can tell you now that 35 celsius is not too hot by a long way. What CPU and GPU are they? My GPU (8800GTX) has run just fine at 80 celsius without crashing, and I've heard that this particular chip can go up to 90.

Syrup storms? Storms of molasses? Or is it more of a porridge viscosity? I need to have answers before I can formulate my reply.

Even if you upgrade as Blacknova suggested, don't expect silky smooth play at the minimum requirements. It was barely playable on my brother's machine before he upgraded it - that was an AthlonXP 2600+, 512MB DDR333 and an FX5200, which was an AGP 8x card. Minimum requirements on games are a joke. They say what is required in theory, not in practice.

Yes. Signal strength is affected by distance, line of sight and the materials between the points. It can also be affected by interference from microwave ovens and bluetooth devices. Depending on the strength of the signal, 802.11g will transmit at data rates between 1Mb/s and 54 Mb/s.

And that's the reason why I wasn't offended when he called me a moron on another topic. I read most topics, but I have a blacklist of thickos whose topics I don't look at because they lower my IQ.

Ooh, mysterious. 13? I'm 4.58257569495584ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâò. Or 21.

The reason is because it is a place that people go to read things. They prefer to talk about themselves. The simple formula for a 'successful' thread here is one which requires users to post something about themselves - "How old are you?", "What's your favourite x?", "Tell us about your y" - all threads in which users will open the page, click reply and start typing without reading anyone else's replies as a rule. They don't want to read what you have to say, they want to say their bit. It's why stupidspace 'questionnaires' are so popular. People love talking about themselves; not reading about other people. I'm interesting, you're boring.

No, it's BS. Provide a source which shows evidence that it can dissolve any meat in the time it would be in contact with your body.

Google for it.

Then consider that a can of coke contains ~5mg of caffeine, whereas a cup of coffee contains over 40mg.

Total BS. First, people marinate ham in coke (Nigella Lawson) and it doesn't turn into liquid; it turns into tasty ham. Second, they tried it on Mythbusters and it is BS. That's not to say that Mythbusters is the be all and end all of scientific tests, since it is hardly scientific. It is still BS though.

He was being sarcastic, and it went over your head. As did my flippant diagram.