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If you're on any kind of budget, don't get anything branded by apple. You'll get more bang-for-your-buck with any 'pc' computer. You don't need to worry about voltage, all latops have transformers.

I would advise against it. The socket 775 has no upgrade path at all, and you will notice minimal difference. If you upgrade anything, I would upgrade everything. It's all very old. Even if you upgrade now you'll find yourself wondering why your computer is so sluggish in 6 months. Both your CPU and GPU are slowing down stuff, probably around equally. The upgrade will do minimal help, your GPU will continue bottlenecking. TL;DR no!

What's the graphics card on your current system? I'd be willing to bet that that's where your bottleneck is, not the CPU. Personally, spending $100 on a socket that is so old seems like a bad idea.

It is almost surprising when a build works first time, but I've had the experience and it's wonderful :) Enjoy

The 'designed for Second Generation Intel Core processors' is really nothing other than a tagline. So long as the voltages are fine, and the speed is supported by the processor, any RAM should work.

This guy on youtube has some great tutorials.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=extract+save+data+from+wii

While this is true, I'd be surprised if RS wasn't their biggest employer, so has many people working on it. Their thirst for money is obvious, especially with the new membership points. How much more blatant can you get than that?

That's the spirit!

RAM will still work (hopefully) if it isn't on the QVL, it just means that it hasn't been tested as it would be impractical for the motherboard manufacturers to test all RAM on their motherboards. Chances are it will work. That's a non motherboard-specific warning about 32bit windows, nothing to worry about. The only way to find out 100% is by putting it together and trying it.

Maybe setting up a home VPN? or somehow SSH'ing into your PC? I'm not really sure.

When you start falling asleep in the lessons in the middle of the day, you know you ought to go to sleep a tad earlier..

I really don't mind people who challenge ideas and comments, so long as they do it in a mature way and not like 'hurr I am right, you are wrong. I wont listen to your arguments at all'. This isn't 4chan, it isn't really good to just totally ignore someone elses point of view. Just generally though, someone that pushes the boundaries and brings up interesting and somewhat obscure, yet very interesting points or discussions. I especially like people with a strong point of view, so long as debating with them is not like debating with a brick wall :)

Currently doing a prime finding program in java. Brute-forcing is only so good, so I'm using the sieve of eratosthenes and doing a few efficiency tweaks. The program takes an input for the max value of any prime number (ie entering 1000000 would get you all primes under 1 million), and sieves from there. My problem is that it all must be stored in RAM, because if you start using swap it just gets incredibly slow. To generate more numbers then you need to start getting rid of some entries already in the ram (not helped at all by the fact that I can't seem to find a method of storing a boolean value in one bit only, java's "boolean" seems to take a byte). However if you start filling up the ram with more numbers (say you've sieved up to 1 milllion, but want to expand to 2 million), then you need to sieve using the primes already generated again! One thing I can do is get rid of all entries for even numbers though. I'm not sure if that made much sense.. I don't have the code on this computer but the logic is that data about any numbers prime-ness is stored in one boolean array. The entry in the array corresponds to a number, and the true/false flag corresponds to primality. So for example, myarray[7] would be true because 7 is prime, whereas myarray[9] would be false. (yes I know java starts arrays at [0], I just make the array 1 bigger than it must be and ignore that entry.)

Nope, you just have to go to the router config page, which'll be something like 192.168.x.x, where both x's are (normally) a combination of 0, 1 and 2, eg 192.168.1.1 . It could be entirely different though, mine is 192.168.1.254. Just search your router model and then 'config page address' or something similar. Then look in an A-Z of functions, which your router should probably have, then go to DCHP management.

What type of cable are you using to connect the computer to the TV? VGA? DVI? HDMI? Clean out, do you mean physically clean out, or get rid of all files? I presume the latter, and for this you could format the hard disk and then reinstall windows (assuming you still have the installation disk)

That would only change the LAN IP not WAN.

Correct

Are you sure its glitched? Because it could mean you forgot thermal paste or you didn't tighten the heatsink enough or something..

It would be really cool to interview Andrew, or maybe Paul, to see what they have to say on how RS is today.. eg bots.

Those 3D renders are astounding :o Really amazing. The only thing is the hedge looks quite 2d, but from what I understand you haven't worked much on it. What program do you use?

School... *smug* Under 30 days till I go back though :( It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't compulsory to do subjects such as English, which I find utterly pointless, and infuriating. I find myself over-analysing EVERYTHING because it's what you have to do in English lit >.< . When I write essays about poems/books I'm just making stuff up and talking out of my arse.

Quoted for absolute truth. There may be roots in the working class people (who make up the majority of rioters, it would seem) having little money, but that's just the way life is. Because people want free stuff. It can and is happening. I've seen reports of 60-70 people going round and beating up the rioters. It can't be good, but it's the police's lack of action unfortunately. See this video [spoiler=Bad language]http://twitvid.com/DWZPW There is a beacon of hope - there is now a NDL - Nando's defence league. Sucks that they got the one near me :/ Also I'm out of the country, so kinda hoping they leave my house the hell alone.

Meh, wireless = potential lag and batteries. Each to their own I guess. Ditto. Those guys in Ealing are really not too far from me, I'm not even in the country so it's even more worrying. It infuriates me that no one knows why they're doing it and they're just doing it for the hell of. Hell, the kids don't know what they're doing, what the [bleep] do their parents think they're doing? There is a whole lack of police presence, there needs to be a massive show of force. At the moment London is a shambles, people are doing whatever they want with no police presence. The whole things is a monumental disgrace.

What programs are you using? Try using VLC, MPC-HC or winamp or something to play the files on windows, not WMP or iTunes