Originally posted by sammorris:

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I still stand for Gigabyte still as a manufacturer of motherboards in the sectors usually used, but I don't defend any company that starts a lawsuit over something like this. It's corporate petty bullying, and it's absurd.

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Originally posted by LOCOENG:

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/me thinks about building an HTPC...talk about expensive cases.

Top of the line

Middle of the road

Bottom of the barrel

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Funny you should say that actually, one of my hosuemates is working on putting an HTPC in an old xbox case.

Shaff: Indeed, Creative are certainly appalling for drivers. I'm curious to know why you think Gigabyte are a 'failed' company though.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Mmm. I think it's very childish to hold something against a company merely on the standard of their products, but I have to say, the more I consider using an nvidia graphics card, the less I'm interested. The only card I had from them was faultless, but back then I knew practically nothing about computers. I've got used to how the current ATI cards work, I know how to use the control panel for them, I like the quality of the image and as of Catalyst 8.4, I haven't really had too much hassle with drivers either. I haven't got the courage to try 8.5 everything works at the moment. When I come to reformat 8.6 will probably be out.

My initial plan was to get rid of the pair of 3870s in favour of a solo 4870 late summer early autumn time, at a similar period to me getting a Quad core. Then when I realised the 4870 wouldn't be quite as fast as first rumours suggested, and would cost a lot more than first rumours suggested, I lost interest. Having destroyed one of the cards though, and with no intention of getting another to replace it, the 4870 is back in the picture again. I'm tempted to try Age of Conan, and I know how exceptionally demanding that game is, and for that a single 3870 is really going to struggle. Who knows if hybrid crossfire for 4800s and 3800s works I might try it, but in all truth I'd probably be best off selling the 3800 to help fund the Quad core CPU. That was out of the picture when I was using a fanless CPU given the increased temperatures, but having now established an utterly silent means of using a fan with it, there's no reason not to aim for one again.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I heard that too, and was then told that that was the 4850 price, not the 4870, and the latter would be $349.

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gonna get me a RED round ide cable 24in so i can put my ODD back towards the top of my case where they look better..

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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If it's going to have the 1GB, it'll be worth having. I heard rumours that the other rumours weren't true...

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heck out of all those 24in cables i only see 2 that say "TRUE" and they are out of stock.

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Originally posted by Mort81:

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Rob,

I would shop around a little. check at svc.com or coolerguys.com. you might be able to get a better price on the cable as well as the shipping.

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well i have them set now as master and slave. so should i take the jumpers out and leave them as CS?
thats why i want all sata drives dont have to worry about ms/sl...lol

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