[Laughing_Monkey]

Well, you did ask....

sorry for the lame quality, i would have uploaded them in their beautiful clear, crisp original form but then KIA would have gone on about the downfalls of .cpt etc etc. Oh, and that formats not supported here...

[YOHAN]

Oh, no! An Asus optical drive! I had a bad experience with those before! Stay clear!!!

I pressume your GPU is a fanless one? Doesn't it overheat?

[Laughing_Monkey]

overheat? never! That big red thing you can see in the picture is a massive heatsink. You can set it at 90degrees if it suits better.

its pretty good - and obviously silent, only draw back its its a 6600GT not 6800GT because im just a hard-up student

No probs with the CDRW/DVDR so far, but im suspicious because it was so cheap!

[discobay]

Hey I was on Ap Liu Street last week at a small shop selling computer parts opposite the stalls selling fishing equipment and spotted a Toshiba/Samsung DL DVD RW drive for $300. Looked like a good deal. It was also black.

[Laughing_Monkey]

Thats good! My drive was just above 200$ and white so i had to change the balck case i wanted for a white one!

[discobay]

Black goes well with my Dell Dimension 9100.

[Laughing_Monkey]

I went the DIY route - spent agesw watching to see what Dells 'for one week only' deal would be but it was always the same, minus one component or upgrade every week....

I like my case, it has funky changing lights on the front.

[discobay]

That's just what I did (for 3 months). Their "one week only" deals are really well disguised aren't they? By spending so much time monitoring their deals I have the confidence that I didn't buy at the peak price :-)

[Laughing_Monkey]

Thats why i gave up and headed up to Mongkok

[HKNewBi]

[quote=Laughing_Monkey]So what your saying is basically that you cant judge a computer by its Clock Speed these days.
QUOTE]

In reality, clock speed has only related to clock speed of the processor, ie the number of 'ticks' per second. It has been a rule of thumb that the more 'ticks' a processor has per second the faster it will be. But don't assume each process relates to one tick - it doesn't. Floating point math operations, for example, can take many ticks to complete where as a simple addition may not.

This makes it is very difficult and complicated to compare the relative speeds of two processors which is why the best way is to run apps and time them. Processor manufactorers have been known to optimise chips to perform benchmarking tests quicker for the sole intention of appearing quicker than they are.

Different processors can have very different instruction sets (for example RISC processors have few instructions but process them very fast) for the same clock speeds and will be quicker at some applications than others.

The lesson here is look at benchmarking tests for the types of application you will be using and use that as a reliable guide.