Krisboats

The processor may slow it down slightly, but shouldn't be too much. Obviously a faster processor will handle the physics and whatnot better so the graphics card is free to run at its fullest potential, but with a screen that large sticking a game like insurgency on high detail with some AA applied i can imagine the card being the problem more than the cpu. Try overclocking the cpu a bit and if its really holding it back, you'll notice a bit of difference with it.

Get an angle grinder or file and make deep grooves in the metal around the axle hole. My tensioner allowed the wheel to move in the dropout (i'm a bit heavy and kick hard), cutting the grooves in gave anough grip between the tensioner and the frame to stop it moving everywhere.

Looks "nice" apart from the paint job and the fact its too neat. Get it scratched, get it battered, get it used. And take those retarded plaster strips off , the only protection on a bike should be on the chainstay to stop the annoying clicky noise and on the downtube if you tend to dent them a lot. If you wanted neat cranks you should have bought silver ones. Bikes look nice when they're all neat, bikes look absolutely wicked when they're battered up a bit.

I most certainly did, was a little disappointed to say the least.

I'm 6'5", but my armspan is bigger.

I don't reckon we'll have anything large to drop off, with the amount of pallets we have if we use all of them it'd be around 6-7 foot high, but then that'd be the only thing there. We built some gator teeth typre things out of pallets so we have them, think i'm going over on thursday to help build the pallets into things. I'll try and find a microphone too to plug into the laptop/speaker system.

I would, that thing looks so retarded i wouldn't WANT to ride it. Monty 08=

As opposed to bmx'ers and skaters who just grind walls and leave wax everywhere? Jesus, if people are going to moan, they'll find something to moan about. If its not bashing walls its loud breaks that annoy people and should be labelled as anti-social/noise pollution. At least having the name of the sport would have been good, not just "the jumping over rocks stuff". Ah well, just reflects the guys ignorance rather than the sport really.

I have a mole on the inside of my fourth two on my left foot. You can only see it if i twist the toe around. I have an armspan of well over 2 metres (2 metres 11cm i think, from middle finger tip to middle finger tip) so i can just pick up most doors lengthways. I have an unusually high pain threshold, was hit by a car broke the windowscreen, rolled over the bonnet and landed on the floor, but got straight up and the only injury was just a miniscule bruise on my left hand. Also been electricuted several times (mains plug socket strength), fallen off a house roof, hit in the head fulll force from point blank with a golf ball hit with a driver, did the krisboats bunnyhop gap bail (again no pain, slight scratch on my back).... none of which result in me being hurt. I can bend my finger back quite far.

I bought my copy of office 2003 off ebay for £6 a good 3 years ago now. I think ebay may have clamped down on sales now though , i don't reckon mine was original.

Woo! Over 50% of voters like it

You most blatantly would't, you can't even get out of new members

Your supposed to reinstall windows on a new build I'd imagine somewhere on your hard drive the drivers and settings for the old comp are still trying to work and its causing this problem. Even if you just replace the motherboard, let alone a full build... you need to re-install windows as it'll need the new motherboard drivers and shizzwhack and not the old ones.

If its a new pc.... re-install windows?

Have a word with edd potts, i'd imagine he has some dx32's lying around, last time i saw him selling them they were like £10 each too

Sorry i didn't see this topic earlier. The design department at uni has these fitted as standard and they are pretty bad. The tutor showed us that the only way to get a decent sound from them was to play the same song through numerous pairs at the same time. He did a direct comparison between these and some logitech cheapy's and the logitechs beat them by so much it was unreal. His words "another classic case of fashion over function". The M-Audio ones look good, and M-Audio are renound for making good audio components, their sound cards are supposed to be amazing.

Okay, that would suggest its a software problem then. If the graph spikes everytime it stutters then something is momentarily Taking up all the resources on the computer, this could be a virus, spyware or a corrupted driver. Try the msconfig thing first (don't have it connected to the internet while you do it, your firewall will be off ) and if that doesn't sort it try starting windows in safe mode (restart the pc and keep pressing F8, then when it (slowly) gets into windows, do a virus scan and run spybot search and destroy or adaware. Hopefully something from all of that should sort it.

Depends really. The only real visual effect that would slow a computer down in vista is the Windows+tab function. But this requires a capable processor especially when handling multiple real-time video windows. Everything else is easy work, and should be easily manageable by something like the old celeron M processors and a standard grahics solution like the offerings by SiS. As for switching to 64-bit. Well... this was written two weeks ago. This one, wirtten august 3rd. Unless your a business looking for cutting edge hardware, a hardcore gamer or wanting the most from encoding media then vista 64 is not for you. Hell, in august iTunes didn't support vista 64-bit, so any users of the iPhones or iPods can't get songs on their little pieces of consumer marketing. I'm pretty sure its been/being fixed now though. For most people vistax64 isn't a good choice at the minute, and most people would only see the problems and not the benefits.

Halfords sell middleburns, you don't need them servicing Besides, you don't service a mac... you have to have it sent off to mac HQ

I usually prefer sleep to brakfast so i just go out riding, rider for an hour or so... realise i'm hungry and becoming dehydrated in the mid-day sun... find a shop, buy stupid amounts of fluid and some sweets and sandwhiches then consume fast and resume riding. Never did me any harm

He's on a budget though, and those overly-complicated doorstops don't come cheap.

Too right, i mean, even if i don't use the account much... i'll definately use the railcard and webcam, its a really decent offer to be fair.

Visual effects... Even on the old athlon 64's and XP x64 there was a noteable difference in speed. Though driver support was virtually non-existant. Turning on visual effects in vista won't reduce the speed of the processor, the visual effects are handled by the graphics card... the benefits of 64-bit are seen in the processors increased ability to calcualte mathematical data, so encoding, copying files and even gaming runs slightly faster. The downside however is 32-bit software running on a 64-bit operating system runs slightly slower than on a native 32-bit operating system. Unless you want to see benefits from enhanced features like ASLR, high speed data handling/encoding and support for 8gb or more of RAM then vista 64-bit isn't needed. Microsoft have just recently pulled the plug on their promise to allow unsigned drivers on vista x64, and kernel patching by companies like symantec should be allowed after the release of service pack 1. Either way, at the minute for your average user, 32-bit is definately the best option to choose.

I just signed up for a natwest account as well. Did it online because you get a free webcam as well as the rail card and overdraught... bonus!

Tell him you attend comps quite often and that he must be absolutely shit at grinding rims. Where the hell does he power his grinder mid-comp anyway? 500 metre extension lead to the nearest farm ? Tell him the box arrived in mint condition and that it was still completely sealed, leaving no way for the axle cap and the springs to have come out. Sounds like a right goon, if your willing to go through the hassle of it, tell him you want a new axle end and springs sending out or a refund if you reckon he will.... add that you'll have to leave negative feedback if he doesn't sort it and open an "item not received or significantly not as described" complaint through ebay. If you paid via paypal open up a paypal dispute with his account, paypal always favours the buyer and i'd be very suprised if they didn't credit the money back to your account. A lot of the time they won't even ask you to send the wheel back.