For whole drive imaging I use UBCD4Win + DriveImageXML. There are better solutions (like Acronis) but this one is completely free, plus UBCD4Win comes with an excellent range of system tools. Building a UBCD4Win disc is not trivial, as many of the tools it contains tend to cause false positives with...

Basically identical to the Scythe Kama Bay. Sure it makes the bays unusable for 5.25" devices, but for a lot of people that doesn't matter as long as they have one free. Plus you could suspend a whole stack of hard drives in the gap if you wanted.

Ridiculous. Love the way sites like Tom's speak as though water cooling is basically it when it comes to cooling machines like that. Nine external 120mm fans and a whole bunch of mechanical hard disks for 16k? Regardless of the lifetime labour warranty, one thing's for sure: they saw that guy coming.

What a load of garbage. The stupid thing about conspiracy theories is that they always go all in. It's always everything that is being controlled and just about everyone is involved in it. They can never be subtle. It's never like "Obama's being controlled by the bankers and they make him lower tax...

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People are living longer and generally are healthier than they ever have been, obesity being one exception to this, and people can become so obese because they have far more spare cash to spend than ever before this is not true. the cheap food which are all most poor people can afford, are full of ...

lol, it's precisely because of these positive changes that society has so much free time for such navel-gazing. Bring back the Victorian ethic, put up and shut up! Seriously though, the language used in that documentary is very emotive and the language used by many people to attack what they see as ...

The case is very good and the bundled supply will be adequate at the very least. Antec tend to bundle decent supplies with their cases. It'll almost certainly be as good as the CoolerMaster you were considering. Re: the stock cooler - even if you're not overclocking I'd get rid of it, purely from th...

Hi thedon and welcome! Doubt the case will be up to much. Thermaltake don't have a particularly good rep round here and the stock fans are guaranteed to be fighter jets. If you're aiming for silence then I'd recommend a slightly cheaper case and some good fans. I'd also make budget for a good CPU co...

Nice one on the freebie case :) Yep, plywood is absolutely fine. It's obviously got a grain so that would show up in the finish, but if you're ok with that then go for it. Also if you use "butt joints" ( wiki ) then the ply will be visible at the corners. Ply does have the advantage of being slightl...

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aristide1 wrote:OMG! Check out definition 14 of white trash

Being judgmental is a white trash trait, as well as being selfish and verbally abusive to others.

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Ironically some white trash are quite attractive and wealthy such as Paris Hilton.

Yep, your temp is fine. And a +1 for psiu's idea about the IPA. Whenever I've tried to clean thermal tape off using IPA or methylated spirit I always end up with a fantastically sticky goop which really takes some scraping to get rid of. Even acetone doesn't seem to shift it. Perhaps the Arcticlean ...

No worries :) Tbh I've never had a major problem getting epoxied stuff off again - never seems to be as permanent as they make out. The real b*tch is removing the residue. Doubt AS on its own will hold without some kind of pressure (at least initially) but you could try it in conjunction with some m...

Do a search for 3M thermal tape - should be fairly cheap and easily available :) Don't know about the fan thing. EDIT: You didn't recently upgrade Catalyst did you? A friend of mine using a 3850 has had no end of problems with unpredictable crashing during games recently and he seems fairly sure tha...

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I wouldn't say it's an attack against Obama per se. Seems to me Obama's name just happens to be the buzzword used to try and capture an audience for the film, which is saying that federal govt is basically owned by Wall St, and Wall St is in turn owned by a shady global cartel which does the real st...

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Do you have a freecycle group in your area? You could always sign up for that and put out a request for any old junk 486 or such like people may be using as doorstops etc.

MDF = Medium Density Fibreboard. It's basically lots of wood fibres bound together to form a very stable alternative to real wood. Some people love it, some hate it. It's cheap and cheerful, but sturdy and easily workable. I certainly wouldn't recommend making fine furniture out of it, but for self-...

Good man, always good to see proper DIY going on :) Materials wise, for a first attempt I'd recommend MDF. It's cheap, easy to work (although tough on tools) and most importantly for a first-timer it doesn't warp. If you fancy doing a prototype I'd say use chipboard. It's cheaper and even easier to ...

What specifically is this so-called deception? Specifically, the "deception" referred to is the promise that Obama can or will actually deliver anything different than any other president after Kennedy. The analogy used by KRS-One in one of the early interview set pieces in the film is that Obama i...

I wasn't referring to the UN. In fact now that I think about it I didn't even have the UN close to my thoughts when I was writing, which only goes to show how effectively it has been sidelined. I was referring in the main to global finance and the unhindered rise of the corporation. Admittedly they'...

I'd also add the usual "just because you haven't read anything written by the ruling classes doesn't mean there's a massive hidden conspiracy" caution. The globalisation agenda is way out in the open and has been for years. Obama himself has said "...those with money, those with influence, those wit...

You realise the rest of the world hated Bush, right? There's about 5 billion people on this planet who think Obama is a good thing for the US. (I've lived/worked/paid taxes in the US and my partner is a US citizen). that is because they expect the next US president to be a sit down bitch and smile ...

Watched the first half hour but am off to work, downloading the rest to stick on my PMP. First impressions: way too much logical overreaching, and whilst it may be non-partisan it clearly has an agenda. It also seems to say that what it prophecies is pretty much fait accompli. I think China for one ...

If you're talking about the fan grilles, they just pop out at the hinge side. Look here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44067 You can also try this (scroll down a bit): http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42020 (more detail here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/f...

+1 elastic from a fabric shop Although in a pinch, I'd say that the purple elastic band, IF it is the kind I think it is (i.e. food grade) is much, much less prone to perishing than standard bands and therefore most suitable out of your photograph. It would still perish, but in my experience the tim...

I'd certainly be prepared for disappointment, that way you'll not be, well, so disappointed if they do turn out to be lemons :) Seems to be a mixed bag. At the very least Antec had problems with these PSUs, as evidenced by my disassembly of a supposedly "new" Phantom 500 when it started screeching l...

Clearly SPCR needs an agony aunt ... I have two but they are both different colours. Is this normal?