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Im going to build a new pc and I got all the bits I want figured out

Now the only question is the graphics card. I'm torn so much on this since I'm kind of arguing price \ performance and date (as in £500 today = worthless in 2 years).

Obviously the gtx 690 is probably best, but £700+ for something that wont even be using 50% of its resources until after its warranty is void is not worth it imo. So that is ruled out

But the 660 gtx , 670 gtx , 680gtx is the sort of area I'm looking for obviously the 660gtx is good price wise (£180) and will give me decent performance and in 2 years when it starts to struggle I can just upgrade to a 7 or 8 series but the 670 gtx is only £60 more and the 680 gtx again only £70 more than that so I am wondering what to do.

So any suggestions would be appreciated. Is it worth paying the extra £150 and just go for the 680 gtx or save the money, use it buy another mid ranger in a year or so time and get the 660 gtx for now or even just go for 670 gtx middle of them ?? ? ? ?

Oh also AMD HD 7970 I see is the same price as the 680gtx aprox. I've seen from compression sheets there is not much between them performance wise, but for last 8 years I've always gone with nvidia and never been disappointed but I am open to suggestions. Also never tried loading amd hd drivers on Linux are they supported ?? (I've seen problems on forum) ,I know the nvidia ones work fine ? ? ? ? ?

Other info that may be needed

I will be using the amd fx 8350 bulldozer in case there any known issues with that instruction set and certain cards\drivers I'm unaware of (I do run multi screens, but only intend to play the game on one screen while using other screens for media players, browsing etc).

Thank you for any help or suggestions in advance :)

i have had a cat for about 5 years she was a stray she always been a bit distant, she had a kitten about 2 - 3 years ago this kitten has been a total house cat as in sat on my lap for first year of her life every night pretty much and always seeking affection in last 2 months or so she has started become distant not comming and siting on sofa and yesterday she actually run away from me out side this is cat that less than 4 months ago i would have to fight to get her off me would run down the street to greet me on way home and not leave my feet until i forced her out the house the next morning now she totally changed and becoming distant funny tho her mother that been distant in last 6 months become very affectionate its almost as if they swapped roles any ideas whats up is it a age thing or jealousy of her mum

Basicly last couple of days ive been having head aches and head feels like its sniping also got muscle pains in back and shoulders it first manifested it self as a ear ache but that soon pasted and im just left with head ache feeling dizzy and muscle pains + im sleeping massive amounts in comparison to normal 14+ hours a day

reason im asking is my personal belive is its a virus of some kind but just wanted some assurance wernt more serious since has been going on for quite a few days

when i watched it i was just a kid so i presume the films from the 80-90's it was based around the time perioid aswell. i remember very little about it apart from a man who lived to a very old age had supernatrual abblites and wanted a heir\aprentice\successor i cant remember how but he took the son of these people to be his heir\aprentice\successor and the film ends with the father seeing the man who he reckonised by a "walking cane" and who he belived to be his son years after the film was orginaly set.

its a long shot but any 1 got any ideas it might even be 70's but i doubt it since at the time of watching it when i was a kid it looked fairly modern and i was only born in 89.

like i said i was rather young when watching this film and my memory of it is limited would be great if i could get the name of it and see it again

There is a wire on the chimney going to around 3-4 house down our street all vary distance apart from each other and curiosity has struck me as to what there for. I live in a suburb road has 65 house on it all in very close proximity. Things I have ruled out there not telephone wires since there are 2 telephone polls in middle of street which connect to every house’s in the street there aprox 1-2cm diameter cant be power cables. Only 2 providers of other phone\tv services in the street which do not use the telephone polls which are virgin media which cant be since they have a exchange about 15ft away from front door and all wires come up from it and run along fence panels along garden paths to house and sky which use satellites stuck on side of houses. So what are these 2 wires are for never really noticed um until today when cleaning out guttering.

It is weird since they don’t seem to actually connect to anything down our street by which i mean even tho there on the chimney its just a fitting nothing running of them into any off the houses and there attached to 4 other houses down our road it starts about halfway down on left side of street criss cross down road and then disappear of on right hand side of street so cant think what there for and its same 2 wires all way along.

i honestly think ive seen all horror films worth watching both new and old basicly if u can name a good 1 i have not seen u get 10 points since i want a decent movie for 2 day

by decent i mean somthing that step out the ordanry with all due respect 1s uve seen 2-3 zombies films uve seen um all imo im not a fan of the same stroy just diffrent title and diffrent actors

they bore me somthing that moves away from that basic stero type

films ive really enjoyed so far

silence of the lambs ,

Rosemary's Baby ,

The Exorcist (not so much for scare value but for stroy line),

Orphan (again good story line not likely but is possible it could happen and well explained at end),

Saw (altho i do think it got a bit mind numming with all sequels)

the ring,

drag me to hell

your suggestions please

i want to make a little application that just allows a user to click to install application on a cd however the cd drive letter changes from machine to machine (D,E,F) etc so i just want a code to get the drive letter the application started from

i usally use other such as c# but i need to stay away from the the .net on this app

its delphi 2007 ty in advance all

basicly a issue has arose where i do the same shifts every week yet this week iv lost aprox 4 hours of pay my employer says they go by my clocking in card i assume there has been some mistake when it comes to adding up my hours since like i said i work the same shifts every week however my employer is taking there time getting back to me surely theres a law or regulation some where that allows me to view my clock in card for last week please let me know exact name of this law \ regulation thank you

sorry i've recently started to use linux as my main os and i want to know how to make a program load at start up after gui and every thing booted for example firefox i presume its just a script somwhere im using crunchbang which is based on ubuntu

i am looking for the equivalent of hkey_current_user/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run basically ty all in advance

say you purchased a product such as a pc and you needed it by a specific date and it didn’t arrive even tho you had paid extra for a service so it would at the time you purchased the pc and there hadn’t been no severe conditions (no reason why its late) could you claim the money back for the item since its now useless since you needed it on that date.

im a dj (armature but non the less) i ordered a laptop from a big store (no names mentioned yet) using their online service for which i paid an extra £12 for delivery on a Friday they took my money for the product and the delivery i paid so it would be delivered before 3pm so i could put all my software on it before my job which was at 8:30 – 00:30 well safe to assume 3pm come it never arrived i wait another 2 hours no sign i ring and get told oo there been a mistake and it will be here Monday i don’t need it since i had to run to high street and purchase one i told them i wanted a refund and compensation since iv had to actually take a afternoon of work to sit in for a item (i felt it was worth it since i was saving £50 on a laptop i needed and i had a little pub dj job which was £200 that eve well more than my £7.33 a hour) which never arrived. because it didn’t arrive iv had to borrow a credit card from my father to buy a laptop out of a high street store so i could do my dj set i think a refund and a few £ on top is more than reasonable due to loss of earnings (if i weren’t waiting in i could gone work earnt a extra £40) that day and they generally put me in a very difficult situation where i had to ask family to borrow money and pay more for a item

what are your thoughts what are the laws and regulations governing something like this

forgive my use of the english language im tired

for example you take out a phone contract and you get 150 free mins every month and then it suddenly stops and no where within the contract it states this is only a offer for a limited time.

i got a letter from my tv cable company who i also get my internet and phone from saying i had been reciving a service for free which i should of been paying for and if i want to keep it i will have to pay ok thats fair enough but i have had this package for 2 years + surely by now i belive it has become part of the contract since the contract does not inclued it but it doesent exclude it either therefore since i been reciving it for 2 years + i have a legal ground to say it is now part of my package dont i? please help me out with your opions and exacly what the law states about issues such as this

i mean if a employee of mine is rotaored to work weds but hasent for 2 years then i tell him his got to since it was in his orginal contract he has a legal right to say no since now part of his rotaored hours to not work weds since he hasent for 2 years

now i was having a chat with some one and they claim "bridgwater is 1 of the biggest drug places in the uk" now i can not find no evidence to back that up, i do not think brigewater would even come close to the problems london has as a hole (i live in london im offered weed and crack almost daily) so i would just like maybe a article with evidence either way i been trying to get police statistics but i cant seem to find non on google any help will be much appreciated. your opinions also will be taken on board however i want more txt or statistic based answers thank you :D

I have recently acquired a old pc So I want to dump linux or unix on it I have experience with many versions of linux and unix (ubuntu , open suse,solaris,etc..) I do stress this is quite a old pc not old old 386 style but 750mhz cpu , 256mb ram slow ram 222mhz , 80gb hard drive and its got a geforce 440 mx 64mb g card..

I am basically looking for a distro which is quite light weight but well maintained with the basics (a browser, basic word processor, media is not needed but would be nice to have a player). I tried xbuntu but found it to be quite slow and altho it worked was kinda tedious having to wait for the most basic of things such a notepad to open. I would like a distro less than 500mb preferably but not essential for which the minimum requirements for are a lot lower than this pc since yes many versions will run on this pc I want something that will run quite fast even when multiple applications are running (low spec applications) basically a linux or unix equivalently spec wise to ME. ooo and of course must be FREE lol

ok i was reading a article that said most cigar smokers dont inhale. how do they get the smoke in to there mouths is it just me but i cant help it suck air in with out inhaling it what do they mean by this ?

is it just me that cant breathe in air with out inhaling it or do they me they just sit there with it in there mouth

ok i always thought u needed 40 atleast to get any creature transport apart from flight master way but i saw a level 33 b.e palading in undercity with a horse how do i get 1 i got a level 35 human (main ally char) and a 26 b.e warlock (main horde char) the b.e is going up quite quick tho was only 20 yesturday but yeh how do i get 1

Ok I was a active man but recently due to a medical problem involving my leg meaning I can no longer get around to well i have been spending majority of my time on my own not usually a problem since i like my own company I recently being playing chess a lot and doing some my other hobbies such as programming computers and learnt how to program pic controllers and micro chips however iv noticed recently that my mood and view on life have changed iv always had a thick skin but now its more a shield i rarely have feelings about things and things that use to disgust me no longer do I seriously believe i could cause harm to someone and not care ,iv always been a bit weird and known to be quite tuff person i have a collection of weapons that i keep purely for the look and decoration i don’t feel i would use them although i believe i could, i don’t hate any 1 or want to course harm however i do feel i could and not care if that makes sense for example

basicly i want a nice juice drink with out the work so ofter i look for 1 but its get 1lb strawberries get 1 etc cut dice blah blah blah then blend and mix with etc

i just want somthing that taste nice a fruity with lemonade and tons crushed ice i have so many when i go out drinking ( mixed with alchol) this 1 i just want no alchol but taste realy nice and use out bottle fruit juice any ideas

games are ok but no decent mp3 or media center unless u use photo channel and do it as slide show

cant watch any other format apart from huge files that 10x bigger than divx or standard mpeg, opera webbrowser have to pay for on the wii(after beta ver) when opera is free company how much of a rip of is that (every other format win mobile, palm , windows , linux)webbrowser is free

if it was not for thefact homebrew is still fighting for our consumer rites (making it so we can cheat and download what we want for free and play what we want) i would be most upset and it still under warrenty so i cant open it and chip the thing to do every think i want it to

it cant even play dvd's, consoles for the last 5 years could do that

quite simple i bought a hard drive noticed it hasent got 1 on the back before i go lookin thro draws for 1 does it actuly need 1 it will be the only hard drive conected and the only thing conceted on that ide (i was always tought to have 1 but this was over 8 years ago i thought bios have proably improved since then to recnize it with out)