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Your missing the point - that 'new' board that you have now listed can take 3 GPU's - there is no point even SLI and CROSSFIRE are only 2 cards together and they at *MOST* give a 20% increase and even then thats over 1680x1050 - unless you are going to be getting a 30" pc monitor which are around 1k there is no point and that board also takes DDR3 and that is extortionately expensive. Get a board like the http://www.electric-world.co.uk/indexid?MBBIO-TPOWER-I45 and the OCZ 1066 RAM and save yourself a FORTUNE and get a better GPU

I think that XBOX 360 use FAT32 and modern PC's and laptops use NTFS It will work in the XBOX and not the Laptop unless you change the file type

Ok - have a look here MOBO Biostar TPower I45 from www.biostar.com.tw £100 RAM OCZ PC2-8500 1066 from Computer components pc systems, Hardware & Peripherals advance tec rochdale £42 So both for around the price you were planning spending on the MOBO

ah ok - goto control panel and then admin tools - computer management and then disk management - it will show the disk there - right click and then activate :)

drives can just go at any time - I had a brand new one delivered and that was bust - depends on lots of things - if they are slightly knoocked or exposed to static.

32GB SATA?? - you sure its not PATA?

lol - it is the same RAM yes - the reason I chose this one (its a friends build) and he is only using an E6600 chip and therefore in terms of speed - does not need 1066 RAM If I were you I would look at other motherboards that just have 2 PCI-E GPU slots that can handle 1066 RAM as you will not be filling all 3 PCI-E slots within 2 years and by then adding 2 more GPU's to a setup will not be as good as the latest cards at that time. Also have a look on the net for reviews of PSU's - the Corsair ones come as 4x6 pin PCI-E and then there are 2 additional ones that tag onto the end of 2 of the 6 pin ones - so in essence they can handle any 8+6 pin configuration. Also I find dabs expensive and would opt for scan.co.uk or yoyotech.co.uk Also as I mentioned about the MOBO - have a look at this model Biostar TPower I45 << Biostar have released an amazing MOBO here IMHO and it will take and QUAD or DUAL core chip and support 1066 RAM

This is not recommended for reasons widely covered on this forum!

Of the 2 the 4870x2 (the one with 2 4870 GPU's on one card) is at present the fastest single card on the planet!

Anything socket 775 will support a GPU that has T&L

Glad that we could help :)

as Randy has posted private companies have contracts to the government as they focus on say one particular item and then sell them en mass to the government. Sony would invest far more money into their chips than the military would be able to - they could basically just get the chips after all the hard work was done and then 'tweak' them for whatever purpose they saw fit so in 30 years when people are finding bombs that didnt detonate it will say PS3 inside (see what I did there, intel inside - never mind, he he)

It's crazy - there are no other words for it - its like that trick you do with an american note where you fold it and its shows the tower on fire - so does that mean that who ever did the design was in on 9/11 - utter rubbish - its coincidence.

Your mobo will support the 9600GT - what came with it as the Q6600 is a very powerful processor and I imagine something more powerful than a 9600GT was in with it in the first place :confused:

2 x 4870 will be better than 2x280's in SLI anyway - 4870s are ruling ATM

Right - its starting to look better, but i cannot urge you strongly enough from cooler master for the PSU - go with the corsair. and again the RAM - it may be cheap but will not be a good match in terms of speed for the CPU - instead of the 900 case have a look at the 300 in my sig - its a nice case and cheaper and more easy on the eyes.

On occasion the MOBO manufacturer will release a BIOS update that will sort out issues with a DIMM slot issue - think the last one I saw was on an ABIT AW9D MAX - my old board had an issue with DIMM slot 3

no problem

Everyone started somewhere and you just gain and retain knowledge from there

can you not launch the game from the disk itself? it sounds like the install has been corrupted or the drive wasnt reading the disk properly and the game is not fully installed - failing that :confused:

Anything added from yesterday - so after SP3 will be lost anything before wont be.

did you uninstall the game and try reinstalling as recommended before?

Have you tried launching from the route directory and not the shortcut - and right click on the icon and select run as administrator aswell.

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