yea the HTC's are really good quality and stable. I think smartphones in general are quiet bad on the old battery life. The android system is not worth it yet. But give it till my next upgrade and ill be going HTC/Android for sure :) *and i just found bubbles is installed on my phone by standard haha*

I have the HTC Touch HD with Orange. Its a good little smart phone. It all depends on what you want to use it for really?

IXL can you post your average fps for CSS when you get an o/s installed. So i can compare against my card ta

Its a beauty of a card though

i went to pc world. *cue laughter*

Got one that is just short of the specs shown above, for £400

its worth a look atm

guys dont forget

http://www.software4students.co.uk/

Might be able to pick up a bargin from there. I have used them before (bought office 07 for my dad). Came on time etc. Only thing is, no box just a cd wallet. lol!

ahh same, tiesto's club life is good.. you might like Trance around the world with Above & Beyond. Similar kinda stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svDZGui2QQE

My Fav song at the mo and sample of what its like on their radio shows.

deadmau5 sucks!!!

Armin Van Buuren tho *TOP MAN*.. you listen to his ASOT show groin?

Cheers for the advice guys, ill look into Vbox for my laptop

and in reply to your post back a bit, i don't intentionally run my card that hot... i have hardly any room in my case (seriously its titchy)... i have the sum total of three fans (including the cpu, excl gpu)... im thinking about rebuilding my rig anyways (keeping the gfx though). Can you control ea...

im pretty sure off the top of my head, its a banned cvar. Think about it logically, you increase your fov, your giving your self an advantage over those whose's system cant stretch to the same level of performance. Don't have access to css to try it at the mo, Back on track: I use a 19" LG Flat...

The ATI CCCenter has the option to manually control the fans, yes

*i know that was aimed at gav*

i believe that is a banned cvar!!!

Is Microsoft going to become open source??

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... ers-618155

cheers mseries, ill try that after i eventually figure out MVC

Gav, as far as temps go, i have a small ass case (can hardly fit the card in) and my temps never ever go above 65/70. With fans on about 35%. If i crank them up to 100% i dont go above 55ish.

Good card imho!!!!

they are all based on the same gpu i believe. I have the 4870 (1gb saphire edition) on a version 1 slot (asus p5b-v mobo), maxed out and get between 90 - 140 map dependant on css. Arma2 is generally ok, stuttery in places (that could be cpu though, got q6600 @ stock). All that on windows 7 RC so it ...