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oops yes missed that

Did you overclock manually or with a easy tune type thing. The easy tuners a ok but manually in the bois has more control

£60 for a 500gb disk + the labour and time to fit the disk and reinstall windows.

If you have 1 x 4 then buy another 1 x 4 if you have 2 x 2 then get another 2 x 2

Yes another 4 gig of ram should help a lot. If you spend £30 on ram you could also get a £20 video card second hand, AV forum is probably a good place to look. Maybe something like a 8800gts

Have you tried lowering the volts. What thermal paste did you use?

I have just bought a Antec p280 but I looked at the Corsair cases. Corsair do have some cracking stuff.

Very tidy job, what case is that?

I would prefer a better motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 LGA1155 would be much better to take advantage of the processor. The i5 2500k is about £165, with this PC that leaves just £195 for a motherboard, hard drive, ram, a PSU and case and DvD drive

Zen often get good reviews them and Nildram were the good ones a few years ago. I chose Nildram then they got taken over by talk talk. I should have gone with Zen

We do need more Man -vs- food challenge places here. Just imagine how many calories you'd use digesting that steak, i am getting palpetations just thinking about the meat lodged in my stomach.

Yes so you'd think but it have been done not by me though

I have been reading that windows XP does not handle ssd that well, so if you are still running that then its worth upgrading to Win7. I would install the OS with only the optical drive and the SSD connected that way you cant format the wrong drive.

Nearly its a 25 the is 24 steel and the 25 is titanium

This is mine for a little while