Grats to Canada. Well played! (curling final)

Yesterdays high-end cards is today's low-end cards. Or something.

Quote from count.bazley :

Nope, the UK is 4 countries in much the same way the USA is 50 countries - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are states in all but name. Nobody has an English passport for example, we are all citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Yet you have Scotland, England and Wales as separate countries in for example the football world cup championship.

Clown pants rules!

A bit odd that the UK, which consists of 4 countries, are competing as 1 nation in the Olympics. If Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark competed as Scandinavia, it would almost be the same, but we don't
This just crossed my mind while watching the curling match now between GBR and Norway, and hearing the Scottish accent.

Good stuff. And quite expensive stuff too, especially that motherboard.
Just remember to get a really good CPU cooler. That 130W CPU will make some massive heat.

Quote from Jakg :

Doesn't work.

Been there, tried it

Sucks if you own a PC with no optical drive (like more and more of them).

As long as there's no copy protection it should work. But if it has copy protection then it's more complicated yes. Then you most likely would need a no-cd crack.

Quote from R3DMAN :

so what do you guys think about this then?

Intel Core i7-860 Quad Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-EX58 Extreme
4GB Corsair XMS3 1600MHz DDR3 Dual

Looks good, but the i7 860 is a socket 1156 cpu and thus can't be used on the motherboard you listed, which is a socket 1366. I would suggest an Asus P55 board instead.

To avoid swapping between the HDD and DVD, make an iso image of the CD and use something like Daemon Tools Lite to mount it. For the taskbar, maybe it's just minimized at the bottom? Try to hover the mouse around that area and see if it changes to a resize pointer, so you can enlarge it.

Some good reading in this link here.

It's been like 20 years since last time I had an Intel CPU in one of my PC's, and not an AMD. But this time I chose Intel when I built my new rig. Also first time *ever* I've chosen ATI over Nvidia. These choices I made simply because I think those 2 manufacturers have the best technology atm.

Biathlon is awesome. The reason they use guns, is that the sport originates from the military. It was used as an exercise for the Norwegian soldiers, and in the first winter olympics it was called military patrol.

I have it as an intake. I have one intake fan in the front too, so the fan at the top acts like an exhaust. The top one is a 120mm fan, but I'm probably gonna swap it for a 140mm later. All fans set to lowest speed, and the CPU is between 25-30C degrees at idle. Ambient room temp around 20C I think. The graphics card is also quite cool, around 30C when idle.

Finally retired my aging AMD 4600+ system, and built something more up-to-date.

CASE: Fractal Design Define R2 Black Pearl
MB: Asus P7P55D
CPU: Intel i5 750
CPU COOLER: Corsair H50 Hydro Series
RAM: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz 4GB CL9
GFX: Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 1GB GDDR5
PSU: Chill 520W Modular
DVD: LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blue
HDD: 1x Corsair SSD Performance P64 2,5" 64GB, 1x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
MONITOR: Samsung 22" 226BW
WHEEL: Logitech DFGT

Quote from Bose321 :

Finally someone with that H50. I'm wondering, does it cool good?

Yes, it cools quite well.

Awesome hockey match yesterday between Swiss and Norway. So close, so close...

This Olympics is looking to be such a huge fail for the Norwegians. Canada - Norway in hockey coming up soon. I predict another huge fail from us.

The only fun so far has been watching Pål "Flash" Gordon, the interviewing king of mixed-zone. Norwegians here, go to the following link to read some funny stuff. I'm literally laughing my ass off after reading that.

http://vgd.no/sport/ol/tema/15 ... aal-gordon-nilsen-traaden

If I didn't had to manually press play every 30 seconds, I could put up with it. As I understand a lot of other people have that problem too. Automatic bitrate adjustment is nice though.

Ye, that's where I'm watching BBC.
Funny is, watching NRK there isn't available for my country lol. Apparently if you're in Norway and wants to watch NRK, you have to do it from here: http://www.nrkol.no/
And that's where the woeful Silverlight thing is.

Aweful internet TV solution by NRK, silverlight wtf! Keeps playing for 10 seconds, then stops, over and over again. :banghead: Have to watch the BBC coverage to get a steady stream.

nfinity eSports will not take part in this round.

Just like to mention that nfinity eSports own Wyatt Gooden has made it through all the elimination processes, and been selected to take part in the real 2010 VW Jetta TDI Cup Series, competing against 24 other drivers. Awesome job Wyatt!

http://www.facebook.com/photo. ... id=48224116084&ref=mf

Just bought a HTC Tattoo and loves it. Been wanting an Android phone for a while, but all the other phones like the Hero was a bit pricey for my taste. The Tattoo is quite affordable, and is well worth the money. Ok, it doesn't have as good a screen as the Hero, but I don't care.

Quote from DoC_uk :

Redline Patrase is 87 ... beat that

You're kidding? :eye-poppi I thought he was about my age, but if you're right, then wow!

What's the overall standings after this round? I can't find any info about that here, and on the MoE site it's not been updated since race 1.

I think some people have waaay too much free time.