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Kind of. It will reduce lifespan but isn't something that would be considered serious if you're careful. I would advise buying some more fans and doing what you can to improve airflow.

Also, be careful with the PSU. 500 watts is plenty, but make sure you're not getting one of thier budget 'builder' ones as theyre made by random chinese vendors with a corsair badge stuck on them. As you're going for a high end system anyway I dont see any reason not to for something like an EVGA G2 550w.

Get the 5820k, much more useful for multi threaded workloads in solidworks, though it depends on how intense your work is. If it's hobby type work making random crap you'll find that solidworks isn't even that intensive. If on the other hand if you are creating large assemblies and working with a lot of polys in applications such as automotive, aerospace etc you will probably want even more threads from something like a xeon. Whatever the application, the 5820k is by far the better processor and is only at such a good price because its falling into irrelevancy - making it an brilliant deal. Also, if you are going for large part assemblies then consider a lot of RAM

I have two passive 50w 4ohm bookshelf speakers on my desk and need an amplifier for them. It needs to be as small as possible but still sound great and be under £100, although ideally it should be cheaper. I'm quite happy to buy used equipment. Ideally I would wantit to be this kind of size, although that is probably not possible:

I dont know what lights they are right now, but I'll find the manuals and try to work it out

Any idea how I would do this?

I don't know a huge amount about intelligent lighting, but we currrently have a zero 88 jester joker ML48 lighting board ( http://zero88.com/products/consoles/jesterml48/index.shtml ) which doesn't seem to be able to control moving lights. We have four intelligent lights as well as about 30 standard lanterns. Can our current lighting board control intelligent lights or, more importantly, can it control all of our lights? If not, then what lighting board do we need?

Great deal if you're into that kind of case

Looks good, worried it would sound like gaming speakers though

A lot of people hate on macs, but for your application a MacBook would be perfect

I'm looking to spend around £150 ($225) on speakers, an amp and dac but don't really know what to buy. I might not even need a dac as my motherboard uses asrock purity sound 2 A sub woofer would be great but I haven't seen any cheap ones. Looking at Rokit KRK's which seem pretty good and I think have built in DAC

She just wants to find something to blame for her being a fat old cow

Balls

Dump the whole thing in a vat of mineral oil, will push all the water out in minutes. Maybe not the most practical idea actually...

It has nothing to do with the SSD, it's not like loading times are impaired, and it's brand new anyway