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Put it this way, X58 is still a very good platform. I've seen more people buying the cheap Xeon X5650s from Ebay for £59 than I've seen people buying X99. X79 has no native USB3 but then hey, neither did X58 but AIBs always take care of that. X79 is, clock per clock around 7% slower than Haswell E. Thing is? Haswell E is a poor clocker compared to X79 chips so you end up around the same. Case in point, guy I know can't get his 5820k any higher than 4.2ghz, my 3970x does 4.9ghz all day long. Ed. Oh yeah, DDR3 prices don't make your fucking ass bleed.

Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a roll of cheese. Jack came down with a beaming smile and his trousers around his knees.

Thanks dude. It should be easily fixed by uninstalling the one I put on and just setting up the one you sent me

Oh absolutely but the thing is.. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XEON-E5-8-Core-1-6-2-3Ghz-2665-2650L-2660-2640-2630-2620-ES-LGA-2011-20Mb-/131150715450?pt=UK_Computing_CPUs_Processors&hash=item1e89311a3a It costs the same as an I5 and let's face it, Unix loves cores. Far more than Windows tbh. BTW Nicholas I forgot to ask.. I broke HWMON by updating it so when I'm set up later in the week could you connect in and fix it for me please? I need to see temps... Ed. That's my CPU BTW. That's where the guy I bought it from originally got it from. So we know it will work 100% (look at the CPUZ shot it shows IVBE)

SLI doesn't do anything on a MAC. It just sees two separate cards. You can use both, but not combined in SLI. Fact is you don't need SLI on a MAC. Everything you can play is OGL so runs better any way. Borderlands 2 and Tomb Raider are about as big as it gets and my 480 has no issues with either. Haswell is a good idea, but personally I would look for either a SBE ES chip or IVBE ES chip. I paid £100 for my 8 core Ivy, and I saw plenty of Sandy chips the same selling on Ebay too. There are a couple of MATX boards for X79..

OSX won't affect Windows. They are totally different entities. In theory you could unplug your Windows hdd, put in another, install OSX then choose the boot drive by pressing F12 at bios and picking the corresponding drive... But I'm sure Chameleon or Clover would pick up a Windows drive and draw you a pretty menu

I don't know about Dual Boot mate as I went 100% mac. Nicholas knows his onions, he will steer you right

There is no argument. Windows is shit. Always was, always will be. I dare any one to stand up and actually say it's good. What Windows is, however, is in every fucking home in the world. However, popular does not equal good, not in my eyes. OSX absolutely laughs at it.

OSX is free now Hippy

You open it up and it does what you want it to do first time every time. Windows has gotten a lot better over the years but basically back in the days of Win 98 you would start crawling after a couple of months and need to reinstall. OSX is very slick and very clean.. It's hard to explain really but if every game released on OSX I would switch forever in a heart beat and never look back. Apple have never charged $400 for an operating system either, their dual licenses used to be like $20-$30 or now completely free. It's also a lot less prone to bullshit. Viruses, phishing scams, malware, adware... It's almost (I dare say completely rid of) rid of all of that shit. People always attack what is the most popular.... Another issue with Windows is how useless most of the inbuilt apps are. Like wordpad.. Thanks but no thanks. Imovie is a lovely app, as are all of the Apple apps as you may know if you've ever used an Iphone or Ipad.

From what I can gather you can run Windows on a MAC any way now. Either the normal way? or via VM. The MAC feeling is all about the operating system and for the true pedant, the peripherals. However, more and more people are using their own peripherals which Apple now fully supports it would seem. The OS itself is a flavour of unix, which in turn is very similar to Linux et al. The only difference I see is about twenty thousand gallons of polish that has been slowly and carefully applied to OSX. This is made much easier for Apple because their hardware is picked and chosen by them so they only need to concentrate on, for example, five GPUs and a small handful of CPUs. If they stuck to IVBE for example for their Power Macs then that's one CPU you need to support there. Regular old IB chips and Haswell chips in the laptops too.. The issue I have always had with Linux is setting it up. It can take days upon days as installing a driver is not quite as simple as it is on Windows (IE going and finding it and installing it) you usually need to obtain it via your terminal (or command prompt) with a string of code that only makes perfect sense to the guy writing it or some one who can actually write and understand code. For the layman it can be fucking annoying and incredibly time consuming. Most recently I took my old Powerbook 17" with its 2gb ram and 1.67ghz G4 CPU and spent nearly four days installing Linux which, according to the penguin lovers, was 'much better' yet in the end was actually slower than OSX. OSX is what it's about. SImplicity refined and then doused in polish. It works, when you ask it to, when you want it to. You don't load up, for example, a CPU monitor to find that only 50% of your CPU is being utilised. So for day to day shit? OSX pisses on Windows. For video editing? same again, because every app on the MAC is set for unified hardware so eliminates millions of different hardware configs from the equation. That's why a Hackintosh needs to be very carefully chosen so that it meets that criteria... HTH !

Killer thanks !! Will tackle that bit when I grow some more patience

4. The power supply is probably single rail any way so moving it won't make fuck all difference unless the actual wires are physically damaged.

Apparently it's fully supported. I've seen it in people's boot diagnostics. I've ordered it. At that price it would be rude not to tbh. I don't really want to risk any more than that on an old hard drive. If it works cool, if not I'll just buy a cheaper USB2 drive

Nicholas Marzio http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-3-1-Port-1394a-1394-Firewire-400-to-PCI-E-PCI-Express-Converter-Adapter-/181377382639?pt=UK_Computing_FireWire_Cables_Adapters&hash=item2a3aef38ef Via VT6315, will this work?

BTW guys on the subject of Rotary tools. These are essential for acrylic. I've only just moved onto my second one in over a year of use. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-719813-Diamond-Cutting-6-Piece/dp/B000T9XUBI/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413114461&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=diamond+coated+cutting+disk They're uber sharp and thin and they go through one pass ! For metal I use these. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fibreglass-Reinforced-Cutting-Dremel-2615042632/dp/B0002SMOD6/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1413114554&sr=8-6&keywords=dremel+reinforced+cutting+disc Ten are about £5 on Ebay.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0001OZHF8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 That's where I got mine. Lovely case it comes in too @ Damikiller37 Yup that's it thanks man !

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/209051-x-8-featuring-white-lightning-an-8-core-hackintosh/?p=3044274

OK so with my bank account almost empty again I decided to poke around on Ebay for cheap toys. £6.99 inc. Lovely thing is it's wireless so I will be able to throw it in the drawer when I'm not using it. Also.. @alpenwasser can you link me to your stitching guide please?

It's called "The girl with black eyes" and she's a ghost caught on camera. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/29/mystery-black-eyed-child-sightings-cannock-chase-_n_5898988.html (apols for OT)