JamesDwho

this was tweeted by the Prime Minister's and the Communication Minister's twitter accounts, very interesting, http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/

Ah, buddy? I'm getting 100Mbps Down and 40Mbps up with my NBN connection, there is no ISP based throttling with NBN Fibre

A big requirement for any minecraft server particularly one with mods is RAM, the i3-3217U should be powerful enough for 10 players, another important factor is making sure you have enough bandwidth, this is quite a useful site http://canihostaminecraftserver.com/

I have built 8 Systems using Gigabyte Motherboards including the X58A-UD7 which is my current motherboard, haven't had any issues with any of them, all still working perfectly.

You can buy PWM 4 Pin Y Splitter cables (2 CPU 4 Pin Fan Connectors) and they work perfectly fine with most fans

No, 2GB of VRAM isn't sufficient for 3 screens at max settings, it might be okay on the lowest settings (game dependent).

If you can try doing a Disk Check

Well for starters make sure you're not running the stock Intel 1155 cooler, a good affordable aftermarket cooler is the Cooler Master Hyper 212+. If you read your motherboard manual it will have all the information about what each setting does for the CPU, I suggest looking through it and familiarizing yourself before you start. Something I would do in your position is looking up i5 2500K overclock settings for your specific motherboard model. Not all motherboards are made equal, usually you can get a good idea of what settings you should be running at based on other people's experiences with your specific motherboard. For starters I would recommend going up the the Max Turbo Frequency of the 2500K (3.7Ghz) once you get that stable go from there. Of course do this all at your own risk

to my knowledge SLI only needs a matching GPU, not matching VRAM Size (could be wrong), since one card only has 2GB it will probably limit the other card

I have a regular Razer BlackWidow Expert (non-2013) and after about a year (bought it July 2011) one of the key supports for the spacebar broke off and now my spacebar just sort of wobbles like a seesaw on one side, same thing happened to the left Shift key a few months later, keyboard was out of warranty when it happened.

you could download 'Crystal Disk Info' and see if the drive is still being fully detected by your motherboard

Samsung Galaxy R (Basically a Galaxy SII with Tegra 2)

A few months ago I saw a huntsman spider about 10-15cm wide crawling across my wall, captured him in a bowl and put him outside

in the urban areas the 'wildlife" isnt really that much of a problem, occasionally you might see a dangerous spider but most of the time its just huntsman and daddy longlegs spiders (aka cellar spiders).

Does it happen only in game under load or generally on the desktop?

maybe try cleaning up your registry with CCleaner

I usually decided to upgrade when my current video card can't run most modern games on about a medium setting

I agree, the NBN needs to be left alone, Hopefully the LNP smarten up and realise that Fibre to the Home is the future, it makes a big difference

Linus posted on twitter a few hours ago that the Live Streams will be Fridays at 1600 (4pm) Vancouver BC Time https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/327678243664719872

Yes you can, PCI-E 3.0 cards are backwards compatible with PCI-E 2.0 slots, you just get a slight reduction in bandwidth

I originally built my PC with gaming in mind, but now I tend to spend more time doing 3D work, such as 2D/3D asset creation etc.

Thunderbolt needs integrated graphics to operate ie. Socket 1155 Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPU's, LGA 2011 CPU's don't have integrated graphics.

Recently got connected to Fibre to the Home Broadband, installation was paid for by the Australian Government's National Broadband Network (aka NBN) From ADSL2+ To FTTH 100Mbps/40Mbps Gigabit plans will be available from December this year! :D