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cool - its physically almost identical to the Nano Bluetooth USB adapter I got on ebay for £3 when I needed to bluetooth up my PC so it could speak to my phone. My first PC had a 540MB HDD :o

Im running 7 on my old rig, (full spec in sig) which has a P4 3.0Ghz with HT and 1GB ram. It runs great to be honest. I thought I might need to take back the other 1GB I donated to my parents to get it to perform but have been very pleasantly surprised.

I guess Asus and MSI have a vested interest in not making these kind of things too good, especially the Mark 1 versions, or they might take away sales from their more premium products. As their mainstream tech advances, these things will become more advanced too.

you can if you want, but its not absolutely essential - just make sure to ground yourself every so often by touching a radiator or something. Beware of childrens entertainers making balloon animals nearby.

Im on 32bit Win7. You know, I haven't tried multiplayer so PB hasn't kicked in for me yet. Im trying a sytem restore to see if I can fix my sound and video issues, if it doesn't I'll be starting from scrath. When i get it all working I'll try multiplayer

yeah, my COD4 worked - some of the cut scenes are a bit stuttery but I think that was down to the hardware, not the OS. (its installed on my old PC) However, I seem to have lost all sound and video playback. You Tube videos were starting up but slowing then stopping after a few seconds. I...

yeah - I have Open Office 3 running on mine with out issue, although to be fair I haven't used it extensively, just ran through soem basic opening/saving etc to see how it responded. First run was quite slow (probably doing set-up stuff), but thereafter ran just like on my Vista machine

thats really odd mate - nobody else seems to be suffering the catalogue of problems you are having. Install files are corrupt perhaps? I have had the 32 bit version on for a few days now and it runs like a dream.

http://jiwire.com.com/4014-11485_9-33175857.html just for the barebones though

I have installed Win7 32 bit as the sole OS on my old PC Pentium 4 530 3.0Ghz 1GB Corsair TwinX PC-3200 X850 Pro 256MB AGP 80GB SATA HDD Creative Soundblaster SE So far, I have to say Im pretty impressed. It feels just as responsive as XP Pro did on it, and pretty much the same as...

I have Vista Home Premium 64 bit SP1 and have found it to be extremely stable. The only things that have upset it were Rivatuner and the buggy hell that is STALKER Clear Sky which caused complete lock-ups and BSODs - its safe to say that was the games fault rather than Vista. Vista SP2? I...

good link and for those who cant be bothered to read it, this is all you need to know

no need for me - built a system around a E8200/8800GT earlier this year, cant see me needing to do anything other than upgrade Gfx and maybe get a Quad for the next 18 months or so.

remember this isn't immediate - its by 2010 and hasn't the discontinuation of the Q6600 already been announced?

When I built my rig you just could not get hold of E8400 and E8500 so I bought a E8200 which I have @ 3.2Ghz on a 1600Mhz FSB. Its a great chip, but even I wouldn't buy one these days, not when the E8400 is so close in terms of price.