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I would wait until school actually starts, or when you absolutely need to have one, since laptops drop in price so fast, I bought a $800 one and 2 months later it was around $550.

Could be the connection on your speakers might be old or something, I remember I got pretty bad static when I kept unplugging my headphones from a jack and they got worn down, other than that, I'm out of ideas.

You could get away with 2 dimms, but I would recommend going triple channel for the performance boost, if your on a tight budget, shop around for some deals, I remember seeing some triple channel for under $75 shipped somewhere.

Google would be your best bet to find out about a specific product, I would recommend the Razer product line, Diamonback/Copperhead, Deathadder are all fine mice. I'm not sure about the pricing/availability in UK, but those are the best finger mice I've ever used, if you prefer wrist mice like...

hmm, well this computer is probably only gonna run games with Valve's Source Engine, and maybe some newer games.

Well maybe affordable by your standards ;) but I still can't shell out that much money even though they are really nice performers, I'm really hoping that they drop another 10~30% over the summer so when I get back from over seas I can nab one if I haven't already for my OS/games.

hmm, I might just shell out an extra $25 for a HD3850 since those are down to around $55 shipped, I'll be gaming on a 19" with 1680x1050 with this PC, would 256mb ram be enough for that? or should I get the 512 version?

well, I'm getting it for $30 plus shipping, and the budget for the computer is around $200. and I got the HDD, PSU and DVD drive for $70 already. Can't spend too much on the video card since it's not gonna be put to use that much.

I have the chance of getting a 5000+ BE with a Gigabyte GA-MA78GN-S2H board, or a e5200 with a GA-p35-DS3L mobo for like $20 more, what should I get, also about the video card for this machine, a x1900xtx or a 7900GTX for $20 more?

because if your getting a netbook, it's probably very likely for portability, and a external is kinda annoying to haul around. cables and such, even though the WD Books are pretty small, rather just have a 10" netbook. And to OP, no the SSD's are probably not worth it in the netbook, if you...

Free shippign is common with speaker sets, I got my z5500 shipped to my house for free, and it's like 40 + lbs

I have a XFX GTX 260 XXX edition, and XFX is sending back my 8800GTS with RMA, my questions is: can I use my 8800GTS for a dedicated PhysX card, and what cool/popular games currently use PhysX?

He means that you might have blown all the dust from one fan to another, from what I see in your screenshot, it's your GPU all right, it's probably overheating as people say, and that's what's causing the artifacts. From your first post, one of the possible scenarios is that you didn't blow all...

Too bad apple removed the images ...

I would say EVGA since they have the sexiest mobo's for my taste! You could wait for the new EVGA MOBO coming out if you want to shell out a couple of extra bucks for it.