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awesome did you get pics? probably a smashed nose due to the airbags going off i thought you were talking about that one with blood in it, then realised the windows was shattered and it was only rain

bent ball bag and rod most likely

hey man, alright looking build but if he wants to future proof it: Mobo - go for a P5Q Pr, not the standard one($50 more with loads of extra features) CPU - skip the Q8200 and for a E7200 with custom cooler(still save him about $150) then overclock it to round 3.8-4ghz, quad cores are pretty poo at the moment, since nothing utilizes them and nothing will for a few year, apart from a few select games and some Adobe Photoshop products(CS4 does i believe) Video - With the money saved by going E7200, get a 4850(extra $100) but has a lot more kick, graphics cards are more important than CPUs in most respects these days, since CPUs have hit a limit(apart from the new iCore 7s and Phenom IIs displaying some nice overclocking) RAM - Just go with 4GB of DDR2, there isn't much a performance difference between DDR3 at the moment, just make sure you run XP 64bit or Vista 64, otherwise he'll only ever use 3.5gb Plus 2GB chips are so cheap, fill up just two slots and have two leftover HDD - Skip the 1TB HDD, and buy 3x 500gb HDDs for the same price, then take the first and put the OS on it take the second two and RAID them in a striped config(RAID 0?) so it equals 1TB, this will increase performance by about 20% on the HDDs Also they are right about the Barracudas failing, we've had several fail at work, get Western Digital, they are also quieter DVD-RW - Just get teh cheapest one you can find at the time, should only be about $32 with SATA, BenQ are all good with lightscribe too Keyboard/Mouse - You could go the logitech Desktop 1500, it's one of the cheapest laser models, I've got one here, or you could fork out an extra $30 for a Logitech MX3200 which I also have, great layout and excellent keyboard Monitor - your choice of 22” Samsung 2233BW LCD, another good brand is the AOC 22.1" if you get it, it uses the same LCD panel as the sharp, but I guess the bezel surround isn't as sexy Foxconn TLA-889 Case - hmmm, quite a fugly case to be honest, and cheaply made, for about $20 more you should be able to pickup a named brand like a Thermaltake/Antec/Chenbro or for 40-50 more Silverstone/Lian Li etc PSU - Skip the coolermaster, find a Silverstone 700w modular for the same price, highly efficient and very sexy like most silverstone stuff Speakers - Altec Lansing FX5051 5.1 Speakers - you don't need these, they are $50more than similar Altec Lansing speakers(GT5051R) and Creative/Logitech speakers with less power, only because they can be run off a USB port, they are for a non dedicated 5.1 setup, since the board above has 8 channel surround, all other 5.1 setups will plus in + 7.1 setups P5Q vs P5Q Pro = +$40 Q8600 vs E7200+Cooler = $-100 4680 vs 4850 = $+132 DDR3 4GB vs DDR2 4GB = $-88 1TB vs 3x 500GB = $+64 Desktop 1500 vs MX3200 or Wave = $+30 Samsung vs AOC = $-67 Foxconn vs Thermaltake = $20 Coolermaster 650w vs Silverstone 700w = $+10 Altec Lansing FX5051 vs Altec Lansing GT5051R = -40 = $1 difference in NZD prices of course for a faster system overall, better suited to a casual gamer/the internet

I think that only applies to maybe R33s or newer, I know the r32 autos still work with the wire cut, 52 or 53 is the one green and yellow? yeah, as soon as mine used to touch the dial, it used to pull back the fuel and start shuddering like a son of a b*tch

yeah, I'm with either turbo timer, or if your's was converted to manual, check the auto switch, I remember mine broke, meaning I couldn't switch it on or off, had to bypass it with a switch, it's in the ignition column I think?

I thought school holidays were over? both new users, on the same day, within a few hours of each other, with sympathy for each other hmmm.....

Yep same issue, the water evaporating problem is the japanese acid rain, it also eats into glass on windows of jap cars too, it's a pain in the arse

WOW!!!! HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT FOR IT!?!?!?!!? are you going to stop yelling now?

Try this rather than spending $140 + $35 to get it back: http://www.skylinesdownunder.com/forums/sh...ad.php?p=479143 It only takes say 2 hours, I'd rather spend 2 hours with a little elbow grease, than pay $175

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Haha you guys are lucky, In NZ if you even try getting out of the car they yell and you to get back in, either because they suspect you have a weapon or because they know you are doing something wrong

Another flame war, I own all 3 consoles, can say: Wii is crappy graphics, aimed more at family types, not good, would skip it, plus the Wii Fit told me I'm overweight now i've lost 10kg, i'll go back and challenge it Xbox360 I play the most because it has the best at the moment racing games, although once GT5 comes out, it should be better, as long as it has damage mode for once You'll only notice blu-ray dvds on the PS3 if you have a 42"+ TV and you are sitting at least 6ft away, for me I'm sitting 4ft away from my 1080P 32" and don't notice any major difference from the upscaled dvds, maybe a bit of motion blurring is the only thing. Graphics wise, both are so similar, the Xbox has the better graphics chip, but the PS3 has more cores on it's CPU, meaning that games can be written to add more textures on the PS3, it's just developers find it so hard to program for. Streaming videos/DivX both play them off PCs, Xbox uses Windows Media Center or Tiversity, PS3 uses Tiversity, both run fine, no slow downs at all. In terms of price, Xbox is getting really cheap, I picked mine up with 3 games for $399, PS3 is still $750(NZ prices) if it was a budget thing and you wanted to play games now and not wait till May-JUne for GT5 next year, get the 360 + Forza 2, then next year get the PS3 with GT5 bundle or go for Forza 3 which shoudl be out at the same time. Forza isn't actually bad at all, infact i can say I enjoy it more than GT3-ASpec, GT4, GT5 Prologue, but it's not quite as good as GT1 or GT2

just bear in mind when you use toothpaste it'll take ages I used it on some glass here too, brasso and autosol metal polish also works and comes pretty cheap from bunnings If you have a rotary buffer, put it on low speed, foam pad with autosol and it'll take about 30 minutes each window, it won't remove large scratches or stone chips, but it'll get your windows looking amazingly clean

I've also lost a car to an unlicensed, uninsured driver... hate to say it but, you shouldn't have been driving it and you were stupid to take an alarm out of a Skyline, !!!All Skylines need alarms!!! post sounds seriously fishy to me still, like a 14 year old with spelling like that, trying to troll a forum

damnit, i think I have issues, I'm not really impressed by it for some reason that could be because my mate went 280kph on his old 600cc Suzuki while pulling a wheelie in the wet and mooning...wtf