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That sucks...... did you get details for insurance or did they do a runner?

I know the feeling though, my front bar's had so many scrapes and dings out of it, I finally decided to pull it off, sand + bog it and repaint it...... but it's gonna look like total SHITE. To top it off I ran out of paint this afternoon and the shop I use isn't open til Monday, so it looks like I'll be riding my bike to work for the first half of this week!

runner :geek:

maybe it was brizzyrocker :geek:

lol, it was a mistake man, comon now please i dont wana be known as the hit and guy run for the rest of my life :P

n john(yaface) what sorta damage are you lookin at?

col if the idea is small and touch i'm not going to be able to do anything like that HP.

But I'll see what touch screen shit is around and how small a case i can find...

*waits for touch jokes

Nah don't worry about touch shit i'm not goin to go out of my way to have a touch screen lol it was just something I spotted in the Harvey Norman catalogue.

@Dave that is a cool set up. I can always hook up the tower or my old laptop to my tv if the mood strikes.

@John: I don't think I will be able to make it this week :geek: Mum's birthday.

@Colin:

Case Antec Minuet 350 Slimline case with 350W PSU $133.00

PSU ^^^^^

Mobo Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 P55 4DDR3 4VRM PCIEx16 GLAN DES2 8SATA 2X1394a mATX $133.50

CPU Intel Core i7 860 Processor LGA1156 2.8GHz 8MB Cache CPU $334.00

Ram Kingston 4GB(2 X 2GB) DDR3-1333MHZ $125.00

HDD Samsung 1.5TB Silencer Series 32M $133.00

DVD Samsung 22X DVDRW Black SATA (SH-S223C-BL) $37.00

VGA Inno3D GTX 260+ (216SP) PCI-E 2.0 896MB DDR3 DVI HDCP $228.00

Monitor Samsung P2350 23 $237.00

OS Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit OEM(Microsoft OEM Terms&condition apply) $169.00

$1,529.50

Will shit all over that HP, but no touch and it will take up a little more room. Although that is using the smallest case I could find. No keyboard or mouse in that shit either - do you need them?

You can shave a bit of cost off if necessary with either a smaller hard drive, windows home edition, or a less powerful video card.

that sounds pretty svveet Martin. Yeah I decided against the HP, just gunna save up a couple of months n then build one at least then I'll get everything I want.

that sounds pretty svveet Martin. Yeah I decided against the HP, just gunna save up a couple of months n then build one at least then I'll get everything I want.

Yeah its not a bad rig at all. If you want to be able to overclock it well but, you'll need to get more expensive ram and a CPU cooler. Factor another couple of hundred there. But really theres no need to overclock it, it'll be f**king fast OOTB.

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