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Put the Crucial Chips in first and alone. Then xbench it. Put the stock stuff in last and xbench it again. I **** canned my stock 512 and ran all Crucial.

Really? :o

Ok, i'll try it... As soon as i booted the first time, i swear It seemed to take LONGER to boot... That was what i suspected, then i benchmarked and it dropped considerably... Hmm... Thanks for the tip, i'll try just running the Crucial then!

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...For the moment...  :)

What happened to the 3-part desk of doom? :p

Put the Crucial Chips in first and alone. Then xbench it. Put the stock stuff in last and xbench it again. I **** canned my stock 512 and ran all Crucial.

Interesting, I only had 256mb stock in here which was replaced with 4x512 from crucial.. kinda glad I did now :D

Yea i think so mate. Sound great! iSub looks great in the dark - This is under my desk with blatantly no light... Its even better with your own eye, the pic doesn't do it justice.

Can you buy the iSub on it's own in the UK? I've currently got the Apple Pro speakers wired up here and think they're great, but you can never have too much bass ;)

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haha! Well my dad made a new one for me - instead of me buying or being bought some POS like that last one. Anyhow, its nice, but i'm not as happy with it, as i'd like, so we (rather he, i hate DIY) are starting all over again! :)

S'kinda difficult because i share my room with my brother too, so there's all my stuff, plus his eMac and his stuff too! Oh well! :p

I've seen iSub's on eBay, so i imagine so yea? I think they plug directly into a USB port. Mine works a little different, i guess?

Soundsticks plug into the sub, then a lead through the Mac. + of course external power! ;)

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This thread should be pinned.

I've said this a few times to no avail...

And nuka: Yeah, thanks for showing off your E-Machines... sure looks great compared to all the Macs around here, I think I'll give up using a Mac, that's just TOO uber! The CRT... omfg, damn that's HOT! It's so huge! Bigger is always better, my iBook must pale in comparison to the immense girth of such a thing! :rolleyes:

Stop being such a troll and go back to your corner, it's obvious you're nothing but flamebait.

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See all his cables LOL you need an iMac badly! or even a G5 with a studio display only takes 2 cables!

iMac 1 cable for the power 54G card for net <-- 1 cable! and u could plug a USB printer into the apple router ;)

G5 studio display - 2 cables 1 for power to the G5. Studio display gets its power from the G5 itself via second cable.

and for mouse and keyboard both bluetooth, that would get rid of all your cables! :)

Love my iBook only have 1 cable for power, use wireless mouse if I feel like it and got wireless net! I hate having cables everywhere

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