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Well I finally built my own system, everything's been working great since I got it all put together.

Total cost (minus the keyboard, speakers, and external drive) was less than US$600

Case: hec 6C28

PSU: hec Orion 585W

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition

CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro

RAM: 2GB (2x 1GB) G.SKILL DDR2 800

Graphics Card: eVGA 8600GT 256MB

Optical Drive: Memorex DVD+-RW

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA, External Seagate Freeagent 250GB

Monitor: Dell E207WFP 20"

Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech MX3200

Speakers: Logitech Z4

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BIG SIZE

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BIG SIZE

stuff that is visible on the desk and above

LG 22" Widescreen (wallmounted)

Logitech LX3 Mouse

Logitech Ultra-X Flat Usb

NetGear DG834G ADSL2+ Modem Router

Logitech QuickCam Pro

Ipod Shuffle Dock

Digital Camera Usb Cable

Nokia Usb Cable

Logitech Clearchat Pro Usb

Creative Inspire 2.1 P380 (really old,need new)

other stuff

Ikea Lack (the shelf over the screen)

Ikea Grundtal (Spotlights mounted under the shelf)

Kosta Boda designed wine glass by Ulrica Hydman Vallien

black handmade pot with realistic plastic flowers

Computer Desktop (don?t remeber the name but it?s from a swedish store named Jysk)

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Revolution is one of the best mouse they made (unless your an hardcore LAN gamer). I however dislike the fact by default you lose your middle click which I use a lot for tabs in IE. However my brother gave me a little hint which made me install the Logitech crapware software again. You can finetune the mousewheel.

By default it's a normal mousewheel. Click the wheel and it's an flywheel. Thus making you lose middlemouse.

However you can turn off the flywheel and just have normal wheel. (Or the other way around).

Well it's just got too many features I wouldn't use like the side scroll wheel and fly wheel thing. Plus the price... I picked up my MX1000 for ?30 which I thought was expensive, but worth it. The Revolution is ?50. I just can't justify spending 50 squids on a mouse.

Well it's just got too many features I wouldn't use like the side scroll wheel and fly wheel thing. Plus the price... I picked up my MX1000 for ?30 which I thought was expensive, but worth it. The Revolution is ?50. I just can't justify spending 50 squids on a mouse.

I got mine for 50E.. not too shabby but indeed a steep price for a mouse.

Worth it tough ^^

I use the sidewheel for media control and the search button thingy under the scrollbutton as a keyboard bind Control W (close tab/active window)

Pictures of my home office / bedroom / home cinema setup. I've recently finished a massive redecoration project for the room, so pretty much all of the setup is new.

Hardware details are listed below the pictures

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To pre-empt the various questions I sometimes get asked about the following:

The desk and desk draws was supplied by a company called Solent Office (a UK office supplier that is based in the South)

The AV Cabinet, TV Cabinet, and bedside draws were supplied by a company called Tiverly (sp?). The AV Cabinet and TV Cabinet were custom made for the room.

The daishō (set of swords) on the desk; are of full-tang folded steel construction, made by Henwai (Paul Chen). The other stand of swords (only partially pictured) consist of; two bokken, and a Henwai iaitō blade.

Desk overview - iMac, PC, MacBook Pro,

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Equipment closeups - My gaming PC, and my AV rack

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Front of room, showing the front sound channels, TV etc, and DVD / book shelf

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Back of room, showing the rear sound channels, and with the 'movie lighting' on instead of the main lights.

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Networking infrastructure (located outside in the garage)

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PC Specs:

Intel Core 2 Q6600 Quad Core

4GB RAM

2x250gb disks (Raid-0), 1x500gb (JBOD)

768mb GeForce 8800 GTX

Coolermaster CM832

Dell 22" LCD

Other Computer Equipment:

iMac 24" C2D 2.16GHz, 1GB RAM + Dell 24" LCD

MacBook Pro 15" C2D 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM

AV Equipment:

TV: Toshiba Regza 42Z3030D 42"

AV Amp: Yamaha RX-V1800

Speakers: Monitor Audio BR5 (2xFront), Monitor Audio BRLCR (1xCenter), Monitor Audio BR1 (2xSurround Back, and 2xSurround)

Cable / Sat: V+ HD Box (Scientific Atlanta, Virgin Branded version)

DVD: Pioneer DV-350 (multi-region)

Games: Sony Playstation 3, 40GB

Network Equipment:

Virgin Media (ex. NTL) Cable Modem (NTL:250)

Gateway - Via 1.33GHz C7 CPU, 1GB RAM, 6xGigabit Ethernet Ports

HP ProCurve 1800 24port / 2xGBIC Gigabit Switch

Netgear 24port 10/100 Switch

hi everybody!

new location & new flat so let's enjoy!

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we have :

PC :

lian li v2100B & tagan 480w

asus p5k dlx wifi ap edition

C2D e6550 [email protected]

4*1go geil DDR800 @ 900 5.5.5.5 2t

leadteck 7800gtx512

samsung 226BW

webcam pro5000

mx1000

MAC : not in the picture

powermac bi G4 800

notebook : not in the picture

IBM T41p

2 Server HP ML350G3

bi Xeon 2.8ghz/533/512

4*512 mo ddr reg

carte smart array 641 U320

2*36go 15k u320

3*36go 10k u320

dat 72 hp

power 2*500w

WS2k3 & WHS fot ftp, mail & files

HC :

PDP pioneer 427XD 42" plasma

ampli onkyo txds 696

dvd pioneer dv696

pack jmlab 4*XXL + 1*XL + sib cub?

HD box for 720p video's

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@blackbeard- what cage is that in your last picture?

Its a Assynia ALL ROUND ACCESS (ARA) Wall Box, 9U high.

They're available from Cable Management Supplies, (http://www.cableman.co.uk)

Unfortunately I can't direct-link to the product, but they're under the 'Assynia Wall Boxes' category on the right hand side (under Top Sellers). They're about ?130.90 + VAT. I don't pay shipping as one of their warehouses is about a 5minute drive from where I live.

CMS are a pretty good company. We use them at work, and I've used them for all my network cabling and network kit housing.

Hope that helps! :DD

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