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"Uni PC Equipment"

OK, I've got most of the PC stuff I'll need for Uni, but there are a few things I need.

Primarily:
- Desktop speakers (just 2 satellites, not with subwoofer or anything, but reasonable quality and power)
- TV Card (I've got one at the moment - Hauppauge WinTV - but it can't record very well at all - e.g. can't compress - and the quality isn't fantastic)
- All-In-One Printer/Scanner/Copier (something small - I'm looking at the HP PSC1205 and HP PSC1350)
- Carrying case for my huuuuge TT XaserIII Supertower case and 17" TFT monitor)

Being a student and skint already, I don't wanna spend too much, but I wanna get something of reasonable quality.

Uncle Albert wrote:

>
> Oh, and I'll be interested on people's suggestions for a TV card, as
> there's no way I'll be lugging a Shuttle, laptop and TV there. :)
>
>

This is the best Tv card out there... bar none...

[URL]http://www.nebula-electronics.com/information/info.asp?Code=0001[/URL]

Why? I like having the extra space and this way I have the flexibility to have my second drive for whatever I like other than for only backups. And I don't need the extra performance.

Nimco wrote:
> They're not RAIDed at all - totally separate drives giving me 298GB of
> HDD space.

Perhaps you should've considered mirroring (i.e. RAID 1).

They're not RAIDed at all - totally separate drives giving me 298GB of HDD space.

Nimco wrote:
> I have 2 seperate HDDs, so I keep a disk image of my C: drive (e.g.
> all my documents, web sites, programs - the whole lot) on my second
> drive, plus I have a backup on DVD.

Are you hard drives in RAID 1?

Uncle Albert wrote:
I managed 80% on P3

No I didn't! I managed a much more respectable 89%. Tsk.

I've not been taught P4. I'm teaching myself. Gotta do that this week actually. I've only done half the modules so far. It's soo much easier than P3 though!

Nimco wrote:
> I found P2 really easy, but P3 really hard. I got 97% on P2, but I
> reckon I'll probably get around 60% on P3. It's sooooo hard! Lol. P4
> is actually easier than P3.

Once you've done Pure 3, Pure 4 is a doddle. I managed 80% on P3, which wasn't too bad. Got my Mechanics 4 exam on Wednesday...shouldn't be too painful.

I'm going to die.

I found P2 really easy, but P3 really hard. I got 97% on P2, but I reckon I'll probably get around 60% on P3. It's sooooo hard! Lol. P4 is actually easier than P3.