Your Favorite Christmas present for 2010

[supermario]

Now the dust has settled and we have all had time to play with our new toys or decide who we are regifting presents to next year.... What was you favorite present received for christmas 2010.

For me it has to be rockband with ACDC rockband game closely followed by my Roostermania Roosters jersey, only because it has not arrived as yet.

Discuss !

[Guest]

I would say the Wii and all its trimmings, but that was a family gift....

So it would be my Pandora charms and the gorgeous pair of earings FC got me.......

[Guest]

6 Free tickets to the Titans game at Skilled..

Closely followed by a $200 free deposit in my Betfair account..

Good Festivus this year..

[Guest]

I must add one that isnt really mine, but I will play with it.....

Fletch got a telescope, and we have only just tonight had a chance to set it up and use it.........AWESOME......

[Guest]

A holiday to Fiji.

See you in 2010 people!

[Guest]

My Penelope Green book. Love her books.

My camera. It's pretty and purple.

[horrie hastings]

My new book on Bette Davis,i spent plenty of time curled up on the lounge reading it when the weather was wet.

[Guest]

A shopping spree at DFO:

- General Pants shorts (2 pairs)
- Industrie shorts (2 pairs)
- General Pants jeans (1 pair)
- Industrie jeans (1 pair)
- G-Star Raw jeans (1 pair)
- Jay Jays jeans (3 pairs)

[trenty]

since when is there a GP at DFO?

if its new im so there

[Guest]

I have to wait until after jan 5 to get my new pc

Intel i7 2.66 mhz
Geforce 9800 vid card 512 ddr3
4 gig ddr3 ram
terrabyte hard drive
windows 7
keyboard + mouse

getting a new monitor a bit later...$1600 all up.

[stephenj]

nice puter, youve got me drooling now! its now 2nd, only 4 days to go!

[Guest]

I have to wait until after jan 5 to get my new pc

Intel i7 2.66 mhz
Geforce 9800 vid card 512 ddr3
4 gig ddr3 ram
terrabyte hard drive
windows 7
keyboard + mouse

getting a new monitor a bit later...$1600 all up.

Nice specs except I'd slot a different Graphics card in that system...for about $50-$100 more you could get into a much more powerful card...if you don't game on it or watch HD movies then it doesn't matter...but the newer monitors can be awesome with a good GPU....

[Guest]

Nice specs except I'd slot a different Graphics card in that system...for about $50-$100 more you could get into a much more powerful card...if you don't game on it or watch HD movies then it doesn't matter...but the newer monitors can be awesome with a good GPU....

yeah i wasnt real happy with the card ... what one would u recommend ? obviously not too much more money than the 512

[Guest]

the ATI cards had the stick on the Nvidia cards when I built mine a couple of years ago...a 4850 would be relatively cheap now...the 4870 is the next card up and that would be reasonable now as well 2 years down the track...they are probably 1 gig cards now but were outperforming the top end Nvidia cards at the time including the one your buying and were half the price...then NVidia dropped their prices...I've got a 4850 in my system and it runs all the latest games very well...also make sure you have a good power supply...they skimp out on those 2 when building systems for people...with what you got there a good GPU card and a good power supply will be noticed when you get a new monitor that has good resolution capabilities...you've got a nice v8 under that bonnett so match it up so it can show it's grunt...If you can get your hands on a ATI 4870 for the little bit extra you've got a card that blew the doors off the competition when it was released a couple of years ago...

And now you've made me look at what's around at the moment and all that stuff is old...

I just priced up a similar system to yours through a couple of pc places I know build them and your price is similar for what you're getting...it was approx about $100 more for the 4870 in a 1 gig card and worth the extra...or if you want to future proof it even more seeing as you have the latest version windows it would have directx 11.. the ATI 5770 is similarly priced but has newer technology...also the new monitor you get down the track would benefit from a card that can punch out HD quality...also runs on less power than the 4800 series and creates less hear in the case...however the 4870 1 gig card is top value at that price. Either of those 2 cards will go well.

Are you using it for games ?

Are you looking to watch HD movies on your new monitor ?

The new monitors are full HD (1920 x 1080 )

[Guest]

I was originally going through a mate of mine in Adelaide and he didnt seem particularly keen to help after xmas (nfi why) so i went thru umart.com.au and scored a mega bargain.

Here is the new specs ...

* Intel Core i7 920 Processor LGA1366 2.66GHz 8MB Cache CPU
* Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R X58+ICH10R QPI 6.4GT/s DDR3 2000 PCI-Ex16 SATAII RAID IDE GLAN heappipe ATX
* G Skill 6G(3x2G) DDR3 PC12800 9-9-9-24
* Western Digital 1.5TB SATAII HDD 32M Cache Green Power
* Gigabyte GTS250 OC PCI-E 1GB DDR3 Dual-Link DVI VGA HDMI HDCP 3-Way SLI
* Asus VH192C 19 5MS 10000:1 HD DVI SPKR
* LiteON IHAS324 SATA DVD-RW 24X Black Retail
* CoolerMaster Centurion RC334 Elite Black NO PSU
* Power Supply 650W (ATX)
* Logitech Deluxe 660 Cordless Desktop Keyboard+mouse
* Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 32bit OEM(Microsoft OEM Terms&condition apply)
* Kaspersky Internet Security

All for $1712 ... considering i got a monitor and burner extra from my mate's last quote, well he can go jump