Spec me a kick ass system that is also ^ green ^

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So anyone know this please?

Anyway, could someone advise me please whether there be significant sound improvement if I replace on board sound card of my z77 ud3h motherboard with one of the recommended sound cards such as:

Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp - OEM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=SC-012-AS
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I am using 5.1 creative speakers mid range and sometimes play using head phones.

My pc is used for gaming and movie & song play.
 
Benq XL2420T 24" TRUE 120Hz will soon be my newset addition. And OCUK is doing it for 270 posted! mmmm nice

Heard lots of good about this monitor and the switch from 60 to 120 mhz is apparently amazing like going from 1.6 liter to v8 engine!

Also decided to go with benq as they have nice looking eco stance

"RoHS Compliance
BenQ do care about our living environment; all BenQ LCD monitors have RoHS certification (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances). The RoHS Directive stands for "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment". This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants"

http://benq.co.uk/products/LCD/index.cfm/product/1112

Just letting people know my latest developments.
 
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I have bough another monitor, a 23 inch 120mhz one. Please explain to me how to set it up with my current rig so that 23 monitor will be used for games/movies and my old one as a side one. Where do I plug which? thanks
 
For my next upgrade. After being happy with 120mhz monitor I am doing next ecological step at buying green hard drive.

Seagate Barracuda Green Internal Hard Drive range seams very appealing due to:


- Up to 20% faster than other eco-friendly internal hard drives

- Up to 44% less power consumption than standard desktop drives

- Optimized performance with available 64MB cache and SATA 6Gb/s interface
- SmartAlign™ technology for easy migration to the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard

Is there something better on the market than the above? Please let me know. ta
 
Lazder said:
You clearly dont understand the fact that "green" is pretty much a waste..... :rolleyes: If you really want, you can ask ocUK to stick a white label and write in pen on it "Green" I am sure they would love to help such a cause...
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How is it a waste when it uses less power and is more efficiently made? Have you started drinking earlier.
 
I would just like to take a moment to thank Surveyor for recommending to do display powert converter to VGA to get my 2 monitors working. I have tested it works. 23 inch main monitor is running at 120mhz and side monitor is running at 60mhz. Used to ran at 75mhz but I can live with that. Seems that mini display port supports only 60mhz. Good job.
 
Gav_881 said:
:-S there was me thinking he wanted a color scheme that was green......what a waste of effort just turn off the lights and game in the dark, the fact that most IT equipment gets shipped half way round the world kind of makes it a mute point and ofc building it yourself requires additional shipping which wont help so you should really have bought a prebuilt as the shipping from OCuk to you for all the bits will account for more CO2 than anything you could hope to save from an energy efficient drive. ****ing hippies!!!
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Post will go anyway. Few extra parcels wont make a difference. My system is as I have stated before, I state again - more 'green' than others. This is due using many components from more ethical companies than others.

If you look closely you will see that I am right.
 
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