I'm actually quite satisfied with my Foxconn. It allows me to change the clock speed in the range of 2.0 - 2.9 GHz.

But I guess when you compare it to the nVidia 6150SE, copper coated dog crap might seem like a nice mobo.

I'm sure i've purchased some product where the company's employees were abused, but i wouldnt know.

But I do know that Foxconn drives their employee to suicide, so I try to avoid stuff branded directly with the name Foxconn.

Then again, I own an xbox, I think some of its parts were manufactured by foxconn

Foxconn has their hands in nearly every electronic product imaginable. One of the 100 ton behemoths. Jut because it doesn't say Foxconn on the box, doesn't mean it wasn't made there. Apple, Microsoft, Nintendo, Dell, RIM, Palm (now HP), and many others either use, or have used Foxconn.

But they did start working on that situation. They have on site counsellors, pay was increased fairly significantly, as were benefits. Some other stuff was changed, like they put up "nets" and fences to stop people from jumping off the buildings.

Even on windows eh? The 69xx series is a newer breed of gpu, but I'd have thought they'd have that licked by now.

It does take time for the other methods to actually make any kind of real change. If we're talking depressed people, I was (have been, still am sorta) stuck that way for two decades. Not a nice place to be in, and it isn't easy to crawl back out of. Especially if you've been taught that working less than 16 hours a day is a sin :-x

Hey, it was only slightly more expensive than a quad core, so why the hell not?

He could be wrong too, if you happen to need a lot of cores, for say, things like parallel compile jobs, or running a lot of cpu hungry apps, its quite useful. I sometimes don't quite have enough power with my dual core 2.53Ghz laptop, but my slower (2.4Ghz) quadcore desktop, and quadcore media box (2.2Ghz) are just fine.

You're buying a PC from a weekly payment shop

You'll be paying 400% interest or something stupid like that.

Desmond, the most cost-effective buy might have been only a mobo, with integrated graphics. But having a complete new system is certainly nice. I hope you get it delivered soon.
My parts came in today.

Hmm, driver problems could be an issue (though probably not). I'm still at the stage of trying to find out which graphics card would be the best choice for the money, and I'm wondering: would a GeForce 560 Ti 1GB be better than a Radeon HD 6870 1GB? The cost is about the same at the moment.

Radeon HD 6870 1GB seems to have faster shaders and looks to be generally better overall. Any thoughts?

From what I've seen, the 560 Ti is generally faster, and it's closer to an HD 6950, even outperforming it in some games (there are a few exceptions where the 6870 is faster, though). Add tessellation and then the 560 outperforms with a good margin even the HD 6970.

See? I don't get it, why it's HD 5[89]x0 and 6[89]x0? shouldn't be 5[89]X0, 5[90]x1, 5[91]x0, etc...? What is wrong with people?

I keep thinking "I really aught to actually buy something with all the money I'm earning", but my PC is already powerful enough and I don't really want anything else.

I guess I'll just keep saving for a house.

Matthew really aught to turn that feature on for my account too.