Which means you would need a "low profile" graphics card, otherwise it won't fit.
Also you can't buy anything super demanding, as your PSU probably won't be up to it. I'd say anything under 40 - 50 quid would be as powerful as you could go.
The Massa spin was very, very strange. I've watched an onboard of it several times now, and I'm 95% certain he didn't lose the car from mashing the throttle too much. The corner is too fast for the wheels to spin up enough for it to spin as suddenly as it did. Also worth noting is that the engine revs rose a tiny bit, then dropped instantly which to me looked to have initiated the spin.
Edit: He may also have span the wheels a little under power, and in a haste to correct it he took his foot off the throttle suddenly, which caused the engine braking to lock up the rear wheels.
Watch the high quality video. It's blatently obvious he's punching the air. I don't understand why people see it differently, other than what Heikki said afterwards. You don't punch a visor tear-off with your fist do you?
Massa was in Coulthard's slipstream, and was pulling alongside until he hit the revlimiter in 7th gear and couldn't move further down the inside of Coulthard.
I have the X-230 speakers at Uni, and they sound suprisingly powerful for the price. They are basically the same as yours except with 3 extra satellites. The subwoofer is a bit overpowering on anything above minimum, so I don't normally set it any higher.
As for specific setting's, when you have reasonable speakers, you should always IMO use a flat equalizer and any other settings related to sound at default.
Personally I don't really like the current trend towards sub + satellite arrangement that a lot of speakers currently have. At home I was lucky enough to be given some Celestion Ditton 44 Series II speaker's which sound superb but weigh 20 Kg each. Looked around on the internet to see if any were on ebay and it seems the series II model is very rare. Only pic I found was of an abused and dismantled one.
OK I have tried the card in another decent PC, and it's definately fubar. It didn't even send any signal to the monitor before the fan went into turbocharged mode.
If I send it back will they know if I tried to overclock it?
The cables are fine, nothing seems to be overheating, I can't smell anything. I know the graphics card is not overheating either, as when it did boot into windows the last time, the temps were fine.
Right well I can't see how it can be the PSU now, as I have just unplugged everything else which isn't needed (Case fans and CD Drive), and the problem remains.
Bump. This is still happening occasionally. In fact atm I am on my laptop because the desktop will not stay on for more than 5 seconds before the gfx fan going mental and the moniter signal dying.
I was having a shower an hour ago, and left the PC on. I came back to find no signal to my monitor and the graphics card fan running at what sounded like 100%. I tried rebooting, and it got halfway into loading XP when the monitor lost the signal input again and the gfx fan went mental again.
After booting into safe mode successfully on the second attempt, I tried again to boot into windows normally, and everything is fine again.
My question is, WTF just happened?!
I've looked at temps and stuff in rivatuner and everything looks completely normal...