Here's an interesting theoretical exercise. Many of you may be aware that I am intent on emigrating from this country in a little over a year's time. The question is this... Is it worth continuing my rolling upgrade to my computers, and take them with me (given that I have around 70kgs of monitors alone), or just put a freeze on upgrades, and when it comes to moving, sell everything off except my hard disks (and maybe a few personal things, like keyboard, mouse, webcam), and build entirely new machine(s) when I get there (there is likely to be Australia or US)? Given also that there's some considerable cost in shipping the stuff to my destination. What would you do? Could you not bear to leave your computer behind? Or is it just the data on the disk which is important?
I'd bring modded stuff but sell the others such as the monitor. If you have a modded mouse and keyboard, and love it so much, then bring them with you.
id take my main system/monitor and modded components. i really want to move to the US from this lame country too. .icecube
I agree with taking along modded items... everything else must go.. IMHO... I actually enjoy the process of starting over too... to me it's a rush. Sometimes I purge my cumbersome belongings and start over. Ultimate advice stands: think out a year in advance and try to anticipate what you would actually miss if it were gone and have no regrets... curious, what area are you going to make home...
Home? Likely to be Victoria in aus (somewhere near melbourne) or West coast US (Portland through choice, Seattle or Silicon valley through $$$) I don't do modding really, and the rest of my system is actually relatively old components, or things that are obsoleted quickly. I'm on an SDR set-up, so CPU, mobo and RAM would go, the GF3 is already a cheap item, the monitors are so big and heavy that they'd cost a lot to move that distance, etc I would miss my data, and a few sweet little devices, which I'd take with me anyway, like my IBM keyboard, perfect-sized mouse, etc, but these are things it's no big deal to take. I would definately have to get big monitors again though....
I have been to Portland many times and have two really close friends that live there now... one of my fav places..
My data is the most important. Personally I'd freeze the upgrades and build nice new rigs over at your new place (and enjoy the cheaper hardware).
Build new systems. That way you'll have something nice and fresh to go with your new country keep HDDs tho, but ditch the other stuff shipping costs will probably equal the cost of building a new system(s) anyhow.
i though australia was a bit behind technology wise, and then you would have to import stuff, but then australia is v close to japan.
batsman- I dare you to go to www.overclockers.com.au and say that in their forums. They have FAR busier forums than bit-tech do, and are one of the world's leading oc sites. Prices in australia are slightly higher, and they get things about the same time we do (ie after the US). Generally very comparable to the UK. When you can get a laptop with dual 21" screens, I'll be interested...until then, no.
I agree, overclockers.au is a top site... I hit thier site at least once a day. Like bit-tech, they have links to other site's reviews but also have a LOT of stuff they are doing themselves... the New Zealanders are some active little buggers believe it or not... some cool modding going on down under
i just thought that australia was a bit behind, odviously wrong sorry to any australia people reading this thread
if you moved to Austrailia and had water cooling, and you got your CPU to ambient tempreture, it would only be around 87C idle... id rather live in US, but i suppose AUS is a cool country too, just a bit to hot. .icecube
Actually, where I'd be living in victoria, at my boyfriend's house, it's a similar climate to england, although a little warmer in summer. Still cold in the winter though.
lo isaac.... definatly take the hdds, but sell off all other equipment.....hardware is cheapor then uk and it does come out at the same time as uk if not earlier.... only thing ull need is decent cooler so u might have to pack ur 8045.... shipping is very expensive...it cost the uni 30 000 pounds to moove my dads stuff to over here....
Since my next machine will be clawhammer or whatever intel have out, the PAL8045 won't do me any good. I am thinking more and more of just letting this machine get old, and then just to take important little things, not replaceable hardware. Watch this space for the big sell-off in a year's time!
