The Epos M5i are compact, 2-way, bass reflex, bookshelf stereo speakers featuring a 140mm ... more
bass/mid-range woofer with die-cast aluminium chassis and a 25mm high frequency metal dome tweeter - producing an open, tight, "real" sound, with a sharp, 3D stereo image. Available now in a range of real wood veneer finishes.
Advantages: well priced, light and easily absorbed Disadvantages: Not especially thick texture
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Boots EPO hand cream is a pale creamy-golden colour and quite viscous, with a mild, slightly lemony scent (Citronellol is listed in the ingredients.) Although not the most wrinkle-quenching hand cream I have ever used, and nowhere near as thick as the Body Shop hemp cream, for example, it is more easily absorbed and still makes my skin feel soft (aaah!).
I find it melts into my hand quickly, so I do not have to waste time rubbing my hands forever - useful in a working environment - or walk around with greasy feeling hands, which I might with a cheaper product. It is a reasonable price and looking to become a fixture in my kitchen. I have also used Boots EPO face cream, which I liked.
This is one of my favourites, maybe due to the proximity of a Boots in the high street; price and performance. One tip - when you think the tube is ...
Advantages: Jumperless. Loads of features. Loads of BIOS settings to play with. Everything! Disadvantages: Expensive to some
and the last 2 via another USB connector cable which you can buy. (The cable costs around £5 or so)
6 PCI slots for your sound card, modem (if internal of course!) and all the rest. There are none of the older ISA slots though so you won?t be able to use any ISA cards if you have them.
1 AGP (x1, x2, x4) slot for your top of the range, super-duper graphics card. (Speeds controlled via BIOS settings)
Onboard AC97 audio with sockets for speakers, mic and line in. (This isn?t too bad compared to other onboard audio that I?ve heard & you could do a lot worse! You can easily disable this via the BIOS)
Built-on P80P Debug card which shows you boot errors in its nice digital display. There?s a list of the codes in the user manual.
Then you have the usual PS2 port, keyboard port, 1x parallel port and 2 serial ports which are standard ...
Advantages: Everything about it, sound, RAID, 12 IDE built in, OC able, stable. Disadvantages: Very hard to find, no more than 3gb memory, older hardware, single-core cpu.
I've had 3 of these over the last 4-5 years (since they were first produced. I sold two of them to upgrade my home rigs to newer and slightly faster machines as the years went by. However, I've kept one and I'm so glad I did- it's been my best motherboard so far. Between the built-in chipset bonuses (the HPT374 for instance) and great components, it's never given me a hitch.
They're really hard to find, if not impossible, but for a home server, they are incredible. I only wish there was some way to go dual-core with these. They're still a rocking system with winXP or some form of Linux, and with 12 possible IDE/hard drives (10 drives and 2 CD/DVD's) you can really make a nice office and business machine.
They DO overclock, and they will accept the fastest socket-A chip you can still find (Bartons no problem). Somewhere out there ...
