Advantages: smells nice, works Disadvantages: pricey
Interbond Conditioning System gives a unique 3D Repair Complex of proteins, ceramides and liquids to help give strength, cuticle reinforcement and protective resurfacing. It aims to make the hair look healthy again, shiny and manageable. This is a lot of promises which I did hope that my shampoo would aim to do but it was a matter of putting it to the test. Before using the shampoo I had been using the Redken fuel treatments in the Extreme range which are small tubes you break open and leave in your hair for up to 10 minutes to let it take effect and they did leave my hair more manageable.
The shampoo is quite a thick one which is different from most I have used it has a thicker consistency and smells just like a salon with that lightly fruity scent to it which I love as it reminds me of being at the hairdresser. If you lift up the lid ...
Advantages: Cheaper than good brands Disadvantages: not competitive enough
of buying it, for an extra £30 I could have got a card that would still be good today.
My advice for people who are not sure about graphics cards, keep to the well know brands, pay attention to the core speed, memory speed, whether its ddr/ddr2/ddr3 and how many pipelines it has(think of it as traffic on a 2 lane motorway is slow but then 2 more lanes open and traffic goes faster, the more lanes the less bottlenecking). If you have to save money maybe think about buying a card from a good brand but with less features or smaller amount of memory.
Don't know if it's just me being unlucky or it's the GeCube brand use cheap PCB and chips even though the core is ATI. ...
Advantages: happy endings to stories Disadvantages: hyper hosts
Extreme makeover does exactly what it says on the tin so to speek, it is a show that completely rebuilds a new house.
The show is made in America and is aired on sky tv on uk style channel 246 and 247 and is on at various times most days.
The programme starts off by showing you the families homes before the makeover and the conditions they put up with and live in, some are really bad. The host Ty and his crew then show you what the plans for the new home. Then they call in the bulldozers and completely demolish the house, I love this part of the show it just get stuck in and ripped to pieces.
You are then shown the start of the new building, which doesnt take them long at all, not like it would be in England it would take us months to build!!
It is now time for the big reveal, the families are taken round their brand new ...
Product Information for "GeCube GC-R9550GU-C3 Extreme" »
Processor / memory
Graphics Processor / Vendor
ATI Radeon 9550
RAMDAC Clock Speed
400 MHz
Video Memory Installed
128 MB
Technology
DDR SDRAM
Manufacturer's product description
PRODUCT FEATURES: Powered by AGP 8X ATI RADEON 9550 VPU; Supports 128-bit of 128MB DDR memory for today's demanding games, applications, effects and animation; Integrated 4 parallel rendering pipelines and 4 parallel geometry engines for incredibly fast 3D performance and real-time visual effects; SMARTSHADER 2.1 technology supports the latest Microsoft DirectX 9.0 feature sets, enabling more complex and cinematic-quality lighting effects; SMOOTHVISION 2.1 technology delivers the sharpest, clearest textures, removes jaggies and brings out fine texture details without sacrificing frame rates; 128-bit full floating point precision enables billions of color variations to render the same lighting and effects as Hollywood studios; ATI's new FULLSTREAM technology removes blocky artifacts from Streaming and Internet video and provides sharper image quality; Display configuration supports CRT, DVI-I (option 2nd CRT via DVI converter) & TV-Out (PAL/NTSC); Support DirectX 9.0 and the latest OpenGL functionality for unprecedented realism and sophisticated visual effects; Bundled Hydravision Multiple Monitor Management Software provides a flexible, user-friendly interface for multiple display settings; Industry-leading hardware DVD video playback support; Integrated 400Mhz RAMDAC to supports maximum 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536.
