I have a Realtek HD Audio on my motherboard, so im good. Anyway, the 5500's are $250 and the 2300 and G51 are $80 and $120 respectively. Which of those two is better wii_123

Are you joking...you don't know?

Go to th cmd prompt in start>all programs>accessories>command prompt

Then type in ipconfig /all

That will give you everything you need 

DrFuzzy

Not if he has a router... If you do that ya'll get your local IP and your gateway.

Compared to z5500:

Higher output(Watts)

Built-in DTS/Dolby Decoder

Digital Optical & Coaxial inputs

LCD Screen on Receiver + Backlight

Wireless remote

Supports up-to 96 kHz / 24-Bit Sound

1000+ Watt - Peak Output

The list goes on...

Your ip is set by your ISP end of story, you can either have a staitc ip or a dynamic one, static is always the same no matter if you change all your hardware, dynamic changes everytime you log in. Google "what is my ip" and write down your ip, then try this, start>run>cmd (if win xp) not sure about vista might be the same type ipconfig /release (space between ipconfig and /)all and wait for it to finish might take a few secs/mins then type ipconfig /renew all go back to "what is my ip" and see if it's changed.. Other than that i think you can mess about with your DNS provider but it doesn't work very well, and you can try using a proxy this will give you a different ip but it's hard to find a good one.purpleRz

There is no such thing as "ipconfig /renew all". Its  ipconfig /renew which resets all your adapters.

Get Everest Ultimate Edition.Sordidus

Getting something like that for someone at his computer knowledge level would be a waste of money.

Daytona_178 I noticed you condemned Norton Antivirus in your blog post. Mainly on how resource hungry it is... On previous versions of Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security I would agree with you, but now its much better.

I used to use Avast Professional which I bought after testing Avast Home for a year. I liked it a lot very intuitive program, detected all types of viruses and malware built into websites. The only reason I stopped using it was because it did not include a Full featured Firewall.

I started using the latest version Norton Internet Security after hearing good reviews from review sites. Most of the review sites praised it for losing most of the bloatware and using less then 15 megabytes of memory on average. I must say I agree completely with them, It uses almost as Little resources that Avast did by itself.

~3pac3

[QUOTE="NSR34GTR"]vista 64 is brilliant but there is some little issuesDaytona_178

Like?

Only issue I have had was with Vista x64 not letting you install non signed drivers. But this only affected RivaTuner, and it does not happen anymore..