4 Port SATA PCI Expansion Card &IDE VIA VT6421a chipset
This 4 Port SATA PCI Card is with IDE and is compliant with Serial-ATA 1.0, 1.1 & 2.0 spec to upgrade your PC for Dual Serial ATA RAID Channels and one Parallel ATA (IDE).

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VGA HD AV Cable (Xbox 360)
List Price: ?14.99
Amazon Price: ?14.98
Customer Review: clear cut high quality cable
I got an xbox 360 arcade that i wanted to plug into my 24inch dell monitor as im a uni student without a tv. I wanted to have the highest picture quality available as theoretically my monitor supports better than hd resolutions. After having a look on amazon for VGA cables i decided to get this one. The cable plugs into the back of the A/V socket on the xbox and into the back of the VGA port on my monitor, i was worried that picture quality would be poor as its not hdmi. But luckily i was wrong. once u plug it in, simply go to the xbox settings and choose your monitors resolution and the screen refreshes to the best quality. I am glad i got this cable as i would not have been happy with a second rate picture quality. The cable is of a long length, not sure how long but fine for a xbox under a student’s desk. the quality of the cable and the connectors seem first rate. Gold plated connections and a strong woven, shielded cable that does not interfere with other electrical equipment. I reccommend this highly.

Xbox 360 Rgb Scart Av Cable Lead
Connect your Xbox 360 to the RGB Scart and AV. Includes RGB Scart and AV connectors.

Xbox 360 HD DVD Player (Xbox 360)
You’ve experienced next-gen gaming on Xbox 360TM … now experience next-gen DVD movies with HD DVD. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology, along with the flexibility to enter when you are ready. Just plug Xbox 360 HD DVD Player into Xbox 360 and enjoy the ultimate home theater experience with more clarity and detail than broadcast, cable or satellite HD. Feed your HDTV the high definition content it craves with HD DVD on Xbox 360!
List Price: ?114.99
Amazon Price: ?39.98
Used Price: ?36.99
Customer Review: discontinued why buy.
the hd dvd drive has been discontinued. microsoft are looking into making a blu-ray drive so if you want a hd movie drive wait until that is released rather than buying this.
Customer Review: Have I bought a Betamax??
Got the HD player for Christmas and I am really delighted with the quality of picture/sound that it gives out. For the price you really cannot beat it, the player also upscales normal DVD’s so all my DVD’s HD or not look great! I also took adavantage of the 5 free HD DVD’s from Microsoft which is superb, 5 free DVD’s for nothing so that made the whole deal even better. The only dark cloud on the Horizon is that Toshiba are no longer going to support this format, which means that the Xbox 360 is shortly going to be the only way that you can view HD DVD’s. How many movie companies will produce HD films on this basis?? I doubt very few if any. It seems that Blue Ray is going to win out. The only way that I can see this format being saved is if the coming Xbox 360 Ultimate has the HD player bulit in (as rumoured) and there are massive sales resulting in a demand for the HD format and other HD players. Unfortunately I think it is unlikely. So in short its a great player but you may have nothing new to play on it before long!!

Football Manager 2006 (Xbox 360) Customer Review: FOOTBALL MANAGER ON THE 360
This is the first football management on the XBOX 360 and takes the successful Football Manager franchise off the PC straight onto your XBOX 360 console.

It takes a while getting used to the controls on this game with all the buttons having a function. This is unlike the PC version where the controls are easy to use.

Apart from that you have all the leagues in here [...] and you can choose who to manage to success. The huge database gives you the opportunity to learn about so many football players from all over the world and most of the players have a photograph with them.

There is also an online mode to this game which gives you a chance to play cups and leagues online with any team in the game. However after each cup or league is finished the lobby is split up and you are returned to the main menu making it difficult to build a rapport with your fellow players.

The XBOX 360 achievements are well-thought out with a few easier ones (like win a match) to more difficult ones for the most dedicated of gamers (complete 20 seasons with 1 club). This is a challenge which you want from a game.

However the game does drag on unlike the PC version. So in summary if you want this game you may want to consider getting it for the PC.
Customer Review: Not like the PC version
The ‘Football Manager’ series was born out of the old ‘Championship Manager’ series from before Eidos took it over. These were widely regarded as the most realistic football management simulators on the market. I bought the 2005 version for the PC and played it for almost a year before getting a little tired of it. During that time I didn’t play any other games because I was so hooked by it. Eventually I bought an Xbox 360 and thought I’d get ‘Football Manager 2006′ to play on it, expecting a quicker, larger and updated game.

It has been updated to include all of the most recent transfers (up to September 05), but that is the only part in which my expectations were met.

The game database seems a lot smaller. This could be due to only being able to have 10 leagues running at once. Thet’s 10 DIVISIONS, not 10 countries’ full league system. If you want to have all of the English leagues running you have taken up seven divisions, leaving you only three more.

The idea behind this was to keep the game processing speed up so that the people who only play it on a console don’t get bored. However, it still seems slow at times.

The controlls are very fiddly. In the PC versions all of the options available to you are shown at the same time on screen, in the Xbox 360 version you are constantly pressing the shoulder buttons to get to the information you require. Even when doing this it is easy to miss the thing you were looking for, e.g. I couldn’t work out how to make substitutions at half-time for ages. If you could just use a mouse it would be so much easier, but you can’t. A cursor on screen would be easier and less time consuming than having to scroll through every line of text to reach the item you want.

Graphics and sound are minimal, but the simplicity is what made the games so appealing in the first place, so I won’t knock them. For the part, they do their job well, unless you don’t own a high definition screen. If you are playing on standard definition then text becomes difficult to make out, colours run into one another and it just becomes a horrible mess.

Online play is painstakingly slow paced and when I played online I met the most hostile group of people I ever have in an online game. They don’t like it if you play your strongest team, but they don’t like it when you do something a little experimental with your formation. You won’t make any friends with this game.

Achievements reward loyalty and experience, with some only earning you a meagre 1 Gamerscore (Buy a Player). There are 50 Achievements in all.

If you have a decent PC then get this game for that. Manegement games rarely work as well on consoles and this one is no exception.

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Just Cause (Xbox 360)
In a nutshell:
Grand Theft Auto might give you the freedom of a whole city or county but in Just Cause you’ve got the task of overthrowing a 250,000 acre island all on your lonesome in the world’s first Che Guevara simulator.

The lowdown:
Taking inspiration not just from Grand Theft Auto but also Mercenaries and old Amiga classic Midwinter you play CIA black ops agent Rico Rodriguez as he attempts to overthrow the evil dictator of the fictional island of San Esperito. Despite the huge island and the complete freedom of movement you have on it the game actually only has 21 story missions. There are over 300 side missions but it quickly becomes obvious that these fall into only a very small number of different styles, not all of which are all that entertaining. What makes the game fun though is just wandering off and doing your own thing, which invariably involves upsetting the local military or drug lords and instigating a massive, impromptu firefight. The game may lack depth and variety but it offers a freedom to explore and cause chaos that few others can rival.

Most exciting moment:
As impractical as it may seem you’ve always got a grappling hook and a parachute, which allows you to lock onto any vehicle and commandeer it whenever you want. It also lets you perform some utterly outrageous stunts as you parasail behind boats and jump from a moving aircraft straight onto a road convoy miles below you.

Since you ask:
Instead of storing the island of San Esperito as a gigantic map the game uses a new technique called procedural synthesis to create the landscape on the fly. This is the only way to make such large scale graphics work on the PS2, especially when you’re flying miles above the island.

The bottom line:
Che Guevara meets James Bond in this shallow but satisfying sandbox game.
HARRISON DENT

Customer Review: big game, big fun
I first got this game when it came out and got it as part of my xbox 360 package. Although I liked the game I decided to trade the game in after 2 weeks as I only had this and PGR3, I really wanted TDU at that time. Then after about 5 games later I started to get cravings for Just cause after seeing various reviews etc on it and decided to buy it back for ?18. Now that I fully understand the gamer points system and have got used to the xbox 360 controls properly I have found the game a lot better than the first time I played it.

I decided to take my time and not just fly through all the missions, this makes the game a lot more fun as you discover hidden volcano’s and varous citys and settlements etc.

The graphics are very good and you easily get sucked into the beauty of the landscape (you can almost feel the warmth of the sun and sea etc). Every time I play it I find new stuff to do, new vehicles to use from cars boats and planes. The weather changes as you fly around the island and you can be blown about abit during storms adding to the adventure, this list just goes on and on. You have to play it a bit differently from GTA games in that some of the cars are easy to loose control of but then when you do have an accident the police are fun to defeat and also good fun to run from.

On the down side there are a few glitches and the cars are not in top detail compared with the scenery. But this is a small price to pay for such a big game and hardly ever spoil any fun.

In reflection I think that this game for the money it can now bought for is a bargin and I’m pleased to have it back in my collection once again

Customer Review: Fun for a day
For the first day or so, it is quite entertaining, just being able to freely fly, drive or parachute around but after a while it gets really boring because all the cars are old bangers and the map is basically just trees so its the same everywhere and also the missions are all pretty much the same dispite it saying theres side missions, main missions and liberations which are all the same. a really annoying thing is the way he runs which is really spastic and he is constantly wheezing and his highj heels are always clicking its really annoying after a while. The game is really un realistic such as you being able to jump out of a helicopter or a plane at the highest point and hold on to the back of it, steer it while out there then jumping forward and landing inside it again!!!!!

I say don’t buy it its poor quality. also take a look at how many are up the for sale (35 when i last looked) and you should take a hint from that

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5m Crossover Ethernet / Patch Cable
These cables are high quality Cat5e crossover cables, great for connecting up PCs and/or laptops to share an internt connection via Rj45 port. Also ideal when it’s necessary to share a broadband connection with gaming consoles. Complete with factory fitted strain relief boots, you really can’t go wrong.

Spider-Man The Movie 3 (Xbox 360)
Based on Sony Pictures Entertainments Columbia Pictures upcoming feature film, Spider-Man 3 allows players to experience the actions of heroic red-suited Spider-Man and, for the first time ever, his darker, more mysterious black-suited persona. Set in a larger, dynamic, free-roaming New York City, the game gives players the freedom to choose their own gameplay experience through multiple movie-based and original storylines, fully integrated city missions and performance rewards including improved speed, combat maneuvers and agility.
List Price: ?39.99
Amazon Price: ?19.96
Used Price: ?7.40
Customer Review: Saved by a webline?
After a relatively reasonable outing in Spiderman 2 I had high hopes for a greatly improved 3rd outing which would improve on all of the shortcomings of the first. However this is not to be as this game has actually managed to include more annoyances and general bad design than the previous. It seems to be an impossibility for any Spiderman game to do interior wall crawling levels without an extremely jerky and unhelpful camera making it impossible to navigate and this is one of the worst. I seem to remember a relatively decent attempt in the very first Spiderman 3D iteration on the original Playstation but this is definitely the worst. Not to mention that several of the levels actually occur inside small areas (saving people from a fire being a memorably poor one) and suddenly it no longer feels like your controlling a superhero as you end up jumping straight into flames and getting stuck in corners. This wouldn’t be so bad if the combat was reasonable. For the most part it’s passable and using midair juggles to keep about five characters airborn is certainly entertaining. However when in a fist fight against certain bosses (Kingpin step right up) it turns into an exercise of sheer patience as what feels like an hour is spent whittling down a seemingly never ending energy bar with the same 2 button press sequence. There are now Quicktime cut-sequences which are basically God of War/Shenmue esque tests of reaction time whilst amazing spidey-villain fights are on screen. These are nothing special and in some cases (punching a chandelier three times…????!?!) are just exercises in selecting “continue” and watching the same unskippable cutscene for the 50th time. HOWEVER… this would be a completely dire game if it wasn’t for the amazing web-slinging in the game. Swinging through the streets of a much larger New York city in glorious 360 graphics is fantastic (and quite a relaxing post work way to spend half an hour.) As superhero games go this is the closest that I’ve ever found to actually feeling in full control of the superhero. Slightly tweaked over Spidey 2’s swing mechanic it takes a while to get used to but is soon completely intuitive. Any gamer who has no interest in Spiderman will be hard pushed for any reason to buy this game but Spidey fans will want to at least take a look, if only for the swing mechanics (and a semi-reasonable boss fight with The Lizard.)
Customer Review: it gets worse
i loved this game at the start then it seemed to get worse its hard i know hard is good but its so hard its frustrating and it makes the game un-fun

Customisable Faceplate and Skin Kit (Xbox 360)
List Price: ?14.99
Amazon Price: ?12.99
Customer Review: I’m split…
Well, here you have it. the Nyko customiseable faceplate for the Xbox360. On first impressions, i thought it was quite a funky piece of kit, but i do have one or 2 reservations about it. Firstly, i would say you DO need quite a decent, good quality printer if youre going to make some faceplate inserts. Secondly, You WILL need to toy with your paper loader on your printer, as when you print out your faceplate it is not -exactly- central to the punch-out. Thirdly, obviously this depends on where your 360 is in your room, my problem is that i can hardly see my faceplate because of my light glaring onto and off of the clear plastic exterior of the faceplate. I will also add that it does almost feel as though youre about to snap the darn thing in half when you clip the clear cover onto the backing plate, but i guess that is to be expected from a third party accessory. All in all, a good effort, and i admit it is fun to play around and make your own designs to decorate the front of your 360.

X Box 360 Gears Of War”Execution” Huge 35″x24″ Framed Canvas Art
Gallery framed canvas art, mounted on a solid hand made wooden frame, the image continues around the frame so the picture is “borderless”. An amazing canvas!

TGC Xbox 360 3600 mAh Battery Pack with charge cable