Quote from JTbo :

S3 maybe in 6 years...

I reckon there will have been such immense advances in 6 years that S2 will be unrecognisable or unplayable in its current form, in which case it might as well be shelved and something new started from scratch to take advantage of the latest DX15 technology.

Nice skin, you stick with Marlboro if you want, its a free world, only put the castrol decal on the green stripe on the door, not beneath it and pre-shrink it so it doesn't look stretched when its mapped onto the door side panel.

I reckon the government are on to a great thing with green tax on the back of all this global warming bunkum. It's little more than a conscience tax for the well off middle classes who are told that the earth is spiralling towards disaster unless they allow the government to take more of their hard earned wages away from them. It's similar to the premium prices people are willing to pay for free-range eggs or organic tomatoes, even though the true validity of some of these items leaves much to be desired.
Anyone standing against higher green tax issues can so easily be painted as an irresponsible and uncaring villain, the government are laughing all the way to the bank.
Remeber how all the government bodies and so-called expert think tank scientists, engineers and IT consultants hyped up the millenium bug beyond all proportions? They must have creamed it for all it was worth, all that extra pay for checking and rewriting systems. Now I suppose there are some that say it was because of all the early planning that a massive crisis was prevented, but I think I'm too cynical for that. They hyped it beyond all reason to turn itself into its own industry and it was a very profitable short-term exercise. Now exactly the same thing is happening on environmental lobbying, global warming and general CO2/carbon tax issues, only it is morally reprehensible to stand up and announce that the panel of scientists and experts don't know what they're talking about.
No, they've managed to pull a really slick number on us with this one, we're paying through the nose while whats left of our industry battles to remain competitive against rising costs of environmental issues and immense commercial pressures from Asia who are allowed to go dumping and spewing all sorts of nasties into the environment with no control or regulation whatsoever.

Quote from Dru :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=20125

hi Al,

I got my new system for £530 and built it myself - see the attached link

Basically

E6600 Dual 2 Core
775 Mobo
1 GIG of Ram
DVD whatever
250GB SATA HDD
450PSU in X Blade Case

with full settings i get 200fps
goes to 100fps with a FULL grid

Thx, looks a good way to go

You are:

• very brave
  
• very talented
  
• plain mad

delete as applicable
Looking forward to seeing it finished

Actually I have a damned good set of speakers for my pc, but I'm gonna stick with the on board realtek chip, i think they're good enough for me. No point playing compressed mp3 files and expecting audiophile quality, as long as the sound is reasonably decent then I am happy. So the £2 soundblaster card gets the thumbs down as does the £XXXX fancy X-fi jobby, just not worth the dosh for the limited benefit, IMO.

Now what about AMD's version of the dual core chips? Worth a look?

Big LOL! That's cheered up my afternoon, thanks!

How does the Intel Pentium D 915 / 2.8 GHz processor compare with the likes of the dual core E6300/1.8GHz or E6400/2.1GHz's? Is D915 last month's technology?
Whats up with ddr1? Is that generally a bad thing? Stop your s****ing at the back!

Quick price comparison for the dual core processors:

E6700 2.66GHz 4MB cache 1066 MHz FSB £322
E6600 2.40GHz 4MB cache 1066 MHz FSB £190
E6400 2.13GHz 2MB cache 1066 MHz FSB £138
E6300 1.86GHz 2MB cache 1066 MHz FSB £113
E6300 1.80GHz 2MB cache 800 MHz FSB £ 96

Bit of a price jump up to the E6700!

for me it was a massive 40mb hard drive, a copy of flightsim 5 and Papyrus Indycar. Awesome!

So it should run better than my old 486 sx25 then?

Whats the state of play on soundcards these days? On-board Realtek sound good enough for 99% of gaming and MP3 needs or is it worth buying a cheap soundblaster to ease the load?

I really need a new pc. I'm out of the loop when it comes to the technology race. I'm not after a cutting edge machine I just want the best I can get for about £500 maybe max £600. Don't want new speakers or monitor, just the CPU, GPU, soundcard, ram, HD, DVD-RW multi format.
Someone please tell me what I should be looking at!

• CPU model/speed?
  
• Graphics card
  
• sound card
  
• HD type
  
• RAM size/speed?

Uses: Photoshop, 3ds, MP3's, gaming, internet, email, that's it.
Cheers
Al

Looks good, welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy S2

side door panel for number: looks better if it doesn't overlap the line of the door hinge.
The right side of front skirt, live for speed logo, the d is being cut off, needs resizing or moving back a couple of px.

I think you are spot on, Blackout, not many people really have a 'feel' for the scales involved, both in physical dimensions and of timescales. We are but a tiny pimple in the history of this planet, the blinking of an irrelevant eyelid. Not that this can condone complacency in any way on our part, it's just that very few environmental activists seem able to have a true sense of scale or context. It's all emotive soundbites and mostly scientific ignorance.

A new XFR skin from me

1024 skin here:> http://img.photobucket.com/alb ... eeley/XFR_Monarch1024.jpg

I was a lot more convinced by the C4 film "The great global warming swindle" that addressed issues logically in a way that confirmed my own feelings, most save-the-earth rantings about co2 and global warming have only limited understanding of geological timescales. Yet only 60 years ago the co2 levels in the atmosphere were far higher than now, during this period there was a steady gentle drop int he earths average temperature, which went on for 4 decades.
What we are now seeing is a small pimple on the overall trends which is entirely negligible in the big scheme of things. Go offset your carbon and take abike to work while the US, India and China belch incredible amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere largely unchecked. If that helps you go to bed with a clear conscience at night then fine.
The whole Global warming scam is big business and run by political activists and not logical scientists.

So I said "Do you want a game of Darts?", he said "OK then", I said
Nearest to bull starts". He said "Baa", I said "Moo", he said "You're
closest".

The install and updates went amazingly well, it's all running really sweet now, but so many tracks and add-ons its bewildering. Great to be back in the ol' game again. I really cannot stress enough if any LFS fans out there have not had an hour of so at the wheel of GPL it reaslly is a great experience, but be gentle and patient as it bites back hard.

I would really recommend anyone interested in sim racing (I guess that's everyone here) to at least download the GPL 2004 demo and have a go with the 1965 mod which is a lot more user-friendly; lighter cars, more nimble and less powered than the full '67 beasts.
It still remains the definitive racing game for me, I've been playing it on and off for more years than any other game, inc. MS flightsim.

Quote from axus :

I'll come over to your house, beat the shit out of you, then kill you in front of your relatives, and molest any female relatives you may have. But that's my choice. Is that OK?

And if you argue that I'm damaging other people's lives while they are not, what about their children? Having children when you know they will have something wrong with them is child abuse as far as I'm concerned.

Well there's a clear balanced argument....not!
It's this sort of post that turns a discussion into a rant.
I'm not supporting these people but there's no guarantee that their offspring will be abnormal, there's an increased likelihood, which is why nature does not recommend this activity, and why your argument and strange reasoning is so flawed.

There's other stuff went on we're not going to discuss here, believe me one funny post every three months is nowhere near compensation for the hassle caused and the people insulted.

4 children in 6 years, not bad going.

no, you are right ben, i'm just feeling tired and nostalgic, I have never actually known about those extra lfs world stats facilities. GPL rank seemed very straightforward to me at the time but i now have a son who works the vcr or me asnd i guess its time to take a back seat on technology