Hi Joey, i noticed your in Preston (lancashire) ?
Im in Lostockhall so not too far.
I have a few spare cards here if your interested and can take a look at your PC if you need a professional opinion ?

I have a ATI 1950 Pro (256Mb) PCI-E
Nvidia 7900GS (256Mb) Also PCI-E
And a Nvidia 8800GTS (320Mb) PCI-E

The other links and the american tax system i provided are just details.
As to the impact its all quite relative.

http://www.computeractive.co.u ... osal-internet-tax-illegal

Not really Beano, this is more like paying a tax to get on the bus depsite whether you have purchased a ticket or not.

And you wonder why this is one of the main stories today for this publisher.

http://www.google.com/hostedne ... Bey_1cAAmZx3lArC6B8aNmfnA

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1028_3-6186193.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7178340.stm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new ... unces-broadband-plan.html

Thought id post this just to bring this issue a bit more attention. Has anyone been affected by this?

In the UK we already pay VAT on our ISP service. Adding another exclusive tax reeks of greed imo.

Last edited by Gener_AL (UK), Mon 23 Feb 2009, 12:12.

I wish i had my own wheels of steel. I First got into mixing and music and way back in early 90's i made a few tunes mostly home brew stuff using octomed and layered multitracking.
Happy days ...but a change of lifestyle and interests meant that i forgot to get those wheels. Not to mention the loss of over 90 floppy disks with years of work & samples.
A few people i know from LFS i have shared some of my recent attempts to rekindle my passion for mixing.
I Started messing with things again over last year or so mostly with mixing no song writing yet. This thread reminds me of those days with eagerness just to make music, stress wasnt really an issue back then i think
Anyway here is a fairly recent sample using two golden tracks, with some heavy mixing from myself, all live of course.
I am pretty sure no one will know the songs used, but im guessing some may have a clue to the vocalist.

Quote from xaotik :

Fellow forum members, I call upon you to join me in a collective sigh and shaking of the head in the direction of thisnameistaken.

Adding to that, Can we also include the /facepalm also before the shaking ?
Current trends seem to indicate this is the most prefered expression of dissent exhibited recently.

Quote from RudiTurbo :

If I was a moderator, I'd punish You all!
You'd have to drive 50km's online for every post You want to make!

You got my vote sir

But LFS is dead .....
CTRA is dead ...
there is no patch ...
How can it survive ...

oh hang on thats the noise of the brainwashed and braindead.... Ignore me.

On a serious note, (d#) Long live TBO !

Quote from Feffe85 :

48 / 62? omg... with my old-as-hell chassie my e85 idles at 29°c and peaks at 37°C... and thats when it's overclocked :O

Btw you will find that his CPU is a Quad core + has a further 6mb cache. Which tends to add to a CPU's TDP .

lol

Quote from JeffR :

I think there's a general burnout factor because some players have been playing online for over 10 years and the newness is long gone.

Thats what ive seen, old faces going new faces appearing.
LFS didnt get killed & isnt even close to it imo.

oh and lol at kev again

.8v@ 800mhz total system power 123W at the wall @ idle

4 hardrives + DVDRW + Spec you see below in sig

Quote from Becky Rose :

people always want what is coming and never what they have. The world has become so fast paced we've stopped living in the present, people 'want want want'.

Good post thought i would highlight that part, says it all for me about a percentage of peoples attitudes today. Maybe this economic downtown might have an influence on that. With this being said I am as fallable as the next and forget sometimes to stop and smell the roses, but i do try.

@ Scawen thanks for the update hopefully you and the family are close to getting a routine backup. I know from my own experiences within my family how difficult it can be with a new house kids and a home business. The ISP issue im glad you have resolved. Anyway with the mood i am in i could twitter on all day , btw, hope you like the roses.

Its true what they say, what a difference a day makes. (I hope)

Quote from The Moose :

:wave2:

:ashamed:

Quote from chanoman315 :

bye... you already gave money to the devs...

Quote from GFresh :

Cheers for the heads up, but, i wouldn't have noticed anyway if you hadn't said anything...

Cant wait till you disapear im sure.

Quote from Furiously-Fast :

+1.

You know he'll be crawling back... just like lerts will too.

I dont think either of these guys "crawl"

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Silent Wind take it easy dude. Ignore the kids and idiotic posts.
The ones who live for speed will miss you.

One more thing i forgot that can really improve performance is 16bit texture/rendering. (and for some reason i prefer it)

Hard drivin (Arcade) Stunt Car Racer (spectrum) indy 500 (Amiga)

Those 3 really stand out for me. Stunt car racer being my first real racing addiction.

The first decent console Racing games imo.
Sega Rally (Saturn) GranTurisimo (PS1)

Up until the late 80s most racing games really were quite bad though

Quote from Crashgate3 :

but because I bought an OEM CPU, I've got no heatsink for it

My advice is get that CPU returned for a retail one, you lose alot of warranty with OEM. And i bet you only saved a few quid ?

Appart from that damn nice build

"do do do do do do do" ....

Shadowww read a little closer, you will find that the card is an emulated 8800GTS (GX2 is basically 2x8800) I dont think regular GF8800 seris are capable afaik its limit is 16.

Has everyone forgot the original S1 so quickly?

I would like to see this so this idea gets a +1

Maybe its time to get testing Windows 7, Microsoft are handing out keys like toffee at the moment.

For your budget if your not looking for mind blowing overclocks i suggest taking a look at the Biostar TA790GX-A2+, AMD 790GX, (SAM2/AM2+, PCI-E 2.0 x16, DDR2 1066/533/667, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX)
You should be able to pick that up somewhere between the 60-70£ mark.
Really things you need to keep an eye on is the PWM/Power of the mobo personally i wouldnt go for anything less then 4+1 Phase power.

Unlucky with testing the AGP stuff Eza, Can always try again perhaps

I decided to run the latest LFS Benchmark if anything its an Indicator that Single threaded perfomance is the key with LFS on my phenom. I only ran with the affinity masked to core 0, and ran 1FPS higher.
You can see the results here in the maxlist
I may (probably will at some point) try again and use BIOS to "uncore" the CPU this way the OS only sees the amount selected in BIOS.

Not bad at all, seriously considering this for a build.

Quote from Gunn :

People who suck at racing will still suck at racing, no matter how uniform the setup options are.

Personally I like the level of adjustment we now have, it's one of the interesting aspects of LFS. I really enjoy making sets and tweaking them to the nth degree. Take away the freedom of setup options and another cool part of LFS dies.

That's how I feel about it anyway. The road cars are already a PITA with their $15 tyres, limited setups puts them right out of the game for me. Five less cars to choose from in the garage.



2c

Agreed

Excellent and very thorough analysis of CPU performance and GPU, Maybe a few more additions with stats perhaps testing an Older card with the mix ? x800 or 1950pro or smth (As i love stats/benchmarking)

Great work dude