Yay Top Gear is coming to Ireland

The show, which is also confirmed for London, Johannesburg, Sydney and Hong Kong on its first run, hits Dublin on 27 November for four days.

Really cant wait for this

read more : http://www.independent.ie/ente ... ow-to-dublin-1467331.html

Quote from e2mustang :

I would just buy an e36 m3-best car ever made,dont have any problems,fast,perfect quality.cant say anything bad about it.(i have 1,love it )

M3 for your first car ?

Quote from CSU1 :

You are an idiot.

FTR i find chanoman, 11sully11 and ajp71's input somewhat distasteful.

Your a drunk !

back on topic,any further news on what actually caused the crash ?

Last edited by 11SuLLy11, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 23:55.

Quote from chanoman315 :

nope, they had an engine problem when they were running the usual checklist, but they repaired it before takeoff...

Ok thank you.

R.I.P

Was it the planes second attempt off takeoff ?
I heard that it had a problem before that initial takeoff so it was aborted ?

Quote from mookie427 :

you're sick

Who are you calling "sick" Just for a matter of interest to have my opinion on it!

Anyone know were there is footage of the plane actually coming into impact just for a matter of interest.

Quote from jbirdaspec :

I would recommend a Intex Core 2 Duo, at least 2 gigs of ram and a 8800gt 256 or 512 video card. I do hear the 9600 gt are good performance for the money too. EVGA makes really nice mother boards and Video cards. I have both evga mother board and video card here and have had zero problems.
Get decent Power Supply too. Antecs power supplies are pretty good, though somebody here may have a better suggestion. You could use your drives from you dell to save some money. though you might need to get a SATA hard drive if your dell has a ATA drive. Those are pretty cheap though. On the CPU there is a wide range of Core 2's to fit any budget. AMD still makes good chips as well.

If you can put together a 100 piece puzzle, you can put together a PC no problem. Once you do it once you will know it for good. I am sure there are many how to guides on the net explaining what to do.

Thank you mate

Would you have any websites were I could buy the components ? or just off Dell ?

No matter where the fuel is situated in an event of a accident the fuel will ignite either way as it is pure aviation fuel which is 100 + octane correct ?

Anyone know how the fire started ?

Wow have the death toll risen by that much,when I was watching on Sky news earlier today the estimated figure giving was 40/45.

Very sad news to hear.

Quote from chanoman315 :

Indeed, V2 is the most important face on TO, is when you rotate (lift the plane) so you can fly normally....
and of the maintainance being up to date, i seriously doubt it... well, the plane is 28 yo so

EDIT: see the pic attached, it shows how far-close to the airport the crash was... huge impact btw

Is the airport opened already ?
How many people confirmed dead ?

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

I think, maybe, what he meant was that IF you are in a car crash you have a higher percentage chance of surviving it than you would IF you were in a plane crash.

Yep exactly thank you

Quote from NitroNitrous :

Yeah, but you can have a car accident everyday with no injuries, on the other hand, if you have a plane accident, you are dead

I´m so sad today, RIP

yep the odd's are much higher of dying in a plane crash than car .
Anyone following it on SKY news ?

Quote from JJ72 :

You gotta think about how often they are being flown though.

Flying is never completely safe and personally remain one of the scariest way to die.....rest in peace people.

Yes that is also very true.

compare the amount of cars driven a day and crashed to a planes chances of crashing.

Very sad to hear

Quote from Dajmin :

If you want to use it for gaming, it's usually best to avoid the pre-made ones and either build it yourself (which isn't as scary as it might sound) or buy it from somewhere like Aria or Scan that can assemble a custom one for you.

Usually with standard builds you get crappy onboard graphics.

I use Scan for my parts and Crucial for memory (because of the guaranteed compatibility).
Start with a motherboard, check what it'll take and build on from there. It's like Lego, but way more expensive

What you'll get depends what games you want to run. If you have no interest in brand new games like Crysis then you'll have no use for a Dx10 card and you'll save a lot of money right away by getting a Dx9 one.
Likewise you probably won't need a quad core CPU unless you play new games. These days you can pick up Core2's fairly cheap so that could be a good choice.
Unless you're running a lot of high quality audio equipment and run a recording studio, you won't need any sound card more expensive than a SB Audigy (which I use, and I do home recording).
You probably won't need much above 2Gb RAM, but you might want to stick 4 in just for the sake of future-proofing. Price and mobo choice will dictate that one.

The actual models you can use the specs and Tom's Hardware to work out

Thank you

Yep it will be mainly for gaming. I have always tought of building my own PC (well getting someone too) but I don't know what equipment is good or what I should and shouldnt buy.

I did look at pre made gaming PC's also from HP and Dell but not reall sure if they are as good as they are made out to be.

I'm a total newbi when it comes to this.

Quote from Dajmin :

I'm no expert on ATI cards, I've always been an nVidia man. My 7900GS has never done me wrong (though it's a PCIe) although that 3850 out-specs mine.

A quick Google of the Flight Sim X system requirements say 32Mb Dx9, so they'll both have no trouble running it, and if your current one does it, these ones will eat it alive

Thank you mate

Was thinking of getting a new laptop or computer but don't know what I should be looking out for ?

I would like to be able to run Flight sim X also

So what would ye recomend ?

Quote from JO53PHS :

I haven't read the whole thing, but what caused it to shoot off the end of the runway?

They believe an engine fire caused the plane too shoot off the runway, apparantly the plane lifted 200 metres into the air before gradually coming back down not really sure several different stories. There saying now there was an explosion also.

40+ believed dead

According to some Ex MD 80 pilot the plane was produced in 1983 which is not old according to him

90 odd MD80's have crashed since production begun in 1980 and 1320 + have been killed since the production .
They say they have a "good" safety record

very sad news

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Ho ... Madrid%2BAirport%2BRunway

very sad to here R.I.P to those on board the flight ..
full story on that link also turn on sky news
Plane ran off the runway as engine fire believed caused the crash

I know nothing about computers tbh, I got all that data by going to "control panel" > "system" > "general" and gave me the data

would that be compatible for my PC ?

Last edited by 11SuLLy11, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 14:59.

I'm up for it.
Tracks we could use could be

Kylemor karting in Dublin
Kartworld in Cork
Puddinghill in Dublin

they would be my suggestions especially Cork because I live there and it's a large outdoor track which you can do a GP for 50 yoyo's per person which includes practice and a long hour race

www.kartworld.ie

Hmm happy birthday but why is it not on the "birthday list" ?

www.stopandgo.tv is pretty good for F3 and most motorsports.

The automatic-Monster