Safety ratings? You don't probably get good ratings with hardly any money anyway, at least it would keep Jacqui on his toes to not go silly and crash it.

Ah, yes, somehow didn't realise it had place for three fans. Makes more sense now. Don't know what is the purpose of that fan controller, as those fans should be rather quiet already, but I guess it's there for the coolness factor as you haven't really heard of reasonable budget anyway.

Is the purpose of water cooling just cooling or is it for silence like the fans?
If the latter, you could think water cooling your GPU. Now then you'd have an awesome rig.

Quote from The Moose :

Yes, and you should consider growing a beard as well

I only grow beard on my throat and not my face. Some day maybe.

Quote from Bean0 :

I just find them tedious, my Uber Micro Skillz are not good enough to pwn n00bs at RTS.

I suck at normal RTS games usually, I like them, but in all games you need quickly press buttons to produce more and more troops I suck. Total War games suit me because it has both real time battles and turn based strategy. It's like simplified Civilizations with real time battles.

edit. This is really turning in to a CR fest now...well, that was inevitable and matter of time. :P

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That means I'm playing old people's games then.

Sweet rig. But 5 120 mm fans? I guess that a sufficient airflow, are two of those bolted on the radiator?

So, almost a hundred views and only one person has any idea about the game?

Is this why PC gaming is going down the drain then, people don't know a potentially awesome game if it sat on them? Or are strategy games just dead as a genre? I guess this won't be a huge hit then, damned kids with their Nintendos.

Kill it fire, it's just horrible. Firstly the commercial is the most horrible and cheesiest thing I've ever seen, secondly, what is the purpose of this thing, or the people who come up with shit like this, people who use it, or people who can come up with a commercial horrid as that!


Aaarrrgghhh.

No I'm not a musician being afraid my superb talents are lost when computers now can make music, I just feel sorry for anyone who think this thing can make any. I'd say I know nothing about music, but I think that thing isn't even good for a toy for children.

/rant over :P

Oh, some CR people believe the laptop on the commercial is a Mac... I don't know, but guess that's the best part of that commercial.

Quote from irishstang :

I'd say a 15% fuel limit, and we drive on something like Aston Cadet, like someone already suggested. Is there any way to make sure everyone starts with the same amount of fuel?

Everyone need to provide a screenshot from start grid with their fuel amount visible.

Just an idea, not interested in such a race.

Pardon my lack of knowledge, but is that intake (?) piece some sort of standardized part as the Aston has exactly similar one?

Just noticed that the release date is confirmed to be 4th of March, Steam release is on 3rd.

^Yeah, it's addictive, haven't touched LFS since we finished the after-24H race party madness Sunday morning.

Number 4 for Raikonnne as he did worse than Massa last year. Can't see them doing any other way.

Quote from Bean0 :

Same here, although now I try to include the track code and sender.

That's three then. Mine are always named beano, eise, lars, bono, troy or something random .Sometimes I put SO, FE or AS in the end, but usually have no idea what is what.

Anyone expecting this one? Should be released in March, for PC . I've only discover the series myself in the last year or so, and I find the game-play very addictive, it must be the inner conquer/ruling instinct man has.

Expecting it to be good as Medieval II I'm playing at the moment, where the only thing I hate (so far) is the Pope, as he doesn't let me teach the damn French some manners, I made you Pope show some respect and be a puppet! Well, the AI is a bit passive in battles, but it just might be me being impatient.

More than a Pope free environment, and maybe a better AI. I'm really really interested to see how firearms and unit formations work (or worked) on the battlefield, I've always thought it as the silliest way to have a fight, standing there waiting to be shot at. I just can't wait to see how it's like. Also, as a totally new feature it has naval battles, as those were a important aspect on 18th to 19th century warfare, should also be interesting and spectacular, and very heavy on your machine I guess.

Any thoughts?

And here is a link to wikipedia if you don't have any idea what is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_War_(series)

Sweeeeet, this is awesome.

Quote from JohnUK89 :

Oh really? I'm sure if you just dump a Mac on an "old person" (by that I assume you mean an older person that has never used a computer before) then they'd be just as clueless as to how to use the thing as if you threw a machine running Windows or Linux at them. They'd work it out eventually but then again someone using any GUI-based OS would.

Well, it's good for people who don't have the experience or knowledge about computers and don't have the time or mind to learn all that stuff you might bump into and only use it for Internet and paying bills. My parents have a Mac so I don't need to be taking care of that computer, it has been working flawlessly with no hassles since it was out of the box.

Oh, could think another reason to like Mac, battery time. My HP can barely do 2 hours while the Macbook does almost 3 times that. That just might be worth paying twice the money.

Only good feature Macs have is the trackpad and that they suit for old people as they are rather idiot proof.

If you don't want to have a Mac, I'd pick the HP. You get the most hardware for your money and don't end up with an Acer which always feel a bit cheap, and apparently have reliability and warranty (at least here) issues. That Packard Bell is not an option either, 1 GB memory and 80 GB hard drive just doesn't cut it these days, even if it was dirt cheap.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Stop driving like a granny - they get awful fuel consumption. Floor it more, get to your cruising speed quicker using quite a lot of revs. Then cruise in a suitable gear (top, probably). This uses less fuel overall than taking 50 seconds to reach 60mph. Honest.

It's surprising how many people think that slow steady acceleration means smaller fuel consumption. Even more people seem to be in hurry to go fast to stop on red lights, which is just silly, as getting to move again always takes the most fuel.

Driving economically can be fun and not as dreadfully boring as it may sound. It's a game of not trying to stop, reading the traffic and sportish accelerations.

Quote from Jakg :

EDIT - How is a Civic or Swift an upgrade to what I have atm?

It's not a Proton.

Quote from Intrepid :

Well he WILL follow his economic policies, but they won't have the effect he say they will. It will only make it worse

So, what would you do better than him then?

Quote from Alistair :

i feal sorry for fiat

How's that? They just got a great chunk of one of the major big 3 North American car manufacturers, and I'd guess it was relatively cheap as they've pretty much broke.

Quote from Becky Rose :

I dont know what he just did, but this was the first **** up of his precidency.

Well, giving the Presidential oath (?) he basically said "I Barack Hussain Obama execute.." and just lost his word.


^ ahaa, I see.

It's the extensive kartor ball collection argument again isn't it.

Quote from Dajmin :

I actually agree with that. Maybe it's the compound or something, but they look really plastic-y rather than rubbery. I've thought that since the announcements started. Tyres shouldn't be that shiny

They are just new tires.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I've got a sneaking suspicion that this year's F1 season is going to be shit.

Some random team is going to be miles ahead of everybody else. Probably BMW. So we'll be watching a lot of shit-looking cars touring around and already knowing what the result will be.

Bah.

I really doubt that. Now that the designs are more restricted there's less variables to get wrong, so I'd suspect the cars will be more closer. Only team which could have advantage early on the season might be Williams as they started their car development earlier, but it's hard to say how that will last if at all. Keep in mind that the lap time difference between the front runners and backmarkers were between just 1-2 seconds per lap last year, when Minardi used to be 4 seconds behind at it's best. If the new regulations do what they are supposed to, that gap should be even closer now.

Was thinking this when I read the thread title. Still looks cool thought, must have been a rush.