Well, the XRR is incredibly easy to lock the brakes up with, while I can barely drive the FZR at all.

Got ran into right before the line and still nailed the win (I'm on the outside)

96 \ Jeremy Marsh \ USA \ (h3adbang3r)

Forward your ports for your new PC. Since your using a new rig, your router assiged a different local ip address for your computer.

Quote from Shotglass :

copper + air = bad

Don't you mean copper+water? Or am I missing something?

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

I was thinking of doing that, but I'm really, really scared of messing it up. Is it really even possible to do this wrong? I'm assuming the heat-spreader is thick enough that you can't sand THROUGH it, lol.

I'm more concerned about it being uneven when it's done.

It's not really hard if you set up your "workstation" right. Do what I did- tape the sandpaper to a flat, sturdy surface. I used double sided tape, about a millimeter thick, so I had to line about 5 pieces of tape up to lay each piece of sandpaper on. A piece of glass will also work as a base for keeping sandpaper flat. If you have any old CPU's laying around, practice on them first. Also, you can find the grades of sandpaper needed in an automotive store or the automotive section of a place like Wal-Mart.

So I had a go at lapping my CPU. (For those that don't know, lapping is sanding and smoothing the heat spreader on a CPU.)

Materials used-
Alcohol
Sandpapers- 400, 800, 1000, and 2000 grit
Double sided tape
Cotton swabs and balls.

Preparing the CPU for lapping-




Nickel plating starting to wear off and show the copper (It's blurry, so you will have to look hard, sorry)


Copper completely exposed (Blurry yet again)


Finished job after polishing with 2000 grit


Brought my idle and load temps down about 6 degrees. I didn't bother lapping the heatsink because it's a pile of junk anyway.

Dream Theater- Learning to Live

8800GTS 512, E6750 @ 3.2
1680x1050, 8xAA, 16x AF

Also, Crysis isn't that great gameplay-wise. The developers of the game focused WAY too much on eye candy and way too little on making it fun.

Quote from scoobyrbac :

It could be like this...

Theres some animal crossing game for the gamecube that if its raining at your house while your playing..its raining on the game..

So..the people thats hosting the server..if its raining/storm or something like that when your driving it would rain/storm?

How could the game know when its raining at your house when Gamecubes can't even connect to the internet?

How did the Orange box end up so low on the list?

What Jakg said. Just unplug your PC and pop open the case. Unhook the power supply cables that go to the mobo and CPU, remove the little battery located on the board, wait about 10 minutes, put the battery back on, and plug everything back in.

Since I saw that Alien is wanting to base his system on a much higher end in another thread, I'd suggest going for an EVGA 780i, 2 9800GTX's (They scale in SLi MUCH better than 8 series cards) or a single card if SLi isn't wanted, a 700W+ PSU (SLI, 600 will do fine with no SLI), a Q9550 if you want a quad, and a WD Raptor to go along with the 500GB Seagate drive I suggested.

Last edited by h3adbang3r, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 04:59.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Well, I'll start you off with a few recommendations:

RAM - Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 4- ... 9 ($29.00 after rebates!)

HDD - Seagate Baracuda SATA 320 Gb HDD

Corsair 520W modular PSU (mayb ... r but built like a tank!)

That ought to get the ball rolling...

Keep in mind that he is in Scotland so he cannot buy from Newegg.

But- I will give a list from scan.co.uk
Also, you haven't given us a budget so I will make something a bit closer to high end.

Intel E8400
EVGA 9800GTX
Seagate 7200.11 500GB Hard drive
Antec 900 case (Not sure if this one is a mid or full tower
Corsair DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 2x1GB (Or 4GB if you order 2)
Asus SATA DVD Writer
Asus P5N-D nForce 750i SLi
ViewSonic 22" 1680x1050 2ms Widescreen monitor
Tagan 600W PSU

Edit- Well, you do have a budget, but you haven't specified how much you can spend.

Last edited by h3adbang3r, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 02:41.

New version? I shall give it a shot.

It was a while back in an LFSCAR race at Aston Club, driving an XRR. I had a pretty rubbish start, nailed the wall coming out of the chicane a few times. Got spun by another driver, had a hell of a time getting my car back onto the track, blew a tire around lap 45, and coming out of the final turn on the last lap, a tire gave out again and sent me into the sand, but luckily my car had enough momentum to make it through the kitty litter and made it to the line, finished 5th.

I should win an award for cramming the most crap into one sentence

Quote from piggy501 :

Can't go wrong with Alienware

http://www.alienware.co.uk/main.aspx

Or a Dell XPS

http://www.dell.com/xps

Or a Vadim... Pricey, but purely AWESOME!

http://www.vadim.co.uk/

Cube 24/7

www.cube247.co.uk

Mesh PC

www.meshcomputers.com

Wired2fire

www.wired2fire.co.uk

Alpine Systems. They focus more around FlightSim, but it's still a compter

www.alpinesystems.co.uk

Hope they help. There's lots more if you look around...

You must be out of your mind to reccomend Alienware (Or any other company that prebuilds computers when the OP has a custom build in mind)

This one:

Quote from scoobyrbac :

You running Vista or XP? If you are running Vista..I'd try to find one that would be DX10 capable if you want it?

Are there any AGP slot cards that are DX10 capable?

I couldn't get a skin made, so I will have to drop out of this race

Sorry, people who crack the game are not welcome. Go away.
Apesadumbrada, la gente que agrieta el juego no es agradable. Salir.




I'm taking spanish classes but I haven't learned enough quite yet (I used a translator as well :tilt

I was hooked on RunEscape for a long time, simply because my computer sucked so bad there was nothing else I could play.

Quote from mickyc30 :

highest you can get is 126! not that i play it.
i used 2, i spent yonks on my account got a few mill, about 5 full sets of rune armour, every free weapon u can get ect ect.
its about a lvl 70 ish, but yeah, i havnt played in about 2 years, its like cocaine once u get on u just cant get off, but i got some of the nicorette patches and the gum, they really healped.
and sure i would give u the user name and pass, but i cbf scrolling up, finding out ure name clicking on your name, then clicking on send PM to blah blah blah, then i cbf writing

username:ten*i**
password:*******

and then to top it off i cbf pressing send.

They raised it to 135 or 136. I haven't touched the game in over a year, but I look at these things when I get incredibly bored.

Stop spamming the forum with this crap.