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Primoz
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Quote from dougie-lampkin :It's the FZR for me. Compare it to the XRR, which is also RWD, and the XRR has buckets more grip, and is far less likely to kick out the rear. I avoid the FZR when I can

QUite the oppsoite for me. It is tue that i tested both of them only on Aston National which just sucks for the XRR since it has the two hairpins which kill the XRR. Fast and long corners are okay, well generally just fast ones. The slow ones kill it.
Primoz
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That part would be maybe 20 seconds or less. ANd yeah, this track would be usable only for hotlapping and endurance races. So yes, please! KY GP is a reeeeeealyyyyyyy nice track, it flows soooooo well, maybe the UFR is just a bit too slow, KY Nat. is also one hell of a track, feels a lot mroe club like. The UFR/XFR is really nice there.

But yeah, has been suggested tons of times.
Primoz
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And the E36 is prolly also a cheaper and easier shell to obtain. And is in the end just as good.
Primoz
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Vacuum or blow the dust out of the IHS with a compressor. It doesn't have to be removed. But remember to use VERY small rpessures (~1 bar) if you use a compressor since higher pressures could blow a small SMD off and then it's bye bye hardware.

EDIT: it's a LBBLE 0519DPKW. I have 2 olfa cutters here and they are both too thic. Looks like i'll have to get some razers. And a NF4 and 2x512 MB RAM setup
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Primoz
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Aaaaaaaand congrats, bumping THE SAME thread, now almost a year old...
Primoz
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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=134895

If you want to know for sure, cut the rubber - if the IHS falls of, it's not soldered. Apply some TIM (i wouldn't put AS5 there, i'd put some Ceramique there) and put the IHS back on if you want to be sure (with some black bathroom sealant or something like that. If you have the guts, run it naked.
Primoz
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Yeah, cracking a core on Athlon XPs really wasn't a problem compared to naked s939/AM2s/LGA775s and it actually WAS a problem back then. SO yeah, a BIG problem. The thing is these core are 'bare', Athlon XPs had a protective layer over them reducing the chance of a chiped corner. A bolt mounting mechanism is a MUST if you pop the IHS. I have an unused 3000+ Venice in the closet behind me, i can try to pop it if anybody wants... Could sell it for 20 € but it's not worth it i think. I'd rather make it a key chain ornament.
Primoz
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Bad contact with the IHS or the heatsink itself (doubt it if you did 3 remounts). Or a borked temp sensor. Put a fan directly towards the socket/PWM area. The Epox nF3 Ultra droped the temps by 10°C by doing that.
Primoz
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Wrong topic Kev :P

Will ferrari be there with their open nose?
Primoz
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THe thing is the tachos are drawn real time so it wouldn't be just 'spin the texture, move 0 a few degrees back' but would prolly require more coding. Or i am completely wrong and it's done with 2 lines of code, either way, i have no idea.
Primoz
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And the FX-62 might be soldered so you wouldn't gain much. It was very popular to pop the old s939 because the IHS and core contact was VERY poor most of the time.
Primoz
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Either that or screamers. The first option would be to fire 2 cylinders at a time. But with 8 that isn't that big of a problem since you have a fire every half of the rotation while MotoGPs big banger would be on every rotation. A screamer would have 8 independent fires, making it 4 per crank. So, what is it then?

EDIT: since the size is a constraint, it's the most easy way to put two cylinders togheter on the crankshaft, making the engine a big banger.
Primoz
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No. The KERS that was featured on Racecar Engineering is powered via the gearbox. When you want to brake, you connect them both, KERS spins up (via a CVT), takes up the amount of energy that can make the car accelerate with ~30 KW later by spinning up very fast (65k rpm i think, since that way it can have enough energy while still being light). When you need the power (or need a pass), you release it again via a CVT, slowing it down and accelerating the car. IT's just a mean to store the kinetic energy of a car that would be dissapated in the brakes otherwise.
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420 W Tagan - 2 HDs, 2 DVD drives, Abit QuadGT (965), Celeron 420 (at 2,4 GHz - 50% OC), 2 gigs of RAM, 7900 GTO and 2 NICs.
Primoz
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No doubt the trumpet on the back helps to make that sound too (yeah, national pride bursting out of me )

EDIT:
Quote from Hoppers :The reason the note of this particular engine is so high is because of the even firing order of the cilinders in the engine. Today all manufacturers use the so-called big-bang firing order, where the cilinders are fired two at a time. The advantage of this is a more manageable torque output, but less peak power. Yamaha has been working on a screamer engine too, but have officially dropped the project. Kawi is the only manufacturer working on a screamer at the moment and they plan to use it in race before the end of the season.

BTW: The video is of Anthony West testing in Jerez.

How can the torque be more managable with big-banging? It would effectevely double the force at once and make the gap between the two larger. Logic would tell me that a screamer would be way more smoother. THough at 15-20k rpm the story is a bit different :>
Primoz
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You mean the 9800 GTX is the same as 8800 GTS (512)? THe difference is like 20 € here - 270-275ish vs. 250ish.

I'd say the G80 GTS is a weird and somewhat bad choice but meh, what's done is done.

Quote from need :Easy way to remember it.
Crossfire is for AMD processors.
SLI is for nVidia's Intel chipsets.
The two are not compatible.

That may be an easy way but it's totaly wrong. For long AMD only had SLI that was usable. It took a long time until ATI made an usable chipset for AMD. Just barely usable though. But that was the Master/Slave card era. They got support from Intel all the way from 975X, only RD600 being made specifically by ATI, which was bought by AMD at that time. Naturally AMD has CF support in ther own chipsets but Phenoms for example are actually a bit faste ron 590/780 AMD chipsets than 790FX. And there's your SLI for AMD.
Primoz
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Quote from DeMS :Sir, you should stop reading my mind, else I will denounce my lack of privacy on your presence

Not that I want to go offtopic, but I think those spanish 'supercars' are closer to completion. In fact, one is already being sold:

http://www.tramontanagroup.com/
http://www.gtaconcept.com/

Never fear, the sites are also in english.

But you both got it from me. Though i'd say Ascari/Lotus lookalike. Or a Noble. Definetly a small, garage, brittish made type of a car. That went a bit wrong (and i know Ascari doesn't fit my criteria).
Primoz
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Pneumatic valves on this one too i presume
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Quote from DeMS :Well, since VAG owns Lamborghini, it is not a desesperate guess that as a group they might be present on F1. Also, they are quite wealthy as of now and could attempt it.

Another matter is which team should they buy, thinking that Toro Rosso and Super Aguri might be on sale quite soon...

We have discussed that, Bugatti or Lamborghini and i figured it'd be Lamborghini since it's doing well. Only the Veyron was made under the Bugatti brand so i see it more or less as a single car make, revived just for the history book (and the car IS made just as a proof of concept). Would be nice if Porsche slapped heir logo on the thing but Porsche wants to sell their cars. Customer engines maybe? And then make a chassis after having a good engine.
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Quote from scania :Ford could be join, because Cosworth is still a F1 engine supplier in theory, but no teams buy their engine.

Sorry for double posting, but Ford and Cosworth have nothing in common. Compared to Ford, Cosworth is a garage sized engine developer and maker (and engine parts maker too, take a look at the Litchfield Type-25 Impreza). Sure, everybody remembers the Escort Cosworth - they were behind Fords F1 engines and rally cars. But that connections has been broken off a while ago
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VAG is prolly way too interested in Le Mans anyway since they have a chance with TDI there. When there's a TDI option for F1, then we can talk. TDI is a BIG thing for VAG, that's the thing.
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Quote from Jakg :x38 ONLY supports SLi

nVidia makes chipset manufacturers pay for SLi licenses - Intel won't pay.

680i is a bad overclocker, finicky, breaks a lot and is just generaly rubbish.

Skulltrail is a bit like the Veyron - it's just for PR really and so Intel paid for the SLi licenses.

AFAIK as ATi provides the license for free or very very cheap as they want to beat nVidia's (nowhere near as good) SLi.

Hm....

Anywho, nVidia AFAIK won't even let 3rd party chipsets doing SLI bar the Intel server chipsets (for dual socket Xeon workstations). Skulltrail has 2 NF100 southbridges that control all 4 PCIe slots. That's why it has SLI support. No TriSLI support though... And giving CF licence to Intel was the only reaosnable thing to do. The only Intel chipset is the RD600 which wasn't much of a performer and the only mobo was the DFI one - AMD bought ATI at that time and threatened to Asus and others not to make RD600 boards.

Quote from AlienT. :Hmm after some more reading, I see that quad processors (Q6600) are slightly better at higher resolution (1920 x 1200) gaming than the equivelant priced duo.

Also X38 boards supporting quad 45nm are quite affordable(ish) and will be better for future upgrading. I could also get SLI without using nforce. I still plan to only fit one gpu for the moment though.

I think this is what I am going to do now Q6600 and X38

Abit IX38 QuadGT Intel X38 (So ... -Express DDR2 Motherboard
- 45 nm Penryn CPU ready
- Intel® X38 Express
- FSB 1600
- Dual DDR2 1066/800

This seems a good specced board for around £150, it also should keep me going a couple of years as it supports many a CPU upgrade. DDR2 1066 ram should be ok for a while? I could always stick 8 meg in for when S3 comes out........ (maybe we'll be on DDR 6 by then :P) and I can SLI if I want down the line.

Any thoughts would be welcome

Weird, a duo should ALWYS be better for gaming (same price) since it has higher frequency and thus has more effective power - games use only 1 core.

I wouldn't get the X38 (the IX38 QuadGT was tempting me BAAAAAAAAAADLY), but DDR2 performance is generally poor on X38. DFI is said to die all the time (some Slovenians said that most of their nF4 Ultras died, same goes for some P35 - some guy had 3 dead Ultras on his hands and then went to Asus). So i say P35, DDR2 and a single GPU. And a C2D. Or if you're gonna wait some more, wait for the P45.

And no, no SLI for X38, Jakg was prolly cinfused back there. And as i said the 'i'll add another card down the line' is also generally a stupid idea. And 45 nm CPUs are supported even by 965 mobos. And these will be the last CPUs for LGA-775 - by the end of the year we'll be getting Nehalem, which will have an integrated memory controller (same as AMD) which will increase the pin number - 1066(1366 (depends on the type of CPU). So P35 it is. The X38 is more or less worth only for 16x/16x crossfire support and those extra 2% when benching.
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :No - actually - that's why it's white. If it were any other color, it would absorb more light, which means that over the course of the race, the total weight of his helmet would increase, leading to slower lap times.

It wont' get heavier actually. But a black helmet will make him faster. The photons energy will be more or less absorbed by a black helmet while a lot more photons will bounce off the white one. That will decrease the speed of the helmet (all the energy of the photon times 2 goes into stopping the helmet) which will decrease the speed of Trsiatn which will decrease the speed of the car. So a black helmet is a must!!! Razz
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Quote from Rdcranno :The Mika Hakkinen crash that nearly killed him, scary man! thank god for the HANS device. He wasnt travelling very fast either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 1OXHA&feature=related

What makes you think they had HANS? HANS was introduced in F1 over 10 years after his crash. I remember Baricchello's last season at ferrari (or second last) and he was complaining about neck pains. He was granted a HANSless drive for Interlagos but had to use it from there on. SO it's at least 3 years so yeah, ~10 years later.
Primoz
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Saw it yesterday on racecar engineerin and ofcourse, forgot to post it here! :banghead:

But i love this car. Love it! i just don't know where they will put the list. Or will they drive without them? :>

The car is underpowered but DOmes have always been aerodynamically efficient and that's where they gain the lack of HP. Petrol seems to be coming back in LMP1. With the AM LMP1 being 3rd it looks to be a great year for a petrol vs. diesel battle and if not this then 2009 for sure!
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