I read about the win but wasn't able to see it. Does someone have a link to the move Montoya put on his teamate to spin him out?

speedfreak227

thank you, that was a very helpful link.

Steve

that didn't answer my question.

Steve

I recently bought a new hard drive and installed windows on one partition of it. no problem...... the other partition was unformatted (unallocated)..... i'm not sure how to format it.

do i make it a primary partition or an extended partition? it will not be holding any operating systems. it will only be storage.

thank you,

Steve

Last edited by speedfreak227, Fri 2 Feb 2007, 17:17.

Why not the LE model?

speedfreak227

AMD 3500+ (2.2Ghz)
1 Gig of Ram
400 Gig of hard drive.
Win XP

I have no plans to upgrade anything on it soon. It seems to do everything I need it to do just fine, except for my overheating graphics card.

Is there anything else that you need to know?

speedfreak227

I've currently got an NVidia 4200ti graphics card and the fan has died for the second time. I'm not replacing it again. I play games like World of Warcraft, Live for Speed (probably the most demanding graphically that I play), and Hitman.

I don't need a card that I'll have to sell my kidney to afford. From this place what recomendations would people make and WHY? I'd like to stick with NVidia rather than go to Radeon.

I'd like to keep the price under $250. I see lots of cards under $100. Are these better than the 4200ti?

Thanks for any help you can offer,

speedfreak227

I would guess that is a new style of braking mechanism. They probably don't want to talk about it. Similar to when McLaren had pictures taken of their F1 car with only one rear disk glowing in the corners.

speedfreak227

CSU1, next time you're taking digital pictures, turn on the option that looks like a flower. It forces your camera to focus on very close objects.

Otherwise, nice pics of crap buildup. I've pulled out some nasty dustballs from my comp's heatsink in the past too. It's long overdue for a cleaning.

speedfreak227

Ok, thanks for all the help, but some people have blown this a little bit out of proportion. It's not like it's onstantly overheating. SOMETIMES, with extended use, it will overheat and shut down.

Quote from Tweaker :

If you can, try and find a cooling pad that has fan suction on the bottom and expenses the head out the side. They are at most electronics stores and online places.

that is exactly what we saw. It sucked air into the top and expelled it out the back end. It looked like a good design but it was $50 Canadian so I thought I'd get some oppinions first.

We're going to look into our warantee and see if opening the case to clean the heat exchanger will void anything.

speedfreak227.

My wife's laptop overheats from time to time and shuts down. Lately we've been propping it up on a couple of VCR tapes for better airflow.

At the local computer store we saw a laptop cooling plate that sits under the laptop. It's go a fan or two blowing air out from underneath. It looks like a good idea to me but I'm wondering what experiences people have had with these things.

Thanks for your input,

speedfreak227

ok, i just figured it out.

EVERY update tricks me with this one.

the throttle/brake calibration defaults back to 2 different axes when i need it set to "combined"

speedfreak227

i downloaded the patch the other day and unlocked it but didn't play. now i'm tying to show a freind from out of town how good the game is but i can't seem to calibrate my pedals at all. i'm ending up with 50% throttle all the time and the gas/brake pedals either do ONLY he gas or ONLY the brake.

any ideas?

i'm going back to trying.

speedfreak227

i took an egg in the face one time after we held down and covered a buddy in whipcream. he came back outside and just stood in his doorway with the light behind him. he looked like an axe murderer. it was night so we couldn't see him clearly. he threw something and the next thing i knew i had egg in my mouth. it had actually hit my left lense of my glasses. it left and explosion style scratch from the center outwards. there's no doubt i would have been blinded without my glasses on.

lucky......again

speedfreak227

i was living in edmonton, alberta for the last 5 years for university but i've moved back to vancouver.

speedfreak227

I'm looking for the packing factor of jelly beans for a contest at work. Yes, you guessed it, how many jelly beans in a jar.

I know the maximum packing factor for spheres is 74%. I've also heard that "smarties" have a higher packing factor than regular spheres. I'm just wondering if anyone has ever done any experiments on the packing factor of jelly beans.

OR..... if anyone has a somewhat large container at home that they can fill with jelly beans to a certain level, then count how many jelly beans fit into that space, and later, fill the container to the same level with water and measure its volume, then report back to this forum.

speedfreak227

he just turned in to rapidly. he wasn't smooth and as other people mentioned, he wasn't even trying to catch it. he obviously has no "feel" for what a car is doing.

speedfreak227

my friends all love playing it at my house but none of them want to spend the money to get a wheel so they don't play otherwise.

speedfreak227

Has anyone played LFS or any other games on a projector screen for a home computer before?

My dream when I buy a house this year is to set up a dedicated gaming room and I'd love to have a projector for my computer. I'm curious what experiences people have had with them. When I was at university all the classrooms had them and they were HUGE. I sat there dreaming of LFS and got caught daydreaming a few times when teacher's called on me

speedfreak227

this is my desktop. it's an island we spent a few hours on when we visited los roques a month ago.

speedfreak227

I often see guys that set faster laps than I do or they crash off. I, on the other hand, set CONSISTANT laps that are a little bit off the pace from the "fast" guys. I can join a race in 13th and end up 5th easily due to the inconsistancy of others.

I say you start the next race where you finished.

speedfreak227

I think you understood me the first time. I was asking if the rod would break before the threads would strip away or the nut would shear.

Do you have any numbers comparing the relative strengths of the rod vs. the section with the nut? I'm curious how much stronger the nut is.

speedfreak227

I've got a degree in Materials Engineering (formerly known as metalurgical engineering) but I never coverd this topic and now I'm wondering.....

I can calculate the load a cylindrical steel rod can take in tension before stretching BUT if it's a threaded rod is one nut with the threads passing fully through it stronger than the rod's cross section?

speedfreak227

could someone add snow to my avatar also please? we've just gone through a WICKED week of unusually heavy snow here in Vancouver.

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