Exactly. If gravity were to suddenly cease to exist. All that would happen would be that we'd be flung into space.
Let's give a car-related example. Take a car tire, roll it in a bunch of mud, and then spin it really fast. All the mud would fly off. The earth is the tire and WE are the mud. We don't fly off because of gravity. Get rid of gravity, and we all go flying into space. The earth will not hit you. If you drive through a mud puddle at 100 MPH, mud is still flung off the tire onto every part of the wheel well.
How can people with such little understanding of physics possibly get any enjoyment out of a racing SIMULATOR? You can't possibly be that good a driver if you're that clueless, can you?
For this build, there is only one possible case to consider...
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7890.html
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7890.html
Yeah. You're going to need a low-profile card for that case, as Wheel4Hummer stated.
You also might want to seriously consider another 512 Mb of RAM while you're at it.
You also might want to seriously consider another 512 Mb of RAM while you're at it.
Well, keep your fingers crossed. Sounds almost like the EEPROM chip in the mobo might be a bit loopy...
...that or you just had a strange, now solved, hardware issue.
...that or you just had a strange, now solved, hardware issue.
You've probably done this, but instead of removing just one stick of RAM, try swapping the remaining one, and if that doesn't work, try both sticks, one at a time, in different slots on the mobo. Dunno what else you could do other than that. Maybe try reseating the CPU?
I've had issues with updates as well recently.
Yesterday morning I turned on my laptop, connected to my wireless, and found that I had no internet connection. It didn't say "limited or no connectivity" but my instant messenger, weather, or browser simply wouldn't connect. After work I tried EVERYTHING to get it to work with no success. Then I got a call from my roommate from college this year, telling me that he had no internet connection. Tried my desktop computer, and found that that had no internet either. Then my sister told me same with HER laptop. Then it occurred to me that I had been seeing a LOT of windows updates this week (like one a day at least.) Looked online and sure enough, one of the updates kills your connection if you use ZoneAlarm, and you have to turn the firewall setting down to medium to get it working. Strange.
I've had issues with updates as well recently.
Yesterday morning I turned on my laptop, connected to my wireless, and found that I had no internet connection. It didn't say "limited or no connectivity" but my instant messenger, weather, or browser simply wouldn't connect. After work I tried EVERYTHING to get it to work with no success. Then I got a call from my roommate from college this year, telling me that he had no internet connection. Tried my desktop computer, and found that that had no internet either. Then my sister told me same with HER laptop. Then it occurred to me that I had been seeing a LOT of windows updates this week (like one a day at least.) Looked online and sure enough, one of the updates kills your connection if you use ZoneAlarm, and you have to turn the firewall setting down to medium to get it working. Strange.
Careful MINIz guy, I was once being sarcastic in this very sub-forum (as I hope you are being right now) and I got yelled at, lol.
w00t!
Too bad it's a miserable, rainy, gloomy, muggy day here in NJ...
Too bad it's a miserable, rainy, gloomy, muggy day here in NJ...
Yea, but, technically you CAN see what's ahead of you - it's just split in hald
Besides, I've honestly found that after awhile you just get used to it and kind of ignore the center bar.
I think I'm going to sell my two screens though. We have a projector set up in our apartment and I have no place for them anymore. I dunno how much I'd even be able to sell them for though since they're out of the cases and bolted to a piece of wood (to make for a thinner center bar) in a crude setup. If anyone in the NJ area want's them let me know! Two 19" Acer monitors. Great condition - just without the frames, lol.
Been running a Corsair 520 HX for quite some time now with absolutely NO issues whatsoever. Looking at my specs in my sig shows that it's powering quite a lot of stuff (including a 125W processor!) Though I don't have a MONSTER graphics card, but 5 HDDs have got to count for something...
It's an amazingly built piece of equipment. Got a black rough metal coating and it's extremely heavy (good sign.) Very quiet, and mine's modular so I don't have excessive cables either
It's an amazingly built piece of equipment. Got a black rough metal coating and it's extremely heavy (good sign.) Very quiet, and mine's modular so I don't have excessive cables either
...and I get confused when I'm going through my 100-line BASIC code!
6 MILLION characters is like... well, :hbomb: much!
6 MILLION characters is like... well, :hbomb: much!
Amen to that. While I cannot actually quantify any sort of performance increase you would get with an Asus board, or even any greater amount of stability (seeing as I've never had anything other) I can tell you that I have never had a single problem with any of their components. They are very well built, and you can tell that they are quality parts. I have an Asus motherboard, an Asus graphics card, and an Asus sound card and all three of them are amazing pieces of technology. I highly recommend anything by Asus, and I suggest you at least look at them before you make your decision. They are slightly more expensive, but, as the old adage goes, you get what you pay for.
That said, Asus also apparently makes SOME boards which aren't that great. I tend to go for the more expensive boards, which are geared towards hardcore gamers and are well built and designed, but I have heard a lot of complaints about certain lower-end boards by people on Newegg, so be careful what you buy.
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Yeah, but considering that it will be built into everything they produce from this point forward, it's a safe assumption to say that if they were to implement PhysX support in LFS, it would affect much more than 100 people in the near future.
Also, PhysX is not at all dead, it is simply part of nVidia now, which means it's more alive than ever!
Holy Crap...
...HOOOLLLLYYY CRAAAPPP!
...HOOOLLLLYYY CRAAAPPP!
I REALLY REALLY wish someone with good movie-making skills could make a good, decently long, smoothly repeating background for Vista. I'm talking like where everything's soft and out of focus, but you can still tell what it is. That, I think, would be a sick Dreamscene!
You really should have asked before buying. Why bother with all this if you're going to just decide on your own? Had you told us first what you were planning to get, we could have stopped you. Now you've gone and bought a fairly slow card.
You have to realize that any 8000 series card is not better than any 7000 or even any 6000 card. The 8500 is simply their newest low-end card and is slower than even a 6800GT (which is their old high-end card - which would have been a much better option, for example.)
Well in that case, you should have gone with a 9800 GX2...
No, actually, what you said does not make his statement false. You are simply stating that the statement is true if only applied to automatics... which in America means 99% of the vehicles we are talking about.
That is absolutely true. Here (NJ at least) the majority of cars that you see that slid off the road on the highway are usually 4/AWD SUVs for that very reason.
4/AWD will get you GOING in bad weather, and it will help you go where you want to SOME extent, but a car going 80 mph on an icy/snowy road is a car going 80 mph on an icy/snowy road regardless. That's what people don't realize. AWD will do NOTHING if you need to brake hard, nor will it do anything if you don't power out of a slide - and the majority of the people stupid enough to not know that are the ones who tend to close their eyes and slam on the brakes.
Well, with a PROPER AWD car (e.g. Nissan GT-R which is always RWD when you want it to be) you can do just as much and then MORE than you can with a purely RWD car. Almost all AWD cars nowadays do not do what the GT-R does that well, but I think that in a few years, AWD will really be RWD when you want it and AWD when you need it, in which case I can't see why you wouldn't get it.
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Well, New Jersey does get a lot of snow and ice, so yes - that's the main reason I like AWD here.
However other benefits abound, such as how when I went camping last weekend, I got the car to the campsite that was impassable by any 2WD car because of the nature of the muddy, hilly terrain. You also benefit from much more sure-footed handling in wet conditions AND even in dry conditions. You simply cannot power out of a diminishing radius curve off the freeway with a RWD car as confidently or safely as you can in an AWD car.
That's not to say that AWD means you can drive like a nut, but the limits of the vehicle are slightly higher in certain situations, which makes a difference in wet conditions. There's a REASON many supercars are now AWD.
All I know is I get 25 mpg highway with my AWD '98 Outback w/ a 2.5 L H-4, whereas my dad gets 33 mpg COMBINED in his Quattro '05 A6 with the 3.2 L V-6.
Obviously there's a lot more to mileage than JUST the drivetrain. I wouldn't worry about mileage loss in an AWD car. Usually it's only 1 or 2 mpg anyway - not THAT much of a penalty for all the benefits you get.
Obviously there's a lot more to mileage than JUST the drivetrain. I wouldn't worry about mileage loss in an AWD car. Usually it's only 1 or 2 mpg anyway - not THAT much of a penalty for all the benefits you get.
Dude, I drive a Subaru Outback station wagon with a 165 HP H-4... and that's got enough power to have plenty of fun with. I do agree that you should get a 4 as your first car. Besides, 4-cylinders are fun since you get the power lower down. My car is only 2 seconds slower to 60 mph than my dad's 6-cylinder A6...
Help with project...
Well, I know there are a lot of smart people on this forum, so I'm hoping someone here might be able to help me out too. I posted my question on another forum, so I'll just link to it. I posted twice detailing what the project is, and if there is anyone here with a background in electronics, I'd much appreciate if they could help me out with it! Thanks!
http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90277
http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90277
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Lol, anyway - in other news, this is the case I would buy if I could afford it. The freaking coolest case ever made. It has a freaking RAID hot-swap board and a bunch of other sweet-ass features.
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