Quote from Thunderhead :

err 2 x 512= 1024= 1 Gb ram.

So you wont have 4 gb of ram,if you add 2 1 gb ram modules....... you'll have 3 GB ram.

Also if he chooses Win XP 32-bit, only 2.75gb of ram will show up. You need a 64-bit OS (XP 64-bit or Vista 64-bit) to show and utilize your all your memory above 2.75 gb. I bought 4gb simply for the fact that I do a lot of intensive graphics with applications that become memory hungry the longer I work. And using XP 64-bit which works great. In comparison from 2gb to 4gb, the difference is noticeably better with more memory obviously. But for typical gaming and such, 2gb is fine.

Looks like BMW is still at it with demonstrations of their cars and equipment. I read this article and yet again they will have a simulator used there for people to play on.

Is anyone going to Silverstone? Have a look in the pitlane park and see what the simulator is like

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2007/7/6390.html

Is there a way to know if I am licensed? My times are 1:41.xx in the races. But I don't know what my status is for having a license

Kind of old news. Was local news here where I live. There are even faster electric cars than this though....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8qDZOBQs60w --- The guys driving the supercars are terrible drivers methinks.

I am not trolling, what other comments might I have on this subject than exactly what I had posted earlier. Ferrari are punks for losing, and they ALWAYS go and blame something out of ordinary in the team for their cars being slow. If this is true, then count my comment out, but the Ferraris aren't completely off the pace, they are still going quite fast. And any competitors being faster than Ferrari at a few GPs is nothing new, so why does it magically have to be these few last GPs that some dude sabotages their fuel :rolleyes:.

THERE is your nonsense genius.

You probably come up with the same excuses yourself when playing online in LFS... everyone does. "Oh it is my setup, anyone have a faster setup?" ---or--- "I am tired, goodbye" (essentially meaning I don't like losing, this sucks). "My dog hit my brake pedal" :doh:

Last edited by Tweaker, Sun 1 Jul 2007, 22:56.

Ferrari just can't take the pain of losing, so they blame this guy :doh:

It's not about having the skins look nice while you are driving.... of course you aren't going to be looking at them instead of racing :doh: Like you said, I just note the color of the car, so I know who is who. That said though, arguing that the high res downloads is worthless because you aren't looking at them while racing, that should pretty much be 'nulled'. Whoever does that would be a terrible driver . It has other purposes that fit the needs for people that want detail in screenshots, movies, and overall clarity of the game. Otherwise you have a very inconsistent looking game where you have somewhat detailed textures all around, but then crappy 512 skins to boot. Upping the res on the skins does make it feel proper, and isn't a "rip off". It is rather handy to have high-res skins on your side.

I found that the quality of skins overall was a lot crisper if you have everything maxed out in LFS and in gpu/res settings. The skins just add to how clean everything else can look, and yes is nice to be able to take screenshots for later. I'd actually see a big advantage for movie makers because this enables them to make a movie without the hassle of collecting any 1024 skins, which is quite convenient. Only until you look REALLY REALLY close to the skin will you see compression artifacts from the dds files, but it isn't a problem when looking from at least a car's length away.

As with my old system, things looked blurry, even with 1024 skins. It is really only worth it if you have a nice system that will handle all the skins on the grid, as well as not mess up your viewing quality with mipbias and such for various distances.

I do realize though that purchasing this feature is really if you want to throw out some spare cash for an extra feature. It isn't absolutely necessary that you have it, but nice to know it is available after you've bought it.

Last edited by Tweaker, Fri 29 Jun 2007, 17:14.

Your skin looked sexeh in high-res last night steve

Ahhh, I've always had the G25 (about 1 year old now, test model). Speakers are Logitech Z5500. Everything wil be complete with a new display .

Yeah the 9700 heatsink is a behemoth, but I really love it. Mounting it was a REAL pain, but worth it in the end. The stock cooler that came with the Intel chip was putting the CPU at 50-55C average on idle or low use. This new cooler brought me down to 30-35C average on idle or low use, and that is pretty good so far (I know I could do better). I am also impressed because now I can turn down all my fans in my case and still only have +2 or 3 more degrees of temperature overall on the CPU and in the entire system. The heatsink can maintain so much heat because there is so much copper for heat to spread through. With all my fans on high, it is fairly loud, but nothing too extreme. Last night I was fiddling with the low speed fan temps and seeing if temperatures were affected (mostly worried about CPU), but hardly anything changed. All my fans are 3-speed, and medium or low are my desired speeds.

Since I got this case I was all of a sudden really anal about cable clutter, and even organized the cables behind my desk. Bought some cable tubing and mounts allowing me to feed the cables up high and behind the desk, out of sight. Basically there are NO cables down by my feet, even the G25 cables go "up" and out of the way. Will take a picture of the whole desk and everything when I get the new display. The cost of the display alone is enough to build another system :o But I do a lot of graphics and design work which is most comfortable to work with in a high resolution. I've been living with 1600x1200 for a long time, so the 30" display will allow two 1280x1600 halves for putting applications next to each other . Plenty of room, heheh.

If future games require more power, I'll probably do an SLI with the same video card. But I just don't see that happening for a long while . LFS has never felt so good to me... I think my money was well spent for all my needs (would've spent a lot more from a manufacturer, and wouldn't even match the specs/price I payed for this!).

I don't have a full shot here, but I just bought this a week ago and have been adding on more and more to top it off . Excellent system so far :up: And loving the case for hiding cables, cooling, design... probably my favorite PC of all . And runs games perfect at max everything... LFS feels like a whole new world.



CPU: E6600 Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe INFO
RAM: 4GB - G.SKILL 1GB (X4) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) INFO
MB: EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR / NVIDIA nForce 680i INFO
GPU: EVGA 8800GTS 640mb GDDR3 16x PCIE HDCP INFO
PSU: ZALMAN 600W INFO
HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 320gb @ 7,200 INFO
CASE: Antec P180b + addon fans INFO
CD/DVD: Samsung CD/DVD Burner INFO
OS: XP Pro SP2 64-bit (to allow 4gb ram)


Just added:
HDD2: Seagate Barracude 500gb @ 7,200 INFO
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS9700NT (massive!) INFO

... and another 120mm fan (blue part seen in pic)

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Been saving for something like this. Haven't had a new PC for almost 5 years now . Last thing on the list is a very very large LCD display with 2560x1600 res . Then I'll be finished for good.

Last edited by Tweaker, Thu 28 Jun 2007, 15:34.

Nice guys And glad to see that you have plans to join MoE's next season, we are going to require a lot of new & fast teams

As I voted, I would get this server until Patch X comes out, and now ordered it for use online. I was really waiting for a new PC actually, one that is fully capable of a full grid of high quality cars and textures .

It is really worth a buy if you have a good system... because now I don't need to worry about FPS with high-res skins

Though, the DDS compression is really crap to be honest, I wish it was as crisp as a decent quality JPG. Beats me why the compression is so high.

Well this was a bit unexpected. Visited www.formula1.com just now, and it looks like they changed their site design. For several years they had that old design, it's about time. I think it is kinda nice, but somehow lacks a motorsports feel.

By the time I get around to buying a new car or one of these 'green' cars, some new technology should be out by then.

So no choice for me in this poll. It's TEH FUTURE!!!! :hippy:

Quote from danowat :

Tyres are already warmed up when you start (blue and temp dependent on compound) , leave it still for 10mins and you will see they cool down to 30DEGC (black in colour)

The tires are not nearly warmed up to optimal temps though, they are only roughly temps you'd get from a heat blanket or oven, that is what Scawen has done.

Drag racing should have the ability to manually pre-heat the tires before final staging on the strip.

And if you let the tires cool down for 10 minutes (especially road tires), it shows a huge physics flaw of tire temperature vs. performance. We rely so much on these semi-heated tires that we fail to realize the poor abilities of even a COLD performance road tire in LFS. When, in reality a car should not be sliding at such low speeds when the tires are at normal daytime resting temperature. Also, they take only a few turns to rise in temperature very rapidly, when even a nice set of road tires would never do such a thing. Slick tires are somewhat 'ok', but road tire temperature acts far too extreme in LFS, in both heating and cooling. Something I would like to see Scawen fix someday.

Oh man... what a bummer. I hope we can see a better battle for Peugeot now... plz plz plz.

Funny the team leader of Audi turns around and about to go on a witch hunt for the pitcrew guy that would've messed up when bolting that onto the car....

Why did that #1 Audi team leave that huge hunk of concrete on their front suspension? I'm confused.

Err nevermind, I guess they took it off....

Just getting my hopes up for one of the Audis to have a big problem Turns out to be a silly rock, haha

Last edited by Tweaker, Sun 17 Jun 2007, 04:32.

The worst nightmare I ever had is the one I forgot

Check this out guys

http://www.badboyvettes.com/59

Great job from Vettel, wasn't expecting him to be in the top 5 in first practice :up:

BMW are looking stronger this year, I likey

Apparently this is his competitor for the final round, Damon Scott: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VC9cHjUOIQ

Just read www.motorsport.com

You seem pretty excited about this race :o

Those aren't logos

You also can tell the position of the car with the lights (top 3).

About the closed cockpits. There are new regulations in this 2007 race where closed cockpit cars (like the Peugeot) need to have an air conditioning unit installed. Whereas the open cockpits need to have added weight to substitute for not having the AC onboard. I can see why they would want only closed cockpits in 2010.

The Peugeots have been quickest by more than a second over the Audis in their Le Mans testing... we'll just have to wait and see how they fare in practice and qualifying. But it all sounds like the same stuff that happened in last years Le Mans, with the Pescarolos being incredibly fast, but having too many mechanical issues because of it. They were ahead most of the time versus the Audis, but due to the Audis having longer stints, that is how Audi won. Though now, the fuel tank size in any LMP1 diesel car have been restricted from 100 litres to 81 litres or something. Normal petrol will be 90 litres.

Looks much better now :up: