Quote from Osco :

nom nom v-band flanges

Yeah, might do all the piping in v flange.

Larger pics lol.

Precision HP6262, T4, .68 A/R








Snow Performance Stage 2 Water/Methanol Injection


Bosch 42# Injectors


South Bend Stage 3 clutch


DRC 268 Cams


ARP Head Studs


Lightweight Lifters


Bosch 044 Fuel pump


Heavy duty valve springs and titanium retainers


Intercooler and some piping




C2 Motorsports 8.5:1 Head spacer




C2 Motorsports Turbo Manifold






Polished 4" MAF housing for the lulz.

Figured I would post this here. Maybe a few will be interested.

Basically, this is going on my Corrado.


Lots of more pics and info here.

http://www.facebook.com/album. ... 94850570&l=06e6764261

Quote from Syfoon :

Wow, you can multiquote, go you!

Jealous?

Quote from Syfoon :

Re: data corruption; you obviously mistake me for someone who gives a toss.

I'm not just some stupid 13 year old kid who's flicking options in his PCs BIOS to see what happens. I've been producing music for about 11 years now, and in that time I've lost all of my stuff twice. Samples, my own presets and my working files, all gone. Both times I've pretty much been physically sick as both times it's been YEARS of hard graft down the toilet.

Most people would created some kind of backup or RAID 5 or RAID 1 array after the first failure for sensitive data.

Quote from Syfoon :

I've learnt my lesson, so with my old PC, which is still in fighting form, I built myself a nice little fileserver which sits in the corner of my studio running Ubuntu. EVERY SINGLE BYTE of important data, all my samples, presets, working files, VST installs, remix folders (and even my LFS install!) etc, live on Spudgun (thats my old PC's name, new one is called "Dave Hedgehog" (anyone get that reference?)) on his 750GB of space. And the MAJORLY important stuff is backed up on a spindle of DVDs, just in case...

Ah, getting somewhere. I'm assuming you have some kind of backup on that pc too? Like a mirror of your drive incase that one fails. Hard drive failures are pretty common. Also, DVD's aren't a reliable form of backup.

Quote from Syfoon :

So meh, the HDD on this PC might frazzle, no big loss. All I'll have lost my DiRT2 savefile and the 30 or so minutes it takes to install Windows XP. Big whoop. Like I'd risk losing my method of earning a few pennies every now and then...

Glad you have the time to waste, want to share some?

Quote from Syfoon :

Oh, and I double-checked, PCI-e is at 115mhz, not 125. My memory part of my brain is broken. I blame the years of drug abuse.

Insert foot into mouth.

But really, just trying to help, no need to get all defensive.

Quote from Syfoon :

Err, no.

It's fine. Did you know that more then few videocards set the PCI-e bus to 125mhz themselves?

Some nVidia's highend 8, 9 and GTX series do, as well as some ATI cards.

Nope. They don't. It was a motherboard feature.

Quote from Syfoon :

I get better performance benchmarks, no hit in stability, no erroneous readings, no hassle at all. The GPU runs and deals with things a considerable bit faster TBH.

Highly doubt it, I would like to see some proof then

Quote from Syfoon :

Raising the PCI-e bus came from a very, very trusted source with years of serious overclocking experience (In fact, he specced my machine up for me with parts that are deliberately OCable), so I'm more likely to listen to his advice them some guys in a small hardware section on a driving sim forum

Obviously your trusted source is an idiot. Sure you can raise it a little, but you will not get as much of a benefit versus the risk of raising it.

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/406438-pcie-frequency.html

http://www.overclock.net/ati/406121-pcie-frequency.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/fo ... erclock-quads-duals-guide

But it's ok, when you get data corruption, and your hard drive fails, don't look at me.

that pcie clock.. lower it now. serious.

Quote from Jakg :

ATCS 840?b <3

m hmm

looks nice!

The photo was taken at 18mm, so pretty wide. The keyboard is about 1ft from the LCD too.

And yes, those are a couple 5870's.

http://tvcalculator.com/index. ... f60a5ee33e7c6cec0278bdac0

Quote from hazaky :

When i compare random objects on ur table to ur keyboard and stuff then basically its like the same size as my 23" fullhd acer

It's due to the DOF from the camera.

Quote from blakehoo88 :

yeah,it looks more like a 24

IMO

It's like 1.5" taller than a 24", and about 4" wider.

I bought it for the resolution.

Last edited by Roadie, Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:44.

Just got my new Dell U2711. 27", 2560x1440.

Got my new LCD. It is a Dell U2711, 2560x1440, 27".

Painted my case, and cut a window...

neither if you want to get decent brake pad life.

I love my SSD's. I have 2x 120GB OCZ Agility in raid 0. Pretty speedy. My pc spends more time in the bios then loading windows to give you an example of the sheer speed. Only takes a few second to load into the desktop completely.

Quote from mclarenmatt :

All that and you still use wireless? :P

One hell of a rig mate, wont need to upgrade that for a few years!

ahah, you got me there.. The house isn't wired for Ethernet.

Quote from PLAYAPIMP :

Isn't 12gb of ram overkill?

nah, 3d modeling programs like it.

Well here is my new build.

Intel Xeon W3520 @ 4.1Ghz (i7 920 equivalent)
Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer Motherboard
12GB DDR3 2000mhz
Asus Xonar Essence STX Sound Card
2x RAID 0 120GB OCZ Agility SSD's
CrossfireX ATI 5870's
BFG EX-1200W Power Supply
Antec P193 Case

Just the CPU is water cooled, 2x 140mm radiator at the top, 120mm radiator in the bottom, and dual pumps.

Here it is in its ugly glory.

wow, you guys sure know how to ruin a thread fast. Congrats.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Yes, in slow speed/stationary. A fan should not come on during normal running with a steady flow of air through the radiator.

Disconnect a fan on a modern engine and so long as you're moving (say, steady 60mph on an A-road or motorway or something), it'd be fine. Stop for more than 5 or 10 minutes and it'd overheat.

The fan will come on if the engine hits a certain temp if you're moving or not. Has nothing to do with speed. I've had 220F water temps blasting up a pass at 85mph.

try heating up the engine with a hair dryer.

Real VW is a Corrado SLC.