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That kids going to be a real contributor to society some day. I can feel it.

Whempy had their monthly party last weekend. Down for starcraft though.

Seen a few of those, didn't know they were Ohio plates. I thought they were some sort of gay idaho plate or something.

Well, why does the station NEED more money? Is American Idol going to be in 3D? Because thats what everyone needs right now.

Shouldnt the networks be making money from the advertisers, who give them money depending on how many viewers they have? And are they going to lose viewers if time warner doesnt pay, and then lose advertiser money? I don't blame Time Warner, I blame fox.

I've looked at these things in the past.. I would love to see a video of one with a gas motor. I've seen one video, but it wasn't very good. An AWD Gas powerwheels jeep would be beyond badass, but that would pretty much require a new..everything.

That car is fucking mental. The sound, the speed around the corners. Holy shit.

And blame any future drivetrain failure on them

I see how it was slightly misleading in my post, I'll change that on my next big edit.

Its very cheap. You could use a Intel Atom based board, which has a Atom processor built in. These are very low power processors used in netbooks, but make great data servers as well. You can get one of these boards for $80 (microcenter). For a data server, I'd recommend getting a PCI RAID card. RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks - allows you to do some cool things with hard drives, depending on the RAID level. RAID-1 for example, copies the same data to multiple drives in real time, so if one drive were to fail, you have another with the exact same data. It appears as one working drive to windows. Many motherboards have RAID built in, but the board above doesn't. I have a $25 Raid card in my dads system, and it works great. You could probably complete this system, along with ram, a case, 2 hard drives, and a light powersupply for around $250.

Really diggin the looks of this car. Great candidate for a swap if the rotary ever implodes on its self. :thumbup:

If anyone finds something wrong or wants to add in a section let me know and I'll edit it in. Tomorrow I will add in some pictures about identifying different connectors you run into when building a PC.

I saw a lot of threads recently relating to building or buying PCs, so rather than taking the time to reply to them, I'm making a thread with a lot of useful information. Part 1: Things to buy Processors: I hold no bias against AMD, but right now, the only processors worth a damn are all made by Intel, so thats all I'm going to list. Low end: Intel E7400, Socket 775. It is a bit over $100, runs at 2.8ghz, and has great performance for the price. Midrange: Intel i5 750, Socket 1156. $150 at Microcenter, and uses more affordable DDR2 memory. High end: Intel i7 920, Socket 1366. $200 at Microcenter This is honestly the best processor for the money. There are faster ones, but the price increases are not worth it. The 860 is a newer processor, but it doesn't support triple channel memory like the 920. Motherboards: There is a lot of choice here. You need to make sure the motherboard you choose has the same socket as the processor you buy. I'm going to leave this up to you. For the socket 775 systems, anything with a P43 or P45 chipset is ok. For 1156 and 1366, just about anything running the P55 chipset will work. The big difference here though between running a i7 and i5 system is the memory. i5 boards run dual channel while most i7 boards run triple channel memory. Check www.newegg.com for motherboard reviews and find something in your price range. Regardless, look to spend $75 to $200 for a good board. Memory/RAM: You are going to want a MINIMUM of 2GB for Vista/Win7, although you should really go with 4GB. If you are building a system that uses a Socket 775 or 1156 processor, you will be using DDR2 memory. This stuff is plentiful and cheap, so theres no reason why you shouldn't go with 4GB. For 1366, you have to go with DDR3. Prices have dropped a LOT recently, so it isn't that bad anymore. If you are going for a performance system with a triple-channel board, go with a 6x2GB Triple Channel kit. Memory speeds are another thing to be looking at. If you are going with DDR2, buy DDR2-800 at a MINIMUM. Anything else will give you a severe bottleneck. With DDR3, you should really just go with DDR3-1600. You'll be happy with it. Video cards: This is a bit of a diffcult area, and depends if you are a ATI or Nvidia fan. I like them both personally, but I haven't kept up to date on the very latest cards, or the lower end cards. In any case, you should get a card that uses the PCI Express interface. Make sure your motherboard has a 16x PCI-E slot. Lowend systems: Go look on craigslist for a Nvidia 9600GT or 9800GT. These are good cards that support HDCP, and can be found pretty cheap. If you don't want to use craigslist, you can get one of the newer low-power cards like the GT 220. Newegg has a sale on the ATI 4550 right now, which also looks like a winner. Midrange: ATI: 4850 or 4870. Nvidia: GTX260. All these cards are capable of some brute gaming power, so if you aren't looking to play games, go ahead with the lower end. Highend: You probably know what you are looking for. The latest cards haven't had much of a price drop yet, but so far the ATI 5970 and Nvidia GTX295 are powerhouses. Harddrives: I'm biased Western Digital and will shun you if you buy anything else. I do not believe any other manufacturer matches their reliability. Good buys right now for any system are 750gb drives. Its important to note the differences between SATA and IDE drives. IDE is the old interface with big ribbon cables. SATA is newer, faster, and easier to work with. Buy drives that use SATA by all means, if you can even find IDE. If you are looking for a bit more performance, get a Caviar Black edition, they have 32mb cache. Optical Drives: Get something with a SATA port to make your life easier. DVD burners are like $25, and I haven't found brand to make a huge difference. A lot of the really cheap ones tend to die though. Cases: The case you buy can really make your life easier. Brands like Antec have nice cases with good airflow, and are usually free of any sharp edges that will send you to the emergency room. They also include all the screws you will need, and look nice. The Antec 300 is a nice looking case, and can be found on sale for pretty cheap. Power Supplys: This is a BIG area. 500watts from one brand is not 500watts from another. Again, there is a lot of choices in this area, but you REALLY need to look into reviews and make sure you buy a powersupply that won't kill its self and the rest of your system. For a low end system, I'd say a 450w powersupply from a good brand will hold you off just fine. Higher end systems should look into something around 650watts+, since the video cards can really put a beating on them. Another thing to make sure of is that the powersupply is ATX 2.0+ compliant. This will assure all the connectors will work fine with your board. Optional: Additional Cooling There are far better heatsink/fan combos available then what Intel includes with their processors. While processors like the E7400 run quiet cool and don't need it, a Core i7 920 may produce a tad more heat. A good CPU cooler to look for will be large, and made of all copper. There is a lot of heatsink/fan combos out there, so just look for something that is rated highly. There are some excellent very quiet coolers on the market. (Updated: More on ports/slots and installation) Part 2: Port Identification/Installation Heres some images I stole off the internet. To save space I'm not going to embed them. Computer parts are just like big oddly shaped legos, they all just snap into place. If you can work on a car, you can build a computer. Motherboard expansion slots (Hopefully you'll never have to see AGP or PCI-X, they are worthless now.) http://i48.tinypic.com/2i0acf8.jpg http://i48.tinypic.com/2n8vlp3.jpg A cool thing about PCI-E is you can use smaller PCI-E cards, like 1x, 4x, or 8x, in a 16x slot or any other slot the card fully fits in. PCI and PCI-E are not the same thing. Power supply connectors http://i50.tinypic.com/149xvr6.jpg Hard drive/DVD/SATA http://i49.tinypic.com/1973aw.jpg SATA power on left, data cable on right. Your motherboard will usually include a bunch of SATA data cables. Memory slots http://i48.tinypic.com/33pcwmb.jpg Memory snaps into place. It only goes one way, and lines up with a notch. If your memory doesn't line up, you bought the wrong memory. The details between a DDR3 and DDR2 slot are minor, but they ARE different. I don't want to go into processor installation because it is something you have to be very careful with. I would recommend you have a experienced friend do this for you if it is your first time. Part 3: System assembly. Nothing indepth here. This is just the order I usually build my PC's in. Start with the powersupply, since its big and heavy. Once its screwed in, just toss all the cables over the side of the case to get them out of the way. Next is the motherboard. Before you put it into the case, install the processor and the fan. For intel motherboards, you have to deal with intels shitty push-pin fan sockets. You will need to hold on to the back of the motherboard while installing the fan to prevent the motherboard from shattering (not really) Make sure you have the motherboard standoffs in the right place and place the motherboard onto them. Check and make sure they line up, then screw it in. Now is a good time to put in any CD/DVD drives and hard drives, before other things get in the way of them. Install your ram, video card, and anything else you may have. Following that, run any data cables (SATA, IDE, Case buttons) Last of all is the power cables. Always start with the big motherboard power, and try to tuck it out of the way. It will make your life easier in the future to organize cables neatly, and also help to improve case airflow.

If you have a newer ATI card with HDMI and HDMI audio, your motherboard may have detected it and disabled your onboard sound. Go into your systems BIOS and make sure integrated sound is enabled.

Quite an interesting car.. Is it right hand drive?

Well, buying android phones is like buying any iPod... Its only a matter of time before yours becomes obsolete by comparison.

I'm up for the dagwood challenge. I know I don't seem big enough to eat it, but stupidity can overcome size any day of the week.

For FSX go Nvidia. ATI Drivers and FSX don't allow for the greatest of performance. This is more of FSX's fault though, as it has a terrible graphics engine.

650 or 750 is WAY overkill if a quality powersupply is used. I have a 500watt running 4 harddrives, 2 optical drives, a Q6600, and a 4870. I've never had a problem, even with all 4 cores and the vid card peaked out at 100% while running some neat MD5 cracking tools.

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COLUMBUS RACING IN THEORY SHOULD BE BETTER

Sorry guys, I though I could take that camaro. Then the eclipse hit the NOS and had DANGER TO THE MANIFOLD and it all sort of ended.

There is yet to be a reoccurance of the ninja volvo springing to life at Easton :ninja:

I'm going to say this in big red letters because no one has said this in the thread yet. It is a VERY important detail. Do not buy a cheap power supply. Do not use any power supply that comes with a case. If you do, you will slowly, or in some cases quickly, kill your entire system. I've never had this happen to one of my builds, but I've seen in 2-3 times. I was helping diagnosing my friends computer when it was having troubles. Power supply started shooting out smoke (diagnosis, found!) The fan in the power supply seized at only 3 months old, the PS overheated, and nearly caught fire.

You already solved that problem with the sports. Sports cost a lot of money to broadcast. Don't blame your cable company for TV prices, blame the NFL. You can blame them as much as you want for internet prices though. (yes I know there is a difference between networks and cable companies. However, the money makes it all around in the end) EDIT: Lets put price increases in perspective http://i48.tinypic.com/5n9a49.png EDIT2: our cable bill went up