kalniel

Hamilton stripped of win. Well, couldn't have expected otherwise, F1 stands for Ferrari Won after all.

So why are you only changing two tyres and not all of them? If the wear is even but you've been advised to change them then you must have been advised to change all of them.

The email is dead right. On a front wheel drive car you should always put new tyres on the rear and move the old rears to the front. There are two reasons for this: 1) Rubber degrades over time as well as with wear, but time-degradation is harder to spot. If you leave tyres on the rear hardly getting worn out then you are more likely to get a sudden problem without warning. However if you move them to the front and wear them out through normal use this won't happen. 2) The point about the wet is spot on - in dry conditions you'll not usually get near the limit of adhesion, but in the wet it can happen really easily, even in a straight line at moderate speeds. Tread depth is *vital* in wet conditions, and worn tyres will lose grip before new ones in such conditions. If front tyres lose grip then you just understeer a bit and instinctively will just turn into the corner a bit more and brake - which is the right thing to do. If rear tyres lose grip then bang, you've spun before you even know what is happening. Even if you had a car that gave you lots of feedback that you were about to spin (so not most road cars) there's little you can do to correct it - applying throttle around a tight corner is counter-intruitive, and you can forget about getting exactly the correct amount of opposite lock on and off again.

Cool - looks fine anyway. Sometimes there is another way to travel than cars & bikes... -- OLD IMAGE REMOVED (imageshack) -- -- OLD IMAGE REMOVED (imageshack) -- -- OLD IMAGE REMOVED (imageshack) --

Did he just give you a copy of his megapack? If so that's illegal and why it's not working. If he bought you a new copy then it should work.

Correct. Still have most of the problems with some games not using the second chip etc, but they work on any motherboard. Different chipsets, both designed for the Intel CPU. nVidia chipsets can support SLI, Intel chipsets can support Crossfire. Intel are widely regarded as more reliable, and recently have been getting the speed crown as well. nVidia chipsets are a bit flaky sometimes, though they're always quite fast.

I used to perform there. And I got dinner here as a result :D The Lord and Lady are very nice. Is the vignetting deliberate?

Doesn't explain why there's less piracy of PS3 games costing £50 than there is of PC games costing £20. But why wouldn't they try the crysis demo which contained everything you needed to tell if your computer would run it or not? As for bad reviews, then I don't see why they'd play the game at all - if you don't think a game is worth the money then how can it be worth your time playing :p It seems to be a very small minority of pirates who can't actually get their DVD to run - and it certainly doesn't explain why games that don't need the DVD in the drive get pirated so much :( Both of these are unfortunate, but probably the way to go, unless TPM does ok.

It's the same as the current system for Mass Effect and I think it works pretty well. You don't need the disc in the drive anymore, and as a bonus you are actually granted a license to install it on 3 separate computers - that's pretty amazing as most games are only licensed for one. For us that saves us the cost of another copy so it's a good thing IMHO. The only thing they really need to make certain is of having a good support team to be able to help people activate by phone etc.

Yorkfield are built on 45nm process - so they use less power and go faster. But it's not like Kentsfield are too slow or anything. You'll be fine with either.

In what way? Business doesn't come with any of the media centre stuff. Home Premium is the best featured version for the money in my opinion.

No - what they mean is that the retail version of Vista Premium only comes with a 32bit disc - you then contact MS who will send you a 64bit disc. Was a good mobo for the last generation - but for the same money I'd now get a p45 rather than 35. This is good.

But in all the reviews the conditions were exactly the same for both AMD and nVidia cards, and in all cases they were optimal (you can check them when they report the operating temperatures). If for some reason nVidia cards run slower in normal conditions then that's a valid fact worth reporting, but as it happens the nVidia cards usually run cooler yet the AMD cards still perform much better.

Can you give me an example of how you set up an environment to suit the ATI card?

There's lots.

They slashed the prices down to £380... Apart from the defective G84, G86, G92 and G94 chips you mean, which cover the majority of their GPUs? http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/nvidia-g92s-g94-reportedly

£380+ ? That's a complete rip off. It's ~£340 in other places.

Heh, well it wasn't all that much - most of the important information had already been said :p I used to have a problem with an older Sony drive, but a firmware update sorted it all out. That said I'd still go with Pioneer for first choice, though Lite-On, Samsung, etc. are also fine.

Some very good advice already in this thread, so nothing much for me to add. Brand of graphics card is completely irrelevant as far as the actual card is concerned - at the moment they all use an identical card that comes straight from AMD and slap a sticker on it :p You should therefore make the choice based on package contents, warranty and price. When you start getting special models (pre-overclocked, custom coolers etc.) then it makes a difference, but it's almost never worth paying extra for such features. Cases: mid-tower is the most popular choice at the moment and for pretty good reason - they fit in everything you need and don't take up much space. Going for full tower is useful if you want something exotic like water cooling, or if you're running a computer that needs 10 hard drives and 5 DVD players! Within that choice is really personal preference - I have a thing for coolermaster cases because they're such good quality for the money and have relatively understated designs. Even flashy cases can be fine, just make sure they have a 120mm case exhaust fan on the rear and an air intake at the bottom on the front - that's all that's needed for optimum airflow in most situations. Yup, CPU-wise only get Intel at the moment. Video cards are much closer - AMD have the lead in performance/price at the moment, but if you know you'll only be playing games that massively prefer one make to the other you won't be going wrong either way. HDD you can't really go wrong, WD, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi are all premium makes and have excellent performance. RAM: 4gb is already more than you need, but you can go up to 16gb or so depending on motherboard if you really want to go nuts. Remember to get a 64bit operating system if you have more than 3gb in total though. PSU: Even going for the more powerful suggestions (4870 etc.) you won't need more than 400-500W, more important is the amount of juice supplied on the 12v line... sadly manufactures like hoodwinking people about this in their quoted figures so you're best bet is to go with a trusted make - corsair, seasonic & ocz all base their PSUs on the Seasonic one and are fab. FSP and CWT based units are also fine. Best 'premium' unit for your usage is probably the 620HX from corsair.

You have obviously been giving too much lurve to the XBox and the PC is now jealous and breaking down in order to get your attention ;) Same thing happens to women, I hear. :p

Heh yup. Ciel actually left for a new job in February.

It is, she was a good admin. I could also be wrong, and she's just been on leave since february, but her title at the US forums is now 'user moderator (not Atari employee)' and she's in the user super moderator category rather than admin. There do seem to have been some personel cuts related to the forum stuff over there, though on the otherhand there's a few Atari people who are being more active than they used to be too, like Herk.

She's not an Atari employee anymore afaik.

Highly accurate then :rofl: I assume the OP is about the also ancient David Nadal video which did not confirm TDU2 was going to be released, merely that they were working on it (as most games actually have work done on them, before any decision is made whether to release or not). Though I'm also interested in seeing the 'official site' link.

No such thing as too subtle in my opinion - the point isn't to make a surreal picture (unless it's a joke like the one of Kings), just to capture information that your eyes see but the camera doesn't record. The 'proper' exposure of Clare bridge just has a clipped white sky which bleeds over to the vegetation, so you need HDR to make the photo look like you actually see it. As for methods, I use some custom software in the camera to bracket at +/- 2ev (usually), then create layers in The GIMP with masks from greyscale copies and tweak the levels. I'm an alumnus so pop back occasionally. (Always fun to walk past the gates were the tourists can't go :p)