How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
05-30-2011, 12:38 AM
#8261
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For my next upgrade, I can:
-Suspension (Budget around 600-1k)
-OBX LSD (300 for diff + rebuild kit and ? for micrometer)
-Genuine GT2560 to replace my pile of **** chinacharger (600)
Thoughts? I'm leaning towards the diff, but my suspension right now is laughably bad (Bumpstopped racelands with stock sways)
-Suspension (Budget around 600-1k)
-OBX LSD (300 for diff + rebuild kit and ? for micrometer)
-Genuine GT2560 to replace my pile of **** chinacharger (600)
Thoughts? I'm leaning towards the diff, but my suspension right now is laughably bad (Bumpstopped racelands with stock sways)
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05-30-2011, 01:46 AM
#8267
Want fries with that?
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Oh, I see what you're saying; they're not broken, they just suck. They do their job fine for 200 dollar suspension, but that's exactly what it is - 200 dollar suspension.
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05-30-2011, 10:55 AM
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Nowadays, my phone has more computational power than the early Alphas, and my desktop i5 probably consumes more power and dissipates more heat.
... which is another interesting point. Am I wrong in observing that there seems to be a massively disproportionate ratio of power consumed to computing performance delivered as one compares the lowest end of the market (eg: ARM9, C7) to the highest end (i7, Phenom)?
Would "green" high-performance computing not be better served by large arrays of massively superscalar "low-performance" CPUs than by a smaller number of extremely high-speed processors? In other words, rather than a quad-core i7, what if you had a 64 core ARM? Some aspects of application development would be harder (try optimizing SolidWorks to run on 64 slow cores, for instance) but in other ways, I can see OS development becoming vastly simpler- take a cue from Parallax and just launch every new process on its own core, returning that core to an idle (power off) state when not needed?
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05-31-2011, 02:56 AM
#8273
Mini Poll: Idea's needed.
Ok. I am painting my intake manifold. I need some ideas, suggestions, felch, opinions on what I should do or what you think would be good.
Only rule: DO NOT SAY, "POLISH IT DUDE, LIKE UBER TIGHT YO!" I hate the polished look and I hate polishing. But I don't hate it as much as every one telling me to polish it. I can't stand polishing or the look or plain aluminum.
I pulled all my intercooler piping and painted it wrinkle black. I even pulled the connector piece that FM uses in their cold side silicone piping and painted that black too.
Lend me some ideas. I am open to anything
Only rule: DO NOT SAY, "POLISH IT DUDE, LIKE UBER TIGHT YO!" I hate the polished look and I hate polishing. But I don't hate it as much as every one telling me to polish it. I can't stand polishing or the look or plain aluminum.
I pulled all my intercooler piping and painted it wrinkle black. I even pulled the connector piece that FM uses in their cold side silicone piping and painted that black too.
Lend me some ideas. I am open to anything
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05-31-2011, 10:11 AM
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Ok. I am painting my intake manifold. I need some ideas, suggestions, felch, opinions on what I should do or what you think would be good.
Only rule: DO NOT SAY, "POLISH IT DUDE, LIKE UBER TIGHT YO!" I hate the polished look and I hate polishing. But I don't hate it as much as every one telling me to polish it. I can't stand polishing or the look or plain aluminum.
I pulled all my intercooler piping and painted it wrinkle black. I even pulled the connector piece that FM uses in their cold side silicone piping and painted that black too.
Lend me some ideas. I am open to anything
Only rule: DO NOT SAY, "POLISH IT DUDE, LIKE UBER TIGHT YO!" I hate the polished look and I hate polishing. But I don't hate it as much as every one telling me to polish it. I can't stand polishing or the look or plain aluminum.
I pulled all my intercooler piping and painted it wrinkle black. I even pulled the connector piece that FM uses in their cold side silicone piping and painted that black too.
Lend me some ideas. I am open to anything
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