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    '95 Cobra 351W Build

    in Automobiles

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    Engine is finally coming together. Found some carbon-fiber stylized steel valve covers and had to have them. I think they look bad ass next to the black chrome lower intake.

     

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    Once I repaint the car (last owner painted it black with a slight purple pearl color--not a fan), it'll look almost identical to this:

     

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    Though I may end up going with black bullitt wheels or maybe even black chrome bullitt wheels.

     

     

    I'll try to post some progress pics later.

    Disk deployments

    in Computer Discussions

    Posted

    So the bad RAM stick/s you have had (other thread) have they been part of this RAM drive or part of your system RAM just curious?

     

    A RAM drive is all software emulated. Basically it allocates a certain amount of RAM (i.e. 12GB out of my total 32GB) and uses it like a physical disk. So it uses the system memory, it does not have its own dedicated RAM (though there are physical devices that do). Windows reads/writes to it like it would any physical drive, but the RAM disk driver redirects it to RAM. And it uses different areas of RAM with each system boot, so it won't be hitting the same sectors constantly or anything.

     

    Obviously since you lose any data in RAM on shutdown, the RAM driver also saves the disk state to a physical drive and loads this disk state on boot up, so you will end up needing space equal to the size of your RAM drive on some physical drive (My 12GB disk image is saved to my SSD).

     

    My bad RAM stick was due to my overclocking though, not the RAM drive (wasn't even using the RAM drive when it went bad). And it was just one stick out of eight that went bad after 2-3 years. A RAM drive won't hurt the physical hardware any, as it doesn't differentiate between bits, it's all just data to it. Increasing voltages to overclock it however can shorten the lifespan, as I've just experienced. That's why lifetime warranties (Corsair) rock.

     

    A RAM drive is probably overkill for a lot of people, but if you want bleeding edge I/O performance, RAM speeds can't be beat. And with the decreasing cost of RAM, there is really no reason not to max it out and make use of that extra space. Past ~8GB, the rest can be used for RAM drives and virtual machines.

    Disk deployments

    in Computer Discussions

    Posted

    what do yiou stick in the RAM drive?

     

    moved from a stripe for my steam drive to a 500gb ssd recently, very pleased :)

     

    Anything I want to either load fast or that needs to access the hard disk frequently. I actually don't have it setup currently since I just reformatted due to a bad RAM stick, but once I get my replacement I'll probably throw some programs on there again.

     

    ArmA was one such candidate as putting it on a RAM drive eliminated model and texture pop-in (and subsequent lag) when flying, especially over large cities (as it streams assets from the hard disk on demand). I usually throw whatever game I'm playing a lot on there to shorten load times. Using junctions it only takes about a minute and I don't need to reinstall or anything, just point the original folder at the RAM drive.

     

    I'll also usually store temporary files for Chrome and whatnot on there, both so they don't clutter my SSD and so they can be written/read quickly.

    finally upgraded from 2GB ram, plus a few other bits.

    in Computer Discussions

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    Panic, but......but......where is the plastidip action!?

     

    Looking like a great build there and I will be dead jealous no doubt when you post the awesome overclock success. I have had to ramp mine down so much to get stability recently that I may go back to a pentium II at this rate. Good luck with the software side today and looking forward to seeing you online later.

     

    :bowing:

     

    Probably better you did to be honest, I've already had to RMA two RAM sticks that died on me since I built my machine, which I'm starting to think is because I'm overclocked to 5GHz (though the sticks are OCed to their specced speeds so maybe it was just bad luck--I do have 32GB (8x4GB) of RAM so failure rates may be skewed because of it).

    Disk deployments

    in Computer Discussions

    Posted

    Looks good, guess I'm not the only one who splurged and bought a ~1TB SSD.

     

    I would however advise against others using RAID 0 (striping), especially on what are in essence data drives. Sure, having a decent backup regime helps negate the risk, but even so I wouldn't chance it. Anything I store on my data drives is usually not something that requires high performance, so speed is a non-issue for me.

     

    My current setup, which works very well for my needs, is as follows:

     

    • 1TB SSD for O/S, programs, and certain games
    • 500GB 10k RPM WD Velociraptor which is pretty much a dedicated Steam drive.
    • 2TB 7.2k WD Black
    • 2TB 7.2k Seagate
    • 2TB External USB 3.0
    • 12GB RAM Drive (6GB/s read/writes = amazing)

    I'll see if I can post some speeds later.

    finally upgraded from 2GB ram, plus a few other bits.

    in Computer Discussions

    Posted

    Man that's a tiny case. I'd never fit my 10+ random assortments of SSDs and HDDs in a case like that.

     

    Good equipment you are putting in there, though I'd have personally sprung for an i7 over an i5 (not that it really matters for gaming, especially if you are overclocking the i5).

    I'm also looking at upgrading my video card soon but I think I'm going to wait for the GTX 880 to come out or whatever the next gen card is.

     

    Looks good though :thumbsup:

     

    Edit: I didn't realize this was a cube case. I was about to ask you where the hell the PSU and optical bays were. :P

    Star Citizen

    in Star Citizen

    Posted

    Unsure the point of that flame thread

     

    Huh? Looks like a voting poll not a flame thread. I'll probably pick up that Mustang ship instead of the Aurora, because--well, it's a Mustang.

    McLaren P1 (Top Gear)

    in Automobiles

    Posted

    The car meets all the safety standard of Europe and the US, however those standards were not designed for 200+ mph cars. At normal speeds I think they will be safer than an ordinary passenger car because (if recall correctly) they have a really strong carbon fiber passenger tub.

     

    True, but who drives at normal speeds in a car like that. :D

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