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rentaspace
#151
Here are some shots of my custom painted N64 controller for my fiance, was done a year or so ago and has a few scratched and crap now but still good smile.gif
IMG_1450 by Rent A Space1, on Flickr

IMG_1451 by Rent A Space1, on Flickr

IMG_1453 by Rent A Space1, on Flickr


------------------------------| White '94 Celica | Bought 11/05/12 | Sold 12/05/15 |------------------------------------------------------------| White '02 N-Edition Caldina | Weekend Car |------------------------------
Bitter
#152
Just swapped a lid assembly on a Dell 15R N5010. Debating on dropping in an older mobile i5 while it's apart, they're only like $20-30 for used now, it's got a i3 370m which is a tad faster than the P6200 I'm using now in my other laptop, but nothing jaw dropping. An i5 580m adds the AES instructions, turbo boost to 3.33ghz, 100mhz higher graphics frequency, and a 2.66ghz base clock, as well as a bunch of virtualization features I'm unlikely to use in a laptop.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i5-580M...s0AAOSwnNBXVxSi

On the one hand yay faster, on the other hand greater chance of me fouling something up. laugh.gif And also longer wait before I use it since I have to take it apart to swap the stuff, I'm not putting it all back together.

This post has been edited by Bitter: Jun 11, 2016 - 1:34 PM
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#153
Something about no risk no reward comes to mind. tongue.gif
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
PegGTS
#154
I may have sold one dragon (the Celica), but I picked up another today!

2007 Impreza 2.5i - Daily1994 Camry - Sold1994 Celica - Sold :(Click hereto see my progress thread!
1994Celica
#155
Anyone watching e3? Sony's conference was so good I might have to buy a ps4
JDM Part King
Box
#156
Back when G4, and Tech TV prior, was around I did but as far as I know no one airs it on tv anymore. I have a PS4 and so far have been pleased with it, for what it costs new you do get a lot.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
1994Celica
#157
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QUOTE (Box @ Jun 14, 2016 - 11:54 PM) *
>Back when G4, and Tech TV prior, was around I did but as far as I know no one airs it on tv anymore. I have a PS4 and so far have been pleased with it, for what it costs new you do get a lot.

You can watch streams of it on the internets. I've just watched it when I've had time. There seems to be some good looking stuff.
JDM Part King
Bitter
#158
When installing a new processor be sure to reconnect the cooling fan. I wondered why the laptop was so quiet, caught it before windows had booted, now running prime95 for a while to test and get the thermal compound all set. i5 580m, woots, old ****.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
rentaspace
#159
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QUOTE (Bitter @ Jun 17, 2016 - 10:36 PM) *
>When installing a new processor be sure to reconnect the cooling fan. I wondered why the laptop was so quiet, caught it before windows had booted, now running prime95 for a while to test and get the thermal compound all set. i5 580m, woots, old ****.

Forgot that a few times lel. The pc at least will shutdown and protect itself from damage
------------------------------| White '94 Celica | Bought 11/05/12 | Sold 12/05/15 |------------------------------------------------------------| White '02 N-Edition Caldina | Weekend Car |------------------------------
Bitter
#160
I have yet to thermally shutdown or throttle a CPU, I caught this one pretty quickly and luckily had not screwed anything together except what was essential to power on and test. I'm going to keep running prime95 off and on to set the thermal compound and check the CPU and RAM for flaws. It crashed ONCE with a windows error last night, but I think that was a windows problem since it's an old Win7 install I cleaned up. I think I may boot off a thumb drive and run prime95 in linux, but the hardware monitoring is more basic there though all I need are core temps.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
1994Celica
#162
This reminds me I need to build a new PC, or I could buy car parts
JDM Part King
Bitter
#163
Same.....same.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#164
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QUOTE (1994Celica @ Jun 18, 2016 - 10:47 AM) *
>This reminds me I need to build a new PC, or I could buy car parts

Ditto. Honestly I'm surprised at ten years old the laptop still does everything I need it to, then again my demands aren't that high.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Bitter
#165
I found that just running a lighter Linux based OS, adding some more RAM if under 4GB, and installing a SSD makes even 5 year old hardware feel incredibly new. If you have a socketed CPU then you're even luckier as mobile processors about 5 years old are cheap cheap cheap. The Intel i series stuff holds up pretty well as time marches on it seems, I don't even bother with anything that's older than DDR3 memory now since DDR2 has risen in price so sharply.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Bitter
#166
****ing hell, Kuromukuro episode 11 isn't out with english subs yet! Aired on the 16th in Japan, usually it's a 24hr turn around time to get subs, but nothing except spanish subs yet. Argh.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#167
Psssh, don't need subs watch it raw. tongue.gif
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Bitter
#168
Believe me, I tried. I don't understand Japanese fluently enough to get all the dialog but I can understand giant robots fighting and girls screaming so...most of it comes through just fine.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#169
I know enough to survive if I woke up in Tokyo one day, but that's about it. Giant robots and screaming girls, a staple of the anime industry. tongue.gif I need to get back into working through my extensive backlog but I have the bad habit of starting and then not being able to stop, DAMN YOU CLIFFHANGERS.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Bitter
#170
In the mean time I'm re-watching Macross Frontier. Still no eng subs for ep 11 of Kuromukuro tho. May need to give up and wait a few weeks then binge on 3-4 episodes once they get caught up.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#171
I have to wait for an arc to finish so I can watch it all at once, I need instant gratification.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Bitter
#172
I set MPlayer to advance to the next file automatically.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Bitter
#173
So there's a song from Macross Frontier that I wanted to listen to but damned if I can find it, so I'm downloading the whole OST.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
VavAlephVav
#174
Some time ago I bought World Rally Championship 4 on Steam for my PC. With PC you can just plug an Xbox controller into the USB and it's G2G.
But for some reason I could never get it to work right until just recently AMD updated their Catalyst software and now since the update Steam works and I can play my game.
And WRC 4 turns out to be a decent game, yet it has no Celica and is therefore inexcusably Fxxcking Lame. So I am going to get Dirt Rally instead, which is also available on Steam.
I've always been a big fan of Gran Turismo and I love realistic racing simulators that are too hard for most people, but lately I have been bitten by the Rally bug and so I want an off-road game - one with a Celica.

Here's a clip of the replay and different camera angles from Dirt Rally with the Casterol ST205


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3xSrrtvNw
Bust a Deal; Face the Wheel.
Box
#175
Gran Turismo has rally courses and the WRC ST205. tongue.gif I'm trying to remember but I think 4 tried to make rally a notable aspect of the game, but I guess a lot of people complained as it's just kind of there in 5 and 6. I'm looking forward to Gran Turismo Sport, seems like they're finally addressing a lot of the wants and desires of the fan base. Between it and the Skyrim remaster for the PS4 I have things to look forward to.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
Bitter
#176


Gonna be halving the sense resistor on this board to double the current to the LED's to boost the light output from this:

(it's the square spot)

To hopefully about double the light output.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Bitter
#177
Finally boosted that LED spot pod, 23W is the current power consumption, up from the initial 8W consumption. I'm nearly as the advertised power output now and it's cranking out some pretty dazzling bright light but the color temp is a little less desirable and the heat output has increased quite a bit. All in all, success though, now to find a purpose. I might replace my halogen fog lights with these and tie them into the high beam circuit to get more high beam power on the Mazda, I'm not entirely sure just yet. I need to do some longer term torture testing where I leave it on for an hour or more to see if it melts itself down or not. If it'll handle an hour constantly on when stationary I'd feel safer putting it on a vehicle. It's about a 10x10 spot at 250ft which is pretty tight for a LED pod.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Box
#178
I'd do some testing myself as well, I'd also spritz them with a water bottle to try and emulate rain. Much rather them explode during testing that on the car when it starts raining.

So currently playing Skyrim Special Edition on the PS4, uncanny the difference compared to the original on PS3. Then again it's more or less the game that was available to those with super gaming computers ever since it came out. If I had a 4K television I'd be more concerned with upgrading to the PS4 Pro, but if they could get the VR to work with this that'd be the coolest thing ever and probably a leading cause in unemployment and failed relationships.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
VavAlephVav
#179
I just found this site http://www.iracing.com/
It's like an online racing MMORPG and I think I'm going to go out and get a feedback steering wheel so that I can play it smile.gif
Bust a Deal; Face the Wheel.
rentaspace
#180
Just recently sold my old Sandy Bridge custom water-cooled gaming PC, Have moved to:
- i7 6700k
- Corsair H100i GTX V2 CPU cooler
- MSI Z170 Tomahawk Mobo
- Asus STRIX GTX1070 OC GPU
- 32GB Corsair LPX Red DDR4 RAM
- 256GB NVMe M.2 SSD (Will be upgrading to either an Intel or Samsung 1TB M.2 SSD soon).
- Asus AC1200 PCIe Wireless
- Corsair RM650 PSU
- Corsair SPEC-ALPHA Black-Red Case


Will probably be selling the 6700k CPU and moving to a 7th gen when it hits the Australian market. 7th gen laptops have only just hit the market here and the desktop CPUs are expected next year. But This may not eventuate due to circumstances in my life changing in the past 2 weeks.
------------------------------| White '94 Celica | Bought 11/05/12 | Sold 12/05/15 |------------------------------------------------------------| White '02 N-Edition Caldina | Weekend Car |------------------------------
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