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A agree completely. If it were my money, I would get the ZL1 because I never go to a track. My only guess is there a big enough niche of buyers/collectors/racers out there who are willing the pay the high price for the Z28 to make a business case for it. At least I hope. If both cars were...

I discovered subject tool, Parted Magic today. It's really nice for secure erasing and cloning drives among other things. You boot into a Linux session (off cd or usb) and have a full working OS to use including Firefox while you secure erase or do whatever else you need to do. Highly...

Well, it turns out that SOME motherboards require a video card, and some do not. I returned the MSI because I read that it had some issues with the 125W TDP processors and ended up getting the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P (new model that is supposed to support even 140W processors). For kicks decided...

WD40 is a big reason for warranty cost on automotive door hinges. While it does provide some short term lubrication, it's primarily a penetrating solvent that actually displaces the real lubricant you should be using, grease. White lithium grease is what I use.

Nurburgring Lap Times (Wet) : 2014 Camaro Z/28 Fun/exciting video to watch. Good to know the windshield wipers work good at ~160mph, even on a Chevy. :) G-Force meter in the lower RH corner of the video is cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj1h75vA1Jw

Let me know if you're interested in any of this stuff and I will make you a good deal! Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Socket 775 G31 Chipset http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3485 Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L Socket 774 P45 Chipset...

I cancelled my order. Seems like the old GeForce 7300LE is the card to get. ~9W at idle, Win7 64-bit drivers readily available, ~$10 shipped (used) on eBay with no rebate to mess with.

Yeah...this system does not even complete POST W/O a video card.

My son told me his first joke that was actually funny today. Why did the superhero flush the toilet ? . . . . . . . . Because it was his duty. : He's 5. :-D

Yeah I decided to stick with this 970 based board I have just in case I want to upgrade to an FX-8XXX CPU some day. This box is a jack of all trades, including performing some encoding duty. It handles all of them. I picked up the XFX HD 5450 you mentioned... Amazon was actually a few...

I could always exchange the M/B for one with integrated video (760G I preseume). I wonder how much more efficient those are than having a discrete video card doing about 20W? I know it sounds kinda silly to waste the time on it but I would like to see how low I can get the power consumption...

this was very useful in looking at different graphics cards http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/

Thank you for looking! Yeah, there are no BIOS options on this board in the UEFI BIOS to ignore any boot errors (like in the old AMI BIOS for the system this new board is replacing where I could tell it to ignore the fact there is no video card). Since the video card will really not be used...

Howdy- Building a server around an AMD CPU with a 970 chipset motherboard. I am used to my older Intel C2Q system where I could boot it up without any video card installed at all (no integrated video either) and it worked fine. With this newer board, I set it up with a video card...

I did like it! :aok: Was tired of the zombie hordes by the end though.

Oh I was just saying I would sure love to have that job! I looked him up at work. Just a dude that must be very talented and have a lot of practice to be able to drive like that. :-D

20"s are optional and look really really nice but I didn't want to spend the $ and I doubt my dealer could have found one for me before the end of this month anyway. You either have to upgrade to the Performance or the Premium packages to get the 20"s or have them dealer installed for $2,000 +...

Those are the base 18's with a machined type finish that come with the Lux package (rather than painted finish on the base model). Both are fine for me, the Lux package (machine finish) ones are brighter, which I kinda like. It's a 2013.

I got some new wheels today...much better than my old 2012 SRX which didn't include the Lux. Package or CUE. And paying less. Winning! In for 2 more years.

That's a GM Engineer doing that. That is his job. He gets paid to do stuff like that. WTF!

I watched Pain & Gain the other night. I enjoyed it, for what it is. It obviously departs from the real life story that it's 'based on' but seemed really different to me than the other Michael Bay stuff I have seen.

Maybe he's working on a part file that is corrupt. Are his crashes happening with any file open or just a specific one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGIXVnd1iB0

Sure. It has not been used in years so I cannot speak to how good it works. But it looks like it is brand new. Do you just want the bezel? You can have it free if you want.

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I have a 716a I believe but I'm pretty confident it is IDE.

You guys are awesome! Thanks! I will try both of those options. Much better than getting some new hardware just so I can be less annoyed with the situation.

Does Plex allow you to choose which language audio steam you want to listen to? Most of the time, the reason I need to re-encode is because my server (Serviio), which will transcode to a degree, can only send whatever the first audio steam that is packed into the mkv file is. It will...

Thanks. Honestly I think this Q6600 is plenty modern... it would just be nice to have something with good encoding performance. Even if it sucked at everything else but was relatively fast at encoding I would be happier because it is only my WHS that I rdp into to use for streaming...

I think that is a nice offer. However, if I spend any time on updating the machine I would want more than a 30% or so increase on 2nd pass encoding performance. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/53?vs=88

Hmmm Maybe I just look at the newer AMD 8-core offerings?

Thanks guys. The PSU is a new 300W Seasonic that my brother had to have installed (at Microcenter) after they determined the original PSU died. I do question as to whether or not this board will accept an X6 CPU. A guy at Hardforums is offering to sell me a 1090T with a Kuher 620water...

1090T or I think there may be some lower end versions too. I always look here first as I am not in a rush. But thanks for the suggestions.

Howdy- I dug my brother's old PC out of storage (it was about 1 year old when he passed). It's a Lenovo H215 with 3GB of DDR3 RAM. Turns out it has an AM3 socket with AMD X2 215 CPU. I'm thinking I would upgrade this to an X6 cpu since I would like improved x264 encoding performance in my WHS...

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Thanks guys. Teamviewer seems like the simplest deal to setup and, given that I will rarely need to use this anyway, I'll probably give that a try. But the Hamachi thing sounds very cool so I may experiment with that too. Don't want to spend a monthly fee on this because I will probably only...

What program / service did you guru's currently recommend for me to be able to login/control to my parent's Win7 Home PC.....that would be senior citizen-proof? My parent's are not good with computers. I can get physical access to the PC, if needed, to install something. Thanks, Clocker

I remember in my 5,600lb. 2007 Chevy Avalanche with 5.3 V8 and first generation active fuel management, I was able to get about 28mph when driving on level roads at about 45-50mph, not drafting anyone. So, getting above the sticker is not hard if you find the sweet spot for your engine's...

Here's some real data you can use with respect to a typical sedan which has been developed by a team of Engineers who specialize in this stuff.. I'm thinking the 40% has got to be due to more than just the aero effect unless there's something I'm missing.

Good video. With respect to cars, though, I think the key takeaway from this is that drafting allows the active fuel management system on the C7 to aggressively kick in, shutting off fuel to 4 of the 8 cylinders of the vehicle the entire time. So I expect the C7 to benefit more from this...

I'd like to see what a typical sedan could do.

You're right, it's exactly the same. Silly me. If the editor is impressed by it I'd say it is something worth noting at least.

C7 is getting 40mpg on the freeway if you're willing to do 70 mph. Not bad for a 450HP sports car. http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130826/CARNEWS/130829835

Agree on that but there seems to be a lot of questions in the air relative to if the vehicles are actually profitable. They don't seem to be using standard accounting methods when stating their profits. The company is either making $30M or losing $30M (per quarter or per year, not sure which)...

Even Even so, their volume is so low and the price is so high that I would not call their performance surprising, at all. It also helps, being pure EV, that they don't have to contort the front structure around a powertrain.

Ballmer will be out within a year... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324165204579030611858818656.html

Very good performance, indeed. Lot's of things are possible from a performance and quality perspective when you have a $70,000+ starting price, only one assembly plant & body style and very low volume production. When they come out with a car that's actually profitable at less than $35,000 &...

The vehicles we work on are usually global or need to be manufactured so they can be sold globally, if a decision to do so is made, so we do do that. Of course, there are exceptions for some classes if vehicle, I believe.

Actually, that's untrue. Pedestrian protection is a huge part of the design of the front end of a vehicle. Fender bracket and hood stiffnesses are tuned to be soft enough to bend rather than allow the pedestrian to get hurt severely yet still be strong enough to handle leaning loads and...

In the same train of thought: Silverado, Sierra pickups first in class to get 5 stars under tougher U.S. crash tests Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20130820/OEM11/130829989/silverado-sierra-pickups-first-in-class-to-get-5-stars-under-tougher#ixzz2cbXcWynm