https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460141297

We tried :likecat:

Haswell group buy?


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460141481

Intel employees can only buy like 4 per year at the discounted price anyway.

You only get 2 (maybe 3 or 4) processors per year at Intel. And 5 SSDs.

In that case, I'd also like one of these, please:


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460145946

Joe, I was unaware you were doing more youtube tutorials

I tried to grow my hair out like that in the early 90s.

Didn't work. It just turns into a giant afro. Worse than this guy's:


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460147699


I'd have settled for Frank Zappa, but instead I looked like a younger, slightly more hispanic version of Bob Ross.



Unrelated:


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2f73c8a31d.png

:rofl::rofl:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460150177

--Ian

Need a CPU? Buy my i5-4440.

https://www.miataturbo.net/stuff-sal...-%24150-88136/

Pretty close, actually.




Not massively faster than my i5-750, and also incompatible with the socket its sitting it, but also not LGA-2011, so I'd need to buy a motherboard which is already obsolete and doesn't support any more RAM than I have now.

But thanks for playing.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ee868c72e9.png

Yeah its a mid range cpu.
Intel Core i5 750 vs 4440

LGA1150

I've been happy with Windows 10 on my laptop. It's a 2015 laptop, and shipped with 8.1, which I hated. The Win10 upgrade was the most seamless OS upgrade I've ever been a part of. Everything just works, and the interface is close enough to Windows 7 that I don't really notice a difference. I don't use the tile interface at all.

The laptop has 2 SSD's and boots and shuts down fast. There are occasional boot delays, which I assume are updates being applied. It would be nice to be able to have the option of seeing a scrolling list of checklist items, so you could see what the hell is going on, like on a real computer, but alas not for Windows machines.

The main rig in Portland is Win7x64. Hopefully I'll be able to upgrade it to Win10 for freesies in July when I boot it again, but we'll see.

Lame.

I mean, it wasn't the worst thing as sci-fi horror films go, but it wasn't great by any stretch. Basically a more predictable version of Pandorum, with much more cheesy set design and production values.

I'd have been upset if I'd paid money to see it.

meh' It was made in the 90s...

How about... The Fifth Element?

That's my all time fav. :likecat:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460239761

It wasn't about the production values, I just find it hard to get excited by the whole "the ship has gone beyond the darkness, and become infected with an eldrich evil which possesses the minds of the crew and turns them all into monsters" thing. It's boring and predictable, like most other horror genres.




Good lighthearted fun. Rubs the same boner as Star Wars in that regard.


Just finished Edge of Tomorrow. Pretty good.

Has anyone mentioned "Alien"? It was a great example of the tech not interfering with a good story. The second movie began to swing more toward tech interjected for the sake of tech, but the original was pretty pure.

Aliens made my list of stereotypical movies which fit the framework I'd laid out (evil corp, hapless puppets, benefit of the masses), though I skimmed over Alien. It's a great movie, but more of a straight horror flick.

(I guess Mother does reveal the "evil corp" plot at the end, but it's kind of a footnote.)

Race fuels versus pump gas dyno comparo:

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/fuel-truth/

Fancy, expensive bolts:

https://www.vfbolts.com/maxbolt-lp/


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460388138

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https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1460388138

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They also have bolts with built-in wireless communication: https://www.vfbolts.com/product/spc4...cating-system/