MickyMcD

Laugh it up. But it is okay..... ....everyone has to win once. Cheers, Mick

I don't see what the problem is. He wanted something unique that would make people stop and look. Whether that be a painted and chopped up ute, or a big blue rubber dick attached to your front bumper, attention grabbers are attention grabbers. The colours and design don't tickle my pickle, but it certainly got my attention. It doesn't have to be practical either. A lot of what happens on this site isn't practical, but that doesn't seem to garner a comment. The guy did something different, and like Mr. Meade's haters, you have given him more publicity. Cheers, Mick

What what? In the butt. But no, seriously, she'll remember every time she goes to poo. Cheers, Mick

Darn tootin'. You blow it, you buy it, and a carton of piss to say sorry. Cheers, Mick

Thanks buddy, that does clear a lot up. I did have stunning performance with the two HD4890's, but I am after something similar without the instability. Getting the two cards to work properly took a long time with a lot of customisation. Going on your advice there, a single 5870 looks like it will do the trick for me. I did think about the 5970, but I don't like the idea of two extremely hot cores on that single sink. I could easily push past 85 with a HD4890, so I wouldn't want to run the gauntled there. Thanks matey. Cheers, Mick

G'day all, So, as said, turns out the Sapphire HD4890 is flammable. Who'd have thought. Both were running fine with their new lovely HK Full cover nickel plater waterblocks, then pop. One PWM VREG blew out, blowing molten who knows what onto the card below it, shorting out and frying the lot. I'd show you all pictures, but in my dissapointment they have been disposed of.... ...in a bigger fire. So, here's the deal. I need some graphics processing, and I have my eye on the ATI 5870. It looks like a great piece of hardware, and the specs speak for themselves. My concern is that I could also pick up a GTX295 for a lower price, but may be able to have similar benefits. So is DX11 really something to be excited about? Newls, you know the insider info in the gaming hardware industry, and seeing as all I do is look at switches blinking their network traffic goodness all day I don't really know the gaming industry at the moment. I do like ATI quite a bit, and the 5870 looks pretty hardcore, but....? And opinions go. Cheers, Mick

Too true I guess. I disagree with your statement of having to invert phase on driver flip, but I can certainly see and appreciate where you are coming from, and why you made the statement, and how in many cases it is fact. Cheers, Mick

G'day Nismo, long time no see. Cheers, Mick

And what if your system is out of phase by 180 degrees to begin with? What if when you installed your bass driver, it was actually out of phase? And inverting its wiring polarity placed it back in phase? According to you, you MUST invert the phase when inverting driver placement, so in this situation, you just placed your bass driver 180 degrees out from your system phase response. Good job. And further, what if your enclosure had such a terrible group delay that the resulting output was close to inverse phase? And what if the incident wave is being bounced around inside the boot (trunk) badly, and it is almost inverse phase? Tune with your ears, not with the knowledge of how someone else tuned their system. Best RTA you have are located either side of the head. Cheers, Mick

I work in Systems Admin, my boss would be a great person to interview. PM me if you would like. Cheers, Mick

Enclosure shape plays a large role in the frequency response of the unit, and will effect standing waves inside the enclosure and enclosure resonance. A perfectly square enclosure is very vulnerable to standing waves in contrast to a trapezoidal enclosure. However, a trap enclosure is very rarely used in car audio as it is more about getting the damn heavy blasted thing to fit in the car than focusing on things like standing waves, air load anomalies etc. Just design your porting to prevent huffing at low frequencies, and give that woofer plenty of airspace. Try and load her in the center of the box, and tell us how it went. Cheers, Mick

Load of crap. No headroom - no transient peaks past 0dB. Non-harmonic distortion artifacts instead of transient peaks as you come in and out of the rails. Headroom - transient peaks to headroom, room before you hit the rails in the power amplifier. General rule, have another 3dB of gain up from your rated power. Thus, you still have clean headroom at maximum system volume. Cheers, Mick

It happens like this; 1) Click search 2) Enter desired search, "Underpowering Speakers" or "Underpowering Subs" etc 3) Select relevant thread 4) ????????? 5) PROFIT Cheers, Mick

Obviously your reputation for being a man is more important than risking an infection. Your wound is infected. That white gunk is puss, and is being produced as your body attempts to fight off the infection. I actually hope you don't go to the docs. Then you can look at the a) nice scar, gaping hole, c) necrosis and think 'Hell yeah, I'm cool. Glad I didn't go to the docs!' Also, you will never get rid of the scar. You have destoyed the flesh. You have scarring. Enjoy. Cheers, Mick

A clipping indicator or overdrive indicator or however you would like to call it is a complete schematic that must be built within tolerance of the amplifier itself. To my knowledge, there is no plug and play indicator built. Most distortion detection knows the maximum and minimum conditions for a sine wave within the device, and if those definitions change on the maximum side it will indicate so. You could build the circuit externally within tolerance of the amplifier, I am sure that a circuit out there exists. Try the AES, they may have something. Personally I think it is a bit silly not to ahve distortion indicators on any power amplifier. Cheers, Mick

Please be careful guys. Once your ears ring, the damage is already done. I'll repeat that. Once the ringing starts, the damage is already done. Ringing in your ears is caused by the small cilia (the sensory 'hairs' inside your cochlea) becoming flattened and creating a biological 'short'. Once they flatten out, they no longer detect changes in air pressure. You lose your hearing. If you would like to know what it is like, grab a graphic EQ and play your favourite song, the song that you know you couldn't live without. Then slide 12K down -3dB, and make a smooth ramp off to 20K with 20K finishing at -12dB. Then drop 1, 4 and 8K by -2dB, and enjoy your song. That's how it will start, and then it will get worse. Please, look after your ears. You only have one pair. Cheers, Mick

Yes. Learn to use a keyboard, as PC games incorporate a lot of keyfobs that can't be mapped to a controller (often). Grab Half Life 2, Episode 1 and 2, and Gary's Mod. o lawd. FEAR is always good, and I must say I really got into S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyl. Really great gameplay, and the looks aren't bad either. Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance is a visually intensive game for when you are in a Real Time Strategy mood. Super Mario Bros. Nothing will ever beat World 1-2. Cheers, Mick

If you can prove that he is selling child pornography, and he is a US citizen then you can report this, with evidence or trade or a way to give the authorities evidence, to your FBI or relative authority. Child Pornography is illegal in both Europe and America, and thus he can be punished accordingly. Cheers, Mick

At my place of work, which is Network Administration at a college in Australia, we are using 7 on all of our (IT Staff) machines, recording studio machine, show control machine plus any machine we can. Our verdict; We love it. The GUI scores about a 4/5 (remove any look-flash Aero or what not), but the coding and kernel is top notch. We really do think it is miles ahead of anywhere Vista hoped to be. Once Aero is off, User Account Control is disabled and your machine tailored to your own use, it's fantastic. That, and it recognised a six-disk RAID5 array and installed correctly without slipstreaming drivers. Just did it. MILES ahead of most operating systems, including most commercial Linux systems. Upgrade, it actually is worth it. Cheers, Mick

You can also modify voltage on a 4890 through a software GUI. Works wonders, I think it's a fantastic idea to cater for overclockers (like myself). Plus, if something does go wrong, you can open the GUI and revert to stock voltage without desoldering jumpers, changing dips etc. Cheers, Mick

Those numbers make my mouth wet and my penis hard. Wonder if it's worth swapping the ol' 4890's for the 5000's and see how they go......if the effort is built up. Cheers, Mick

Hey Chris, Looking good man. Great choice of case, have a 900 myself and I find they have plenty of room too. Actually, good choice on everything. Looks like you have yourself a nice machine there champ. Cheers, Mick

Two HD4890's CrossfireX@950, 1180 Core2Quad @ 4.1 (came as a 2.66...psssh) 8G OCZ platinum 5-5-5-18 Gaffer tape It plays Crisis maximum no worries. Cheers, Mick

Another plus to overclocking is squeezing out the most performance for your dollar. Maybe you can't afford the latest and greatest, but with a handy bit of arithmetic you can get quite close. I purchased a nice little system that with a few tweaks here and there (and watercooling), can eat most mouthbreathing nerds beloved i7 setups. Cheers, Mick

Counter-file with a similar if not heavier issue, and duke it. The bottom line is, the red team damaged your property and if you can prove it, has harrassed you since then. They expected a response, they were given a response and not they will try and trap you. You have to show that you will not back down, and unless they can PROVE that you did so and so with this and that, it won't hold. If you can PROVE that you were contacted first, and that this happaned and what not, victory is yours. Cheers, Mick