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Cool, I'm 21 so that should be good. I'm about half way through my current insurance, so I'll probably wait till thats coming up. (Justcar $1300 p/a covering $15500 with a $1400 excess)

If you knew some information about the whereabouts of the cars and the people who stole them, and you rang that number on their website, I wonder how long it would take them to ring the police.... Or would they 'visit' them first.... you know, jus to make sure it is 'them', maybe with about 10 car loads of people???? I really hope this story has a happy ending, surely someone must know something. Thieves aren't loyal to anyone, and if there is a 10K reward, you can bet your booties that someone knows someone who helped steal these cars.

Do you HAVE to be over 25 to go with Shannons?

Yeah they max out at 100% duty just like every other car... Sorry, I had too. I've heard around 180rwkw is pushing it? Might be able to get that or a higher more safely with increasing the pressure regulator? The stock fuel pump would also be an issue too. Best to get your car on the dyno as you're upgrading its power levels to watch your injectors and pump.

Spotted white R33 with the plates GRR 33, near brendale this morning. Nice car.

Oh I have to make an amendment to my list: No.4: Hereos of might and magic series, I don't care what anyone says I rekon its a great game. And No.5: Command and Conquer Series (Except for Renegade)

1) Gran Turismo 2) MGS 3) Halflife

Any updates dude?

At odds with what has been said above, I quite enjoyed: GTA: Vice city GTA: SA Halflife 2 (I thought was an excellent game) Metal Gear solid (including Sons of liberty & snake eater) I think some people expect too much. Or if a game is given a really good rap and talked about endlessly, then they expect it to be more than it is. IMO My least favourite game I've bought this year is: Burnout Revenge. I thought Burnout 3 takedown was a great game, so I bought revenge when it came out. Don't get me wrong, I think its a good game, it just looses something that takedown had though.

Hey Chris thanks for all the suggestions. I know what you mean about the 6800gs, there seems to be about 5 or 6 different varieties differing from 128bit to 256bit, 128mb to 512mb and pipelines and pixel shaders. So what you're saying is that the pci-e version of the 6300gs (with 12 pipelines) can't be software unlocked to 16 like the agp version? But they do take to being overclocked better? ATM my x600 is running overclocked 320mhz up from 300mhz on the core and 535mhz up from 500mhz on the memory, any more than that and I start to get artifacts and eventually the card crashes. Kralster: I was under the impression that most cards (including the 6800GS) won't have any problem running direct X 10?? Can anyone confirm this? Chris? As for not upgrading and waiting, I'm in the same boat as Chris, I like to spend money on my car and if the 6800GS gets me through (which i'm sure it will more than amply) i'd be stupid not to go for that. Anyway in about a 2 years I plan on upgrading to a system better suited for vista.... I'm thinking P4 dual core, who knows what speed they'll be running by then. Two cards maybe 7900gtx running in SLI? 2-4gig of DDR3 (if its out by then).... ahhh, I can dream.

Sorry I made a mistake, the memory clock is a fair bit higher at 1320mhz over the 500mhz on the 6800. (Although all the sites i've seen these cards on say: 500mhz (1000mhz effective) whatever that's meant to mean)

Hmmmm, good point. Except I keep doing that, just looking at cards that are $50 more expensive, then again, then again etc... its never ending, at some point i'll have to go: here's my budget, what can i get. And if there is something significantly better within a $50 then I'd be stupid not to consider it. The 7900 series cards are nice, but I havent found one for under $299, and that's for a 7900GS which is a 256mb card, DDR3 and 256bit. Its only real advantage over the 6800GS on paper is it has a slightly faster memory clock at 1320mhz, which is only 320mhz faster than the 6800GS. Core clock and ramdacs are the same at 450mhz and 400mhz. There might be a difference in pipelines on the two units, but I havent found those specs, and for the almost $100 difference in price between the two units, i'm hardpressed to justify the extra cost.

Hmmmm, the 6800gs looks the good, but from what i've been reading there are a few different versions of the card. You can get a 256mb@128bit and DDR2, a 256mb@256bit and DDR3 and a 512mb@256bit and DDR3. Oh and there are pci-e versions and agp, the pci-e version have a slightly faster core processer and more pathways I think. Obviously the one of the Auspc market site you've posted is a 256mb version, but it doesn't state whether it is the DDR3 or 256bit version. The only real downside to this card I can see is the memory speed, at around 500mhz, although at this price bracket I think I've got to stop expecting so much! I've sent them an email asking them if its the higher spec version, if it is, i'll most likely buy it.

Yep that's right, LGA775. Specifically its a gigabyte 915p (GA-81915P Duo). Any particular sites you'd recommend on overclocking? I wonder what would be a safe value for me to try first, maybe around 3.6~8GHZ. I think a 7900 series card is going to be stretching my budget a bit too far, I have found some reasonably priced 7600 series cards though, what do you think of these? Here's one I found: 7600GS, its a 512mb PCI-E card. The downside is its only 128bit and only DDR2. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-nVidia-Geforce-...1QQcmdZViewItem Pretty cheap though. This is a cheap 6600 series Nvidia, but it only has a 300mhz core, so that's pretty much out: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-nVidia-GeForce-...oQQcmdZViewItem Hmmm, so in conclusion I still have no idea what to get

Thanks for the reply Chris. As far as overclocking the cpu goes, does this still have to be done manually? (the last time I overclocked a cpu was on a pentium 2!) Direct X 10 eh? What are they currently, like 9.0c or something? I have had a look at the Nvidia 6800 series cards, and the raideon x850 XT's, they look to be fairly similar. Both 256mb, pci-e, except I think the Raideon had a high clock speed, while the Nvidia was better at shading for some reason. I've read a few little benchmark tests on them.

I just bought F.E.A.R, and the game looks the goods, but i'm extremely unimpressed with my systems handling of the graphics. I've got a P4 3.2 Ghz with 800mhz fsb, 1gig DDR3200 Ram and a pitiful 128mb raideon x600 pci-express card. I realise that the card is probably my problem only being 128mb, but being pci-exp it runs a fair bit faster than AGP, also I've got Half-life 2 and that runs pretty well compared to the quality of F.E.A.R. So i've got around $200 to spend on video card, i'm thinking a 256mb or if I can afford it a 512mb pci-express card of some description. I havent been following this area in computing at all, so could someone point me in the right direction to upgrading my video card for around my price range? I'm also thinking maybe I should add another 512mb or 1g or ram... Thanks -Insu

Hey mate, I'm not implying anything by this; But I just thought it was hillarious that you posted that above and then in your post you have rims for sale...

I was just re-iterating what I have read in a few discussions on this before. It was my understanding that if you got some large injectors say 800cc, that at 2~3% duty cycle at idle, the atomisation they create in their injection isn't as good as a lower value injector, obviously depending on the quality of the injector. Again as I said, this was just shit i've read, nothing proven, I was just interested to see if it was true or not.

Because larger injectors use more fuel? Isn't it the case that the larger the injector the less 'fine' tuning you can do: Read: At idle and low rpm work the minimums aren't as precise?

I can't believe no-one's said this yet: I was looking at GTIR's for a while before I got the R33. What turned me off was everyone talking about how fragile the gearboxes are, and how much of a shit they are to change if they die.

R32 GTR, think the plates were SITIC. Getting on the bruce from the strathpine exit I think, and up the highway. Neat car.

Easiest way to test your water temp sensor is if you have access to consult or someone who does. If you don't you can read the resistance across the sensor and again as the temperature goes up, then check these values against normal operating values. Shouldn't be too hard to find that info on the site here.

Also on the way home at around 6.10~6.20ish heading north on old northern rd, driving with a black R33, can't remember the plates but you had two side by side cannons. Actually looked quite tough. Very neat car too.

Yeah, I was going to pull into the left lane to come up next to you, but the whole way in the right lane was moving considerably faster than the left. I used to have the SAU sticker on the same rear left qtr panel I saw yours on, but it went wrinkely and weird so I took it off, have to get a new one. My girlfriend lives out that way, so I am that direction fairly often. Thats the first time I went that way around though, on account of all the roadworks going on in Irabuckby (or however you spell it). It took me 30 minutes to get through them on Tuesday! Oh and I noticed your wing was a 'Big Ass' wing. Have you also got a little baby 'stealth' type wing on the bootlid as well? -Insu

Spotted a silver r33 plates- GAZ 99 from memory, numbers may be wrong. On old northern rd, all the way from brendale to mitchelton.