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Gun Unlocks.. The std guns are crap. I've grown quite fond of the support 2nd unlock, unsure of the name of the gun but its very accurate and rather deadly.

lol. Do you have your unlocks Duc?

hehhe Little or no ping will not help you escape the wrath of Cubes.. lol It will happen, but its going to be after xmas. There's quite a bit of work and $$ to get suitable benches around the back room.

The turbine housing for the GT3076 or GT3082 is exactly the same, they are interchangeable. Its just that the GT3082 has the larger compressor wheel that flows more than the turbine/hotside is able to pass. Which is why garrett don't list the GT3082 on their website, its technically a bad combination. I really don't know why there is the need for a GT3082r as the GT3076 comp wheel flows enough for 300-320 odd rwkw pushing close to mid 20psi on an RB with a set of cams.

That sounds good in theory but I think the turbo having to spin up and fill the ic piping and fmic negates any benefits of the compressor being slowed slightly, so its one theory against the other and in practice the no bov and not having to fill the ic piping and fmic theory wins. Give it a shot the no bov really will spin you out how much quicker it spools and is on boost again after a gear change.

Multiple users with the high upstream of adsl2 works excellent. capping upstream to ~70-80kb/s and having 3-4people web browsing isn't a problem. I use torrent and Internodes Premium Usenet. Usenet kicks shiet over anything else for speed. For usenet I use Newsleecher with its supersearch function. Awesome combination. I'm a member of a private torrent site. Awesome speeds almost all the time with latest releases. Always share what I take as a bare minimum and continue to seed should the seed/leecher ratio suck.

Yep, dynamic or static.. Its no real biggie. I personally would like a static but not worth the extra when services such as noip etc can essentially do the same thing.

Grab a cheap rb30 wrecker motor thats running for $150 odd and throw it under the head. Then grab another and build it up or sort your rb25 out with some nice internals. Cheap way to get it back on the road and see if the rb30 is really what you want.

Is having a nice straight power curve a good thing though? I know I'd rather have a nice lump in the mid range, pushes average power up increasing acceleration. Its probably not worth wasting the money on unless u were to sell your turbo setup and start again with a turbo thats a little more responsive and provides more urge through the mid.

The good thing about cable is its downstream is/can be damn fast. More often than not it is quicker than dsl2 unless you are sitting right next door to the exchange. But cables upstream sucks.. DSL2, I've came to love my 100kb/s upstream. Internode only offers static ip's for their SOHO plans, I also believe they have or are about to implement a feature where the user can turn off static and run with a dynamic ip if they wish. The soho plans also offer annex-m for those who really love their upstream.

I put my issue down to the motor boosting so early. If I change up at 3000rpm+ as I used to with the rb20det it feels fine.

Hang out for the info I posted above Andrew.

Andrew, Is DSL2+ in your exchange yet? If not this may be of interest to you. http://www.internode.on.net/rc/rc3.html ADSL1 using a telstra charge through the nose port, up to 8mbs.

Looking at the IP's people use here in SAU its more do Internode than dont, by the looks here in SA at least.

Internodes awesome. A true 'enthusiasts' 'nerd' ISP. Always just works, excellent performance, awesome network redundancy and on the list goes.

Just ask slide for a GT3076r that has one of those new int. gate turbine housings. It would be quite difficult to list every single combination on his web site.

Yep agree'd its not the manufacturer.. Asus quickly stopped the use of bad caps when they identified them as being so. Asus are a top brand.. Simple as that. Epox/MSI on the other hand.. They kept using the caps. For my own curiosity.. I damaged a perfectly fine working motherboard (but will fix later) to see how long it took me to rip a cap off. 50seconds.

lol i'm not mocking you. I honestly didn't understand where you were coming from as I've always got my hands in computers and know how much bending a cap takes before it becomes weak enough to break (which is a hell of a lot and actually harder with the smaller caps), even then the solder is still fine its the leg that breaks, even with one leg attached i can still lift a whole motherboard and until that second leg is broken there's no way its going to be sucked up. My point was if a cap is loose enough to be knocked off or be sucked up due to a dry solder then stability issues will be there. lol yes Intel boards are as boring as shit.. BUT they are rock solid and for a no fuss top quality board they are a good buy. Not something I would use for myself though.

Why piss money against the wall when you don't have to? The Skylines do and are supposed to return good economy, if one isn't then it has issues and something isn't right. Isn't an economy/power balance the whole idea of turbo? Small motor, better economy yet it has the boot when you want it.

You know? The cap must have had quite a bad dry solder for it to be sucked up. If thats the case then the board would have been experiencing some stability issues. Its just what dry solders do. We all know what a dry solder does to our Nissan AFM's. argg. Is that what you know? Didn't quite follow your last post. Asus are an excellent brand, however I've had caps go on an old Asus motherboard also. Granted it was old... A7V133 All motherboard manufacturers had issues with bad caps at one time or another. The difference between a good manufacturer and a bad was that once bad caps were identified they immediately binned them and bought new caps. Bad manufactures kept using them. Of the usual brands that are not completely cheap (cheapies are jetway,aopen etc) I steer clear of MSI and Epox. Asus and Gigabyte as nice, generally Asus are better overclockers but Gigabyte feature rich. Then for a no fuss board the genuine Intel boards are a safe bet. Its also wise to stick with a Nvidia Chipset for AMD and Intel chipset with Intel. Never go playing with VIA, they dropped the ball many years ago when they had issues with the 686B south bridge. Skippy.. When your poking around have a quick look over the caps. http://www.badcaps.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=6 and for pics http://www.badcaps.net/ident/

Definitely 100% nothing was missing. Jumpers missing was the first check. I've repaired quite a few motherboards during the bad cap escapade a few years back. I recently had to replace a set of caps on a MSI board that was only 1yr old. Also performed vdd,ram and cpu volt mods in the past so I feel quite at home with a motherboard. Missing caps are easy to spot, missing jumpers are also however missing resistors are not. BUT I did give it a good look over and the board was definitely not missing anything. Its well known vacuum cleaners create static and have killed computers in the past. As I said.. unless it was a manufacturing fault to start off with there's buckleys chance a component will be sucked up by the average computer. IF it were to be sucked up then the computer would have been experiencing stability issues as it would have shown signs of a very bad dry solder.

No checked it all out.. Definitely nothing sucked up. Would be pretty damn hard to do so anyway, unless the board had a manufacturing fault where something wasn't soldered in.

This is how I would try to diagnose. Clear the bios via the jumper on the board and load fail safe defaults then save. Jump in the bios and ensure all voltages are within spec. Ensure the m/board is picking up the correct voltage for the cpu. i.e not under volting also ensure fsb and multi's are correct. Ensure the ram timings are not out of spec/too tight. Some times the motherboard doesn't pick up the correct spd info from the ram resulting in timings that are too low/tight. Try bumping up ram voltage and cpu volts a little but ONE at a time. If you still cant get in to the computer for long enough to run a few tests (memtest for ram, prime95 for cpu/bus) then its time to rip the computer apart and reassemble then if still no go start swapping out ram and cpu's. I generally start with swapping out the ram; if its generic crappy ram (that includes adata) that has been used, more often than not that's were the problem resides. Its a long shot but you haven't stuck a hoover in your computer to suck out the dust? Always use compressed air to blow the computer out as a hoover can apparently generate static as its sucking and zap shit. I tend to believe this theory as I built a computer for my uncle. It was 100% stable. He decided to clean it after 1 year of use, stuck the hoover in it, I received a call saying the computer is constantly locking up crashing etc.. The cpu and ram was fine, turned out the m/board was flakey. He won't be doing that again. Also if the board is 1+ years old check the capacitors as already mentioned as a few company's (MSI included) have had big problems in the past as they bought cheapo capacitors. Generally a few stuffed capacitors will show as voltage droop/sway and can be seen on the bios.

lol... Yes $2 in my pocket is better than theirs.

I doubt the Mobile chip will be the cause unless its faulty. I'm not sure how it is with the A64 Mobile chips but previously mobile chips are nothing more than a high grade desktop chip that is able to run high frequency's at low volts. So the item of choice for overclockers. Have you tried the usual bios update, rip one stick of ram out, memtest etc?