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[TeamHavocRacing]

So, when Tony Stewart was bumped down by Danica's fast lap, do you think she went up to him and said "I smoked your pole."?

[On The Pipe]

So, when Tony Stewart was bumped down by Danica's fast lap, do you think she went up to him and said "I smoked your pole."?

lol, I wonder if he helped her with car setup? IIRC she never qualified too well at Daytona in Sprint Cup cars.

[m121c]

Well here is my finished version. To bad it won't get printed like this for my real life helmet. Oh well I'll just convert the design for mxs.

[rideblue56]

Dogs got sprayed by a skunk. HOLY HELL WTF.

Luckily we had some stuff thats made specifically for skunk smell. Doesnt take the lingering smell away though.

[KTM57]

Don't tell me that you haven't heard of the tomater juice trick.

[Hi Im Skyqe]

Ketchup or Toothpaste works as well.

[Robert196]

Don't tell me that you haven't heard of the tomater juice trick.

I've heard of tomato juice, not tomater juice. Is that a Texas word?

[rideblue56]

Nah, i have. We already had some stuff that was made specifically for it. And its a lot less messy.

Ketchup or Toothpaste works as well.

I could see me spreading toothpaste all over my dog. lol

[Hi Im Skyqe]

Nah, i have. We already had some stuff that was made specifically for it. And its a lot less messy.

Ketchup or Toothpaste works as well.

I could see me spreading toothpaste all over my dog. lol

Its crazy, it actually works VERY good. Only need to use one tube and the smell is gone.

[Alec #277]

Devon sucks.

[Ballsfalsky]

The whole right side of my body is terribly sore and stiff. Neck, shoulder, ribs, hip, groin, ankle, wrist... Apparently when I came off the bike I cartwheeled about 6 times and my head slammed into the ground each time, and then I slid on my right side for a solid 15 feet. Pretty pissed right now because the bean bag for my neck is in my parents room and my mom is sleeping, and so is the back pad. Fuck my life.


Getting new bars, clamps, and hand guards. I like the look of the Acerbis X Force. They are the same ones that the KTM team uses (or Dungey did at 'dilla anyways).



Stoked to be riding here in less than 2 weeks. They did a lot of changes to the track this year and I'm excited to see how I do on the 350. The section before the finish looks pretty fun, and so do the big tables in the middle... The whole track looks fun actually.

[Spazz]

Devon sucks.

I swear my 54.703 was faster than yours!

[bdownen323]

Does anybody else have problems with iPhone alarms? I set 7 last night and none went off.

[yzmxer608]

Nvidia's new flagship "luxury" card details, reviews come out Thursday. Can't wait to see Anand's tri-sli numbers for it! http://www.anandtech.com/show/6760/nvid ... tan-part-1

This makes Titan virtually identical to NVIDIA’s most powerful Tesla, K20X, which ships with the same configuration.

On the memory side of things, Titan ships with a full 6GB of GDDR5. As a luxury card NVIDIA went for broke here and simply equipped the card with as much RAM as is technically possible, rather than stopping at 3GB. You wouldn’t know that from looking at their memory clocks though; even with 24 GDDR5 memory chips, NVIDIA is shipping Titan at the same 6GHz effective memory clock as the rest of the high-end GeForce 600 series cards, giving the card 288GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

To put all of this in perspective, on paper (and at base clocks), GTX 680 can offer just shy of 3.1 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, 128GTexels/second texturing throughput, and 32GPixels/second rendering throughput, driven by 192GB/sec of memory bandwidth. Titan on the other hand can offer 4.5 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, 187GTexels/second texturing throughput, 40GPixels/second rendering throughput, and is driven by a 288GB/sec memory bus. This gives Titan 46% more shading/compute and texturing performance, 25% more pixel throughput, and a full 50% more memory bandwidth than GTX 680. Simply put, thanks to GK110 Titan is a far more powerful GPU than what GK104 could accomplish.

Ultimately NVIDIA is not even going to try to compete on a price-performance basis with Titan. There are a number of potential reasons for this – ranging from the competitive landscape to yields to needs for GK110 GPUs elsewhere within NVIDIA – and all of those reasons are probably true to some extent. Regardless, NVIDIA believes that like the GTX 690 they can sell Titan as a luxury product, and hence $999. The GTX 680 and below will compose NVIDIA’s more traditional price-performance competitive fare.

There is one other quirk to Titan’s FP64 implementation however, and that is that it needs to be enabled (or rather, uncapped). By default Titan is actually restricted to 1/24 performance, like the GTX 680 before it. Doing so allows NVIDIA to keep clockspeeds higher and power consumption lower, knowing the apparently power-hungry FP64 CUDA cores can’t run at full load on top of all of the other functional units that can be active at the same time. Consequently NVIDIA makes FP64 an enable/disable option in their control panel, controlling whether FP64 is operating at full speed (1/3 FP32), or reduced speed (1/24 FP32).

Of course total power consumption is still a technical concern here, though much less so. Technically NVIDIA is watching both the temperature and the power consumption and clamping down when either is hit. But since GPU Boost 2 does away with the concept of separate power targets – sticking solely with the TDP instead – in the design of Titan there’s quite a bit more room for boosting thanks to the fact that it can keep on boosting right up until the point it hits the 250W TDP limit. Our Titan sample can boost its clockspeed by up to 19% (837MHz to 992MHz), whereas our GTX 680 sample could only boost by 10% (1006MHz to 1110MHz).

For Titan cards, partners will have the final say in whether they wish to allow overvolting or not. If they choose to allow it, they get to set a maximum voltage (Vmax) figure in their VBIOS. The user in turn is allowed to increase their voltage beyond NVIDIA’s default reliability voltage limit (Vrel) up to Vmax. As part of the process however users have to acknowledge that increasing their voltage beyond Vrel puts their card at risk and may reduce the lifetime of the card. Only once that’s acknowledged will users be able to increase their voltages beyond Vrel.

Finally, in what can only be described as a love letter to the boys over at 120hz.net, NVIDIA is also introducing a simplified monitor overclocking option, which can be used to increase the refresh rate sent to a monitor in order to coerce it into operating at that higher refresh rate. Notably, this isn’t anything that couldn’t be done before with some careful manipulation of the GeForce control panel’s custom resolution option, but with the monitor overclocking option exposed in PrecisionX and other utilities, monitor overclocking has been reduced to a simple slider rather than a complex mix of timings and pixel counts.

Though this feature can technically work with any monitor, it’s primarily geared towards monitors such as the various Korean LG-based 2560x1440 monitors that have hit the market in the past year, a number of which have come with electronics capable of operating far in excess of the 60Hz that is standard for those monitors. On the models that have been able to handle it, modders have been able to get some of these 2560x1440 monitors up to and above 120Hz, essentially doubling their native 60Hz refresh rate to 120Hz, greatly improving smoothness to levels similar to a native 120Hz TN panel, but without the resolution and quality drawbacks inherent to those TN products.

[TH_722]

Does anybody else have problems with iPhone alarms? I set 7 last night and none went off.

did you have it on silent?