I like my 17 Escape with Ecoboost.
It's still a shitty 4 banger SUV engine, but I mean, my old car was a F22A1 Prelude, that thing was slow as shit. :v:
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52679384]I like my 17 Escape with Ecoboost.
It's still a shitty 4 banger SUV engine, but I mean, my old car was a F22A1 Prelude, that thing was slow as shit. :v:[/QUOTE]
The escape without ecoboost with the mushbox transmission is honest to god the slowest car i've tried though
You just mash the throttle and it translates in the forward direction mildly faster but nothing else happens until the engine makes noise and nothing continues to happen and then you hit 20 miles an hour
[QUOTE=ballads;52679510]I have a 2004 dodge stratus se[/QUOTE]
did you get it in the premium option heated garbage and existential depression trim level
i had that scary infosec moment of "my car has automatic updates over wifi"
since there's no steering wheel motor i think i'm safe from being assassinated by my car
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;52679544]i had that scary infosec moment of "my car has automatic updates over wifi"
since there's no steering wheel motor i think i'm safe from being assassinated by my car[/QUOTE]
yeah but they could just wait until you were at highway speed and suddenly accelerate but blow your airbags, cutting your ignition for a second, dumping fuel at max rate while ESC engages only one front brake and then restore ignition so it blows up your exhaust
then continually lock the doors and blast the heater while continuing to keep fuel pressure with all fuel injectors stuck open so fire shoots out all the interior vents so you ro-
i am on several lists now and there is a van outside
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52679505]The escape without ecoboost with the mushbox transmission is honest to god the slowest car i've tried though
You just mash the throttle and it translates in the forward direction mildly faster but nothing else happens until the engine makes noise and nothing continues to happen and then you hit 20 miles an hour[/QUOTE]
Yeah that's why you put it in "Sport" mode with the dad-approved paddle shifters and redline that son of a bitch. It's nice when the turbo actually does something for power
Again, my comparison for speed is effectively a red motorized shopping cart, though
[QUOTE=Protocol7;52679578]Yeah that's why you put it in "Sport" mode with the dad-approved paddle shifters and redline that son of a bitch. It's nice when the turbo actually does something for power[/QUOTE]
i have sport mode but no paddle shifters (or a turbo :((( )
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;52679581]i have sport mode but no paddle shifters (or a turbo :((( )[/QUOTE]
Haha I honestly don't use it too much. It may be a manumatic but it still shifts if you get the RPMs too high, and it sometimes think 2-3K RPMs are too many and it's basically like driving in automatic mode anyway.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;52679377]i've been enjoying my my17 ford focus hatchback
has decent amount of vroom vroom[/QUOTE]
I might be picking up a Focus ST early next year, the focus hatches look pretty nice nowadays.
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That or a WRX hatch, but I think I need to take a trip out of state to get one of those from this decade or in budget
I've got the '04 Ford "Exploder" with the 4.0L V6 "timebomb"......
13 years, 120100 miles. the Transmission is pretty much about to go, it's got that jerkiness if you hit the gas going up a hill.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;52679505]The escape without ecoboost with the mushbox transmission is honest to god the slowest car i've tried though
You just mash the throttle and it translates in the forward direction mildly faster but nothing else happens until the engine makes noise and nothing continues to happen and then you hit 20 miles an hour[/QUOTE]
The 2.5 Duratec in my Fusion is, wacky. I've never driven a vheicle that has a nonlinear power curve. It's meh power until you hit 3500 RPM and then the Duratec kicks in. :v: Okay it's no speed demon but it's cheap on gas and that engine is bulletproof. Still plenty of power to pass at 80.
It needs a tune though. The amount of throttle filtering is insane in Drive making it feel gutless and it's still noticeable in Sport. It's just tuned way too conservatively to upshift at any given opportunity.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52679626]I might be picking up a Focus ST early next year, the focus hatches look pretty nice nowadays.
[editline]13th September 2017[/editline]
That or a WRX hatch, but I think I need to take a trip out of state to get one of those from this decade or in budget[/QUOTE]
mine isn't the go-fast one, but it's nicer than my previous car
I'm thinking about a Skoda Fabia Combi but yeah, sure, paddle shifters are what I really need!
Vega just keeps looking like more and more of a trainwreck:
[video=youtube;jHRP1uVBqfY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRP1uVBqfY[/video]
Literally zero scaling between the two cards. There's something very wrong with AMD's design of these cards, when the V64 can't even use the extra resources given to it. That doesn't even mean that the 56 is using them effectively either.
[QUOTE=Demache;52679716]The 2.5 Duratec in my Fusion is, wacky. I've never driven a vheicle that has a nonlinear power curve. It's meh power until you hit 3500 RPM and then the Duratec kicks in. :v: Okay it's no speed demon but it's cheap on gas and that engine is bulletproof. Still plenty of power to pass at 80.
It needs a tune though. The amount of throttle filtering is insane in Drive making it feel gutless and it's still noticeable in Sport. It's just tuned way too conservatively to upshift at any given opportunity.[/QUOTE]
Same for my Ztec Focus. Little bit of low end grunt, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing 3k RPM awwwyeeaaa
My Impreza sometimes pulls pretty nicely around 2000-4000rpm, then all the way up to 7k it's kinda just making noise :v:
190,000km and it's only just had any issues. Radiator snapped off and blasted coolant all over the engine, got over 110c degrees before I got it in to the driveway
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52680017]Vega just keeps looking like more and more of a trainwreck:
[video=youtube;jHRP1uVBqfY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRP1uVBqfY[/video]
Literally zero scaling between the two cards. There's something very wrong with AMD's design of these cards, when the V64 can't even use the extra resources given to it. That doesn't even mean that the 56 is using them effectively either.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much what I've said before, GCN is a hilariously unbalanced µarch for doing actual rasterization, they're front-end bottle-necked by their 4 shader engines, and that's the primary reason the 56 to 64 scaling is so bad, the front-end can't feed the super deep CUs.
That's why DSBR, TBR, and "Primitive Shaders" are so important to Vega performance, if they ever get enabled in drivers. DSBR and especially 'Primitive Shaders' can take a lot of the load off of their Shader Engines.
Just compare the block diagram of GCN:
[t]https://www.techpowerup.com/img/17-05-03/b08ffd85b2c1.jpg[/t]
(Fiji is the R9 Fury series, but is very closely related to Vega, not much has changed on this level)
Look how 'deep' those CUs go.
Compare that to Pascal:
[t]https://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2016/06/evga-geforce-gtx-1080-ftw-review/1080-24b.jpg[/t]
:thinking:
Much more 'balanced' on how they allocate their actual compute units. There's a LOT more to GCN and Pascal than just that, such as how they do their pipelining, and it's why Nvidia can get such great power efficiency and good clock scaling (whereas GCN falls off a fucking cliff after its designated clock).
GCN is amazing at pure number-crushing for stuff like raytracing, but without a significant re-design, I don't see them being massively competitive against Nvidia in the consumer raster space. Maybe PS, TBR, and DSBR can fix their front-end problem, but probably not enough to catch them up with a 1080 Ti.
Compounded by all of that, AMD made a bet with HBM, and NVIDIA went with texture compression. Compression paid off for NVIDIA, they can get a lot more done with a lot less bandwidth, and smaller memory buses, meaning lower power, cheaper memory, and higher yield.
Buying new cars straight from the dealership is a waste. 30% of value just drops by driving it out of there.
If you aren't mechanically inclined/don't have a nice shop to go to, the dealership is quite good though.
Newest car in our house is from 2009 and it was bought this year. Don't feel like we have missed anything.
AMD is going to be forced to change how they handle their GPU architecture, because they'll be going MCM on the GPU too.
I bet you Nvidia is going to have an MCM GPU before AMD though. AMD spent a bunch of time on Vega, so they could use that to get marketshare in the professional and datacenter space. Nvidia is already there, so they've been putting their R&D on working how to implement a GPU as an MCM.
Unlike Intel, Nvidia isn't run by a bunch of morons with their heads up their asses. They knew that they'd have to move to smaller dies, just like AMD did with CPUs.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52680181]Buying new cars straight from the dealership is a waste. 30% of value just drops by driving it out of there.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand this argument, I don't buy a car by going "This cost 15000 $ - 7000 $ I get back when I sell it", I pay 15000 and that's what it cost me. Anything I get back later is nice, and as far as I can tell with the discounts my car currently comes out at the same price as the base model after 5 years so fuck all of this dumb math.
[QUOTE=nikomo;52680195]AMD is going to be forced to change how they handle their GPU architecture, because they'll be going MCM on the GPU too.
I bet you Nvidia is going to have an MCM GPU before AMD though. AMD spent a bunch of time on Vega, so they could use that to get marketshare in the professional and datacenter space. Nvidia is already there, so they've been putting their R&D on working how to implement a GPU as an MCM.
Unlike Intel, Nvidia isn't run by a bunch of morons with their heads up their asses. They knew that they'd have to move to smaller dies, just like AMD did with CPUs.[/QUOTE]
It'll be cool to see, Vega is already hooked up with ∞ fabric. The real question is how they'll break the GCN arch up. Will we see the 4 shader engines stay together, or broken into 2+2 (two discrete 2 shader engine dies), so they can do 2+2+2+2 to compete with Nvidia. Another question is will they use an interposer the same way they use HBM currently, or try and stick it on a PCB proper.
Pascal was a really great generation for NVIDIA, it'll be interesting to see if Navi can bring something for RTG.
In related news, Raja is taking a sabbatical from RTG.
[url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/11836/raja-koduri-sabbatical[/url]
hey brt,
[t]https://i.imgur.com/ZiBdC8t.jpg[/t]
u jelly?
[editline]14th September 2017[/editline]
96tb of raw storage :rock:
Is it yours? Because handling tons of fancy equipment for work doesn't give me any of it :c
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52680262]Is it yours? Because handling tons of fancy equipment for work doesn't give me any of it :c[/QUOTE]
Yes these are my drives. I'm completely rebuilding my NAS right now
I bought a 12 year old ex cop car with 180k miles two years ago. I might hit 200k by the end of the year.
I could never justify a 12 bay NAS for home use and I am a fucking data hoarder.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52680274]I could never justify a 12 bay NAS for home use and I am a fucking data hoarder.[/QUOTE]
Clearly you don't hoard enough lol
I'd buy a car before I'd buy a ~4.5k NAS. Fuck.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52680278]I'd buy a car before I'd buy a ~4.5k NAS. Fuck.[/QUOTE]
These drives were pretty cheap, relatively speaking. I paid $2200 USD for them all, and the NAS hardware basically remained unchanged.
Considering this is enough space for the next couple of years, i think this investment was worth it.
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