My take on life
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Any library needs you
Of course, you need to get out of your car, which is where some of the fun of Mad Max can start to fizzle. Invading enemy camps is always done on foot, melee combat works similarly to what we've seen in the Arkham games, but it's simply not as fluid or flexible. The camera can be awful during fights, sometimes completely obscuring Max and his enemies. We have plenty of fun stories about car combat, but none about the fistfights we had. The dozen-or-so boss fights aren't great, either. Camp bosses are identical: lumbering damage-sponges wielding giant hammers, quickly attack to shave off slivers of their health, then dodge again. A couple other bosses are of the quick and agile variety, but there's really no difference in strategy. Besides car and melee combat, there are other things to do in the wasteland. We played for 45 hours and the map is still cluttered with icons, though there's honestly not a whole lot of variety in these activities. At least the wasteland itself is a solid pleasure. You'll find sun-bleached white sand, rolling yellow dunes, dark jagged peaks and cliffs, vast swamps of oily muck, and rusty red buttes and boulders. Then there's Gas Town, with its belching smokestacks and mountains of trash, looking for all the world like an industrial Mordor. We wish the story complimented the visuals, most of the characters, including Max himself, are fairly uninteresting. There are a lot of negatives, but the exciting and satisfying car combat goes a long way toward making up for the rest of Mad Max's shortcomings. Whenever we became bored with the endless fist-fights, we'd just hop back in the car and race around, looking for the telltale plumes of dust that indicated a rolling war party or convoy. Then we'd ready the harpoon, blast the nitro, and get up to ramming speed.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
That wont change anything
You can get a ThinkCentre X1 for as little as $845 at the time of this review (thanks to an instant rebate through Lenovo's storefront), with only 4GB of system memory and a 500GB hard drive. I highly recommend against that configuration because of the slower performance you'll get from the hard drive compared to an SSD. Our 8GB/256GB SSD configuration costs a little over a thousand dollars, and you'll be much, much happier with it (or even the 128GB SSD) than the HDD version in the long run. The standard warranty is one-year on-site. Upgrading to as much as four years of on-site service costs from $79 to $149. To be perfectly honest, I'd like to see Lenovo take the outstanding basic ThinkCentre X1 design and realize it to the max: a 4K UHD display, a PCIe-NVMe SSD, Type C USB 3.1, and...a red (not yellow) always-on USB port. As it stands, however, 1080p is all most users need. The ThinkCentre X1 is easily fast enough, and forking over one $1,000 bill (instead of two) for a computer is more in line with the average budget. So let's forget the wish list and just say that if you're looking for a solidperforming, exceptionally well-designed all-in-one, this machine should be your starting point. And probably ending point. Look Ma! No wires. Actually, you will see some such as the power cord and ethernet cable, which are not shown here.
What we tested
Why wouldn't you use DX12 if you owned this card? Ashes's DX12 implementation makes heavy use of asynchronous compute features, which are supported by dedicated hardware in Radeon GPUs, but not in the older GTX 900-series Nvidia cards. In fact, the software preemption workaround that Maxwell-based Nvidia cards use to mimic the async compute capabilities tank performance so hard that Oxide's game is coded to ignore async compute when it detects a GeForce GPU. Those cards actually perform worse when running Ashes in DX12. Speaking of poor performance, the $200 2GB graphics cards from last generation really can't handle playing at 1440p (or even 1080p, in DX12) on Ashes' "crazy" preset.
Yes, DX12 could very well wind up being a major boon for Radeon cards. But until DX12 and Vulkan games hit the streets in larger numbers and we're able to observe wider trends, buy the RX 480 because it kicks ass today, not for what it might--or might not-- do in the future. Again: Buy the Radeon RX 480 for what it can do today, and consider all these future-proofing technologies a bonus cherry on top. And I definitely recommend weighing the risks before you pick up two of these over a $380 GeForce GTX 1070. I only had a single card on hand, so I couldn't test CrossFire performance, but Radeon chief Raja Koduri made waves when he ran a demo that showed dual RX 480s beating a GTX 1080 in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark in DX12. But multi-GPU support has waned over the past couple of years, with numerous big-name games patching in CrossFire/SLI late or not at all. DirectX 12's multi-GPU support is being heralded as the future for extreme system setups, but that puts the onus on time- and money-deprived developers to dedicate money and time to coding in and supporting multi-GPU configurations. Frankly, I'm skeptical about the future of multi-GPU systems (and sad about it). Something to keep in mind. What I'm not skeptical about is whether you should buy the Radeon RX 480. The answer's an absolute, unequivocal yes. This is an unprecedented amount of performance in the $200 price range, and unprecedented power efficiency for AMD's recent GPUs. Even if Nvidia slashes the price of remaining GTX 970 stocks to $200 to match the Radeon RX 480's price, I'd still recommend AMD's card. Really, there are only three graphics cards worth considering right now. If you've got deep pockets, Nvidia's $380 GTX 1070 and $600 GTX 1080 offer mind-blowing performance for high-end gaming rigs. For anything under that, the Radeon RX 480's the only game in town.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
What do you think about 2016 Strut Shock Absorber Report
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On Jeeps there are two coolant sensors. There is one at the front of the engine in the thermostat housing, this one has two wires. Then there is another at the back drivers topside of the engine cylinder head just to the right of the valve cover, this one has one wire. The one wire sensor in the back sends temp readings to the gauge in the Jeeps dash. If you temp gauge isn’t acting right, replace the one wire. The two wire sensor located in the thermostat housing sends its signal to the PCM. For poor performance issues and testing we are going to look at the two wire up front. (fixjeeps.com)
The scanner had one code, P O 118, Engine coolant temp circuit high input. After connecting the code reader when turning the key to on the temp guage started working properly, it’s reading cold and the fans are off. Is the cooling fan connected to the guage position? After driving the car the temp guage went up to just below center of scale and after to get home I checked the fans, the fan was running but I think at a lower speed than before, I did not check to see if both were running.
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