That red line shows Vettel moving just to block his own teammate. The right side was clearly the smarter play—if Leclerc had just taken that line, he would have ended up right behind his teammate's rear tires and left Max 🤷. Seriously, that entire right side was wide open since Max was trailing him. There was zero need for defensive driving, but he went straight for the move to shut out his teammate and basically cut him off.
Not true. Look at where Hamilton and Bottas are; that’s how you actually take a corner. The path you're drawing would require either some kind of anti-gravity device or a complete 180-degree U-turn.
Alonso had a decent car back in 2012. Honestly, it was more than enough to snatch a title if it weren't for all those unlucky breaks and questionable calls from the pit wall. He spent most of that season leading the charge, too.
Looking back, Vettel's stint at Ferrari feels a lot like Alonso's did. Big promises, massive hype, looking great during testing... but then the actual results just completely tanked. The thing is, much like Alonso, Vettel doesn't really have a realistic shot at jumping from Ferrari to a team that can actually win—unless Hamilton decides to call it quits after one more championship.
If a junior driver had done that to him, you'd be hearing a massive meltdown over the team radio.
Normal conditions? If you were sitting right behind him and the team told you to back off, you’d probably just ignore them and dive right past him instantly.
Ferrari officially has one driver, and that's Vettel. There's zero proof yet that Leclerc is actually Ferrari's best shot at a title, so it makes sense they're protecting Vettel's points.
Lewis Hamilton's floor was damaged, and they didn't even realize it until after the race was over. That’s why he was struggling so much with the car's balance.
But hey, despite running on some of the oldest rubber on the track, he still managed to pull off the second-fastest lap of the race at the very end.🤣
There’s zero chance Leclerc was ever catching Max. By the time he finally caught up to Vettel, Verstappen was already sitting about 10 seconds ahead of him.
On this particular track, Ferrari just didn't have the pace to even dream about a podium.
Adam Williams2 said:Even if you go that route, who’s going to ship a heavy PC case all the way across the country if something happens to break? 😁
That’s one way to look at it, sure. But think about this: when you're gaming, your GPU, monitor, and mouse/keyboard combo are what actually matter. In my opinion, it’s better to sink your cash into those rather than components that barely move the needle on performance.
As for the warranty situation, watch your step there too. Those small local shops that build custom rigs can be a total trap... even if they eventually honor the warranty, you usually end up losing a massive amount of time and sanity in the process.
Peter Green said:Some guy buys a PC for his kids to play games on, falls down a rabbit hole looking at Velociraptor, and suddenly he's yelling about Xeons and setups with 128 GB of RAM. 🤣
My initial thought was just grabbing a cheap, used LGA 2011 workstation and pairing it with a modern GPU—it’ll run just about any game fine, and you actually have an upgrade path. Better to take the money you save and dump it into a decent monitor or something useful. Plus, plenty of big sellers on eBay offer a 6 or 12-month warranty on those older machines. Why blow a fortune on a high-end rig that doesn't actually give you an edge in performance? In gaming, the GPU is doing basically all the heavy lifting anyway.
My 20 cores are performing slower per core than a brand new Ryzen 2700. If I feel like messing around, I could even overclock them, though there’s really no point. Sure, 7nm will probably shave off some more time, but... right now, a single modern CPU with about 20 cores costs more than my entire rig combined. So... with that kind of cash, I could just grab a few high-end GPUs instead.😬
Buying new isn't worth it; the performance gains are tiny compared to the massive price jump. IMHO.
Standard Ivy Bridge Xeons can hit 4 GHz+ on Turbo. Depending on which motherboard you grab, you can even push them via overclocking—hitting 4.5 GHz or just staying comfortably north of 4 GHz across all cores (specifically looking at those 8c/16T Ivy Bridge Xeons).
I’m not even entirely sure what makes these newer boards or platforms so much more "advanced" anyway. 🤷
For 1200 USD, I put together a 20c/40T rig with 128 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD. If I actually wanted to play games, the only thing missing is a modern GPU, though this Quadro will get me through 1080p just fine.
If I tried to go out and buy a brand-new system with comparable performance today, the price would be absolutely astronomical.
You can find 4 or 6-core Xeon systems (Ivy Bridge) on eBay that run just as fast as Zen for maybe $400 more. All you'd really need is a GPU and eventually a drive, whether you go with an SSD or an HDD. I’m suggesting Xeons because, unlike those old i7 chips, you actually have the option to swap in an 8-core or 10-core CPU later on if games ever decide they need that much muscle. Plus, Xeons are built to take a beating and should probably outlast the consumer stuff.
I wouldn't go that far, I just think J. J. Abrams and his crew are doing their best to finally deliver what every single fan of this franchise actually wants: a direct sequel to the original 😁
So, I finally watched it... It feels like they tried to offer some kind of workaround for the whole issue of not having an original Cloverfield. It’s not a bad movie, though. It wraps up with a cliffhanger, so I’m assuming we're looking at a sequel down the line.
gentlecobra23 said:What can he gain in WEC that he just can't get in F1?
He could land a much more relaxed racing schedule and testing sessions—at least in theory, though I hear they're already looking at adding new races to the calendar. Plus, there's the support from top-tier teams and the shot at joining that tiny club of drivers who’ve actually won both an F1 title and the 24h Le Mans. And honestly, sponsors would jump at the chance to back him, even if I doubt money is really what's driving Lewis Hamilton at this point.
