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Small car good backup camera for maneuverability. Ford cars actually have great backup cameras for these tests because the camera shows the lines of the car. That is, it's an easy way out if you have trouble with backwards maneuverability.

The driving portion is always easy, not sure how people can screw that up.

Also, why don't we make a "Member Cars Discussion" topic? Cars seem different from "Member Systems".
 
My civic has a backup camera that is pretty good. Kind of feels like cheating when reverse parking lol, only gripe is that I wish it could stay on the whole time not just when reversing.

I took my test in the minivan though which is a bit harder to drive. It took me a long time to learn to reverse park but eventually I got the feel of it. Hopefully you have that down by now. My advice would be to take your time, check your mirrors constantly, act confident, and come to a complete stop at a stop sign and look both ways. Can't go wrong.

 
X16 gpu's do work fine at x8, you need something VERY fast to even push x8 most times.

Here lays the problem. The board does not have open ended slots. I am not sure if the card will clear onboard parts.

Some users have gone as far as to cut cards slots or both to use x16 cards on x1 and x4 slots in the past.
 


I have owned a few modern decks and none of them can stay super clear at full volume like a proper SQ deck can. My car is also very loud. (test pipes, no resonator, catless down pipe) I listen to music LOUD and really rely on my deck to be clear at high volume.
 


Stay as calm as you possibly can. Relax. Make sure you are completely comfortable driving in all situations before you take the test.

Be glad that you don't live in Europe and are required to take the test in a manual.
 


Back up cameras are not allowed for driving tests. The instructor will place his/her hand over the screen. Also, learning to drive using a backup camera is not a good idea because you will have WAY less experience backing up a car without one.
 
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i used a oscilloscope at the local junior college to find my decks clipping point via rca wires. its pretty darn easy, just test leads and crank the volume up until clipping occurs with a cd burned with 0db test tones 50hz and 1000hz, i didn't bother with 10,000hz though. takes 2 minutes or so and the teacher thought it was a good practical learning for the students to quickly watch. peak volumn calibration done in this matter in my opinion will rule out any sound quality issues on even the crappiest deck, not counting the actual dac performance. the ddx5901 claims a 24bit dac so it should be good enough for car audio.

since my amps are high quality and im not running them or the speakers anywhere near their peak, i just use a multi meter on the amp output to get my actual wattage output. 300w to each sub and 100w to each mid/tweet channel. 600w x 2ohms = 1200w... square root of 1200 is 34.64, turn deck to max unclipped volumn i determined with the oscope, then raise the amp sensitivity up until i hit 34ish ac volts on the multi meter. same for the mids/tweets, though they are on seperate channels so i just do 100w x 4ohms = 400w, sq root is 20, repeat.

if you have speakers that are high quality and well known to be able to handle a certain rms wattage, there shouldn't be any sound quality problems from the speakers themselves as long as your under their known wattage capabilities. though some recording may be recorded at lower than 0db, like -1db etc, so that will likely lead to clipping all around if settings are right below clipping on all sources at 0db.
 


Backup camera worked for me. On the Ford Fusion I was in, the backup camera actually appears on the top mirror rather than the dashboard, so I don't think the guy actually noticed it, which gave me an edge. If he did notice the camera, he surely didn't cover it up.

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Keep calm, and do whatever the instructor tells you to do. Check your mirrors, blind spots, and follow the speed limits. Also, pay close attention to your surroundings.
 
I finally overclocked my i5 4670k. 4.4ghz, at 1.14v.

Left prime95 on for 2 hours, and no crashes or problems so far. I decided to play Killing floor 2, with a lot of body count. So far, it looks pretty stable! I also noticed Killing floor 2 doesn't drop to the 20-25 fps mark. The max temps I can get, is 70-73c

I'll have prime95 run at the night to be extra sure it's stable. It looks good for now! Is there anything else I can do for test my overclock? Does XMP need to be off? Or I can leave it on?
 
I had a rental recently with a backup camera and I hated it. Lol So weird with the fish eye and no depth perception. You rely on the car to tell you how close you are. No thanks. I'll do it the old fashion way by actually understanding the dimensions of my car.

My speed6 is a standard sedan (accord,camry,5 series sized) and I parallel park almost daily. I never even look over my shoulder any more. I just know where about the back of the car is. I have never hit anyone.
 


Looking on the internet, people keep saying "this software is better" or "That doesn't stress the CPU" and others say that x246 encoding is a better. I'll try IBT another time.
 
Not sure if pissed, or pissed. So I bit the bullet on that intel board with dual xeon at 50$. I brought it home, and had 1 CPU out to make sure there were no bent pins. I went to get get some water and there I see my sister touching the pins.. On the board. I don't know if she broke it, but from looking at it. Guess she will be paying up 100$ for another board ..
 

Depending on the cpu, AVX instructions can generate unrealistic levels of heat compared to normal system stress. This causes higher temperatures on cpus that do not have the IHS soldered to the core. It may also be due to the smaller die size of newer cpus.
 
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