Month: July 2010

My new baby’s specs :)

Jeff, 2 Comments
Motherboard ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 LGA 1366 Intel X58
CPU Intel i7-930 (quad core)
Video Card SAPPHIRE TOXIC 100282TXSR Radeon HD 5850
RAM CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB)
Case COOLER MASTER HAF 922
Power Supply Corsair 750-TX
DVD Rom Drive LITE-ON Black 24X
CPU Cooler ZALMAN CNPS10X Performa
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 32MB Cache

Well, it really could not have gone more smoothly, save for the “duh” moment where I completely forgot to plug in the 8-pin connector from the power supply to the motherboard. My new computer is running Windows 7 and every game on max settings extremely smoothly. I learned a lesson from my last build that you never want to skimp on your graphics card, and I definitely don’t regret shelling out a bit extra for a quality card this time around. I expect this build to last me through the next 5 years a least, notwithstanding a few upgrades that I may consider, e.g., getting a WD Raptor hard drive to speed up the OS.

I’m going to continue to use the new system heavily for another week or so just to ensure that there are no underlying issues, and after that, I’ll send in the necessary rebates and write my reviews on Newegg.

Not dead, just busy (with a hint of laziness)

Jeff,

So I must be a bad person for not updating at all in July yet (there goes that promise to blog every week…). Truth be told, I have been pretty busy, although not so busy that I can say that I honestly haven’t had time or opportunity to blog. I am not like most typical bloggers. Sure, I occasionally enjoy talking about how my day has gone (or how this month has gone, haha), but that kind of bogging is more of a kind of release for boredom than anything else (hence the massive posting spree when I go to China). I am more of a newspaper columnist than a serial blogger in the sense that I need some kind of stimulus, some sort of significant event to make me want to get off my ass and proclaim loudly, “Yes. Now THIS is something worth writing about.”

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update

PNC bank is retarded. Rejecting one of my payments after I ordered the parts for my new computer. Then they tell me to call them but it’s after their service hours. Shouldn’t there be a 24 hour service for transactions issues? Outrageous.