My trio of Samsung Spinpoint F3s (triplets! ) arrived in the mail yesterday, and needless to say, I was super excited to put them into my rig right away and configure a 2 TB RAID 0 (known as striping) as my boot volume. The whole thing went very smoothly; save for a few hiccups [...]
Categories: Play,Tech,Uncategorized
Tagged: build, computer, RAID
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- August 19, 2010 – 8:19 PM
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- By Jeffrey Fan
Two weeks later, and my PC is still running smoothly; most of the time it’s only using 1-3% of CPU. Needless to say, I’m impressed. I guess I’ll eventually OC the processor some time down the road, but it’s definitely not something I need to worry about at the moment.
I’ve installed Crysis (the so called [...]
Categories: Play,Tech
Tagged: build, computer, Crysis, Inception
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- August 5, 2010 – 9:52 PM
- Author:
- By Jeffrey Fan
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 [...]
Categories: Play
Tagged: build, computer
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- July 25, 2010 – 8:15 PM
- Author:
- By Jeffrey Fan
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 [...]
Categories: Shopping
Tagged: build, computer
- Published:
- July 18, 2010 – 5:53 PM
- Author:
- By Jeffrey Fan