Tag Archives: build

My RAID 0 Experiment 0

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 [...]

PC update 0

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 [...]

My new baby’s specs :) 2

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 [...]

Not dead, just busy (with a hint of laziness) 0

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 [...]