Unlike mechanics, the cooler the electronics the better it is. Spring has just started and I’m already worried of the next season. I went all the way to PC Case Gear because they are one of the cheapest seller around.

Zalman VF1000, OCZ Vendetta 2 & Scythe Kaze 1900rpm

I’m quite concern of the heat generated in my case because of all the acoustic dampening foam which comes with the NZXT Hush. Let me show you the stock ATi Radeon HD4850 from Sapphire.

Here I celebrate the opening of my new tech blog and passing the SIX SEVEN hour mark of stress test on my Q6600 processor chip.

I successfully overclocked the 2.4Ghz to 3.2Ghz and running it on stress using Prime95 utility. The temperature readings are as follow:

• Room temperature: 21.8°C
• Motherboard temperature: 35°C
• CPU temperature: 58°C max
• Core 1-4: 65°C max

My humble system’s Hardware are:

• Gigabyte EP-45T-DS3R
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping with OCZ Vendetta 2 installed
• Sapphire ATi Radeon 4850 with Zalman VF1000 installed
• Western Digital 7400rpm 160GB Hardisk drive
• Pioneer DVD ReWritable Drive
• All assembled in NZXT Hush Casing (Black)

and my overclocked settings are:

• 400MHz x 8 = 3.2GHz
• DRAM frequency: 1333MHz
• CPU Voltage: Auto, reading 1.34~1.36v

I’m quite happy with my newly built rig. I’ll update more about my rig later. Stay tune!

Crysis

Been playing this game for days now and all I can tell you is that it’s aweesomme! It’s too awesome to the point that it eats my GPU for breakfast and now crunching on my RAM for lunch.. It uses up nearly 1.6GB of my 2GB ram while I’m shooting the Aliens.

On top of that I’m running it on top of Windows Vista Ultimate for the best results in graphics. Vista usually uses up approximately 0.3GB 650MB of ram on a fresh boot. So what is there left for me?? T_T

As Rachel said in the my previous post comment, I neglected my blog again. I was too busy to blog. There is always something to do. You can visit Rachel’s blog about “our hazelnut cupcakes” posted on the 12th of August.

Okay I’ll be frank now, I was saying there’s always something to do. Besides assignments, there’s a new thing to be busy with recently. I bought a new PC!! Hell ya.. after so many years of laptop and gameless life, literally.

I built my system from scratch, for the first time, I picked every component myself and handbuild it, handbuild you know!! ya i know anybody can do it nowadays.. Unlike 8 years ago when I first had my PC.

Anyway, my PC arrived at my door piece by piece, actually only the first 2 pieces. The Antec 430W Power Supply Unit (PSU) arrived first and the latter was the casing. I was so happy to receive it and open packages, just like kids opening presents during Christmas, it’s just FUN.

(Note: Here comes the boring part)

For a heavy user like me, It’s no surprise that my laptop’s LCD is serving at its limits. This is the second time my LCD’s backlight is not working properly. It had been replaced 1.5 years ago and now it decides to stop breathing again.

Knowing that my 3.5 years old laptop’s LCD screen is near an end, I quickly bought a replacement. Somebody should have stop me, but it’s too late now. The 22″ Samsung is already on my desk. *grin*