so i sold my old computer.  that is, 4 or 5 months old.  so now i am buying a new one, and i have decided to go with (*gasp*) intel.  so here, for those of you who are interested, is my aprox. 800$ (575 w/out case HDD, and PSU) system ( Read more... )

ok, i have a question.  i have an fx5750, which is an overclocked 5700, which i got for free, to play around with because the fan had died.  so i strapped an AMD factory CPU fan to the heatsink (the CPU's heatsink was messed up) , and powered it on.  so far, no problem.  only thing is, because it is an msi, them temp control was built in to the fan ( Read more... )

since i have gotten such a positive response to previous computer news, i thought i would drop the new uh, news.  Never, EVER mix gforce and radeon display adaptors on one system.  It was a god damn PAIN.  BUT now i have 2 monitors. ooooh. except one is 1024.768, and like 8.5/11.  but it works for now, till i can get a super backup monitor.  hmm ( Read more... )

so.  Claire & I had a talk about the whole moving home thing, and it really seems to both of us like the thing to do.  so, right now we are predicting a 95% chance of us moving back in just over a year.  My brother told me he could get me a job, and surely claire can get a good job w/ her then BME degree.  Also, i talked to my mom, and brought up ( Read more... )

just incase anyone was counting, i wanted to give everyone a critical system update.  Claire and i have decided that we may, in the begining of '09, move back to h'ville for a while. like 6 months.  We are planning to go to EU in about July, but since she will be graduated, we wont have any obligations untill she starts grad school.  So, there.  ( Read more... )

i decided to change my major... Again.  Something less silly.  maybe something with a future.  Now i will more or less have 2 minors, since i am almost done with my english BA.  Dont know what i am going to go with.  going to h-ville oct 19.  Dad moved to d.c., or did i mention that already?  spent all damn day today with this problem :  ASUS m2a- ( Read more... )

so a guy that comes to the starbucks just gave me "a few" 160Gb hdd's and a soundblaster.  just because.  weird.  Nice guy, tho, maybe he will give me an i.t. job, eh?

So i have been working on computers for extra money for a while now.  I have been doing preaty well, so far, but i have been killing myself about learning laptop hardware.  so my boss wanted me to look at this girl/woman's laptop. She runs his horse farm.  Weird, huh?  Anyway, so at first i was like, 'no, i dont do laptops,' but then i thought to ( Read more... )

I suck at school.  Like clint.  But less bad.  i studied like 15 minutes for the test i am sitting and waiting for and i dont even care.  now i have taken it, and the most i can possibly get is an 80.  Bugger.  but now i am in a much less retarded class, so it is ok.  for anyone who was considdering it, i trully believe that "sons and lovers"  is ( Read more... )

so, i bought myself a new comp today.  just thought everyone would like to know.  'ts an Athlon A64 X2 4000+, 2G ocz ddr2 800, my 1.5 SATA, and a(n)  8600 (pci-e 16x of course)

I just know everyone was interested.

~R