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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | | 9:55 pm |
Shiny! ^_^ *giggle* :) Well, new pc parts ordered :) Final list: Thermaltake Toughpower, 750 Watt, Retail Intel Core 2 Quad,Q9450, Socket 775, Boxed GigaByte GA-X48-DQ6,Retail Corsair TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF,4096MB, 1066MHz, DDR2, PC8500, 2x 2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB XFX GeForce 9800GTX Black Edition,GDDR3, PCI Express x16, 512MB *Bouncebouncebouncebounce* ^_^ Current Mood:  bouncy | | Sunday, May 4th, 2008 | | 12:39 pm |
New PC? Specs help :) Hi! ^_^ Again, should've been updating, but ahwell :) Got question for the techies out there ^.^ I'm very seriously looking at building a new pc, high end game wise, max. budget around 1k euro. To keep my dwaggin happy (and in extension myself, cause he knows what's best for me ^_^) I've promised to research the components very well :) This is the third version of the post, I think I'm very near my final setup now :) PARTS: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Corsair Dominator TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF (4GB DDR2-1066). XFX PV-T98F-YDB4/YDD9/YDE9 (9800GTX) (B= black, D= XXX, E= XT) Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS, 640GB (2x, raid0) ThermalTake ToughPower Modular 750W W0116 NOTES: - No OC'ing, it makes my dwaggin uncomfortable, and I'm fine without it, the parts are fast enough :) - So stock speeds, this means a 3:4 memory divider to match the 333FSB to the 533 memory clock. (333 = 1333/4, 533 = 1066/2). - Alternate for memory would be TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX (4GB DDR2-800), if the dominator isn't available in the shop :) - I think corsair should be a good brand, not sure about best brand tho. Shop is either gonna be Azerty, Alternate, or SallandAutomatisering I think :) Some problems with availabilit of the quad core, memory, mayby the video card, possibly the hd, but I expect that won't last long :) Cheers! ^_^ SQueekers, Phin. :) P.s. updated -again-, decided for the X48-DQ6, it's a identical PCB to the EX38, and the DQ6 adds better cooling elements, for only 30 euro's extra. And it is a newer (tho almost identical) chipset, which will probably be better supporter by gigabyte :) Also the X38 isn't well available in shops anymore, all x48 now :) And swapped from a stock xfx to a 'special' xfx, one of the 3 XT/XXX/black will do, black looks nice tho and is better available :) Current Mood: bouncy | | Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | | 11:50 am |
Lick ^_^ I should be posting Holliday and weekend updates (all were great :D). Instead I post cute ^_^ (Stolen from digg :) )  Current Mood:  amused | | Monday, March 17th, 2008 | | 10:18 am |
More squeeekend :) Squeekend: BP+Hypers, Danes, Wouter, Remco, Kenai, 'German guy', XBox: Mashed fully loaded, UT2004, Amarula, Waffles, Squee ^.^ Time till dwaggin visit: 1 week!!!! ^_^ -Lots of bounce- :) New tinker: Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha installed with WUBI :) Harry Potter: 7 Finished, yesterday late in bed, I'm done! :) Thoughtfull: Dutch gov. they've been slipping so much lately. Remember: Take own xbox controllers next visit, -so- gonna forget that :) *wavewavewave!* ^_^ | | Monday, March 10th, 2008 | | 8:40 am |
Update ^.^ Squeekend: BP+Hypers, Danes, Southland Tales, UT2004, Amarula, Squee ^.^ Time till dwaggin visit: 2 weeks! ^_^ New toy: k550i phone from my employer :) Harry Potter: Book 6 finished, 7 underway from amazon ^.^ Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: "i've got soul but i'm not a soldier", stuck in my head ^_^ | | Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 | | 7:58 am |
Vrumm ^_^
Karting with my own company yesterday, whee ^_^
Track with three layers, I quite enjoyed it :)
Bit much difference between individual karts tho, first heat I had a speedy grippy one, second heat a slow bouncy one :)
No I'm sore in all kinds of ways ^__^
*wavewave* :) | | Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | | 7:44 am |
Squeekend ^_^
Another nice weekend ^_^
Visited ponies again for a change, yay fluffy ears ^.^
Bit of excitement going there tho, on the way there someone 2-3 cars in front of me suddenly lost his left front wheel o.O
Wheel went to the left side, and car to the right side tho, so everyone got very lucky, only had to break firmly for the car in front of me, passed the wheel while it still was rolling along :)
Seem to have picked up a bit of a taste for cream (bailey's, the white part of sherridans, some white chocolate one I found this weekend ^_^) liquors, finally a flavor of acohol that I find really yummy ^__^
Weekend was nice overall, Snoopy was there too, mostly just lazed, watched movies, the usual ^_^
Keep the dog there entertained with a laserpointer :D
Very windy outside tho, whoooshwhoooshwhoosh all the time :)
Had to go fix a electric fence in it tho, cause one of the ponies decided to make an escape on friday :)
All sorted out now, good as new ^_^
Oky, workworkwork again, *wavewave* :) | | Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 | | 7:07 am |
| | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | | 2:46 pm |
Wheee Brum ^_^
If you look a year back in my LJ history you'll find my upsetness at last years APK/MOT/(Dutch goverment yearly car check) + major service, which was highly frustrating, took 3 days (including a whole weekend, and most notably 1200 euro's.
Had to take it in again today for APK + minor checkup, and been stressing out lots over it, (and somehow I didn't realize I needed minor instead of major, thought major was some yearly thing or so, so initially requested the wrong one).
Well, it took only part of a day, they brought me back, and later picked me up to and from work with a van, and it cost only the mandatory 99 euro + 1.95 for refilling the wishywashy, no repairs or anything needed, at all ^__^
100.95 total, which is -great- :)
*Bounces around lots*, Wheeeeee ^_^ | | Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | | 7:07 am |
More late updates ^_^
Eoo :)
Hmm, think it's been two squeekends since last update again :D
*tries to remember first of two*, staying home, getting some sleep back, reading harry potter, messing with 'puters, I guess :)
Mayby cleaning up and such a bit too, hmm, can't remember ^__^
Last weekend at HyperX/BP's, -again- :) Enjoyed the nice weather (which sadly has dissapeared again) while drivin around a bit, lots of dane cuddles ofcourse, played a game of risk and some silly trivia game which is all about 'how to survive' in the wild and so question cards, watched the third of the original updated starwars movies which I hadn't seen in any shape for years (and don't really need to see them anymore in quite a while now ^_^).
And besides that workies workies workies :)
Kinda busy with that too :)
And tinkering with pc and reading harry potter at home ^-^
Playing OpenTTD still :)
Not much else really, mayby 'll hav emore interesting things again when the weather looks up ^_^
Car in for APK (MOT), and big service the 19'th, so wish me luck with that, lasttime was expensive :)
*Ponders coming weekend*, should do something interesting I guess, still need to read more HP tho, and lazing is kinda nice ^__^ | | Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 | | 9:41 pm |
Late weekend update :) And Sqweek ^.^ *giggle*, well late cause it's already next weekend :) Last weekend was fun, played lots of OTTD, Wouter was there all the time, Danes were entertaining as usual, and the last day Remco and later also Justacat visited ^_^ Also saw the first two Starwars movies, hadn't seen them in ages, and hadn't seen the new versions yet at all :) Week been workies, and actually spent a lot of time home doing paperwork, cleaning room/house, moving old stuff to dad/family etc. :) And doing pretty much the same this weekend ^_^ Also well into third harry potter book now ^.^ Mmm, not much else to squeek really :) For anyone interested in what we got up to on OTTD: Big! 3MB, Clicky :) Current Mood: accomplished | | Friday, January 25th, 2008 | | 7:22 am |
Squeekers ^.^ Ok, firstly, as a spinoff of the who posts most list, let's see who's still reading this thing anyways :) If you're reading this now, hit reply, type -anything- ^.^ (Yes, even "Anything" for those who it makes happy ^.^). If you're not a registered livejournal user, pretty please add something recognizable to me ^.^ I dropped out of this LJ thing for a few months, so wonder how much are still left :D Well, friday again, gosh time flies ^_^ Received my 6 book box set of (english ofcourse) Harry Potters :) Nearly finished the first book already yesterday :D (Read it before on my PDA, but doing at again just to get into the go of the whole set :) ). WOndering if I should read the book(s) which have no movie yet. I think I'll enjoy things more first watching the movie, then reading the book :) Instead of 'they left out half the book!' I'll be getting additional details while reading the book, which I think is a much more pleasant experience ^.^ And I like the movies a lot :) Week mostly spend on lil bits of cleaning (helping mum buy taking several pieces of old electronics to the 'tip' :) ). And messing around with my server, installed Suse 10.3 on it ^_^ (Used to have 10.0 :) ). And moved it to someplace well out of the way of everyone (lil side room we use for tools and stuff, next to my bedroom :) ). I've put it on wireless cause we have no UTP going there, but I think I'll have to drill a hole in the wall and put cable there, cause we use it as file/download server too, and xGbyte files take too long on wireless (G) :) PLans for weekend already made, over at BP/Hypers again with Wouter, taking my PC again since Hyper is out of his cast ^_^ Might do some OpenTTD :) (*giggle*, so Remco is missing out ;) ). Hmm, starting to see a pattern in weekend spendage here :D Can't help it. I enjoy their company, and between Danes, Geek gear, Board games, Sleeping space, and nummy foods, there's not much else I could ask for on a sqeekend ^_^ And I need to retrieve my toothbrush before accidents happen :D Hmm, think that's about it again ^.^ You'd think there'd be more to tell :) Server messing eats time tho ^.^ Did order a low profile Nvidia card for it since it's set up usable as desktop too now :) (There's not a whole lot of low profile AGP Nvidia cards, sadly, can you guess which model I got ? :) ). Mayby I need to start putting up pics of our cat being silly, or of the server, or of the mess our livingroom still is with my gatherer borther using it for storage :D My mum 'd be upset at the latter tho ^__^ *Gigglewavewavewave* ^_^ Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Silent humm of a PC fan. | | Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 | | 7:22 am |
Chirrup :) Usual work yesterday, and then drove to my actual companies office for an introduction on a tool they have a big relation with :) Sadly it's a 2 hour drive down, and one hour drive back (traffic jams when you go there), so all in all That's all I did that day ^.^ Annoyance btw: Think let's pick up a cola and a mini burger at McDonalds underway, find it's closed for renovation. So you think well, lets see if tehre's another in range on TomTom, drive down there.. Closed too! You'd think they'd first do the one, then the other. Signs on the highway that it's closed would've been nice too :D And something that hyper did and looked neat ^_^ I think Anonymous is mostly my dwaggin :D ( Who comments the most on this journal? ) | | Monday, January 21st, 2008 | | 7:25 am |
Squeeker ^.^
*giggle* :)
Well, two weeks further again ^_^
Roughly what I've been up to:
- workworkwork
- Weekend at BP and hypers where wouter was visiting too, played a lot of risk, drove hyper down to get his one mainboard (that ruels them all), decided LOTR risk was pants (See his post :) ), much Dane loving, ofcourse, ohyeah, and beers and cosmopolitans ^__^
- workworkwork, mixed with messing around with my server, decided it needed a reinstall of a new linux (suse 10.3), and moved it to a place in the house where it'd be less bothersome (noise), and would have a bit more space for keeping cool, and swapped harddrive cause it seemed unhappy when I was trying to do the reinstall, and had to make it Wifi cause I can't lay a cable to the room it's in now :) All took a bit longer then expected :D
- Shopping and stuff last saterday cause my bro was having his bday on sunday, also some badly needed house cleaning (not my fault, my bro/mum like to gather too much stuff :) ).
- Bro's bday sunday, was nice, took up the whole day tho ^_^
- Back to work :)
Might've missed some things, think there was a company newyears meeting/drinks something too in there :)
And it's cold and wet outside still, I don't like it ^__^
Update done, *wavewavewave* ^_^
Current Music: Arrow Classic Rock :) | | Sunday, January 6th, 2008 | | 7:55 pm |
Minicity ^_^ Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist, it looked cute :) 'HappyDolphin' City ^_^ Sadly it doesn't actually let me have lil happy dolphins as inhabitants :) Weekend been nice and calm, been messing a bit with Java and my server, playing some Pardus, messing with the new version of the RTS opensource game Spring, that kinda stuff ^_^ 'll have to do something social again next weekend, anyone up for anything ? :D *wavewave* ^_^ | | Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 | | 7:26 am |
Squeeky newyear ^_^
A very squeeky new year to everyone, may it bring happiness and goodness to all ^.^
Spent mine at hyper/burmeses, was quite entertaining, even set of fireworks ^_^
I look forward to a great newyear, for me and all my friends ^__^ | | Monday, December 31st, 2007 | | 7:06 am |
Squeekend :)
Weekend was f un, spend at burmese's and hypers, with another german visitor :)
Was quite entertainging ^_^
Played some board games, lazed a lot, and watched a 'space ship from hell' movie which we agreed was only so-so ^.^
Much dane petting too ofcourse ^_^
'll be back there today for newyears :)
Happy new year already to everyone in advance ^_^ | | Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | | 7:09 am |
Merry X-mas :)
Merry X-mas :)
*giggle*, altho a bit late :)
Hope everyone had a nice one ^_^
Mine actually consisted entirely of a two day Neverwinternights binge ^.^ Completed the first chapter of the first campain :D
Which might sound bad, but after lots of work and being busy all the time and the illies and all, I quite enjoyed that ^-^
And I didn't really want to leave my mum alone at home over xmas, so we did the xmas dnner thing and so, kept her happy :)
And today my dad's bday, so 'll be seeing all my family anyways ^_^
Thinking a bout being at ponies with darkwolf over newyears, tho I still need to ask him :D
Mayby hypers coming weekend if he's better by then :)
'll see ^_^
*wavewave* :) | | Friday, December 21st, 2007 | | 12:08 pm |
Squeeker :)
Ehmm, yeah, LJ updating ^_^
Ok, firstly, bumissue pretty much over, xcept for a still healing leftoer, but infection and all that is long gone. And sitting is back to normal ^_^
Spent a weekend at Naros/Soulfox place 2-3 or so weeks back, was nice, hadn't seen him in ages :)
Even tho we both where kinda wintery sniffly cold bleh, so it was a lot of sleeping and resting and not doing much ^_^
Took PC with me tho, so did some lan gaming, found out NWN-2 got messed up in the interface, so that's been deleted. He did get me hooked on NWN original tho, whee ^_^ Bought a copy + expension packs for 10 euro :)
Week after that poor Hyper broke something, so peeked over at their place. Kinda cought a cold or so just before it tho, so spent (again) most time laying on a couch, surrounded and covered by danes ^.^
Had to take the monday after it free from work too because of it. I don't like this winter stuff, too cold ^__^
On weeks I'm mostly occupied with my lil projects, and gaming :)
Lil projects consist of things like buying (Wifi)routers and putting openWRT or Tomato on it, messing with my linux server, trying to install a new creative soundcard (I -hate- their drivers :) ), messing with my tiny wacom and Z-Brush/Corel painter, Java coding.
Gaming has been all kinds, including Halflife orange box (hadn't played any HL2 games yet :D), UT2004, UT3, NWN, X3 (only a lil bit, need a lot of time somday to get into it, anyone who plays it who could give me some pointers ? :) . Still working on making BioShock or Battlefield 2140 run :)
I think it's clear I don't actually have the time for all that, which might be a reason why I'm not doing much LJ anymore :D
I end up only doing lil bits of one of those each day, then swapping again to something else ^.^
Already said I cought up on all of Heroes with my last illness, and with the cold last monday I cought up on a big chunk of Battlestar galactica seison 3 (Yeah, I know, I'm way behind on thatone :D).
Soo, that's how most my days look like ^_^
Hmm, think I put enough geek keywords in there :D
Need to get back into excersizing, and need to look at getting back into horseriding, but I'll wait till it's warm outside again ^_^
No plans for the X-mas days or newyearsday yet, prolly just at home or with fam. dunnow :)
Working the days around X-mas cause I'm low on free days ^.^
Ohyeah, Xmas dinner with work this evening :) Should be entertaining :)
Think I'll stay home this weekend, been way tired from cold remains I think :)
Oky, *wavewave* ^_^ | | Friday, November 23rd, 2007 | | 9:58 am |
Informal update
Heh, looks like I dropped a bit out of the livejournal thing :)
Anyways, update, in case anyone wondered why I wasn't showing myself online, I've got the most horrible nasty spot which is preventing me from sitting atm.
So took free from work, and from sitting behind my PC.
Laying on bed/couch and catching up on Heroes 's all I can do for now, and playing DS ^.^
Which gets really annoying and boring after a few days btw. :)
Medically this is the nastiest thing I've run into for years, which is both good and bad ^_^
So not as happy as I usually am, uncertainty about when it's finally gonna heal and what kinds of things 'll be needed before that and what kind of a mark it's gonna leave don't help a lot either.
But, I'm sure it'll be all fine when it's over, and I'll be back to my regular happy bouncy scheduling ^_^
So till then ^_^
*wavie* :) |
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