Sat was a busy day with 2 bday celebrations. It sure wasn't easy to get things going but still it was fun.
Xiuyi's Bday together with the rest of our zhss group.
Steffi + Victor's Bday
After this the remainder few survivors went with sean to the amazing singapore swimming club where we had our dinner. It was fruitful though time was short. Weekends are so precious..
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Back from the wilderness and on with the computer
Finally, after quite a long period of lull, I have decided to spend some time adding info to this page.
I have just came back from the field camp and left the wilderness from a while. Rain sunny rain sunny rain. What weird weather... Can't we have cloudy weather all the way? Rain drops keep falling on my head...
Anyways, I have just built a new computer last week after months of consideration and here are the specs. It includes some of the parts i salvaged from my older computer.
Intel Q9450 2.66ghz, 1333mhz, 12mb cache
Asus P5Q Deluxe Motherboard
2x2GB Crucial Ballastix 800mhz CL4 4-4-4-12 Ram
Seagate 640GB 32mb Cache HDD
2 x Seagate 500GB 32mb Cache HDD (salvaged)
Asus 4870 512mb Graphics
LG Dvd writer w lightscribe
LG Dvd writer (salvaged)
Cooler Master CM690 Casing
Cooler Master 700w Modular True Power
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit + SP1
So all in all, its a new rig since all the salvaged parts are less than a year old too. I spent about $2300 whoo a big hole in the pocket. Most of the time it will be my bro and father using, so i have no fear about it being under-utilised. The amount of ram still seems to be too little in fact.
When running 8 instances of the program (I could do 4 with my older com) it draws 7+ GB of pagefile and 3+ GB of ram. I am trying to reduce the use of Pagefile since it is slower and kinda kills the HDD. I am heading towards 8gb of ram if i can get my hands on them. I wanted to get another 2x2GB of ballastix today but it seems i am out of luck. They are currently out of stock.
I also want to encode videos hence the processing poweress of 4 processors which i want to harness. I hope the adobe softwares can handle that though. It will be a perfect computer if they can accept multi processers to render and encode the video. The previous computer was slow like a turtle man!
I have just came back from the field camp and left the wilderness from a while. Rain sunny rain sunny rain. What weird weather... Can't we have cloudy weather all the way? Rain drops keep falling on my head...
Anyways, I have just built a new computer last week after months of consideration and here are the specs. It includes some of the parts i salvaged from my older computer.
Intel Q9450 2.66ghz, 1333mhz, 12mb cache
Asus P5Q Deluxe Motherboard
2x2GB Crucial Ballastix 800mhz CL4 4-4-4-12 Ram
Seagate 640GB 32mb Cache HDD
2 x Seagate 500GB 32mb Cache HDD (salvaged)
Asus 4870 512mb Graphics
LG Dvd writer w lightscribe
LG Dvd writer (salvaged)
Cooler Master CM690 Casing
Cooler Master 700w Modular True Power
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit + SP1
So all in all, its a new rig since all the salvaged parts are less than a year old too. I spent about $2300 whoo a big hole in the pocket. Most of the time it will be my bro and father using, so i have no fear about it being under-utilised. The amount of ram still seems to be too little in fact.
When running 8 instances of the program (I could do 4 with my older com) it draws 7+ GB of pagefile and 3+ GB of ram. I am trying to reduce the use of Pagefile since it is slower and kinda kills the HDD. I am heading towards 8gb of ram if i can get my hands on them. I wanted to get another 2x2GB of ballastix today but it seems i am out of luck. They are currently out of stock.
I also want to encode videos hence the processing poweress of 4 processors which i want to harness. I hope the adobe softwares can handle that though. It will be a perfect computer if they can accept multi processers to render and encode the video. The previous computer was slow like a turtle man!
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