10242K7
3.66ghz (450x8) at 1.41v so far. Memory is at 900mhz 4-4-4-12. Orthos has been running for about an hour and all seems well. Temperature is staying at 48°C, which seems kind of high considering the stock cooler does about the same. Oh well, as long as it's stable. I'll try to push more out of it later.
edit: 9 hour Orthos stable; 12400 3dmark06 score. Temp did push up to 50 after a while. I blame it on poor airflow in my case. I'll go higher after I do some cable management and maybe throw out these shitty stock case fans.
Why I went with (x) instead of (y) or didn't wait until after Christmas when the new stuff comes out:
I don't care. I sell parts and buy new stuff all the time, and if I decide I want something else I'll do just that. My friends' computers are all equipped with stuff I either upgraded from a few months after buying or just decided I didn't want.
Moving on to another topic now. Here's the scenario: I pull out cash, she pulls out a condom. I was putting loose bills in my wallet and she had just discovered she had a condom in her back pocket. We laugh. A short moment goes by and I still have the money in hand. She still has the condom. We're just looking at each other. I crack a half-smile, about to ask what a twenty will get me, half joking and half wanting to gauge her reaction. Before I can say anything she says, "you don't have to pay now.."
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10142K7
I just can't seem to hold on to money. Weather it's cars, computers, guitars, clothes, food, women or booze, something's definitely going to grab me by the ankles and dangle me over a collection bag where all the cash that falls out of my pockets ends up. Until recently I was pretty good about holding on to it. I mean, after I stopped dumping money into my car earlier this year, anyway. To be honest, the only reason I stopped is because it's not with me and Heath stopped working on it because he's come upon some problems of his own as of late, but I'm getting off track here.
My mom's computer is starting to show signs of various minor hardware failures - locking up, corrupted files, noise, etc. For a machine that was built for $300 six years ago I think it's held up pretty well. Instead of building her a new one I decided to give her my brother's (which is my old one), sell him mine and get a new one for myself. Aaaaand here's the list:
Mobo: Abit IP35 Pro
CPU: Intel C2D E6750
Memory: 4GB Mushkin DDR2 800
Video: Foxconn Geforce 8800GTX (630 MHz)
Sound: SB X-Fi Xtremegamer
Hard drives: WD Raptor X 150GB x2 (Raid 0)
Other drives: Lite-On DVD reader (IDE) and DVD writer (SATA)
Power supply: FSP 700w
Case: black Lian-Li PC-61
Cooling: Tuniq Tower CPU cooler w/110 cfm fan, Vantec Vortex HD coolers, stock case fans
Got everything here already but the hard drives. I'll still be using the same peripherals (typical pro gaming stuff) except for the monitor, which I haven't decided on yet. Right now I'm using a 22" CRT that has horizontal lines going through the display. I got rid of my other monitors. I might go with the Samsung 226BW.
I'm interested in seeing how far I can push this CPU with this massive cooler. I took the E6420 to 3.4ghz (from 2.13) with the stock cooler; 3.2 on stock voltage and it never touches 50°C. Maybe I can hit 4 with this one.
10102K7
I am beginning to hate my job.
I service/repair phones for Sprint/Nextel. Every repair I do requires a stack of paperwork - account information, invoices, liability waivers, unit information, repair summaries, parts vouchers, work orders, RMAs, NFR vouchers, shipping labels, packing slips, warranty vouchers, rep escallations, parts replenishment lists, insurance registrations and, of course, thank-you cards because we oh so appreciate your business. Every single repair I do is going to need most of that (and sometimes all of it) and I do more than a dozen a day, easily. At any given point in the day I'll have at least four phones in front of me while the floor person gives customers a 5-10 minute wait time. I multitask like a Korean on speed while maintaining a plastic, retail enthusiasm, wondering if I can go another pay cycle without shooting myself in the fucking face.
Working 60+ hours means overtime, though. I take home more than the manager. Every week I get bitched at about my OT and every fucking day I'm either asked to come in early, stay late or both. And, since almost all of my co-workers are worthless, I have to be on the floor doing sales shit way more than I should (which is never). That means that all that paperwork I mentioned earlier doesn't get done. That means that I have to come in on Sundays and crank this shit out like mad so we get paid for all these repairs at the beginning of the month. That means I get bitched at for getting more hours than they want to pay me for.
They threatened me with salary. I threatened to only work my usual 40 hours. They cut my pay because I didn't do some stupid bullshit homework assignment (the owner wanted us to type up our own job descriptions), I threatened to walk. That got me a raise, and now those 20 hours of OT hurt even more, and I'm still the one that gets asked to come in early and stay late. I have to keep a log of every instance of me working outside normal shift hours so on payday the boss doesn't wonder how I've accumulated so much time on the card. Doesn't stop him from bitching, though.
Oh, well. I suppose it could be worse. It beats editing amateur high-def porn for $11/hr. That shit scarred me for life.
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