This is a post that is late, but I decided to write it anyway. Assembly 2012 was a Demoscene event organized between 2-5.8.2012 at Hartwal Areena in Helsinki, Finland. A short description of what one might mean by “Demoscene” is as follows: Competitions or ‘compos’ for short, in various categories such as music, drawn graphics, […]
Read Moregoes without saying that if you brick your installation, blame yourself. This weekend I had some issues with Windows 7 that I have not seen before. This is rather rare. I sit at my computer pretty much 12-18 hours every day. The thing I was seeing was the 100 MB “System Reserved” partition (containing the […]
Read MoreOk so the SSD is now installed. It’s a Samsung MZ-7PC128B/WW, that is, a Samsung 830-series 128 GB drive and the final B stands for “bulk”, i.e. does not come with any mounting brackets, cables or doohickeys. On second thought, the mounting brackets would have been cool, but since the drive weighs 61 grams and […]
Read MoreSo I went ahead an ordered an SSD, because i figured..why the hell not. Now I still need a new case, but that i’ll get in October. I bought a Samsung 830 128GB bulk, for 110€. It ought to be a fairly well performing drive, but above all, fairly reliable based on reviews I’ve read. […]
Read MoreThe i5 build is now complete and in production. The final specs are as follows: Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 – 129€ Intel Core i5 2500 – 196€ Kingston Hyper-X (blue) 8GB – 55€ Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB – 161€ For a grand total of.. 541 bucks. Prices were from the day I ordered, that is monday […]
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