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For quite a while Ive been thinking about upgrading or rebuilding my core computer system from what I used to have. Doing all this required some thinking about the future requirements I am going to want in a computer and what it is I intend to do with my computer. The first of the concerns [...]

CPU: Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
–1 VMX vector unit per core
–512KB L2 cache
–7 x SPE @3.2GHz
–7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
–7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
–*1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
–Total floating point performance: 218 gigaflops
GPU RSX @ 550MHz
–1.8 TFLOPS floating point Performance
–Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
–Multi-way programmable parallel Floating point [...]

holy shit what a geek huh, is this all I really ever talk about?, Seriously !! After upgrading , tearing apart, reading and researching pc’s and all their geeky languages. Here is the conclusion I have come to. All you really need in a pc is 2 ghz dual core  processor, 2 gbs of ram, [...]

Recently Ive come across another CPU that I am considering swapping/upgrading/replacing out into my PC or just buying another motherboard and using the CPU on that newer mother board. Or…. this is my conundrum, should I upgrade my CPU or….. should I just do another build and then sell my existing computer. If you’re curious [...]

SO as you all aware by now microsoft has officially bailed on Vista and instead pumped out another operating system, called windows 7. Ive been using the beta version of it for quite sometime without problems.
If you’ve gone PC shopping lately, you’ve probably noticed more computers with 64-bit processors, and you may have wondered what [...]

If you’ve been following my blog recently or for the past few weeks, you’ll see I’ve written quite abit about building computers, this post is going to be dedicated to building a budget gaming computer. For the past little while ive been refurbishing computers with a friend of mine. Its been a good learning experince [...]

All around the world tonight, a great big, round moon rises in the east around sunset, and sets in the west tomorrow around sunrise. More often than not, the September full moon wins the title of Harvest Moon in the northern hemisphere. But not this year.
The next equinox comes on September 22. By common practice, [...]

Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Nvidia for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics.
The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full name Scan-Line Interleave, which [...]

A buddy of mine and I are currently refurbishing old omputers and making them into newer upgraded computers. If you need some advice doing this drop me a line, or if you want it done maybe we can come to a price agreement for refurbishing your old computer. Anyways I had a dell PC didnt [...]

While Im waiting on the bank to get their act togethor so I can get my money to build my own computer I thought I might look at alternatives and building a gaming computer on budget. It seems pricey prebuilt behemoth speed machines rule the PC gaming world, but with ever-falling component costs (and color-coded [...]

As you might have guessed Ive been building a computer, hell the last few posts were about that topic, During the whole process I had to do some serious shopping. Not something I really enjoy doing, but being that I am a local Ottawa boy I thought i might help any of you by providing [...]

As I’ve mentioned in a few other posts, im building my own sleek sexy super quick gaming/productivity machine. I was originally going to go with an all in one Intel CPU processor and Intel mother board configuration the Intel DX58SO LGA 1366 Motherboard with the Intel Core i7 920 chip. My thinking on this was that I wanted to make [...]

In a recent post about building your own computer I mentioned that I hadnt really decided on which motherboard I would want to go with. Well after tons of reading and research Ive decided to go with this Intel DX58SO LGA 1366 Motherboard.  As I mentioned in my other post Im not solely using the computer [...]

One of the many things Ive been meaning to do for quite sometime is to build a new computer system. There are quite a few reasons why I want a new computer system. The first one is my current computer is a dell and it sucks, not that its slow or anything, but it is [...]

Theres a battle between SCSI Hard drives and IDE / ATA hard drives and well it looks like that battle never died, nor is it going to die anytime soon. Yet of all the places Ive looked around on I rarely find anyone really advocating the use of the best of both worlds, SCSI and [...]

Maybe math was my problem in dating after all huh. Now we all know there are many many variables in the whole dating process. Every thing from how good looking you are to your income bracket, the flowery wordy stuff (or not) that floats out of your mouth, to the amount of alcohol involved in [...]

Yes you read that right.I know what you’re thinking why would a grown adult buy LittleBigPlanet
. it looks like a kids game I know but let me tell you this video game is the coolest game in the frikken world. It even has a very cool intro movie. I couldnt believe that. Man video games [...]

1080p VS HDTV
Can you really tell the difference or even see the difference between 1080i vs 1080p? What the difference is, is the way the HD picture is displayed on your HDTV set. The i is for interlaced and the  p is for progressive.
With interlaced 1080i picture what you see is scanned to the screen [...]

What is a Swap file
A “Swap file”, “paging file” or “Virtual Memory” refers to storage space on hard drives that Windows allocates for itself and other applications to use when actual physical memory (RAM) is no longer available.
Windows generates a file (pagefile.sys in XP for example) and reserves storage space.
With the implementation of a swap [...]

A friend of mines old computer died when the power supply fried the Mother Board & the processor. So he bought a new PC and wants to retrieve the existing data on the old hard drive.
According to him what he did was move the jumpers to slave on the old hard drive and installed it [...]

Boot sector virus removal can be a tricky business as these are some of the most evil and difficult kinds of viruses. They lodge in your boot sector, the part of your computer that is responsible for loading or “booting” the rest of it, so that as soon as your computer is turned on, the [...]

If you are getting a lot of pop up ads on your computer, you probably have been infected with adware. It doesn’t matter how careful you are, you are just going to get it if you spend any time online. I’m not sure how they do it, but they manage to get adware on your [...]

THE CHRISTMAS TREE
So like most other Canadians, even north Americans, we celebrate the traditional Christmas and went out on a Christmas tree hunt a few weeks back (early I know). During the whole getting the tree in the house crawling under it and getting it into just the right spot I started getting annoyed.
Girlfriend: "it’s [...]

Amongst all the millions of other things that our little monster has given santa (us) to get him for x-mas an MP 3 player was one of them.
Now you have to understand something here. Our little boy is to say the very least hard on his toys. I swear to god that toy makers need [...]

So we’ve decided that in the next little while that we’re going to be buying an HDTV. Maybe an Lcd or a plasma HDTV.
To say that its a confusing thing to do is a mild understatement. You’d think it would be just as simple as going to future shop or best buy looking at which [...]

New Star Trek movie and a new Spock
Holy cow am I excited!!! Those of you that know me know that I love Star Trek, yes I am a Trekkie. Well the news good or not depending on who you ask is that Star Trek has a new spock for their up coming new star trek [...]

Admittedly I am a Star Wars Geek. And I say it proudly.Vive La Force.This A.M while I was surfing Digg to see whats up and whats news and I came across this great posting.All you Star Wars Fans are gonna love this.Haven’t you ever wondered where all the planets and galaxies in the Star Wars [...]

My girlfriend and I were reminiscing over dinner about which games we played with as kids.
 
I had monopoly, scrabble,trivial pursuit. And who can forget GI Joe!!.
I can’t quite remember how we came to be talking about this.
Oh I think it was because My girlfriend saw an Oprah episode with the creator of Barbie.
Its crazy how [...]