Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Project Natal Video

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

If you’re a gamer who haven’t heard the name Johnny Lee, you have to come out from under that rock you’re in.
Johnny Lee become famous for his youtube video on turning Nintendo Wii remote controller into a head-tracking device. Apparently, that one video sealed his reputation for making incredible innovative devices out of everyday objects, [...]

Vista’s Persistent “Scan And Fix” Issue

Monday, April 20th, 2009

My thumbdrive has been plagued with this issue for centuries!

Each time I plug in my thumbdrive, I would have to click Continue Without Scanning, as I knew my drive is in (somewhat) perfect condition. Of course, being the lazy ass bum that I was, I decided enough is enough. As usual, Google to the rescue! [...]

Fully Damaged Drive

Monday, April 13th, 2009

I feel for the guy. A failed drive is never a laughing matter. I have experienced 3GB worth of mp3s, started from the time I was 15 on dial-up, disappeared in a puff of smoke.
But this screenshot is just too awesome to behold.

A fully damaged hard drive. I have read about Seagate’s 7200.11 drives failing [...]

24 Samsung SSDs in RAID. Tests Selection Is EPIC FAIL!

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Ok, I know this is something that should have been posted on my Tumblr blog, but I think my comments will be too much there.

24 solid state drives (SSD) are truly a geek’s dream. Let’s check out the setup:

2 x Intel QX9775 CPUs
2 x AMD 4870×2 in crossfire
4GB
800MHz FBDIMMs (Assume from the speed, it’s [...]

MSI WindBox Announced!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

This looks freaking awesome!
It latches on the back of your LCD monitor, assuming it has a “VESA wall-mount interface”. Probably some wall-mounting standard. It sports an Intel Atom (what else?) N270 1.6GHz CPU coupled with the (lacklustre) GMA 950 chipset. It has 1GB of ram soldered or a DDR2 SODIMM slot (Maximum of 1 GB [...]

Selling My Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 3850 512MB

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Just posted a thread at VR-Zone stating my intent to sell my current graphics card. Fallout 3 is coming at the end of the month, and I intent to buy GTA 4 too. So I figured, what the hell?
My card is the following: PowerColor Xtreme PCS HD3850 512MB GDDR3.

It comes with the following [...]

W.D. 1TB 32MB cache for S$199!

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

This is a damn good price for a 1 Terabyte harddisk. You better believe it.

Link to store: http://www.thepotterhouse.net/livestore/product_info.php?products_id=5214]
Saw it on a thread in VR-Zone forums.
Has the terabyte age has dawned upon us already? I remembered pestering my dad to buy me a 4.3GB drive back in the 90s, for about S$200+. Now a disk 200 [...]