don’t know what to rant about besides the usual work gripe. my life’s been pretty messy these days. i haven’t cleaned out the computer parts from the previous mobo switch. my desks are a mess. i’ve misplaced my 1G thumb drive.
work provides no sanctuary. so many concurrent tasks that sometimes i’m at a loss as to which one to do first.
maybe i should make use of that pool table after all.
at least, i’m covered in the entertainment sector. watched Ong Bak, Infernal Affairs 3, The Usual Suspects, Avalon, Failed to Launch. using Media Portal as my main media player now, and it’s working very well with my cordless mouse. except for dvd playback. will definitely need to get one MCE remote from oz. started playing WoW again, with all my graphics settings at maximum. 😀 some instability problems with BF2 tho, but i’ll figure it out.
anyways, the artifacting problem is actually attributed to the Intel 865PE northbridge not being able to compensate the different speeds at work when the computer is overclocked. so i actually got the same problems with this current motherboard at the same overclocked speed. but fortunately, someone on the net pointed out a very old and long thread about it, and i managed to fix it using a little utility that tweaks the DRAM Latency Timer on the chipset.
so i think i might actually have a lot of spare computer parts lying around. thankfully, the market for AGP-based products are still in demand on lowyat.net.
perhaps it would’ve been better to make the jump to pci-express after all.
scratch that. it seems that a new Intel processor, condenamed Conroe, will be released mid this month. It’s boasted to have 40% more performance than Pentium D, at 40% less power consumption. hmm….