Rudy

  • errors down south

    susah susah. my pc has been crashing relentlessly lately. i may have pushed it too far. my graphics RAM now runs properly at a lower clock rate, and prime95 has been giving lotsa errors too. checking back my documentation, i guess i set the timings too tight. so my graphics card is broken, and…

  • away from work. not.

    today begins a week of training in Bangi. this time, we’re to be taught how to prepare and deliver proper presentations. 5-days of topics covering ‘basic’ skills. on friday, a final presentation to determine whether we’re fit to teach (and get the teaching allowance! :D). not as relaxing as i thought it’d be. even…

  • finger safety

    last night i almost ripped my right index fingernail off when it got caught in my cpu fan. was investigating a rattling noise (which originated from my northbridge fan) and thought i could stop the fan by sticking a finger in. smart, eh? well, looks like i won’t need to change my cpu casing…

  • asyik-asyik overclock

    back at 3.6 GHz again. no point spending hours testing the system after each 1 MHz FSB increment. instead, tightened the ram timings, minimizing memory latency and increasing bandwidth. something else i might try is to up the frequency divider of the memory to make it run at the same ratio as the overclocked…

  • 6-feet from the edge

    actually, more like 5 MHz from my overclocking limit. seems that my bro played BF2 today with the [FSB] at 250 MHz, i.e. CPU running at 3.75 GHz. crashed twice. returned home from work, ran torture tests via [Prime95], and errors popped up. i think the problem here is that the current [motherboard] i’m…

  • the trip and more

    so…. we left home very late last friday, at about 9pm. there was so much of cleaning up to do, that very little attention was paid to packing. my mom cared to remind my younger siblings, and left me as i should. problem is my mind was rather preoccupied with something which i can’t…

  • back north

    i’m back. relatives in singapore nice. 😀 won’t say much now. got lotsa things to do: – read ptolemy’s gate, 3rd and final volume of the bartimaeus trilogy. – watch all of Mai-HiME. – finish playing Doom 3. – start playing F.E.A.R. 😀 😀

  • happy eid mubarak!

    before i forget, to all my malaysian muslim friends and family and colleagues and acquaintances, selamat hari raya aidilfitri, maaf zahir dan batin! to the rest of the muslim world, happy eid mubarak. altho i said i wouldn’t clean up my room, here i am cleaning it. at least make it decent for any…

  • pop goes the heatsink

    my computer has been very steady at 3.6 GHz. the more i think about it, the more i felt that i should’ve refrained myself from my past impulsive buys. the [northbridge] coolers in particular. the first one i bought, the a normal coolermaster heatsink, was a nice silver aluminum thing. RM 30. came home,…

  • holiday hooray!

    to all my indian friends and colleagues, happy deepavali! and tomorrow, another greeting for all my muslim acquantances! 😀 not to forget the others, whom i hope are having a good holiday! woke up super early today to go food shopping in Kelana Jaya. the rendang and the lemang there are excellent. normally, the…