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  • Ryzen Build: Part 3

    Ryzen Build: Part 3

    It’s organ-selling RTX 3090 time!

  • Ryzen Build 2020

    Ryzen Build 2020

    This is a consolidation post for all activities related to this Ryzen build. Part 1: Initial Build Part 2: Vertical Mounting Part 3: GPU Upgrade

  • Ryzen Build: Part 2

    Ryzen Build: Part 2

    This was a pretty straightforward installation. I had to dismount the GPU from the case to give me access to the middle PCIe 16x slot that was behind it. Using the lowest slot wasn’t feasible, as the riser cable is quite long and I didn’t want to fold it too much. I noticed that…

  • My First Ever Ryzen Build, Part 1

    My First Ever Ryzen Build, Part 1

    I’ve traditionally been an Intel builder, with my last build being a Core i7 920 on an Asus P6T motherboard. That was maybe about 10 years ago about the time Faizah and I got married. My Intel builds have been generally straightforward and worry free, so I thought, how could an AMD build be…

  • Living with OLED as a PC Display

    Living with OLED as a PC Display

    It has only been about a month since I got my LG C9 display which I use with my newly built PC (another post on that later). People talk a lot about how this OLED+PC combination is bad because there is higher chance of burn-in, so here are the current measures I’ve tried to…

  • Tech Adventures: Thunderbolt 3 External Graphics

    Tech Adventures: Thunderbolt 3 External Graphics

    Our desktops at home, Alexstrasza and Keristrasza, have seen little use  in the past years. Firstly, because the room they’re in got messed up by our cats. Secondly, because we’ve primarily moved to mobile and console gaming. Lastly, because lounging on a sofa or bed is much more comfortable than sitting in an IKEA…

  • Travel Time: Niseko March 2017

    Travel Time: Niseko March 2017

        Amongst the sea of cooking posts, comes a single travel/videography post. 😀 This was our 3rd time in Annupuri, Niseko. The first two times, weather wasn’t great, despite being closer to the peak periods. This time, I’d say the weather was perfect. 🙂 We hit our usual makan spots, and tried some…

  • The terrible HDMI circuit

    The terrible HDMI circuit

    (Had this drafted months ago, but thought it would be pointless. Recently though, my sound bar / AVR somehow reset all its settings and I had to figure out how the wiring goes again. After sorting everything out, I thought I should make a record just in case I forget again :P) #Start of…

  • PowerUp 3.0 – First Flight Attempt

    PowerUp 3.0 – First Flight Attempt

    So this thing arrived in the mail a week ago, something I backed on Kickstarter cuz it looks fun. It took a while for me to start playing with it, but I finally got around today. Well, actually I tried last weekend, but I couldn’t get the thing to pair with my phone.

  • PS3 Media Server on Synology 411j revisited

    PS3 Media Server on Synology 411j revisited

    Previously I wrote about installing this awesome media server onto a Synology NAS here. However this guide referred to another guide on a different site which subsequently went down, and I couldn’t find a copy of it anywhere else. So here’s an attempt to rebuild the guide to include the missing steps. Since I’ll…