Archive for April, 2008

Vacation!

04.28.08 - 04:53am

Hello all. As per the norm, when my posts become sporadic and random it usually means something big is on the horizon. That is true five times over in this instance. I’m currently on a hobby related vacation after which I’ll be on a vacation related vacation and then I’ll jetting back home to finish [...]

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Intel Spring 2008 Price Cuts

04.22.08 - 12:15am

Intel is slashing prices once again as older products slide into lower performance brackets. The big hit with this round of cuts is the Q6700 quad-core processor. The Q6700 dropped from $530 to $266 while the Q6600 dropped from $266 to $224. While the Q6700 has become a piece of “old” technology, these older 65nm [...]

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Project Nissan 240SX: Day 5

04.18.08 - 11:23pm

Sorry about the lack of updates, I’ve been busy with a slew of things. I have made some serious progress both with Project 240SX and with benching. For the last few days I’ve been prepping the car for the engine to be pulled. There’s so many little things that have been holding me up that [...]

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Project Nissan 240SX: Day 4

04.14.08 - 08:56pm

I didn’t get much done today as I was busy taking care of my non-240SX life. Managed to log about 2 hours of work today though and really cleared up a lot of the engine-bay in preparation for hauling the motor out. I’m still in the process of searching for a donor engine, decided to [...]

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Microsoft DreamSpark

04.14.08 - 05:22pm

I came across this link earlier today and thought it would be very useful for my target audience. Microsoft is essentially extending what is their older Microsoft Development Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) to all college students across the globe. Unlike MSDNAA though, DreamSpark is limited to software development tools whereas MSDNAA gave you access to [...]

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Dry Ice Benching and HD3850 Domination

04.14.08 - 01:26am

I’ve been so busy the last few days that I forgot to post these results. On Friday I took a few hours out of my day to do some dry ice benching with my current bench setup and I took a few world records for my video card. The records that I snagged aren’t something [...]

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