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I apologize for the lapse in posting for the last week, I had been preparing and then benching at the regional qualifier for Gigabyte in Los Angeles. I flew out of Atlanta on Friday morning and I just landed 2 hours ago, safe and sound in Atlanta. Here’s a quick breakdown of the competition, I sadly haven’t got any pictures so I ganked some from other benchers/media.

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I would say for every two articles that I publish, one article never sees the light of day. I don’t often speak with other writers about their topic development and writing habits but I imagine all individuals have their own little rituals. My topics typically spawn from those moments when I blank out, absentmindedly staring at something. This does make for some awkward stares back, especially when I find myself staring at another person, but I don’t even realize it until I’m finished thinking. So after blanking out for a few seconds, what happens next?

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Since I’m now living in a fraternity house for the summer, I had to find a place to stash a computer for my daily activities. After investigating for a few hours I found a rather empty and unused office room. Grabbing what was available around me, I quickly setup shop so I could continue to partake in twittering, blogging, and Rick Rolling. In hopes of reducing the risk of losing my spare computer to sneaky gremlins and drunk college students, I disguised it as a rather innocuous box. It could only get better if I could somehow hide the screen.

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Woohoo! I think that just about summarizes my current emotions. It’s been one hectic week and I don’t think I’ve ever moved/coordinated/arranged/fixed so much stuff in such a short period of time. For the duration of the summer all my basic needs are taken care of, which is great news. I’m not going to lie, I’m still a bit skittish at times but I’m getting better. Doing my best at risk management also, no longer opening doors at 6am, not riding on public transportation with my benching equipment, and definitely not running late at night in sketch neighborhoods.

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As per the title, chances are I’ll be rather scarce around here for the next couple of days/weeks. Early this morning I stupidly answered the door to a knock and a single young man standing at the door. Upon opening the door 2 more guys appeared and forced their way into my house and my room. While one guy fought with me the other two started tearing through my room, screaming about money. Considering how I am a very poor college student and absolutely never carry cash, their search was in vain. After a few seconds of pulling myself and the intruder on my back up half the flight of stairs, I started flailing on him, landed punches to the face and neck, and broke free. Sprinting up the stairs and out of the house, I ran across the street to my neighbor who happens to be a cop. Sadly he didn’t wake up fast enough and I thought he wasn’t home so I sprinted to a nearby campus police station. There was nobody on duty so I ran till I found somebody with a phone and called the police. With the police on the way I ran back home and within 30 seconds of me arriving, the police rolled up. Unfortunately the intruders had already left with my black Macbook and wallet.

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For the last 3 days I’ve been sitting through orientations at my new job but today was a free day and luckily UPS dropped off my new QX9650. Sadly it’s a C0 stepping, looks like C1’s are limited to QX9770’s. I’m having trouble getting 460FSB stable though but it might be the motherboard. I received a new Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 and it’s acting funky, going to try a beta BIOS in a few minutes though and maybe that’ll calm it down a bit. Looking forward to benching tonight, haven’t benched in 3 weeks. Hopefully tonight will include some high speed HD3850 benching so I can retire the cards and then stock 8800GT benching. Cross your fingers for me, firing up the cascade in 2 hours.

Today wasn’t so much a day as more a culmination of a few days. I’m just now getting caught up on all my work so I’ve had time to give this project some attention. I spent a few hours today calling around searching for replacement engines and suffice to say the search wasn’t very positive. In a desperation move I went to a Pull A Part knowing full and well that all the cars there would be stripped to the bone. Finding 4 240SXs on record, I began browsing the yard. The first one was an empty shell, the second one had a rusted shortblock, the third was partially dismantled, but the fourth was in perfect condition. Judging from the large marker writing on the windows, the owner had just graduated college so I suspect he tossed the car in search of a better one. Great news for me but unfortunately the block had 240k miles on it.

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While on vacation over the last two weeks I had the chance to experience a rare event. Gigabyte, the computer component manufacturer I have been working with closely, invited me along with 15 other overclockers to test their upcoming P45 motherboards in Taiwan. I flew out of Atlanta on April 26th and landed at Taipei, Taiwan on the morning of April the 28th. Here’s what went down.

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