Project part Deux

And what's installed into the casing?


First off, the motherboard!
Was a fight between Asus Rampage II Extreme VS Gigabyte EX58-UD5. I forgo the Gigabyte Extreme edition as it was practically the same as the UD5, just minus the hybrid water cool block thingy, in short for water cooling perposes.
After months of bugging usagi, zid and some random peeps all over, I ended up with the Asus one.
Reason for this was that there is a Service Center about 20 minutes away from where I live! Giga would have to be sent back to the seller -> distributor -> Singapore = long wait time!

The box!

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Outta the box with Processor installed i7-920. It's already in cause I asked the shop to install it for me. That way if anything goes wrong, it AIN'T MY FAULT! Woulda avoided any delay in setting up my PC, coulda exchanged the chip there and then if they screwed it up

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The nifty little joystick and power buttons for peeps that prefers to fine tune the board via hardware. Tried it, was fun! for the first 5 minutes lol didn't wanna risk screwing up the board that fast :P

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Next up! Since I'm planning to OC everything, had to get some slightly better colling capable RAM. So picked up some

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Installed on the board

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For sound, the motherboard came with X-Fi's SupremeFX by Creative

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To be continued....

Project Part 1

About time I updated about this. Been to busy updating softwares and stuff.

so for this

Casing arrvied last weekend. Had to pick it up from the station at 4am in the morning. Didn't trust the shipping people there.

Silverstone Raven RV01

With a new concept based on the Law of Thermodynamics...Heat goes up. So what they did was, the Motherboard was basically placed in a 90deg rotated position, whereby your connecters and stuff would be facing upwards thereby with all exhaust panels are concentrating upwards where heat will go. Thus maximizing the hot air flow - Stack Effect Cooling

Here is a video demonstration of this. All fans removed.





How big was the box? I'm not that flexible so can't really show but yea, it's huge. I tried standing in the box and I went in easy.

Here's a pic taken by my friend who had to yank it all the way back to me. Thanks Ganesh LOL

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With the casing outta the box, it wasn't really that big but still big. From the side with the panel removed

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The top right corners have the tools-free installation thingy. Slide in the Blu-ray player and just press a button, and voila, it's locked in place. Under that, would be the HD compartments. They came with lil nifty drawers. All of them contained lil rubber to minimize vibrations and stuff.


Attached here is the drawer with my Raptor 10,000rpm HD for my OS.

This is how it looks like when it's inserted back into the slot More to come soon! :D

40D firware update

Just received a mail

Firmware update Version 1.1.1 incorporates the following fixes and improvements.

1. Fixes a malfunction that in rare occurrence causes a low battery indication to be displayed when using the EF 85mm F1.2L II USM lens. Depending on the battery check timing of the camera, the battery level displayed on the camera's LCD data panel may shows Battery will be exhausted soon or Battery must be recharged, even though the battery capacity is sufficient.
2. Fixes a malfunction that in rare occurrence causes an Err 06 Self Cleaning Sensor malfunction to appear on the camera's LCD monitor and LCD data panel, even when the Self Cleaning Sensor Unit is operating normally. This message may appear depending on the timing of when the camera is switch to the ON position.
3. Fixes a malfunction that prevents correct colors from being printed when direct printing. RAW images captured using the camera's custom Picture Styles (Emerald, etc.), which have been downloaded from Canon's Web site and registered under User Def. 2 or User Def. 3.
4. Modifies the level of subject brightness that causes the AF-assist beam to fire when using an external Speedlite.
5. Enables an external flash connected to the camera's synchro terminal to fire even when the camera's built-in flash is popped up.

Europe

Just got back with a painful experience. had ERR 99 randomly happening. Shutter locks up for a good 3 seconds before releasing. Then had to remove my battery, reinsert before the 40D will work again. Seems to be some software corruption. Will try reinstalling the firmware. sheash..anyway some pics!


Traffic in Paris is just as bad as in KL

Sausages and pork legs. Apparently, favourite food of Germans. *shrugs*

Black Forest cake, ate at a town where it originated from, coincidentally, Black Forest too, in Germany

A lion statue, memorial for the fallen soldiers

Sudden heavy snow. When we arrived it was practically snowless. Just took a good 2 hours to cover the whole city up

At the top of Mount Titlis

Milk from this goat is used to make cheese! Not bad I might add

SURPRISED!!!!

A Saturday like any other, woke up, gym, market and ran some errands....then...to my surprised...my wife took me somewhere and gotten a....

Canon 580EX II!

Here is a comparison with the image at the top. This is with flash.

As with any other woman...there is always a catch...no more bday presents for 2009 and 2010! >.<;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

New GearS!

Finally managed to save up some money to shop and LOTS of convincing to make a friend of mine let go some of his gears. So what did I get?

First of, I needed something to clean my lenses.Lenspen!

Here is the retractable brush

And here you have the patented cleaning carbon compound. Just move it around the lens voila done! close the cap back, give it 1/2 a twist and it's replenished for the next use.

Giottos Large rocket!

Before even using the lenspen, it's recommended to blow off the dust first. I've tried several blowers but they end up using a lot of my energy and not creating enough wind to actually do anything. This blower is my last and only blower i will ever get. It looks solid, and stands on it's on! but do not be deceived. I barely used much effort to squeeze this guy but packs quite the punch to blow off any dusts on my lens!



Next up....my first REAL Lens! ,Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8

Moon!

It's been hazy and cloudy for the past few months, so catching a nice moonlite night is almost impossible. Fortunately, it's been raining a lot recently and finally I am able to play with some night shots. Still learning, but here is one.



50mm, f/9, 6 seconds