XBOX 360!

Yes, my brother got an Xbox 360. So it means more gaming on the 360 instead of my own computer lol, since games are releasing for the 360 first instead of PC, and also more choices of games for the 360, for example Assassin’s Creed II. November release is for the XBOX 360 and also the Sony PlayStation 3, but 2010 release for computers. What a bummer, right?

So here goes the unboxing of the XBOX 360, I did it since my brother went out =P I was a little sleepy and tired the other day so it’s quite blurry.

The box. It’s freaking heavy and also large.

And so the unboxing begins!

First of all, it’s the console itself of course!

Beneath the console is quite a havoc.

No wonder it’s so heavy!

Here’s a few pictures of all the things inside the box!

 

The controller for the 360. Wireless, and also very comfortable to be held. Positioning might be weird for the analogs, but it’s really comfortable.

The power supply. Huge isn’t it?

 

Sorry for the blur picture, it’s the main cable that splits to audio and video. There’s a flip switch for HDTV and TV.

 

The included microphone and also the headphone.

The LAN cable. Note that it’s actually metal at the contact points.

 

The power cord.

So I got everything connected, hooked up the cables and all, but the final step – get it running and I failed. All because of the loose HDMI cable I connected. Who discovered it? My brother lol, he was so red that night when he came back.

Lololololol.

So yeah, finally got the game running!

And the next day, I got a terrible fever for like half a day, because on the one-day trip to KL I sweated a lot, and I didn’t cool down much on that day. Guess I stressed my body.

My brother actually stole my HAF 932’s aluminium standoffs to prevent getting the red ring of death, because he wants to save space and also cool the 360. So he just stole the standoffs.

Not that I mind since I can play Fable II and other games =D

Night shots =D

Recently I didn’t post much about my rig, didn’t I? So here’s a post about my rig’s night shots that I took at about 2 in the morning =D

Before I post any of them, here’s the picture of my CM CCFL that burn after about 30 seconds after I switched them on.

Managed to take this picture before the light died.

Here are the night shots.

Side view from the front.

Lower-front shot of the interior.

The shot I like the most.

Well actually yeah, there aren’t much update about my rig these days, except for my new fan. Look at the rear fan lol, it’s the Cooler Master 90CFM 19dBA fan. My old Vizo broke off… so I guess that’s it.

AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5800 series

On AMD’s recent launch, the HD 5870 and HD 5850 had already been launched. The new cards now has DirectX 11, Eyefinity technology and also a lot more new features and a redefinition on gaming graphics.

 

The new ATI HD 5870. Cooler design with a black body and red outline.

To my surprise, it uses the new ATI’s 40nm Cypress GPU. It’s a 1GB GDDR5, single cored but only 256-bit graphic card. The bandwidth of this graphic card is 153.6GB/s (as stated at bit-tech). The performance of this beast is already quite on par with the ATI HD 4870x2 but still losing to the dual-GPU nVidia GTX 295.

Here are some pictures I got from bit-tech

The new ATI Eyefinity technology. Supports up to 3 TFTs on a single card with individual settings for landscape or portrait mode.

Without the cooler.

The new ATI HD 5870 is relatively long, due to it’s crazy amount of transistors, which doubled the amount back at the HD 4800 series.

The back of the graphic card.

Well if you’re observant, the new HD 5870’s cooler design is relatively matching with the original Batmobile back at the 60’s.

Black body, red outline.

Here’s a modification I found online. Indeed a matching one!

Also here’s a sneak preview of the ATI’s Eyefinity technology in conjunction with our famous TFT manufacturer, Samsung.

Samsung’s ultra-thin bezel design. No name yet =D

Cooler Master imitation!

Imagine this – walking pass a very nice-looking computer shop, hoping for more or different things to see. Entered the shop and it turned out to be a fairly empty shop. Proceeding in… there’s a lot of racks selling peripherals of unknown brands. To my surprise I saw this.

Cooler Master imitation – the packaging.

The first thing that caught my attention is the Cooler Master Notepal X1 cooler for notebooks. The design is really special so I couldn’t resist to have a look at it. To my surprise, it’s not Cooler Master, but yet another imitation.

Cooler Yulong. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Pure imitation – the Cooler Master logo watermark.

When I saw this, I remembered Cooler Master’s logo shape. It shapes exactly like this watermark. Here’s a reference picture of the logo.

 

Official Cooler Master logo.

To my surprise, when I tried to Photoshop it in, it fits perfectly!

 

Obvious imitation!

I already told Cooler Master about this so let’s see what’s the reply. I’ll refer this blog post to them for further details.

One-day trip to KL

On the 19th of September, my family and I went to KL for a day to get my sister’s offer letter to work at KL, working at MUI in PMI Tower to be exact. Congratulations to her =D

Went there as early as possible because MUI is only working for half day on Saturdays. That morning was extremely sleepy, so we took the sleep to the car.

Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Random shot I took in the car.

Thanks to my sister’s iPhone, we reached there rather quick. First is my sister’s workplace.

Menara PMI. Looks like some hotel lobby inside =D

Then off to Sungei Wang!

Wardrobe at the parking lot =O Took this in a hurry

 

The decorations for Raya =D

Arabian-themed?

Then we headed to Kim Gary to have a meal. Sadly, my brother and I planned to go to Wendy’s but we couldn’t find any at Sungei Wang. Took a lot of pictures, so here’s just a few =D

 

Order a set meal and add RM1 for this funky drink =O

 

Most special fries I ever tasted.

Tasty cheese-baked rice =D

After the delicious meal (thanks to my brother for the treat) we headed to our own paths. Ah Chia, my brother and I went to  Lowyat =D

Saw this at the shop called HUB at Lowyat Plaza. The C4’s big brother. A really heavy blaster! Edifier FTW!

I bought a pair of CCFL and a fan, since my old one died. I’ll talk about that next time =D

So after Lowyat, we went down the from the plaza and entered a very wide and nice-looking shop. To my surprise, inside there was rather empty and sells imitated products! I’ll post about that next time. Then we headed to Times Square.

Times Square. Biiiiiiiiig…

We went in, walked around, lost Chia, waited anxiously for her for half an hour, found ah Chia and went back to Sungei Wang to meet with my mom and my sister. To my surprise, my brother’s desperation already ate him up. He bought an Xbox 360 and then we headed back.

About the CCFL, the imitations and the Xbox 360, I’ll post it next time =D

Gaming fun =D

Yeah, been actively gaming these days =D Proud to be saying I had fun and having fun now =D

So I played GRID and Batman : Arkham Asylum, yes Arkham Asylum. Let’s split the post into 2 parts =D

GRID

GRID was an ok game, I like the car physics and the graphics. It’s a game based on a life of a race car driver, from their hired driving efforts to their team’s driving effort.

Here are some pictures, I took them on a Touge event between some car and the famous Nissan Skyline GTR-34 =D

GTR-34 vs. 350z =D

Sharp turn!

Taken these screenshots in the replay mode is actually much nicer, the angles and stuff, you know =D

No way a 350z can win a GTR-34 lol.

The unbeatable low budget, high performance car, GTR-34!

Touge race is held at the mountains.

Even the sound effects are nice! With the ambient engine noise in the tunnel is totally seductive!

Batman : Arkham Asylum

So it’s Arkham Asylum, the most anticipated game of the month and I played it =D Here’s a little sneak peeks, no spoilers don’t worry =D

 

Well-known Batman sign.

 

Joker’s sidekick, Harley Quinn.

The island of Arkham, where the game is based on.

 

Batmobile!

That’s the most I can post, if I do post more then it’ll be much of a spoiler lol. Hope I get you all poisoned with Arkham Asylum =D

Personally I like the game and I love to play more games like this =D

Till next post yeah =D Stay tuned

Food much?

Recently there are a lot of good food I ate. One of them is my mom’s chicken.

I’m hungry now =|

And then there is this new restaurant near my house. Moon & Moon. They have this fried noodles with their sauce. Oh. Tastes so good!

Martin : It looks like it got bombed