Cable management for my rig and my workstation.

Haha, as most of my readers (thanks for visiting, reading, browsing, hopping through – very much appreciated!) knows, I somehow like to organize stuff such as cables, re-positioning things and doing some weird things.

Just yesterday, I modified the shoebox again due to some inconveniency.

This was the shoebox before it was modified.

This was after. I only patched the old hole and then cut another hole right above the old hole.

I also patched this hole. It was getting rend and tear by the voltage regulator.

Then suddenly got other me and I also enlarged hole for the wire to the power supply. No picture was taken. (Sorry!) Time for my rig!

 

 

I redecorated the cables behind, it looks much more simple now. Also I have more workspace for my HDD part, and also exchanged slots for my HDDs.

Then I though of something about mounting my heatsink’s stock fan to the HDD. That is exactly what I did.

The tying process sucks. It made my fingers plausible to scrub off my dead skin.

Looking great!

Even the spinning looks nice eh~

Then tragedy strikes. I was sweating mad. I mounted the fan clashing with the stock 230mm red LED fan. Both fans blow to the same direction, the HDD. Had to undo all the ties and turn it around. –_-

Done! No more hologram sticker. That’s not good eh.

After that I went and see the results. Neither of my HDDs increase nor drop in temperature. It was weird, but somehow now my HDD’s heat is quite stable, as it wont increase more than 40ºC.

P/S : Any comments or suggestions about my cable management are accepted~ Do help me out here!

Stuff happening – Summary of this one-week-holiday.

Okay, I know its weird to do something like this. Actually this is the week that I posted the most to my blog and the week that my blog’s posts are being spammed off so fast~

Anyway do see some weird things now.

 

Taken by my phone right outside Pantai Hospital’s traffic light. It’s disgusting, I know. It’s all rust. By the way, turns out my phone camera with enough light is really nice.

 

Taken this picture by my phone again during tuition for Physics. There’s actually a guy sitting there with girls when there’s actually HELL LOTS  of space that day.

A blur picture taken by my digital camera. It’s actually a dead mosquito I found in my HAF 932…

Haha, I will post up what happened to my rig in the next post. Till next time, like err 20 minutes? Haha~

Chia’s PSP

Well to tell the truth, that day when my brother reached home with Chia, I was happy to see the PSP is her hand. Taking the PSP to fix and then BAM Patapon with Tekken 5 : Dark Resurrection! But then something happened.

Sony PSP battery. Looks fine with it right?

 

Saw anything with it yet?

Now this picture tells everything. The battery was bloated. No wonder my brother put the battery at the freezer.

Well I don’t know exactly what happened to it but he said just left the PSP in the car then this happened. I was dumbfounded.

Then after that we took the PSP to Yik Foong, Ipoh for a check-up. The guy looks fishy but he’s really an honest guy. He showed us the PSP’s internal as the PSP is actually a PSP rebuilt into PSP 2000. He even showed us the original PSP 2000’s internal comparing to this PSP. Seriously this PSP has some stickers, plaster, hotwired things and some weird things. Even the joystick and the directional buttons are displaced.

The PSP still looks great too. What a waste.

Laptop Review – My cousin’s Acer…

First of all I would like to declare something that is my cousin’s laptop was bought last year. And also, laptop’s performance are lower than desktop’s even if the hardware are same.

First look at the laptop

The list of “special features” on the laptop itself.

As usual, Windows Vista sticker is there with the processor sticker. What’s so surprising is the graphic card. The nVidia 8600M GT @ 512MB.

Well when I first saw the laptop, it looks great! But I was wrong. Only the design is nice but the quality build is bad. I tried to play Need For Speed : Undercover with this laptop while running in the batteries and Power-saver was switched to High Performance. It still lags.

So I tried to check the hardware clocks at the BIOS, and this is what I saw…

 

IDE DVD-ROM? Seems like ACER is cheating all their customers?

Also I would like to dig out few things to talk about with this laptop.

 

It has a TV-out port and HDMI port.

It has dual microphone which is built-in plus, a webcam.

It has a subwoofer O_O

 

The battery. Most of the weight of the laptop comes from this battery.

By pressing the word ACER, the shell actually goes down,feeling like its going to crack open.

There’s also a few touch buttons on the laptop itself, as the multimedia keys plus some keys which does some crap stuff. But as ACER tries to go touch-screen, it’s really irresponsive.

 

What 'I’m talking about

There’s a button which open this thing which opens multimedia files in it.

Overall this laptop quite sucks for its performance. It sucks because the keys aren’t that good, or maybe that my cousin doesn’t know how to keep his laptop in a good condition. Thanks for reading lol~

Strange things happening…

Hmm… Lets start off with my new casing, the HAF 932. I was popping in and out DVDs to be ripped and to be recorded. At the same time, I was transferring stuff from my phone (pictures at the previous like 4 posts??). Then when I removed the USB card reader, I felt that something was pulling it, not letting it go. Without hesitation, I went to check out, and this was happening.

 

I have no idea that this will happen.

After that, I dig out my old CPU cooler’s stock 120mm fan for a check.

 

 

It actually looks great. Dusty fan! (Captain Obvious here). But when I took pictures of the other parts, this is what I saw…

 

Disappointment. Did they forgot to put the LED there for waiting for the users to modify their own choice of LED colors. Seriously retarded. At least give us blue or red LED. Green is seriously not the color for brightening up your rig.

I tried to take another good shot at it then I got this… After that I decided to do some Photoshopping.

Turned out great!

Out of curiosity, I tried to take a picture of the lights in my casing by the CoolerMaster fan I bought recently. I wanted to investigate the performance of my digital camera, which is quite old. I took the picture from the meshed holes on top of my casing. This is the result.

 

I wouldn’t say its bad. But still not really happy with the result.

Well that’s all for now. Will update sooner.

Another box modification

Well I got too boring on Monday and there was a box which I hated for too much extension and blocking my way…

So what I did was to modify it.

 

This was the original box. Forgot to take some pictures before cutting it. Note that the lines are my guidelines for the length.

The piece that I cut off

After cutting. I never leave it this way. What I did was this…

Secure taping 101. Seriously no way for it to come out now.

After modifying it, I left it back at the original place. Now that size of the box is really great. The retention of my motherboard processor is just enough to put it in with my finger along. And my packet of screws too.

I will upload more, don’t worry. I know that this is a lame update =D

Weather at Ipoh

Well, first I want to tell that I am majorly updating my blog posts!

As for now, I will post about the weather at Ipoh these days. As I am at the Lowyat forums, members tend to complain about the weather. So now I will post pictures of the weather changes in minutes.

 

 

This is earlier

This is later

As you can see, in these two pictures the weather doesn’t have much changes…

But in these pictures, you can see it quite clearly…

This is earlier

This is later

The changes here are very … much…

Then in like 10 minutes or so, rain starts to pour.

Oh the rain. My sister and I just washed that white MyVi =(

Cable management on like err, few weeks ago?

 

Okay, so here’s the minor changes I did to it. I just cut the 4 pin motherboard connector on the top left, so the other one won’t pop its head out. That’s all. Haha.

So about this, I need help on the HDD connectors part. Look at those wires, my God! Please can anyone give me some suggestions or comments about it? Desperately need help on the HDD part.

 

Also, I accept whatever comments or suggestions about my cable management. Trying my best for perfection it cable management.

By the way, I thought of getting a rounded IDE cable. What do you think? Will it help to reduce the bunch of wires at the HDD part? Please help me.

Apple iPhone

The iPhone you’ve been waiting for. Now available.

Quoted from Maxis Official Website. They are actually having an event for this phone’s official launching @ KL 20th this month.

This is the price of the phone, directly cut-and-paste from Maxis website. It is hell expensive.

Well, actually we can’t judge a real phone by its price, we judge by its performance and its functions.

As all people around the world said that the iPhone is actually great, we have to see the new iPhone 3G. The difference is only the 3G speed, and the price.

As the iPhone is the first device that has multi-touch function. It takes great advantages of its technology. And better, it never lags. I never used an iPhone before, but I see no complaints about the iPhone lagging.

Then, about its accelerometer technology. Its redefined and it has the best response in the iPhone. There are lots of games made specially for iPhone using the accelerometer. You can even roll dice by swinging it, driving by turning the phone, or randomizing the playlist by just a simple swing.

About the size of the phone. Thin is the word for it. It is small enough for normal use and office use. It has quite a decent camera.

Overall I think the iPhone is great. Might consider getting one too, but not from Maxis it is.

Pictures from my phone, my trusty W610i

Well as some people knows, my Sony Ericsson W610i is actually hack modified, nearly modified all to be precise lol.

Here’s a few pics I kept for a loooooooooooooooong time.

My phone isn’t really good with its camera since its a W-series phone

I tried modifying its camera driver, as it is now modified actually, never did work.

 

 

This photo was taken at some shop which sells only Italian food, celebrating my brother’s birthday. Changed photo due to my mom’s demand.

 

A night during Chinese New Year holidays, taken at McDonalds 24-hours Gopeng branch at night, at the outdoors beside the drive-through lane

Some dead/fainted mosquito after my mom sprayed lots aerosol in the room lol. I just about to take a nap when I saw this.

Picture taken by my tuition/classmate, Tek Wai. Seems like he’s too free before the class starts.

Introducing the Nokla N88i, a China phone.

 

Seems iPhony? It is a touch-sensitive phone. It features something that I personally like, the wallpaper sliding to the side, means that the wallpaper will be randomized to another wallpaper.

iPhone Mobile, with 2 Apple logos. the blue one is the shadow I think, whereas the white one is the foreground? Weird.

Photo I secretly taken during tuition class for Additional Mathematics, L-R : Calvin Khor, Foong Win Sheng, Henry

Dinner at Moon&Moon with my mom. It was a great experience to taste the food here because its nice and fast enough to serve with quality with a smile on the customer’s face.

Photo taken of my HAF 932’s stock rear fan. All Cooler Master fans have its own hologram sticker there. I seriously love its rotation with lights of the hologram reflection.

 

Cooler Master. With loops on the outside like electrons shells.

Photo taken at around Yik Foong, Ipoh. The name of this shop is somehow resembling the original Foh San Dim Sum? Pirated Foh San = Foo San? And this motorcyclist with a kid in between, its a coincidence that I took this picture with the motorcycle there.

Picture secretly taken at RedCom, Yik Foong. L-R : Cooler Master 80mmx80mmx15mm for the CM 690 motherboard tray fan, Cooler Master Blue LED 90CFM 19dBA fan 120mm, LED series fan 80mm, LED series fan 120mm.

Photo taken by my W610. Shows my workstation, which consist of :

i) Mentos Yoghurt

ii) Manchester United phone holder (it speeds up my phone-receiving a lot!)

iii) Edifier C3

iii) HAF 932 – my computer

iv) Mouse pad

v) Cellophane tape

vi) Sony 17” 1280x1024 monitor

vii) electric stuff, modem, charger for phone, digital camera, my computer, my speaker

viii) my school stuff

ix) otaku stuff

x) shoe boxes for my new cable management for leg part~

Thats all lol~ be sure to check back maybe around tomorrow.

The digi-cam was taken along by my sister, so I can’t copy the pictures of my new cable management~ Too bad eh.

 

P/S : Happy birthday Calvin Khor Gim Leong! (being specific here)