So as you might be aware if you read this post, I had multiple hard drive failures in my house on the same day. After hours of messing around trying to get the drives to work, I finally settled to running off a Knoppix CD I had for a one older machine, then using my dad's laptop to burn the newer Knoppix DVD to run off my sig rig, to get basic access to my computer while the drives are off for RMA.

I've been using Knoppix for about a week now, full time, and seriously, I owe Klaus Knopper...

This weekend, I went through a broad range of emotions. On one side, I was pretty happy because attended not one but two interesting social happenings, one of which was very well stocked up in booze and therefor very entertaining. I also was very proud of myself, because over the previous week, I had received about 5 cheques in recognition for my work on a forum I built for a small RV community, but despite all this, something happened on Sunday that totally broke all my weekend, and even continues...

If there is one thing that I HATE on the Duorb, it has to be the fact that Thermltake put a molex on the end of the fan wires for connecting it to it's power source. I mean, *** TT, how hard is it to put a PWM controller on your fans, put a 4 pin standard GPU fan header and charge 3-4$ more for such a great product?

The calbe might be sleeved, but still, when you don't have a molex very near, and god knows that cable management freaks never, EVER, let a molex dangle that close to components,...

Although I had promised myself not to put any more money on Fr0stbyte on new year's eve, I knew my resolution wouldn't last long, like all the others. I got tired of getting thermal shutdowns on my 8800 GT (probably the memory), so I treated myself to a Thermaltake Duorb, a cooler which from what I heard is so fit for the GT that it's as if it were made for it.

So far, I've got it installed and tested the temperatures, but nothing more, and seriously, I'm blown away. I don't understand...

With a banner!

What's cooler than having an OCN blog? Having your very own customized OCN blog header of course! I used to blog wayyy before I registered here at OCN, and right from when I started, I figured out that a blog is something personal, something that you should be modified to fit you. Right from the start, back in the days where I was a young ignorant noob, I ran Wordpress' default theme Kubrick with customs headers I had made myself with the GIMP, and I tried had to modify...