New Furniture

Had a bit of time on my hands…. so I decided to make some minor changes to my room. Just minor minor ones… specifically my PC and TV area :)

I have been know to like to change the orientation of my room every few years. It makes the room feel “nicer” with a new breath of “freshness”. Have something in my mind now but we’ll just see how it goes later on.

The room originally looked like this.

Bought a rack, some drawers and a notice board from Tesco. Did a little modification and now it looks like this

You can never have enough place to store everything, especially if you keep almost everything like me!!! Gonna make a light feature / shelf for the bed in a day or two. Just can’t seem to figure out how I like the design best. Will post once its up.

PC Upgrades!!

It has been some time since I've done anything to my PC..... Needed to do some upgrades in the graphics department so that I can at least play SOME of the graphics intensive PC games :)

Bought a new graphics card.... not the latest model by a far shot, but will serve my purpose. Its a Palit nvidia 9800GT 512MB card.


Very basic "stuffs" included....


The driver CD, manual, spdif cable, molex to pcie power and of course the card itself.

So all set??? No. Coz then I remembered I had to upgrade my PSU as well. The original 300W PSU wasn't going to cut it and so I bought a Acbel E2 510.


The real watage of this is around 450W and this will be enough to power the new card together with my 3 HDDs, DVD Rom and some fans.

With the basic stuff ready I began to dismantle my PC to install the new stuffs. Some pics so show the process....

PSU installed.... had to tidy up the "snaking" cables.....

TADA!!!! all neat and tidy..... but I HAVE NOT INSTALLED THE GRAPHICS CARD!!!! %^&%^^&%^$%$^$^$^$^^@##@@

So I took out the older nvidia 8600GS.... and tried to put the new card in.... OPS! Problem....
Apparently the manufacturer of my mobo either did not expect graphics card to be able to grow to the length they are now or the did not expect users of a mATX mobo to slot in a full length PCIe card. The SATA ports were in the way of the card!!

What to do???? In the end I had to bend the end of the new card a little so that it slots in between the 2 rows of SATA ports. Here's how it looks like:
A closer look......
Was advised its not good the bend the card so I'll have to shop for a PCIe 1x SATA controller. Found out where to buy it but have not done so :P At least the rig works.

But I am satisfied for the time being. :) 3Dmark06 gave a score of about 12k so I'm happy.

Home-made Lamp

BB and me decided to get a little hands-on to make our own lamp. Actually its more like a modification of my existing (also self-made) lamp.

To put it simply, I had two bamboo candle holder as the stand, drilled some holes so that I can put in the bulb holder, reused the metal frame from 2 old lamp shades and a few pieces of bamboo sheets. Put them all together with strings and glue.... WALA... 2 nice bedside lamps!!!!



The shades were almost done when we realised we did not take any photos of the process..... :)


We took turns to sew the bamboo sheets together as each shade took slightly more than a piece of the the sheet. The finished product looked like this:


A closer look at the finished shade.....


And this is what is looks like when its lighted! Not bad huh??? :)

Steampunk Desktop

Shit!!!! I just totally love this thing!!!!! Damn!!! and its DIY!!!! For those interested, the step by step on how to make the LCD and keyboard is here : http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml

Be warned though... u need quite a lot of hardware skills and machinery to complete the project!!!! kakakaka!!!! But its so DAMN COOL!!!!!

There's even a mouse to go with it (although frm a different person!!!) Hahahahah.....


For the mouse, the link is here: http://jakeofalltrades.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/img_0616-2/

Happy reading guys!!!!!