JamesThorburn

Been busy with university work lately (Neural Networks coursework earlier in the month, ditched my old Final Year Project codebase and started over on that, revising for exams early next month) so not a great deal has been happening.

Back at my parents for a week or so and didn’t have space to pack my camera. Now I’ve been reading through Digital SLR User magazine and have a few ideas I want to try out but fear my Sony Ericsson K800i phone isn’t the optimum equipment, for starters it doesn’t appear to have any mounting holes for a tripod….

With Christmas 2006 done and dusted I’m banking on being the big winner with 2007’s must have toy

Presenting…..

Jacqui Buckaroo! Buy it now just £19.99 plus postage!

Hell I thought of this back in 2003 but found this in my archive and thought it needed sharing.

Two THOUSAND watts from a single power supply.

If this is actually necessary at any point for home computers in the next ten years ever then I might just cry. Now however its completely pointless.
Unless you are one of the dozen or so people who made the rather strange decision to purchase a QuadFX based PC there is frankly no need for a PSU of more than about 450w for most people.

Right now I’m sitting here running a Core 2 Extreme, GeForce 8800GTX, Raptor hard drive, watercooling, 2GB of memory, etc all on a very nice, quiet 520w PSU with capacity to spare (I know because I’ve used the same PSU with a Pentium Extreme Edition which drew roughly twice the power of the Core 2).
Even if I were to go absolutely berserk and add another 8800GTX, the more power hungry NForce 680i chipset, and enough hard drives to back up Google I’d still be under 800w, so why exactly would I ever need another 1200w on top of that? You could say future proofing but thats not really a future I’d be looking forward to.

Image mercilessly stolen from Legit Reviews

Thanks to Jo, Ruth and Andy for there hospitality and the excellent party.