Oh yeah…
Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I meant to include this in the previous post… but hey… several beers tends to make one forget things…
Awesome event number six… Beautiful Katamari was announced this week as well. And, praise all things that are holy, it’s going to come out on the 360!!! Which means I won’t even have to spend fucking $600 to get the PS3 just to play it. You have no idea how happy this makes me.
And while I’m at it… Awesome event number seven is that I was able to order the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium package at work. Yet another thing that makes me really super amazingly happy. I’ve been using the Photoshop CS3 beta for the last month or so, and it’s quite possibly the biggest improvement to Photoshop since PS7. And several parts of the beta have left me wanting more (most notably, down-scaling in the beta is utterly terrible). So I’m really excited for the full release.
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Awesome week.
Posted on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Yeah. Great week.
Awesome Event Number One. Technically from last week, but it kind of carried over into this week. At work, this last Friday, I successfully launched four separate sites all at once. “Separate” is, strictly speaking, a misnomer, as each of the four sites were related to the other ones. (Two public sites – one general public and one for our customers – as well as the [huge] internal company site and the site for all the other companies who provide us with customers.) All things considered, this launch went really really well. This Monday was actually worse than last Friday (when the sites actually went live on that there intarweb), but everything went as smoothly as can be expected. I haven’t jumped out any windows or stabbed myself in the head yet, so that’s good.
Awesome Event Number Two. The new Nine Inch Nails album was released. Besides the music (which is awesome), it’s got the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in any CD ever. The printing on the CD itself is heat-sensitive. When I inserted the disc into my drive to rip it to my Winamp library, it was completely black save for the “Year Zero” title in small print down at the bottom. When I took it out, it was a white CD with lots of lines and craziness all over it. I actually thought to myself, “wait a sec… I’m pretty sure this isn’t the same CD I put into the drive.” But then I looked at it, and it was the same CD indeed. It had just changed completely. Seriously. The music is great, but leave it to Trent Reznor to come up with that one thing that would make the CD so much cooler. Color-changing ink? Really now? Totally bad-ass.
Awesome Event Number Three. Again, technically from last Friday. But the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie was released. And just to piss everyone off, I’ll now write the full title. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. And just to piss everyone off even more, I’ll now write the full title of the soundtrack. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters Colon The Soundtrack. It is an awesome movie. The first five minutes are quite possibly the best portion of any movie since Team America. Seriously. It can have my babies. Go see the movie now.
Awesome Event Number Four. I finally bought and received a new television. It’s a 37″ LCD HDTV. The bezel is made by Olevia, but the LCD panel itself is made by LG. And we bought the Olevia version for probably half the price of the LG version. And… well… OMG… I honestly can’t believe I ever managed to play an Xbox 360 on anything other than an HDTV. Because it’s just so amazingly better than a normal standard definiition TV. Like, honestly, every time I think about playing Oblivion on a normal TV anymore, it really makes me want to stab myself right in the face. It’s that much better.
Awesome Event Number Five. Umm… I’ve got no idea. But I think four awesome events is quite enough for now. I’m done. Time for more beer. Because hey… beer, much like pretty much everything that’s happened this week, is very very awesome.
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Benchmarks II: The Reckoning!!!
Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 5:13 pm
So yeah, it’s been awhile. Sorry. I got busy.
Anyhoo, here’s some benchmarks for the new system, so that you can see how massively it destroys my old computer. Hehehe.
The new system specs are as follows:
Motherboard: MSI K9A Platinum (AMD 580X chipset)
CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+
Memory: 2gb DDR2 800 (Buffalo Firestix, 4-4-4-12 timings)
Video: ATI Radeon X1950XT 256mb @ 600mhz core / 1400mhz memory
3dmark05: 11,650 3dmarks.
3dmark06: 5,780 3dmarks.
As before, these were both ran at factory default settings. Some of the bigger CPU tests in ‘06 were still pretty craptacular, but that’s to be expected I suppose. They did go faster than the old system. For pretty much the first time ever, the graphics tests in ‘05 ran at actual playable framerates, which meant they looked smooth and not stuttery. I don’t think I’d ever seen a 3dmark test run without being jumpy before.
As for the Windows Experience Index, everything is much much better than before.
Processor: 5.4
Memory: 5.9
Aero Graphics: 5.9
Gaming Graphics: 5.9
Hard Drive: 5.4
Overall Rating: 5.4
Same deal as before. The overall rating is the weakest link in the chain. A shared honor, here, between the CPU and the hard drive. I assumed, even before I got the new hardware, that the hard drive would be the limiting factor here. I wasn’t expecting the CPU to be quite as low as it ended up being… I would have probably put it at 5.6 or 5.7 at least. But I realize that AMD’s dual cores aren’t quite as efficient as Intel’s here lately. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna buy an Intel chip any time soon, faster or not.
Still no Quake 4 benchmark. The program actually does start and get me to the menu, but if I try to create a game it crashes out. Not entirely sure why. Probably Vista or something. That’s usually the root of most problems like that lately, ain’t it?
So that’s about all I’ve got. Enjoy. I guess I’ll stop flaunting all my fun new hardware. It’s just so much fun to have a biggest-and-best computer again. 
