Here is another sig i made. I think it still needs some work.. Anyways i'll post the newer version if i can make it better

edit : final version

I Finally got myself a 1TB western Digital Sata HDD. I was running out of space on my old WD 320Gig drive. I've already filled one third of it, and still pumping those downloads.;)

My ISP test...

I finally made up my mind to get myself a new PC. As I was sick of my P4 1.8ghz with an ati x800 pro AGP graphics card. So i started saving from my part time job and when i had around $800, I went out to buy the components. Let me tell you that the night before we all were totally drunk, and the first thing i did the next morning was buy the PC parts (still in a hangover !)

So off i went to melbourne's lonsdale street, and hardware lane, where quite a few shops sell stuff for a lot lower price(well that's what i'd heard ). I started my upgrade with a new motherboard, which i Had to buy as my ancient board back home couldn't be upgraded any further. So i got myself a gigabyte MA78G-DS3H board.

My Motherboard - gigabyte MA78G-DS3H

After that i went into another shop to buy the ram, and after a bit of looking around i finally found what i had been looking for, Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 - 800 2 x 1gb dual channel Ram. I'd read a couple of reviews so i picked it up. I was on a real tight budget so i checked my wallet. out of the $800 i had spent $130 on the motherboard, and $90 on the ram. Still had a lot of shopping to do. So i had $$590 remaining, with the cpu, graphics card, case, keyboard/mice, hdd, power supply to buy. I planned to use my old 17" crt monitor, as it was pretty good.

Ram

So off i went to look for a case and its internals. I found a cooler master case with an inbuilt power supple 650watt for $150. I found that to be pretty good as the shop was clearing stuff for new stock. I looked for a standard logitec keyboard mice combo and eventually, after a bit of bargaining, i got both the case, and the combo input devices for $150 :D. That left me with $440 still to go.

The case

The logos

I later purchased a western digital 640gb sata hard disk for $80.

Western Digital hard disk

Finally i had $360 remaining, not much to buy a decent cpu and gpu. As i preferred amd, always, i looked into their latest phenom range. I had not read any reviews or benchmarks about amd. So i just listened to the guy in shop and he recommended the x3 range over the x2 6000+ which i was going for. i thought alright, might as well get the latest one. so i picked up the 8450 or something for $150.

Later i found that the cpu is not a very top ****and should have gone for the x4 9550 instead. so went looking for the last component, the graphics card. I had about 180 bucks left so had to look for something good, butcheap. as i did not had a huge monitor, i was not looking forward for a high end card. An ati card caught my eye. it was the now forgotten hd 3870, 512mb. I picked it up as it was a decent card, and was the only good one i could find for that price.

SO i finally had everything ineeded, for less than $800. And here in the australian market things are a lot expensive thantheus market.

But anyways, i went home, assembled it, and the first game i installed and played was the crysis. as it never ran on my old x800pro card. It was pretty good. I was able to run it on high on 1024x768 with aa off. i got a decent frame rate of 25-35 fps, thats all i needed. As im not much of a gamer, i dont play many games. But i was happy with my upgrade, atleast it was a lot better than my previous pc and i could play all latest games on it as well.

An inside view of my case

cooler master power supply, back view

Power supply - from inside

i was bored so thought i might as well make a sig... im pretty happy with it though :)

oh well, it certainly has been a while since a made a sig.. i know its not THAT great but i am happy with it considering it is my first in like 10 months....

i hope to get beack into designing, however more in to web development. I am learnign php/SQL these days, and also did a bit of java at uni... and apart from that 2007 has really flied away, did too many thing - work, uni, etc. etc....

i got promoted to a team manager at work in november, and have been working really hard from then. i guess hard work does actually pay off, at some point or the other.

So after three months of designing i am classed inter at NSL... wow thats a relief, though i know i wont be able to design and be online a lot from now on... Nyways im happy about it, took a lot of hard work though :D

My Latest Work !!

man ive been stressed out with work so much more than i used to be, new assignments every now and then, more practicals.. god, keeping up with college and work is way too difficult. its been so long i even made a blog post.. lol. hope that my final exams go fine... working hard on it though. Cheers !

Well its the year 2007 now.. A very happy new year to everyone !
This time, me and my friend went out and were supposed to stay at one of my friends place away from the city,  of which he forgot to bring the keys....  so we were homeless for the night. Anyways, we thought about spending the night in the car, we bought some bottles of whiskey n vodka and went for a drive. Though we stopped at a restuarant for dinner.. as the clock hit 12, everyone at the restuarant went crazy... dancing and shouting standing over the tables. And after all that we started to return, but WTF... This was the densest fog ever. Driving was nearly impossible. My friend who ws driving was poping his head out of the window to see. We were like at 10mph !!!! And on top of that the road was through a kinda forest.. All of us drunk, boosin like crazy but we managed to get through that place and fog began to disappear as we reached the city. N there in the middle of the night, we parked infront of a market, with the back window of the car open and music at full volume we stated dancing.. People whoever passed must ve thought these guys r gone crazy. And then... Of course like we never expected.. police. Evn though they could have thrown us all in for boosin n playin music n violence n all those charge, the police people were nice enough to leave us and let us go. After that, we parked in an alley and few slept, rest waited for morning.... There were few other things which happened during the night which i possibly cannot type here cuz gs mods wud ban me if i do that... I'll post pics that we took of that day soon....