My Computer Hardware

Posted 2 months ago at 1:52 pm. 2 comments

I dunno why but I’ve never made a post about what hardware I have in my computer. This being a tech & coding blog I thought I had better share with you guys & gals what I actually run under the hood of my little beast.

I took some piccies too but first let’s start with what I am running:

• ASUS P5N32-E SLI Motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz - Running cool and stable @ 2.6Ghz
• 1x 2GB DDR2 800Mhz @ 12-4-4-4-T2 I forget which brand it is
• BFG GeForce 8800GTS 640MB OC
• Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
• Leadtek/Winfast DTV2000 H hybrid capture card
• 3 HDDs
  • 1 Western Digital 340GB
  • 1 Seagate 300GB
  • 1 Maxtor 300GB
• Asus 19″ Monitor @ 1440×900x75Hz
• Samsung HDTV 1080i Connected thru secondary DVI to HDMI
• 5.1 Creative Surround Sound Speakers
• Samsung Lightscribe DVD-R/RW DL
• Pioneer 111D DVD-R/RW DL

I think that’s it… I did have Corsair ram but when I was having all the troubles I swapped it with my sisters ram to make sure it wasn’t causing the problems. Turns out it wasn’t but I forgot to swap it back and the latency is actually better.

This post was really just for a little bit of fun on my part. Coming up are some pics of the inside of my Thermaltake Kandalf case. If you have some nice computer hardware why not leave a comment and link to a pic.

Vista Speech Recognition - Better Than The Rest?

Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 7:00 pm. 0 comments

Well, not really no. Vista’s built in speech recognition is better than some I’ve used such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, mainly thanks to the fact that it is built into Windows & doesn’t seem to hog resources. It also has a scarily accurate command system which is actually very, very accurate. Dictation though is about as much use as a ‘fizzy fart’.
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