Yeah, I’ve been slacking on this blog.
Actually, I’ve been busy with other writing projects, consumed with Mass Effect / Mass Effect 2 and brought low by a bronchial infection. The good news is that I’m coming out of my Bioware addiction and at the tail end of this combination of cold and sinus infection.
This is just a quick post to point towards a few articles. I recently wrapped up several big projects for Maximum PC, including extensive benchmarking of Nvidia’s new 480 GTX, a review of Sapphire’s take on AMD’s Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition and a roundup of Raw photo editors. Writing the article on editing raw images was great fun, but I’m not happy with the way it turned out. I waxed a little too enthusiastic, and got carried away writing it, so the fault was entirely mine — not the editors at MaxPC. That happens every now and then, if you write a lot. Not every article can be perfect, even when you have great editors. All you can do is learn from them and move on.
I’ve also been reviewing laptops for PC World, as well as several how-to articles. I’m also back in the throes of system building, too. I’ve been building a PC using an Asus P7P55D-E Pro motherboard and a Coolermaster CM 690 II case. I’m also experimenting with a CoolIt ECO sealed liquid cooler. I’ll have more on that, later, after I get it all up and running.
I’ve got another system building project that’s hardware complete. I’ll be writing that up for Anandtech. Part of that, however, also includes software. I’ve just installed Adobe’s Master Collection CS5. Unlike other system building projects, this one revolves around actually doing something with the system — in this case, authoring and mastering a Blu-ray disc. I shot some HD video and a lot of photos from my daughter’s Winter Guard season, so I’m putting together a compilation disc for the team.
Meanwhile, I have been micro-blogging about my latest system build on Twitter, so check out my twitter feed, loydcase, if you want to see what’s up with that.
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8 comments
Kris says:
April 30, 2010 at 9:57 am (UTC -7 )
I just built my PC with the same case. I really like the cable management; I have the power cables all running behind the motherboard, which I’ve never done before with a case. This leaves almost nothing (except case fan wires) to interfere with airflow through the case. I haven’t built a new PC in 3 years so maybe it’s common these days to see cases with such nice cable management ideas?
I just ordered a CPU heatsink and fan to replace the stock heatsink on the i7-930 I have but I am interested to see how your liquid cooling works in this case.
Brandon Champion says:
May 6, 2010 at 1:55 pm (UTC -7 )
I’m interested in hearing more about the CM 690 II case as well. Mostly because I have a GTX 275 that required the removal of hard drive bays from my current case and I want to know if that would be a problem.
I wish more reviewers would cover this topic. They seem to only bring it up in relation to the absolute biggest of cards and in general terms that aren’t really helpful or relevant to 90% of the readers. It just sounds like bragging when a reviewer says “I tried to cram all 12.2 inches of hardware in that little box, but it just wouldn’t fit”… OK, that’s great… you da man… now can you tell me if my 6… er… 10 inch video card will fit please?
Brandon Champion says:
May 6, 2010 at 1:57 pm (UTC -7 )
Oh, and WELCOME BACK.
Dave Muk says:
May 6, 2010 at 4:47 pm (UTC -7 )
Any chance of linking to your articles through here? I try and keep up to date through your Twitter, but do miss a few. Having a place to come to read your articles would be useful.
admin says:
May 6, 2010 at 4:48 pm (UTC -7 )
Good idea. I’ll try to do that, as well as post several times a week.
Markeyse says:
May 12, 2010 at 10:05 pm (UTC -7 )
Hey. Accidentally clicked on this link and seen some new post. Glad you’re back.
YS says:
May 13, 2010 at 9:36 pm (UTC -7 )
Welcome back!
It’s funny how Bioware games tend to make one disappear from the face of the earth.
Good to know that you’ve been busy. Gonna try to find that RAW photo article of yours.
Eric says:
June 13, 2010 at 9:44 am (UTC -7 )
Glad you’re back…was wondering what happened.