Author Archives: Brin

Mar '10 13

Overclocking the i7-860

I’ve found people using the following settings 171×21 vCore 1.3125 Vtt 1.21 vDimm 1.6, No LLC I’m using the following at the moment 170×21 vCore 1.325 Vtt 1.21 vDimm 1.58, enabled LLC no turbo, alarms on fans and heat, turbo … Continue reading

Mar '10 03

i7-860 Upgrade

So i bought all the parts for my PC (internals) and setup everything in my old case. Everything seemed OK at first, but then i noticed it was getting hot without even doing much. I found running realtemp and doing … Continue reading

Mar '10 03

Scheduled Tasks

Vista / Windows 7 UAC is a pain, OpenVpn is poping up a UAC prompt every time i boot windows, one way to get around it is turn off UAC, however thats not a great solution. Another way around it, … Continue reading

Jan '10 03

Intel i7 core processors

Looking at using Intel i7 Core processor for faster encoding, there is a good article comparing the i5-750 and i7-860 with the i7-920, looks like the 860 is just as good as the 920, and the 750 isnt far behind. … Continue reading

Jan '10 01

Reading CSV files with CGI

Found a good code snippet on displaying a CSV file in a table, using Text::CSV. There is a small tutorial also. I was trying to use this example, but found it didnt handle the csv very well, its prone to … Continue reading

Dec '09 27

Film storyboard

I’ve created a new category for Film, since I’ve been doing a bit of work trying to do some stuff for the kids. I’ve found the kids have good idea’s (better than me, i lack that sort of imagination), but … Continue reading

Dec '09 05

Wii Brew

Info on Wii IOS versions including Stubs. HardWii is good site on Wii updates

Dec '09 03

Anime

Some good sites to check out news on Anime. Anime News Network Mania