OCZ Vertex boot speeds

Fuck me, 24 seconds to load windows (desktop appears and usable), another 11 seconds to finish loading all background apps/anti virus and so on.

Here's a video

OCZ Vertex LE

As Wolf (semi)correctly guessed, my small update is an SSD. An OCZ Vertex 100gb LE SSD to be precise. As I'm sure you all know, they come in 2.5" form-factor ;)

First impressions - small, very light. Is this thing REALLY a drive that can take 100gb of data?
Installed it two days ago but a combination of sleep/long working hours (again) prevent me from testing properly.

But. OH. MY. GOD. The speed is OUT OF THIS WORLD. The time it takes windows to boot to desktop is about 12 seconds, everything responds BLAZINGLY FAST. One odd thing is that you don't hear it working (obviously) so that normal (and sometimes comforting) sound we're all used to of a hard drive churning away to run your application is now history. You just have to get used to very silent and lightning fast performance.

More later (am at work still) - but next post I'll tell you about how I was trying to save myself time installing it, but as Murphy's Law dictates, that cost me more time and effort and I ended up just installing windows fresh on the drive.

Stay tuned!

Small PC update

A small (2.5? :p) PC update is making its way to the good delicious
towers as we speak.

Stay tuned ;)

Hell - The Game!

Remember the excellent Hell comic? Well some clever bud has turned it in to a flash game.

Good luck!

A new kinda drum?

It all ended in tears, by the way :)

Hell

From the brilliant xkcd.

Pixels - the most beautiful short film you'll ever see

So what would happen if the end of the world means that the pixels we so love (and hate) jump out and obliterate us? Find out in this AMAZING short film by onemoreprod and Patrick Jean.

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod. - Watch original web videos.

Flickering in Battlefield Bad Company 2?

Got the PC version of BFBC2?

Got some ATI cards in CrossfireX?

Suffering from flickering or horizontal lines when you play the game?

Well your lucky day has come! Just download this 500kb fix here, and enjoy the game as it was meant to be!

Now What?