Friday, February 6, 2015

A blast from the past!

One of the major things I have done during my 3-year absence in blogging is Rigs! As in, Computer Rigs! I have been obsessed about building high-end computer Rigs in such a short span of time!

My Glorious PC Master Race!

Sample PisoNet [1]
In 2012, our family ended our Internet Cafe, a family home business. It's not because it was no longer profitable but it was because my mother had gone tired of running it and the family was too busy to handle it. Lazy as it may sound, but we did enjoy its fruits for more than 5 years. Its income became our bread and butter and my father's salary went straight to retirement, investments, savings and emergency funds. It was still profitable despite the fact that in its last 2 years of running, our neighbor had a secret "PisoNet" shop in they're backyard, totally unregistered and illegal business. We ended its life because it was a family unanimous decision to stop running it. One of the reasons there was that the children have gone accustomed in curse words, trash talks and possibly porn-watching. We also tend to have regular theft happening especially if one or two customers request to use our comfort room. Lastly, we wanted our home to be a peace and quiet place.

I remember in November 2012, I went touring Malaysia and Singapore with my friend Kaye. After that weekend trip, I got fired and went jobless. During those jobless times, I became a social worker, a photographer, anything I could just to earn money. I remember for a few months from November 2012 to April 2013, I have been freelancing as anything online and offline. Until one day, my laptop and computer broke while my photography job expanded. I needed to break my bank savings to get a new computer and I just didn't want a new computer, I wanted a high-end one.

My friends introduced me to a local group of computer enthusiast and from there I have learned great deals of building a solid one. My experience in our family business regarding computer hardware has also helped me but the group really introduced me the expensive stuff! I remember those times I was depressed, Godless and all. So, I went "YOLO" on my savings and spent it on my first build named Bloody V.

Bloody V
Bloody V - 2013-04-23
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Processor
Asus Sabertooth 990FX Rev 2 Motherboard
Corsair CX750M PSU
Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600Mhz RAM
Corsair H80i Hydrocooler
Sapphire HD7950 3GB OC Dual X GPU
Aerocool Xpredator X1 Devil Red Mid Tower Case
Deep Cool Red LED 120mm Fans
Samsung 23" LED Displays (x2)
Hitatchi 1TB HDD
Razer Kraken Pro Headset

After being broke, depressed and Godless, my mother insisted that I go back to Him and I did. Few months later, I got a job, a good one that pays a lot of money and even bought the Razer Kraken Pro Headset for me to match my newly built computer!

My new job in 2013 took so much time from me that all my other freelance jobs such as Photography stopped. My workouts at the gym also stopped. I started to get fat. I built my Woman Cave. I started to obsessively buy games via steam, origin and humblebundle. I became so blessed that I could see the obvious difference in my life Godless and with God.

Anyway, before the year end of 2013, in September, I decided to make a major upgrade to my system. It became Terra P and then a final major upgrade in November 2013 and it became Black Lotus.

Black Lotus
Black Lotus - 2013-11-11
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Processor
Asus Sabertooth 990FX Rev 2 Motherboard
Corsair CX750M PSU
Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600Mhz RAM
Corsair H100i Hydrocooler
Sapphire HD7950 3GB OC Dual X GPU in Crossfire (x2)
Sapphire DVI to DisplayPort Adapter for Eyefinity
NZXT Phantom 530 Full Tower Case
NZXT RGB Hue Controller
NZXT Case Fans
Samsung 23" LED Displays (x3) Eyefinity
Samsung 128GB SSD
Hitatchi 1TB HDD
Razer Kraken Pro Headset
Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 Keyboard
Razer Naga 2014 Mouse
Razer Goliathus Control Mouse Pad
Black Lotus Figurine (Accel World)
Previously: Terra P - 2013-09-11
Eyefinity Goody during 2013
My year through 2014 was also great. Nothing to update much except for my time bonding with my loved ones and my job. On spare time, gaming. Until such time that I got so sick because I almost never got out of my Woman Cave. So, I decided to downgrade my triple screen eyefinity setup. And upped my dual graphics card to a one massive single graphics card. In May 2014, I have upgraded my setup and named it Bumblebee!


Bumblebee
Bumblebee 2014-05-05
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Processor
Asus Sabertooth 990FX Rev 2 Motherboard
Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 4GB OC
Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600Mhz RAM
Corsair CX750M PSU
Corsair H100i Hydrocooler
NZXT Phantom 530 Full Tower Case
NZXT RGB Hue Controller
NZXT Case Fans
Samsung 23" LED Display
Samsung 128GB SSDHitatchi 1TB HDD
Razer Kraken Pro Headset
Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 Keyboard
Razer Naga 2014 Mouse
Razer Goliathus Speed Extended Mouse Pad
Dunkin Donuts Bumblebee Figurine
Mods: Yellow Reflectorize Stickers on Case, Fans, RAMs, Shroud and Cable Cover
Foam Board PSU Shroud with Carbonized Sticker
Foam Board on Cable Cover with Transformers Autobots Logo
Carbonized Sticker on RAMs
And there you have it. A blast from my past! Thank you for reading this!

[1] PisoNet - a 1 peso vending-machine like computer that provides 4 minutes of usage

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