Cable Company Negotiator

After that first year, NEVER pay the required Cable Company price. My bill went from 99.00 / month to 160 / month. After a quick call to the company, I now have double the internet speed (20 Mbps), HBO, and pay 125 / month. All in all, nicely negotiated!

Mostly done with Build

Well, I never got that CPU cooler made by Arctic Cooling to work... turns out it required a 76 cent rentention module to use on a FX socket, so I ordered it, direct from Hong Kong btw, and naturally USPS tried to deliver it, but didn't tell anyone they tried to deliver it... I figured this out yesterday afternoon and then went and picked up this piece of shit piece of plastic today. I say it is a POS because either there is something screwy going on, or Arctic Cooling sent me the wrong module... it is certainly not compatible. So I gave up on that cooler, went to the Microcenter, bought a cooler master geminii s524, installed it without a problem at all, then promptly overclocked to 3.8 ghz! I got it up to 4.2, but I wasn't able to stably run prime95, although other activities seemed ok. Prime95 seems cool with the 3.8 ghz overclock, but I haven't done the overnight stress test yet. Not sure if I need to really. Here's the new Novabench score... a modest increase.

All in all, I'm pretty happy, I've got an overclocked GPU and CPU... I haven't messed with the memory yet, I've got 16gigs, but I'm not really pushing the limits yet.