Life of Rajesh

Well Guys At the start of this month I was short of blogging material and had lots of free time and now when I got so much things to blog about I dont have the time !Well still I took out some time from my busy schedule to update my blog

As you Guys Know My Holidays were going on and I was getting bugged sitting idle at home,then after coming back from my tour my Dad told me that he needs to buy 2 new PC’s for office and told me to get the configuration ready.The configuration was ready within a minute but I thought to myself WTF am I Doing?New PC for office is good par isme mera kya fyada? Then I thought that I will try and convince Dad to get a laptop for Office and then when the laptop arrives I will send my PC to office instead of the laptop.I tried my best but Dad did not agree.Then I thought of a MASTER PLAN.I decided since I will be getting a laptop after Class 10 I can wait for some more months and till then I can try to upgrade my current PC.The first thing after that I did was to go to my office and check the configuration of the 2 PC’s which were going to be replaced.

Out of the 2 PC’s,one was a P3 and the other was a P4 and used DDR RAM.So I told my Dad that instead of getting 2 new PC’s we can upgarde the P4 with 1Gb DDR RAM and get a new PC to replace the P3.Now I thought that I will get 2GB DDR RAM from Kingston and use them in my PC and the current RAM that I had will go in the P4.The D Day arrived and I went with my Dad to get the parts.Instead of getting a DVD writer with IDE interface I went with a DVD writer from ASUS which had a SATA Interface.Soon I reached home and the First thing I did was to take out the RAM from my PC and Swap it with the RAM that I got ! Part I of Mission Accomplished Successfully !

Now next Day I went to the Office with the new PC and assembled it ! The Comp Guy in My Office told me that the HDD being used in the P3 was new and I should use that Instead of the new HDD I got.Instead of arguing with him since I thought I can use the 2nd HDD and do RAID 0 ! Surprisng Entry of part II in the Misson which is successfully accomplished as well !

Now When I was going to attach the DVD writer the Office Guy told me that the P3 already had 2 DVD writers installed and I shall install it instead of using the new one.Again at this point I was gonna tell to him that new mobo’s only support 1 IDE port and the max devices supported per IDE port is 2 which will still create a bottleneck and so it will be better to use a SATA DVD writer but then again I changed my mind at the last moment and decided to agree with the computer guy and I told to myself that I can use the new SATA DVD writer in my current PC.I already had a DVD writer but the new one supported Lightscribe which was very handy for me and So when I left from the Office I had 2 new Components Upgarde for my Home PC ! I was feeling very proud of my evil brain and thinking what a genius I am,but soon things changed !

When I reached home and opened up my PC I saw that my Mobo only had 2 SATA ports and I could either plug in the HDD or the SATA DVD writer.I went with the HDD since RAID 0 was a much better option than the lightscribe DVD writer.I backup-ed all my Data onto different forms of storage media including 2 GB MicroSD card,2Gb Mini SD card,1 DVD and 5*2Gb Pen Drives !After that I remembered that I would need a custom XP CD with the RAID drivers since No OS can detect the RAID setup until and unless you provide them with the drivers.I made a XP CD and setup-ed RAID and in the process both my HDD’s were formatted and that means they had no Data on it.Then I put the XP CD in the tray and restartd my PC.I had already changed the boot media to my DVD Drive,and to my horror I got the Custom XP CD I had created was not bootable !After struggling for 2 days to create a Bootable XP CD,I had reached a point where my eyes had become red and my head was paining badly and i even tried to install Ubuntu but even Ubuntu failed to detect my RAID 0 and finally I had to drop the idea of doing RAID 0 and now I am just using the 2nd HDD for my torrents downloads and till now that drive is totally empty ! I never even reached the point of filling up 80Gb of my current 160Gb HDD,forget another 160Gb !

In the End I am using that HDD just for the sake of it and I have put the ASUS DVD writer for sale !Indeed a Master Plan which worked but still did not in the end !

Many of u guys know that I have been using VISTA but recently I started playing Far Cry and that got me really indulged so I decided that I will shift to XP since rebooting the PC and booting in XP just for playing Far Cry took a long time. Since I had not used XP for a long time the drivers were all outdated so I updated all my drivers. When I went to nvidia’s site to download my Graphics Card driver I saw the latest drivers were 93.71 which was released long time ago and many people said that the 91.47 Forceware drivers were better than 93.71 drivers. Even I had agreed to them since earlier I had used 93.71 Drivers and they were continuously giving me artifacts. So yesterday I decided that lemme once again install these drivers and see how they perform. Installation and everything went fine then I installed Coolbits and decided to overclock my GPU.
To My surprise the driver did not detect m y clocks properly as it said my Core Clock to be 400mhz and Memory to be at 350Mhz which is higher than my stock clocks of 350mhz for Core and 333mhz for memory. Then I decided to check my clock speed using Riva Tuner. Riva Tuner also reported my clocks to be at 400/350 MHz. So I decided to overclock using Coolbits only and decided to check what will be my frequencies if I let Coolbits detect my Frequencies. To my surprise Coolbits set 440 MHz for my core and 415 MHz for my memory. I fired up 3D Mark 06 so as to see whether my graphics card was stable or not. Surprisingly it was stable!!!
So now the drivers which I thought were crap turned out to be the best for me since it got my GFX stable up to 440mhz/415mhz which the 91.47 drivers did not allowed me to do. The max they could let me overclock was 399 MHz for Core and 385 MHz for Memory .I got a cool 90mhz Overclock on Core and 87 MHz overclock on memory all thanks to the 93.71 drivers. Kudos to Nvidia for this!!!