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Deal cards

Here is some more C++, I am just posting it here to dump it somewhere to show it to someone with 1337 hacks. Please disregard if this sort of thing bores or confuses you. ^_^

Staring at a Computer All Day

It is hard to sit at work looking at a monitor all day. And in some
ways it is harder when I have less work to do. When I’m being
productive, I look at pieces of paper, make phone calls, type in MS
Word, and go back and forth to the printer. On days like [...]

Overclocking my i7 920 on an evga x58 SLI motherboard

For the last few days, I’ve been playing with overclocking my computer.   Now, I think I’ve found stable settings that will boost my CPU from the stock speed of 2.67 GHz to 3.84 GHz.  These settings were stable for 7 hours of overnight Prime95 testing, so they are looking pretty good.
(Prime95 is a program [...]

Desk Upgrade

Today I upgraded my desk…now  it has a cup holder!  
This is to protect my new computer from my cat.  The new computer is going to sit on the floor to the right side of the desk and the top of the case has a fan.  This could be very dangerous since my cat has [...]

Benchmarking the Old Computer

Tonight, I decided to run some benchmarks on my old computer so that I can compare the new one once I get it built. Here are my old computer’s stats:

AMD Athlon64 3000+ (Winchester, 90 nm, 1800 MHz, 512 KB L2 cache)
Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard (Rev. 1, American Megatrends 1018.001 BIOS)
2×1 GB Dual Channel OCZ [...]

New Computer

I just bought parts to build a new computer system.  I spent way too much money on it, but I think it should be pretty nice.  Also, the system should have a lot of room for upgrades in the future.
The system has the following parts:
Intel i7 920 2.66 GHz Processor  I was thinking about going with [...]

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