My Rig

It time to update my monstrous rig which i call it as ' morbid machine'. I bought the components one by one and assembled it myself. It was a year back when i bought my core components namely my motherboard(XFX 680i SLI LT), XFX 8800GTS X 2 , CPU(core 2 duo E6750 2.66 GHz, RAM(crosshair 4 GB), G3 laser mouse and G15 gaming keyboard(i broke the lcd and it looks more like G11) and a monster power supply of 800watts coolermaster and a cpu cooler coolermaster hyper212 . I could render all the graphic intense softwares and play insanely resource hungry games(yea it can play crysis at high quality with 16X anti aliasing). The cabinet that i had was not so big and i had a tough time arranging the power cords of that supply which mostly of no use.

Yes it looks ugly. After a while there were some issues with my motherboard so i had to change it. I bought MSI P7N platinum ,coolermaster HAF 932 and HABU from sparsh who lives in delhi. He imports all kinds of high end components. Then i assembled it again, The tower was just big enough to fit my power supply and all its cords well tucked. I really admire the beauty of HAF. Installation of components were never so easy with tool less drive bays and expansion slots. It has 2 massive fans of 230 mm at the side and the top and with 140 mm fans at the front and the back with a red led.

After doing some proper cable management...voila. I was testing the mobo with stock heatsink.

The mobo has 3 pci slots but cant run all the 3 GPUs in SLI mode but 2 in SLI and the other can be dedicated to physix or some encoding videos.

 

This rightly claims the name 'morbid machine'. The outer case is pitch black. Wish the interior was also painted black. The Habu is nice but it has some issues with configuring the mouse. Windows xp doesn't even recognise the mouse but you can still able to use it if you reconnect it every time you boot into xp or any other os except vista. But i would say vista sucks. I know there are a lot of supporters say that you should know how to configure it properly to take its full advantage. As a matter of fact i did many configuring and still it was impossible to play many games with decent frames per second while in xp i get an extreme increase in fps. Yes i dual boot xp with Ubuntu linux. Im waiting to install sabayon linux.

Call of Duty 4

Call of duty 4 is one of the best mmofps that i have ever played. The graphics and the game play is amazing. Even though the single player campaign was short, the multiplayer makes up for it.
I really enjoyed playing the multiplayer. I didnt buy an original cd just torrented it and used garena(virtual lan) for connecting. Most of the time i will be in the malaysian server room since there is no indian server room. I wish there were many people in India plays it. But this game is quite resource hungry. There was no problem with my machine to play it. When i went to chennai during december 2008 . I, Jackye, Eagles, Archer, Patrick went to BLUR and played cod4 there. Those machines were loaded with armor cabinet , deathadder mouse, high end gpu. The monitors there were huge and we owned everyone there.

It was a great fun playing there. Nowadays those chennai people don't come to play cod4 coz they are busy playing Knights online which i consider as a noob game. When warrock's stupid hackshield falsely accused of detecting hacks banned my morbidgod id. Eventhough i got it back i lost interest in playing that game. But just want to chat with my fellow clan mates. In cod4 there is clan called [IND] which is an Indian clan. I was deeply admired that someone has created a national clan.

The game allows you to level up as you gain experience and unlock perks and guns. There are many challenges which are interesting to complete. I love sniping in that game but cant snipe in close quarters like i do in warrock with psg. The sniper gun that i love shooting with is R700 and barrett. Mostly i play hardcore gamers( no hud no cross) with m14 carbine or p90. It is ranked 2nd in xfire for the most no of hours played per day which is around 13,501,821 minutes per day. There are alot of great players in asia. I wish more Indians played it using garena. The patches can be downloaded in http://dead-x-clan.com/cod4-patches/. One of my nice scores

MorbidGod

Hailed as one of the best snipers in the Indian server is morbidgod(of course its me). I first stumbled upon this game about 2 years ago through downloads.com. Before then i have never played any mmofps. As it was a F2P(Free to Play) i downloaded it. I don't remember my first id. Back then there was no Indian server so we could play on the turkey server. I was a n0Ob back, pretty sure i had a sucky comp. I didn't show that much interest. The server was practically flooded with players and had a lot of hackers. I got frustrated as i couldn't kill anyone even emptying a whole mag and everyone seemed to kill me in a flash. I said to myself "you suck and why do you play this game?". So then i quit and never bothered to play again.
Later i bought a new machine which can shred anything into pieces. I donno why but i suddenly thought of playing that game. So i re downloaded it and installed it. LOL it had to update for several patches which too a long time. But with the patience of a monk i patiently waited. Then entering the game it asked for user name and pass which i have completely forgotten. Then i created the morbidgod id(on January 2008). I then started kicking ass. I could play only in the Indian server and there were only a few clans like PLI(Prima Legion Indianus),ahf(azad hind fauz),nbw(natural born winners),god(gods of death). The first player that made me a fan was jackye who happened to be the leader of PLI. When i was at level 8, i asked him if i could join the clan. He asked me to fight against catastroy. It was a 1-1 sniping match and yes she won. But jack took me in the clan anyways. I didnt know anything besides gaming like clan stuff and i didn't even know how to pm. Back then PSG was a f2p gun and bought it. It was an awesome gun. It was pure ownage.

It was during my 12th board exams. I was totally addicted to it. I woke up at 5 in the morning to read chemistry but i logged into warrock and played it. And i scored 96% which is a great feat. Then i got gold premium through my neighbour who gave me his cc to buy it. I bought m249 coupled with famas which was a total carnage. Then i bought famas retail which i regret now. I bought m134 for a week to test how it was. I didnt know how to use that gun at that time. Then after sometime with a fierce determination to master that weapon i played with it no matter what. The secret key is the tapping and my high sensitive mouse which can counter balance the huge recoil that gun imposes. Then it was uber carnage. No one was willing to face my m134 and asked me not to use that gun. I like sniping in UO and BG forcing death from above!! I made so many friends and fans in warrock. But i always hated those GMs in that game...Lithium and a new guy stavros...Kiara was a bit nice...There was a retard called oracle. There are alot of bugs in that game which many players abuse to get an unfair advantage(no game is perfect). There were a few high leveled players who i know hacked and never get banned. There are some guys who lag like shit and abuse others when they get killed. 1 such guy was shanky whom i hated the most. The biggest intentional lagger is TD who doesn't accept that he is lagging and wants to prove that he is the king of warrock. It is a total disgrace. But jackye, shree, patricking, archer,eagles,boyondope, wingdagger and me were in chennai in eagle's house and enjoyed a lot by playing warrock there all night long with 4 comps in 1 house. Patricking was the most hilarious guy... I laughed the shit out of me with his jokes and it was a great fun.



It was addictive in the beginning and now i have realized that buying prem and wasting 700 rs per month is a waste of money and considered not to play for some time.....my clan link

Prima Legion Indianus
Warrock gave me so many friends. Razor is a great leader for the clan. Jackye is the best with his AUG and Pintu owns everyone with his m249 and famas.

1/8 Engineer

Journey through time in AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM Finally....I've finished my 1st semester(i hope....still the results are not out). As I'm bored to hell right now I'm going to talk about my college. Joining Amrita is one of the turning points in my life. It is a total different experience for me...the transition from school to college. I met and made so many friends. The academic side is kind of pain in the neck. The syllabus that i had was programing in C, Thermodynamics, Electrical engineering, Cultural education, Engineering drawing, English, calculus and matrix(i totally hate it), Chemistry.

I was so techno savvy and did not believe in any kind of spirituality but i personally think that they instilled spirituality in me. Prayer in the morning everyday may have changed me. And how can i forget the trip to Amritapuri. We started from ettimadai campus at 3 pm and reached there at 12 in the midnight. It was really a long trip but it seemed like a joy ride.That was the first time i went to kerela. Kochin was kewl. When we were waiting to meet amma the crowd was huge and i didnt believe i could get darshan but after waiting from 8 in the morning to 8 in the evening i was finally in the queue. I'm lucky to have met Amma and got her darshan. Maybe that vibe of energy was all that i needed to realize that there is a unknown power.The Trip gave me so many experiences and many friends. There were so many foreigners who left everything behind and serve the math. The campus there was also cool. we went roaming around the campus. And there i stood for hours seeing the waves first time...yea its the Arabian sea.





And when we were returning back we went to AIMS(Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences). The campus was ultra awesome. It gave me second thoughts of joining this campus and studying medicine LOL. we were roaming all over and finally we started our journey back. The next day i had electronics workshop. No one studied anything we all wrote something despite our protest. It was totally stressful when it came to balancing my life. There was no time because my daily timetable was like get up at 6-get ready and go to bus stop before 7.30- reach campus at 8.40- study(sarcastic)-get on the bus at 5-come home at 6- play war rock for 1 hour-study for some time and go to bed at 9 or 10. I made the mistake not studying the day's portion and suffered the day before the periodicals and the endsem. Yea and the questions were not easy. They tested our understanding and most of the questions were problems. Lucky me i was weak at mugging up theory and i actually made an average performance, wish i had done better. The only thing that i didn't like was maths. Dam those series and sequence chapter...i was like i understood but was not able to do any sums those teachers gave me. The programming labs were fun. And not to forget our Ed teacher(vinodh). He was full of fun. We enjoyed every class and in the labs we seldom draw. most of the classes finished 14 sheets but we finished only 7.In the end sem 60 out of 100 marks were out of portion and we got pass with the grace marks. I really hated chemistry labs. That lab teacher never gave me nice marks,i never get good titration values. But it was fun though. Thermodynamics was interesting to me. Electrical was also a bit interesting but i never get a correct answer there is always a conflicting answer with me. There was Gokulastami celebrations which was really awesome. We enjoyed every bit screaming and checking out some chicks. And Hell yea we were lucky. The place was totally crowed.



The campus is surrounded by hills and clouds. Its a cool place to study.
Everyday after class most of the day scholars sit in front of the Amriteshwari hall or canteen and i really enjoyed hanging around there. But the only thing that i didn't experience is ragging not even a friendly one. The boring part was the travelling part. Imagine 1 hour of sitting simply in the bus. Most of the time i take a quick nap or study. And seniors rag some of the juniors and it was really hilarious. And that's when after the end semester exam my 1/8Th of my journey had come to an end .

Morbidgod and Vishnukarthik

My history as morbid and Vishnu. I will try to be regular in my posts and get psyched. I will update my blog whenever i get time. I hope you like it.