Swapped the Kraken G10 from the 980 Ti to the 1080 Ti. From 85 C down to low/mid 60's. Quieter too. Measured VRM temps, within tolerance.

The stock cooler on the GTX 1080 Ti FE is decent. Does its job. Does it have a heat issue overall? Yes. But I want things to be quieter. The prior GTX 980 Ti was cooled using a Kraken G10 bracket along with a Corsair H50/55. Since I won't be using the GTX 980 Ti anymore I took off this cooler and placed back its original reference cooler. Removing the cooler on the GTX 1080 Ti was more work than its predecessor, more screws to take out and the thermal pads and grease in certain areas were a new challenge to me. At the end the swap worked out well. Temperatures are a lot lower while under full load. I did use a laser thermometer to measure the temperatures especially for the VRM's. Everything is good and I have the ability to manually control the fan speed for the AIO cooler as well as the fan which sits underneath the VRM's.

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Ascension

The wait is over! I was impressed when the GTX 1080 launched last year. Those benchmark and test numbers were amazing compared to the prior GTX 900 series GPU's especially the GTX 980 Ti which is what was in my system. But I told myself to hold off even though it was tempting. Near the end of 2016 and very early 2017 I almost went with the GTX 1080. Had to keep telling myself to be patient. The Ti model will be coming, have patience. As more information started to come out I began to feel hopeful. At the same time I was wondering if AMD's Vega would outperform the GTX 1080 Ti. Finally, information for the GTX 1080 Ti began to pour out all over the web. The numbers were astronomical! At that point I had a feeling Vega would not be as strong and most likely a competitor to the GTX 1080. So now it was a matter of being able to purchase this thing. Everywhere I went it was sold out or backordered. I checked amazon.com and saw they were sold out. The only ones available were from amazon sellers who were greedy and marked up the price by a big amount. I left the site and came back about fifteen minutes later and saw it was available directly from amazon. Purchased it with amazon stating it would ship first week of April. I was okay with that. Paid the retail price, not the markup price like from other sellers. Then later in the day I noticed the invoice was updated to where amazon states the item would ship a lot sooner. And here we are:

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Mass Effect Andromeda frame rate comparison in the works.

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Dog chewed up the original rubber pad. Had to make a new one. Video of it will be up tomorrow.

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CCTV Lenses on a Micro Four Thirds Camera | PART 3

Here is the final part in testing a CCTV lens with a micro four thirds camera body. This time it's the 50 mm lens. It was a lot of fun testing out the three CCTV lenses and I have learned a lot. I hope you enjoy the videos as much as I enjoyed making them.

Package from a Kickstarter finally arrived: Kung Fury

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It's been a while. Every morning's green machine is back for breakfast.

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Dusting out the Behemoth. Bashed my fingers while taking her into the garage. Worth it.

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Time to take out the 50mm CCTV lens out for its test. Let's see how it performs...

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CCTV Lenses on a Micro Four Thirds Camera | PART 2

Part 2 is out in testing a CCTV lens with a micro four thirds camera body. This time we have a 35 mm lens. The first video is its entirety which includes information on the lens and a sample video. The second video is just the sample video by itself. It has some nice cinematic music. I'll be working on the final video for the 50 mm lens. Stay tuned!

Almost done with part 2 of the CCTV lens series. This round: 35mm.

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So much walking in Santa Fe

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Fish sandwich!

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Coming Soon: Ghost Recon Wildlands Benchmark Tool Videos!

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands is out! I've been waiting for this game since its announcement. Sadly it doesn't look as great as the announcement demo but that's expected with any game. Oh well, running some benchmarks with the four CPU's and the five GPU's. Hope to have that out at the start of the weekend on the YakovGYP YouTube channel. Stay tuned!

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Back to eating well. Day 3. Breakfast, lunch, and snack.

I've been holding this off for far too long. About six years ago I changed my life around. Lost a lot of weight and got into shape. I felt fantastic and looked decent. This was after separating from my ex so I wanted to change myself for the better. Then I met my current partner. I got comfortable which means I got lazy. I stopped working out, stopped eating well. Little by little I lost the muscle and gained back the weight. I've been telling myself over and over, "Today is the day I get back to where I was." I lost count on how many times I've told myself that. I kept delaying it and each time I did I got more and more frustrated with myself. The hardest part is restarting again. Getting back on track but I have to stay strong. It will get easier.

It's day three. I've cut processed carbs out of my life and reduced my caloric intake to about 1000 calories. I have a tolerance of about 400 calories so in case I go over the 1000 I won't be too hard on myself. Do some people feel this is too low? This is what I did back six years ago. In the first 6 months I've lost about 40 lbs or so. This was with no exercise. I started working out afterwards and lost more weight plus gained muscle. My lowest weight was somewhere in the high 190's. This was with losing over 100 lbs overall.

I will give it about one to two weeks to allow my body to adjust. Then I will start working out. It can be done and I will get it done.

The following meals are my breakfast, lunch(es), and snack. Greek yogurt with a serving of frozen berries. Two salads consisting of Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, diced red bell peppers, and a diced hard boiled egg in each. Topped it off with a serving of Italian dressing. For a snack we have 10 olives. Dinner was interesting tonight. I never thought about it before but I decided to see what it would taste like to scramble a few eggs and smear some peanut butter on it. I wasn't sure if anyone has done this before so I looked online. I guess others have done it and say it's good. I got home, scrambled three eggs with no oil or salt. Put them on a plate and smeared a serving of peanut butter over them. IT WAS DELICIOUS!

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Our first trip to the Bisti Badlands

Our trip to the Bisti Badlands. First time going there. It was an interesting experience. We got there a little late. The clouds started coming over which wasn't the greatest for taking pictures, the ground was soft and I almost lost my shoe twice as my foot sank into the ground. The ground did look dry on the surface but once you step on it you see it's muddy. We spent almost two hours there. It won't be our last time going there. We only saw a fraction of what there is to see. Next time we'll be better prepared.

My woman lookin' fly as ever