goreng

when it comes to cooking the least favoured method for me is frying. especially deep fry. why? because the oil usage. the leftover oil is such a hassle for me. it is not the explosion and oil drops that burn your skin that makes me not favouring oil but its the oil itself. after im done cooking i cant consume the oil. throwing it away seems like a waste. unlike water, i can just make them into soup and drink it up but oil... theres no way for me to use it except for cooking. such a hassle.

anyway today i made fried seabass anyway due to sudden me wanting to fry. i cant use the air fryer because that will damage the fish. i dont have the accessories for snack or fish. anyway, back to main topic. it was good. just a simple tumeric with salt and chilli flakes and sichuan pepper coating.

didnt make the oil hot enough. the fish skin stuck to the bottom of the pan but manage to take it out later as a piece of crunchy goodness.

anyway dig in time and i was happy but then i realized..... the fish inside is not fully cooked. i fried it too fast. my mind was going 

sorry chef

anyway eat it anyway. its not the first time i eat raw fish

upgrade

soo i finallydecided to upgrade my computer a bit after a long procrastination due to refusing to learn about computer hardwares.

so yeah first i opened the computer and hoo boy its so dusty inside especially the graphic card area given that it is side by side with the wifi card. then i decided to upgrade my graphic card. i tried looking up graphic card that is not too powerful because then my cpu will just become a bottleneck and that would be wasteful. also cost is another factor. im a filthy casual, so no need for super high end graphic card.

here is the inside my amd radeon 6790 neighbouring with the

wifi card below it realllly close

see how close it was. there no room to breathe there and the dust accumulated between them is way too much

then, i went to lowyat to buy some stuffs for the old buddy. got myself a gtx 1060, pci e 16x riser and new wifi card.

a new better wifi card that can use the 5ghtz bandwidth. my unifi has 5gh bandwidth but i was unable to use it due to my old wifi card not being able to connect to it

the new gpu i bought. not the latest but still good and hence not too pricey. 

the smell of new items from shop, the excitement, but then it went downhill from that point. the first hurdle is to make sure everything fit together in the tower(desktop body). see my motherboard only has 2 pci express port: one 16x for graphic card and one 1x for anything else which i used for my wifi card. the problem is that the new gpu is huge. it is tripple the size of the old gpu. if i slot in the card directly to 16x port it totally block the 1x port, hence blocking me from fixing my wifi card.

see how close it was placed next to each other. 

so i decided to buy a riser which is cable for extension from the port to the gpu. this will allow me to put the gpu somewhere else instead of fixing it directly to the slot. the problem is not many shop sells it. most of them sells riser 16x to 1x only which will diminish the graphic card potential. its like changing from a 16 lanes road to a 1 lane road (these risers are usually used by those doing bitcoin mining where they use lots of gpu). i only found 1 shop selling riser 16x to 16x and decided to buy the gpu there. buy stuffs in bulk then you can get more discounts.  

then to my horror, the space between the gpu and tower wall is so small that theres no room for the riser to put in between. so now my graphic card is floating with no where to settle. then i decided to make a stand for my graphic card first as a temporary solution.

tadaaa.. i had to leave it outside of the tower a bit to allow the hdmi cable connected to the gpu since the normal port cant be used. made the stand from box and sticks. with the riser connecting gpu to my motherboard, i can use the pci e 1x port for the new graphic card. 

im so proud of myself for this feat hahahaha. anyway, another thing that really amazes me is the wifi card. my internet speed with the old wifi card used to be 1mbps download and upload and during off hours at most it can go up to 5mbps only. i was really frustrated eventhough unifi claims to provide 100mbps. after i changed the new better card i was really surprised to find my download speed went up to 130 mbps and upload upto 150mbps. i didnt know wifi card can be the bottleneck for internet speed. no more slow download or buffering after this.

anyway, this solution didnt last long few days later my computer started acting up. it keeps on restarting on it s own especially when im using heavy graphic programs like games. at first i thought it was because i installed the card without first removing the old graphic card driver. proceed with uninstalling all the graphic card driver, then removed the gpu and fixing it back and reinstalling the driver but it was futile. the restarting got worse over time in the end my comp cant even start. after some pondering i decided to fix the gpu directly to the motherboard and voila. everything runs smoothly. so yeah, no wifi card for me.

made a run to lowyat again to buy a usb wifi dongle since i cant use wifi card. the reason why i dont buy usb wifi in the first place is because 1. i prefer card. its constantly there and i wont lose it unlike usb. 2. id like to leave my usb slot free for something else. 3. i believe the card wifi works better in performance compared to the usb version. of course i choose the best usb wifi to match with the new wifi card. dont want to have slow internet anymore.

so while i was there decided to buy a new monitor as the new gpu doesnt have vga port so my 2nd monitor cant connect to it. also bought a new headphone razer elektra. my WoW bluetooth headphone keeps on disconnecting that i cant use it at all. besides, the new headphone has a better mic so i can stream better. now all is good. not gonna tinker with my desktop anymore for now.

next project would be regarding cpu, tower, and motherboard and maybe ill build a desktop myself and leave this comp at home for my parents to use.