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Wednesday Anime Wonders! - Shugo Chara!

“All kids, hold an egg in their soul. The Egg of our hearts, our would be selves, yet unseen.”

Monday Media! - Nightmare On Elm Street

Genre – Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

          This week on Monday Media!, we have Nightmare On Elm Street. I hope all of you haven seen the original prior to watching this 2010 version. Needless to say, the 2010 version was excellent. The first 10 minutes set it all up PERFECTLY. You are instantly taken to that nightmare once again, the paranoia, the chills, the goosebumps. I remembered why I fell in love with Freddy, I remembered why he is one of my heroes. He's completely psychotic, manipulative, and brings fear in the most defenseless way, through -dreams-. Throughout the movie, you get more information than you did in the original, in my opinion as to what, who, and why it is all happening.

          Now while I loved Freddy, the other characters in lacked actual acting prowess, except for Nancy played by Rooney Mara and Quentin played by Kyle Gallner. They did exceptionally well in this film, they actually looked like they felt the FEAR and understood how incredibly real it was. With each kill, I wanted more, and I got it. More blood, more torture, more everything, I got exactly what I wanted when I decided to watch it. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who loves Freddy, horror flicks, or watching people get cut up unmercifully.The only unfortuante part to this movie is that, we've seen this before, we know what happens, and it's not something new and amazing. It's not going to blow away the Horror movie nuts because they are crazy egotistical bastards who think they know what makes a good horror movie and would say this is not it. What it is, a remake of a classic horror movie, and it did the remake VERY well. The director did not try to go at a new angle, he did not try to rewrite it all. Just to do it again, maybe with different perspectives at certain points. So if you're a horror fanatic, don't bother. If you want to see a good movie because its a good movie, grab your keys and get your happy ass to the cinema.

Thursday Tech! - Six-Core AMD Phenom II x6

          Finally, AMD is stepping up its game after a long time slumber in the shadows of Intel. Now, it should be known and well noted that I absolutely LOVE Advanced Micro Devices and been a dedicated fan of AMD since K5 series. With this previous fact noted, I will be as unbiased as possible.

          Onto Specs, The “Thuban”, which is code name for the Six-Core series. This series has two chips so far, the 1055T and the 1090T BE; 2.8GHZ 3MB L2 6MB L3 Cache and 3.2 3MB L2 6MB L3 Cache respectivly. Sometime this month, unannounced yet, they will be releasing a secondary 1055T model with the same specs except lower voltage and power requirements. Regardless of all that, they are still all AM3+ certified and ready to be dropped into your year old board :D

Specs for the Phenom II X6 1055T

Specs for the Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition

          Minor changes in the voltage, and the multipler, solely for the “Green” freaks I imagine. Moving on to capability and the reason why we buy AMD. The fine folks at this company have decided “Lets make overclocking easier than we already made it with AMD Overdrive!” and they added the Turbo option, which comes in the latest AMD Overdrive utility. What it does is this, 6 cores drops down to 3 in a way that clocks down 3 of the 6, and boosts up the other 3. No this doesn't get you more L2/L3 cache, no this doesn't lessen your power consumption. You're just using a SixShooter(as I call them) as an overclocked Triplecore. Now now, most of you are probably saying “Well why the hell did I buy a Sixcore processor if its going to 'Turbo' to a Triplecore processor”. Hey...smarty panties, you don't HAVE to use their Turbo function. You can overclock all 6 by yourself if you know what you're doing, and if you're going to be overclocking you damn well should! It is not for the faint of heart, I've seen people freak out pretty bad when they got their first BSOD while overclocking lol.

          Next up, Performance. Based off of ExtremeOverclocking.com's results these two compete well with the Intel Core i7's. Favoring in the fields of multiprocessor based applications and rendering. While the SixShooters did hold up their own, the scores did not always reflect as one would hope. For example, Far Cry 2 1680x1050 Ranch Small on very high settings, the Phenom II x4 965 3.4 GHZ scored at 71 while the i7 920 2.67 did 70, and the 1090T came in third with 69. -sadface- But something like Folding @ Home, the 1090T came out on top with 1352 projected points per day, and the Core i7 920 2.67 GHz came short in second with 1283.

          After overclocking, they've posted results with a bit of a surprise to me in store. The 1090T overclocked(all six cores) to 3.8 at 1.45V stable on air, and they matched it up with the i7 920 at 3.8 as well. They faired pretty evenly across the board(ExtremeOverclockingPg15)

          Yes yes, the 920 is a quadcore, not a hexacore, but considering you're paying the price of a quadcore Intel for a hexacore AMD, you're still getting a better deal. Also reflect with me, how many games do we actively play that actually use MCP? um...maybe 2? I personally don't have one lol. But I could run a server on one of them and go crazy with flashing my server off to everyone just to say I have it. For now, Intel still wins in performance, but in price? No, AMD takes that cake, and eats it too since you just buy the new SixShooter into your AM3 socket (which isn't going anywhere anytime soon), upgrade your bios, and done! An Intel chip, as stated by ExtremeOverclocking, usually requires a new board, which means new memory, and a new heatsink. All of that together adds up.

          In the end, you go with what you know. You put up that stiff upper lip and continue on with AMD even though their Sixshooter lacks in comparison to Intel's knowing in your heart that one day AMD will regain reign over the microprocessor market or you stay with Intel because Mommy buys you everything you want except you don't deserve a retarded expensive Mac, not that you'd want one lol.

Monday Media! - Distant Worlds II

So it's a bit late, but there's reasons for that. I kind of fell asleep really early last night without at all meaning to. 3.5 hours of sleep will do that I guess. Apologies!

           Yay!!! Distant Worlds II! This new collection was so great I listened to it twice, and a third time as I type this. This particular album is performed by Arnie Roth as the Conductor, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Elmhurst College Concert Choir. Feel free to click the link above to listen to the full album while enjoying the review.

           The album starts off with a Prelude, a refreshed version of the classic Final Fantasy intro. The choir in the background really draws you in. Such an amazing flow of music, it is simply blissful to hear. -sighs happily- Right onto track two, “The Man with the Machine Gun” Excitement builds and you are thrown through a loop of drums, trumpets, and flutes which continue on through the piece holding you tight in their fist of omgness.

           As usual with the Distant Worlds albums, and Nobou Uematsu the composer, you are painted a picture with the music, taken to a different world. If Heaven has background music, this is it. The third track, “Ronfaure”, those of you who played Final Fantasy 11 will know it as the BEST starting zone background music EVER. Personally, I dream off to when I was just a little taru running through the West Ronfaure zone, skipping along, killing bunnies and worms. Those were the days.

           Track four features the soft clarinets and flutes of Final Fantasy IX in “A Place to Call Home – Melodies of Life”.This piece is performed by solo singer Susan Calloway, and done beautifully. Ms.Calloway really brings forth the meaning behind the lyrics with her voice.

           All in all, this album is one to cherish, especially with a revamped Dancing Mad as track six. While they do offer a download version for $9.99 USD, I'd still rather have the album in the flesh, in my hand, put into a glass case cd. Mostly because if I ever lose the album I know I have a backup on my external drive. But what if my comp crashes? Or my hard drive goes poof. Then what! Then I'm at a loss of 10$ and no Distant Worlds II @_@!! The download version of the album comes in 320k mp3 format, AAC, HD 24bit/88.2k FLAC, ALAC, or any other format you desire(They claim). Also packed with 12 page PDF booklet, liner notes, session photos, lyrics and more.

Monday Media! - Iron Man 2

           For our first Monday Media movie review, we're going to do it with style. Iron Man 2 picks up very closely to the end of Iron Man 1. It's rather nice that a movie actually attempts to continue the story from the previous installment. At the end of Iron Man 1, there was a lot of talk about the government wanting the Iron Man suit for themselves, unfortunately for them Stark, isn't having it right from the beginning. Of course we smile and smirk as Stark makes funnies in the court room, but soon enough it gets serious. We find out that he is in fact worsening his own illness by using the Arc Reactor which keeps the shrapnel near his heart at bay.

           Introducing the lovely Scarlett Johansson as Natalie Rushman/Romanoff, instantly Stark's attention is in her grasp as they meet in a boxing session with Happy Hogan. Throughout the movie she plays a key role in just about everything, thanks to becoming Stark's personal assistant and later becoming Pepper Pott's number 2. Iron Man 2 also features what we've been waiting for, and complaining that he wasn't very active in the first one, War Machine. Thankfully there are exciting fights, filled with booms, fire, and lots of iron on iron action.

           Without spoiling too much, this movie does in fact pack more of the laughs and a lot more action than we saw in the first. I will say this though, the ending bothered me quite a bit. It seemed...hallow...it was a closure yes but...it was hallow. It climaxed multiple times over but it was somewhat of a let down at the end. Kind of like they ran out of money. Regardless, it is well worth the 7-12 bucks you're going to pay to see it. Myself? I'm gonna watch it again, because its THAT good.