Honestly, I clearly underestimated both, the amount of work and the complexity of the project I took on. That is to implement all the new features I wanted, convert all the old data to the new format, etc. SO far, about 30% of the old records have been converted to the new structures. That adds considerable amount of data, since in the new charts each alloy from the old chart has quite a bit more info... Well, coding is going well, but again, mucho more to code than expected.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 09:41:51
Phew :) All in all, took around 3 hours to do the whole shebang, that included: removing 5870 stock cooler, sheesh, 15 screws and thermal past was splattered with a real thick layer on the GPU. They could've done a bit better for top of the line card; Installing EK waterblock, also not much fun, sticking thermal tape on the chips. What was good, after removing the cooler from the card I got enough space to fit the water pump close to the old location,didn't have to drill new holes :) Overclocked to 900mhz GPU clock and 1300ghz memory clock. Weird flicker when image viewer is loading the pic, but otherwise all ok. Played Stalker C0P for about an hour, temps never went above 45C, with DX 11, high settings. Obviously I had to find out that ATI stock BIOS is very conservative and MSI and other BIOS-es allow much higher overclock. So, now I have to flash the bios. Well, that's kindda given... Most of my video cards and most of my Mobo bios-es were flashed few times each...
Friday, December 18, 2009 23:22:48
Initial review of the Sabaki is up. That as usual includes photos, detailed specs, general overivew, blade, handle details and such. As I use it, I'll add and expand usage section.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 13:11:43
Added Atsu Deba definition. It's not a specific type, but a generic name for the heavy debas.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 15:22:37
The new alloys for today are: 50100, 51100 and K294 - Bohled-Uddeholm PM steel which is one more reincarnation of the AISI A11 a.k.a. CPM 10V steel. I keep K294 in a separate record and in general I've stopped consolidating records, and in the future I'll split all the consolidated past records wherever the data was different. Steel Charts 2.0 which I hope will be online before 2010 will handle separate records properly and either way combining is a data loss, which costs time and money to collect :)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 09:07:21
Finally! As usual it took a lot more time than I have anticipated. This time it will require to do tube layout redesign too :( 8570 is two slots wide besides being really long. ATI drivers suck as usual, nothing has changed in the years since I've had the last ATI card. Sound drivers got screwed up while installing ATI drivers, besides I had to downclock CPU 200mhz to make the whole thing stable. No idea why a new GPU would affect my OC. Now for the weekend, redoing tubes ,flashing/replacing the coolant and I'm good for next few months.
Monday, December 14, 2009 20:52:23
Well, after all this wait :) I sure hope it ain't DOA and according to the plan, I'll use it for few days as is, no watercooling. I'll install waterblock on the weekend if all is well.
Monday, December 14, 2009 14:39:31
Considering the amount of steel related terminology in the reviews, articles and the knife steel charts, I figured a small dictionary was in order. So far just a few basic terms, but I am guessing it will grow.
Sunday, December 13, 2009 21:37:53
Added metal ravle OCR12VMS steel composition. Fixed incorrect data in Metal Ravne OCR8VMS steel composition.
Sunday, December 13, 2009 20:53:02