Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Well what is fast? That’s the hardest to say, but here are some results for the two machines which are: ASRock Z97m OC with Intel Core i7-4790K (Haswell) at 4.5GHz overclock with DDR3-2400 (no overclock ram) and a pair of SLIed Asus Strix GTX 970. The overclock is +200MHz on…

I’m going to be trying this bad boy out in a little bit. Thanks to lensrentals.com for making it easy. It was good to see what lenses to use as at 36MP, you really need good quality glass. I found the same last year with the Sony A7, you end…

This has got to be the densest systems I’ve ever built. Here are the specs: ASRock Z97m OC Formula. This is a micro-ATX motherboard Intel Core i7 4790K. This is the mid range overclockable. 4GHz (40x multiplier on a 100MHz bus). For grins, I tried the ASRock Formula Drive and…

Gosh darn it I’m so frustrated confused, I spent a day trying to get two GTX 970s to be recognized. Now today. I turn the thing on wander through the ASRock BIOS, confirm there are really two graphics cards there in the BIOS (there is a system browser under tools).…

This really does work. Had a problem. Was too dumb to figure out a site. Posted a “veiled” note on this silly little blog and Lo and behold the ceo of the company emails me the next day. Wow those tools are really mandatory for any business. That and being…

Well, if you are upgrading a machine, right now here are the choices: ## Video Now you should probably wait a bit as the GTX980 family is (by video standards) long in the tooth and Computex is about to happen in June. The big things are getting to HDMI 2.0…

wow I’m sad to say I’m shocked at how much I’ve spent! 24 projects ordered and waiting  6 projects ordered and waiting, waiting, waitin 12 projects got and liked 1 project got, broke but founder emailed me?!! Amazing! 4 projects got and they had issues  5 project got and didn’t…

Well kickstarter has been a great adventure but it is one of those 20% of the things are complete duds. Since I posted this #8 actually emailed me back?! And offered to fix. Now that’s amazing!!! Here’s a list so far in reverse order of “insults to customers” and lessons…

havent posted cool apps for a while but amazingly useful and well designed apps (at least to me) The first are essentially replacements for services I want to love but can’t: iOS photo deduplicator. Wow iOS and iCloud sharing is so strange. Now all I get are duneed duplicates that…

Well I’ve actually never really understood leasing and car financing, but with cars where you want them for a short while it makes some sense. Particularly where there is technology risk and you want to swap up in a short period without the backend risk of what the car is…