Real world benchmark of the super fast PC

You've read about the PC upgrade I did during the summer. SuperPC Well, things have been going great with that upgrade PC and it has been super stable which is not guaranteed when you are overclocking. The other thing that have be en doing off and on is converting all my CDs into FLAC which a lossless (no data discard format, unlike MP3 which is lossy). The goal is to have the entire CD collection on a server so I can access the entire collection via the Squeezebox 3 network music player. On the old PC, it would take nearly a minute to convert a song from WAV to FLAC. On this new PC, it takes about 7 seconds and that is just using one of the cores. WOW !. Now it takes more time to extract the WAV off the CD (rip) than it does to convert. With the new PC, I should have the entire collection ripped and converted to FLAC by the end of the year :-)

Crazy Hot in the Nati

Temperatures hit 100+ for the thrid time this summer in Cincinnati. Crazy hot ! No relief until Saturday.

Tomorrow
Partly Sunny
High 100°
Low 73°

Friday
Partly Sunny
High 99°
Low 73°

New "Old School" Racquet

I have switched from the Pro Kennex Kinetic 5G to the Prince Graphite Oversize aka the POG. This racquet design is over 20 years old and was the racquet that Michael Chang and Andre Agassi started their pro careers with. Agassi switched to Donnay and Head racquets that were made to be very similar to the POG and Chang stuck with the POG until he switched to the extended length version of the POG.

So far I like the POG better than the Kinetic 5G on my groundstrokes (I can hit a "heavier" ball and can hit with more topspin). However, I am not serving as well with POG so I need to make some adjustments there.

The wonderful thing about ebay and internet forums is that I got this POG for only $46 and will be able to sell some of my Kinetic 5Gs (not all of them) to get additional POGs.