Original Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/3228



Vinney and I flew down to NC over the weekend, and have been enjoying a steady mix of work, house stuff and relaxation down here. Of course, everyone blames us, the Connecticut "natives" now, for bringing cold weather down here. The days before we arrived, temperatures were in the 80s, it was sunny, all was good. Then apparently we gate checked a bag full of CT temperatures and now Raleigh is actually colder than CT.

Progress is actually happening on the house; it still doesn't look much different than the last time we were down, but hopefully by the end of this year we'll be walking into a house that starts looking like one. The front will hopefully be done bricking in about another week or so, and that'll mean that the outside of the house will be mostly complete aside from the landscaping and other finishes. The inside has a long way to go, with drywall still being about a month or so away from going up.

We walked through the house yesterday with the guy that'll be handling all of the Ethernet wiring throughout the house. Most rooms will have at least one Ethernet port, with the office and game room obviously getting a lot more. We stuck with CAT5e for the house and all of the wiring will be going to a closet in the basement, where I'll be tossing in a Gigabit switch for the house.

My goal was to have access to video, audio, cameras, door bell, lighting, heating and cooling where ever I had a TV in the house. Unfortunately, such an integrated system is only available at ridiculously high prices, and/or with very poorly done interfaces and mediocre quality in areas of audio or video sharing. Since the system I'm looking for doesn't yet exist, I wanted to make sure that the wiring is there should it eventually happen. So we've got additional CAT5e running everywhere from lighting switches, to potential camera locations, so whenever my ideal system comes into existence, hopefully it'll be retrofittable.

I brought down a handful of Intel's 65nm chips and put together the article published earlier this week. I was pleasantly surprised with the overclocking success of Presler, and I hope to look into performance of dual core at 4.25GHz when I get back to CT. I'm also working on our first notebook roundup in a while, but with a slightly different focus than what you might be used to. I'll announce specifics as I get further along on the roundup.

We unfortunately leave NC tomorrow, but we are going to see Jon Stewart in CT this weekend, so it's not all bad.

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