Received a few packages yesterday. One of them contained… a box.

With a loli in it! Awwwwwwwwwwww!

The loli is Noumi Kudryavka known from Key’s eroge Little Busters! Ecstasy.

This cute little figure is an extra that comes with the March issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine.

Still available from Hobby Search for 943 Yen: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10104570 (Now with SAL shipping.)

Many thanks to comrade Guy who found her while browsing some online shops earlier this year.

More about how he fell in love with Kud over here: http://geekorner.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/loli-puppy-in-a-box/

At the bottom of Kuds box you will find the logo of Key’s upcoming eroge called Kud Wafter (クドわふたー). This spinoff of Little Busters! focuses on Kud and should be released this summer.

More info over @ Wikipedia or the official website. Teaser below:

So cute… <3

If you are interested in some pics of the magazine itself head over to this Flickr album: http://www.flickr.com/Dengeki G’s Magazine March 2010

Now on to some tech-stuff again:

Not long ago I assembled my ION powered HTPC. Every thing seemed fine back then. Unfortunately my hearing is pretty well and Western Digitals Caviar Green isn’t as silent as it is advertised. The LianLi case has rubberized HDD mounting screws but unfortunately they riveted the mounting frame to the cases bottom. Because of that the hard disks vibrations are directly transferred to the rest of the case. No one else noticed the noise but I just couldn’t live with it.

Ordered the ichbinleise Box HDD 10 from Germany for 25€.  (“Ich bin leise” means “I am silent”)

The best HDD silencing box, the GrowUp Japan SMART DRIVE 2002C seems to be sold out everywhere. (Would cost over 90€ anyway.)

The ichbinleise box, which needs to be assembled in a few easy steps, contains of:

- 2x aluminium side panels and 2 x inter panels 3mm thick (There are versions for two or three hard drives available.)

- 2x sound damping panels

- 1x self-adhesive decoupling pad

- 4x knurled-head screws

Assembly complete. It’s a hardrive sandwich! With the hard drive inside the box is really heavy.

Fits perfectly into my ITX case as you can see above. HTPC Revision 1.2 ready to go – (Guess I need to come up with a name for it, any ideas?)

It is indeed working well and the hard rive is quite silent. The temperatures are little bit higher but 37°C isn’t a temperature to worry about. (Apple thinks it’s okay that hard drives have constantly around 60°C for example. o_O)

My tip if you are going to build a HTPC too:

Check reviews for the most silent hard drive models, get a 2,5” model as those are usually quieter or (if you have too much money) a SSD.

My main machine got some attention too cause my old and cheap gaming headset decided to die last week. Ordered this as replacement:

Creative FATAL1TY Pro Series Gaming Headset. Unlike some earlier revision the latest one is quite good.

Specifications:

Earphones

• Driver units: 40mm Neodymium magnet
• Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz 
• Impedance: 32ohms
• Sensitivity (1kHz): 110dB/mW

Microphone

• Microphone type: noise-cancelling condenser
• Frequency response: 100Hz-15kHz
• Impedance: <10kohms
• Sensitivity (1kHz): -40dBV/Pa
• Cord length: 8-foot / 2.5m Oxygen-Free Copper cable
• Input/Output plugs: 1/8" / 3.5mm gold-plated stereo miniplugs
• Net weight: 7oz. / 200g (without packaging)

Works great combined with my Creative X-Fi soundcard. Way better gameplay for example in Modern Warfare 2 as you don’t miss any sound. Guess they will do a good job in Bad Company 2 too which I preordered for only 28€ from here. (Limited Edition!)

Anyone of my readers playing MW2 by the way? Kinda boring without some buddies as way too much of my comrades decided to play FPSs on consoles! WTF???

My next blog post will probably contain some half naked figure and some thoughts about a certain DX11 graphics card. xD

-hikky logging out

(or: The GSC Meido-Invasion xD)

The only good thing of being @ home only at the weekends:

"Unlimited-Unpacking-Works” on Friday evening. xD Last week a nice bunch of stuff arrived.

Desk O Merchandise. More info about the items below.

 

1.) GSC Saber Maid Hallucination 1/8, GSC Rin Tousaka Maid Outfit 1/8, GSC Rider Maid 1/8 

Couldn’t resist to buy all three as their bases are connectable. Didn’t knew that their skirts are removable xD

A detailed photo-session will follow in the next weeks.

2.) Kalafina – Sprinter (SINGLE+DVD)(First Press Limited Edition)

The sprinter video-clip on the DVD is 4:3! WTF?

The oblivious Ltd. Ed. is still somewhere between Japan and Austria by the way.

3.) Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB (WD1001FALS)

Yus, I decided to buy the internal WD hardrive. 32MB cache ftw!

4.) Zero no Tsukaima Visual Collection

A Megami Magazine Special Selection of fanservicy  Zero No Tsukaima pictures. Every sheet is removable.

The best thing about the book is of course this 70cm Louise standup card. Shortens the time until the Gothic Punk Louise from Alter is released this April.

One huuuge parcel which isn’t meant for my use only arrived too last week.

Samsung Samsung LE-52A558 Full-HD 52” TV GET!

Eee 701 screen VS 52” TV screen xD (Full HD Ami-chan rockz!)

Unfortunately there is no PC in the near of the TV which is able to play 1080p movies which wouldn’t be a problem for the other machines of course. This means we need another PC in our house ^_^

As you can see in the screenshot above: I really need some space now! If I download ~4 more movies my external WD My Book 1TB drive which I’m filling since a few months is full ^_^

But I’m not sure which HDD I should get ORZ

The candidates are:

Western Digital WD1001FALS 1 TB (Caviar Black)

• Hard Disk Size: 1 TB
• Interface: SATA-300
• Hard Disk Rotational Speed: 7200
• Buffer Size: 32 MB
• Price: ~100€

VS

Western Digital My Book Home Edition 1 TB