Archive for the 'Gaming' Category

Five Old Video Cards

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Ah, the endless upgrade cycle. During my recent adventure (“Hey let’s put a fanless heat sink on the nForce chipset” coming soon to a blog near you!), I discovered all (well, nearly all) of my old video cards. Woot. Let’s see, that’s… a Voodoo2, a Voodoo3, Voodoo 5 5500, GeForce3 Ti 500 (with aftermarket passive […]

The XBox 360 Reciever that Couldn’t

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

For my birthday (that was today), I went to the big evil chain store Best Buy, and bought a couple of games, and the XBox 360 Receiver. because, hey, I’d love to sit on the couch and play PC games, wirelessly. And, since I have a 360 (please stop laughing at me), I have a […]

8800GTS Water Conversion Hell Day

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

As usual, it started with a game. Two games, in fact, but Bioshock is the real culprit. This isn’t a review of Bioshock, and I won’t discuss what I love or hate about it, but one thing I will say: it doesn’t run very fast on an nVidia 7600GT video card, at least not at […]