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One upgrade leads to another.

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

One upgrade leads to another, and a third, and some breakage in today’s episode of “The Idiot Who Keeps Taking Apart A Perfectly Good Computer”. What was the lame justification this time? My chipset fan was going berserk. Whine! Whine! Shut! Up! “There’s only one solution” Obviously, this is the world getting revenge on me […]

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 […]