So, after much whining about how I’m not so impressed by the X360, I’ve decided to fix the problem and just sell it. I put the ad on Criagslist, have already had an email query about it, and am feeling vaguely sad. But I always feel sad when I get rid of a piece of gear, even if it’s something I never use, never have used, and will never use. It’s still gear, and losing it is sad.
Guess I’ll format its drive now.
The script has been updated to support bullet lists. (11px looks awfully small next to 11pt!)
My overclock, it turns out, was a bit too much. So that’s why all the games were crashing! Well… It’s summer, and A/C is for whiners and old people who might die of stroke. Give me a beer and a nice fan and I’m set. That is to say, a nice fan, not one of those annoying oscillating fans.
But the heat means a proportional rise in core CPU and GPU temperature. Noooo! I had to drop my CPU core clock a bit and all my crashing went away, well, except for those damn memory leaks of course. You can’t play games with an insane overclock in mid-July, unless you like to live in a freezing cold house. No thanks, I get that all winter.
And after all, what’s the difference between 2.5G and 2.4G? I can’t tell the difference. I have two cores, so the MP3 player and other stuff isn’t stealing CPU from the games. By just backing it off that tiny bit, I am now able to run the fan at a much lower speed, which means my computer is almost civilized.
And then there’s the PhysX card. Whatever that does. What exactly does it do anyway? I know it’s supposedly “physics processing”, but I can’t really tell–the bottleneck in a combat sequence always seems to be waiting for textures to load. And it has a noisy little fan. I’m glad nVidia bought them, but sad too. Somehow I don’t see how nVidia will care about acceleration beyond that marketing bullet point.
I guess I’ll blow something up.
Be here 
now