The end of the week is almost here and as usual, I'll be broadcasting another TGIF gaming session on JTV that will go into the wee hours of the morning. I'm thinking about trying Splinter Cell: Conviction since it just dropped this week. I was a huge fan of the Splinter Cell series until it made it's way onto the Xbox 360. Double Agent didn't sit well with me, especially after putting in alot of hours into the special goodness that was Chaos Theory. I hear that this next iteration is also less stealthy than its predecessors, well at least it looks pretty fawesome.
I've also started Operation Upgrade for my PC and got rid of my trusty 750W PC&Cooling Silencer PSU for something that would offer me enough headroom to run what I wanted, the Corsair 1000HX. I'll be picking up a new CPU and replace my GTX 295 in the following months since I can't find a decent place to get another GTX 295(other than ebay). Thanks Fermi, totally killed off my quad SLi-plan. Until next time, that's all folks.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
XBLAH 1 Going Down
Today at midnight, the original Xbox Live service will be going down forever. I can still remember those late nights playing some Ghost Recon over Live and just being blown away by the online experience the Xbox had to offer. While I didn't get sucked into the Halo 2 craze, I did play and respect what the Xbox Live experience had to offer. Those were exciting times, now everything is jacked into the net. Giantbomb is doing some live streaming of it's last moments so head on over to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/giant-bomb-live-test to catch some of the action.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Upgrade time?
Kinda lost track of the time when Friday rolled around, anyway on to the good stuff. Now that my PC is pretty stable since I fixed those loose memory timings, I've been eyeing a spiffy upgrade for my PC for the upcoming year and haven't decided on throwing another GTX 295 to run quad SLi or bumping up my CPU to something more speedy/stable. In either case, I definitely need a new PSU which I've decided on, seems like the Corsair 1000HX will be able to get it done for both scenarios.
In gaming news, not too much new other than I've been playing alot of Mount & Blade: Warband. I also tried out Lead and Gold from Fatshark and have to say it's a pretty fun FPS, but it's kinda small. I think the game just makes me wish that Red Dead 2 was already out, but for 15 bucks this is a nice little break from your standard shooter. Game looks alot like Team Fortress 2, and kinda has that feel too, which is good I guess.
Oh yeah, finally changed the layout for our page here to represent the Dale, but I need a new banner, which means work, which means it'll probably never happen. So there you go.
In gaming news, not too much new other than I've been playing alot of Mount & Blade: Warband. I also tried out Lead and Gold from Fatshark and have to say it's a pretty fun FPS, but it's kinda small. I think the game just makes me wish that Red Dead 2 was already out, but for 15 bucks this is a nice little break from your standard shooter. Game looks alot like Team Fortress 2, and kinda has that feel too, which is good I guess.
Oh yeah, finally changed the layout for our page here to represent the Dale, but I need a new banner, which means work, which means it'll probably never happen. So there you go.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Thursday mang!
With all the new hype the iPad has brought since it's release last week, it's hard to kinda not think about it, even for me and my Apple-phobic self. I don't really have anything against Apple, I just kinda played more games on a PC than anything else, and the Mac was just simply not a choice.
Anyway, I'm not really sure what this device is for. It's not really as productive as having a laptop and it's not really small enough to be a convenient access to apps and the web, so where does it fit? Have we reached a point in our tech that we need a device to use while sleeping in bed or watching T.V. on the couch? At 500 bucks it's not really that affordable either, so I'm having a hard time figuring out where this thing fits.
On a side note, finally got my PC up and I started a queue up for all my games on Steam. The servers are kinda taking a hit though since they decided to let everyone and their grandma download Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer this weekend starting today. It actually kinda made me stop and realize for a second, that I don't actually hold these games and that I'm relying on Steam to always be there when I need it. Kinda scary.
Anyway, I'm not really sure what this device is for. It's not really as productive as having a laptop and it's not really small enough to be a convenient access to apps and the web, so where does it fit? Have we reached a point in our tech that we need a device to use while sleeping in bed or watching T.V. on the couch? At 500 bucks it's not really that affordable either, so I'm having a hard time figuring out where this thing fits.
On a side note, finally got my PC up and I started a queue up for all my games on Steam. The servers are kinda taking a hit though since they decided to let everyone and their grandma download Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer this weekend starting today. It actually kinda made me stop and realize for a second, that I don't actually hold these games and that I'm relying on Steam to always be there when I need it. Kinda scary.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
PC Woes Continue
Just when I thought I was starting to get somewhere with my PC, I glanced at my RAM usage on boot and it was at an absurdly high 80-90% usage rate. So now my PC has legs to stand but forgot how to walk so to speak. I tried scrolling through my process to find out what obnoxious app would dare take up so much resources on boot and came up with nothing. No flags on my AV protection (Norton IS 2010) and disabling startup apps didn't really help.
So I started on another journey of restoring my PC back to a fresh image I had saved on my server. Sounds like plan. I boot up and pop in the CD and get a nice "Server is not found" message. Great, I fiddle with my LAN setup for another hour or so since I have a kind of unfriendly setup of 1 router and 1 VOIP router set as a bridge. After reconfiguring and restoring the network and essentially placing both the server and my PC on the same physical router with static IP's, the server might as well have been on Pluto.
With those series of mishaps effectively killing my day, I turn to my last resort, nuking the sum'beech with a reformat and reload. So while I'm doing that, I figure I should check on my server since it pretty much failed on me. Come to find out that all is not well with the server too, with some processes not starting up like they should and getting a looping mysql error message upon boot. So I nuked that beech too. When the dust settles I should be in good shape hopefully, I should probably run a test restore while I'm at work tomorrow just to be sure. At least I got in a few games of Solitaire today, here's to tomorrow.
So I started on another journey of restoring my PC back to a fresh image I had saved on my server. Sounds like plan. I boot up and pop in the CD and get a nice "Server is not found" message. Great, I fiddle with my LAN setup for another hour or so since I have a kind of unfriendly setup of 1 router and 1 VOIP router set as a bridge. After reconfiguring and restoring the network and essentially placing both the server and my PC on the same physical router with static IP's, the server might as well have been on Pluto.
With those series of mishaps effectively killing my day, I turn to my last resort, nuking the sum'beech with a reformat and reload. So while I'm doing that, I figure I should check on my server since it pretty much failed on me. Come to find out that all is not well with the server too, with some processes not starting up like they should and getting a looping mysql error message upon boot. So I nuked that beech too. When the dust settles I should be in good shape hopefully, I should probably run a test restore while I'm at work tomorrow just to be sure. At least I got in a few games of Solitaire today, here's to tomorrow.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Surprise
In another futile attempt to keep this site updated, I'm going to try and post short daily posts which may or may not be about nothing, and probably won't be spruced up with a nice picture. So here goes...
Tonights gaming session started off with Mount and Blade: Warband for PC, and well it lasted way too long. I am having way too much fun with that game than I probably should. It's got some outdated graphics, a kind of clunky UI, and a very steep learning curve but for some reason that game's got plenty of appeal. There's something cool about setting up your own army and laying waste to villages and castles from a 3rd person perspective.
On another note, I think I've gotten my BSOD's figured out, seems like it's related to my OC and the CPU voltage my PSU is pumping out. For whatever reason 1.45V ain't cutting it anymore and I'm getting mad 101 BSOD's in alot of my games, which either points to an unstable board or my PSU starting to fail on me. Anyway, I should be able to figure it out tomorrow once I run this evga utility that took me 3 days to get (long story).
Tonights gaming session started off with Mount and Blade: Warband for PC, and well it lasted way too long. I am having way too much fun with that game than I probably should. It's got some outdated graphics, a kind of clunky UI, and a very steep learning curve but for some reason that game's got plenty of appeal. There's something cool about setting up your own army and laying waste to villages and castles from a 3rd person perspective.
On another note, I think I've gotten my BSOD's figured out, seems like it's related to my OC and the CPU voltage my PSU is pumping out. For whatever reason 1.45V ain't cutting it anymore and I'm getting mad 101 BSOD's in alot of my games, which either points to an unstable board or my PSU starting to fail on me. Anyway, I should be able to figure it out tomorrow once I run this evga utility that took me 3 days to get (long story).
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