Adventures of Nothing and Me

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Pop

Its today, its today.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Vague idea. Short on time. *this is not baked

I've been reading and talking about some interesting idea's on all types of game related topics.

I to need gather my thoughts on what ideas I hear and say.

Would I want to read it?

Blogging instead of my normal tweet is a tad difficult for me.

I'm torn between saying to much and spending my time elsewhere...

Once again time management gets my in the end!

Monday, May 11, 2009

Moving on-

After a piss poor job following up here on my original blog goal in quotes below, I'm gonna go with the unknown theme until something comes to mind.

"What happens when work forces you to switch from Mac to a "Heathen" machine? How little/much does it cost to build a PC that can out preform my 2 year old MacPro? My goal is to spend around $2000 to gain a 35% speed improvement over my Mac. Can it be done?"

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Follow up...

Ok so the PC has been done for some time... I've just been too busy to actually do the proper bench testing that I originally wanted to do, but in the meantime I can offer some general observations I've made so far.

-Pro:

fastest vista start time I've seen, extremely fast frame rates in Age of Conan in dx10, 3d Max runs amazing even with out the costly Quadro card, EVGA drivers and software, and (placeholder).

-Con:

Manually turning up GPU fan to counter 80℃ with the fan left on auto. GPU fan noise. SLI supported in windowed mode for WoW and War.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Its arrived!

Monday, January 19, 2009

Rant; SpinRite, BootCamp, and Vista

My Vista experiences have been filled with four letter adjectives to describe my frustrations of it. With that tidbit out of the way, I tried to get SpinRite 6.0 working on my MacPro but I kept running into 2 problems. When I went to burn an iso cd-r of it so I could boot of it... Vista would just throw a shit fit by freezing or it would try to format the cd... After couple minutes of repeated Vista cd burning Adventures I tried the other SpinRite Method of installing it to my thumb drive and boot off of that. SpinRite mentions that it has to have the motherboard correctly set to boot of a usb thumb drive. On a mac to choose what drive to boot off of you can hold the option key down and find a selection of bootable sources available to you. That didn't work and I ran out of time, to read the SpinRite forums, research iso cd burning in windows, and setting mother board bios for bootcamp to allow thumb drive booting support.

When I get the chance I'll figure it out, or if anyone has had experience and or solutions please leave a comment.

G15 Arrived Today

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Took some quick photo's of the unpacking of the limited re-released of the original G15 Logitech keyboard.

When I get some time I will try out and review the Mac beta drivers...

... and when I finish the PC...

Tracking the Shipping of Packages

So far 9 out of the 11 items have begun to ship from New Egg. 8 of those will be here tomorrow thanks to living close to one of New Eggs shipping warehouse!

fyi: I love watching shipping packages online to see their progress.

Input devices and...

I didn't include a mouse and keyboard with my list of expenses partly because I have so many Mac mice and keyboards I could just plug in and use. It turns out a gaming keyboard was just re-released for a limited time, the original G15 keyboard from Logitech. (As far as I can tell Logitech is sold out of the old G15, but I ordered mine for $79). For a mouse I found Amazon selling Microsoft's SideWinder for half price, $37.

One last thing I've been meaning to purchase for sometime now was SpinRite 6.0 from grc.com, is the hard drive maintenance and recovery software. It's a tad pricey at $89 but it was written in assembly language, has more praise then any other software like it, and its cheaper then sending in a hard drive for data recovery.