Archive for May, 2008

Taking a Leave of Abscence as My House was Robbed

As per the title, chances are I’ll be rather scarce around here for the next couple of days/weeks. Early this morning I stupidly answered the door to a knock and a single young man standing at the door. Upon opening the door 2 more guys appeared and forced their way into my house and my [...]

Review: Gigabyte 8800GT 512MB

Today I have a long put-off review of the Gigabyte 8800GT. The 8800GT happens to be rather “old” card in the grand scheme of things however it’s still a very powerful card and very attractive in it’s current price point. The 8800GT was originally launched in October 2007 and over the course of 7 months [...]

I’m Back At It!

For the last 3 days I’ve been sitting through orientations at my new job but today was a free day and luckily UPS dropped off my new QX9650. Sadly it’s a C0 stepping, looks like C1’s are limited to QX9770’s. I’m having trouble getting 460FSB stable though but it might be the motherboard. I received [...]

“Official” AMD HD4850/4870 Specifications

I typically hate to get into the rumor industry however these figures posted over at NordicHardware sound very believable. They aren’t drastically larger than the past generation yet appear to offer enough performance to perform as expected. The RV770 core, which will form AMD’s HD4850, HD4870, and HD4870X2, will consist of 480 shaders, 160 more [...]

Project Nissan 240SX: Day 6

Today wasn’t so much a day as more a culmination of a few days. I’m just now getting caught up on all my work so I’ve had time to give this project some attention. I spent a few hours today calling around searching for replacement engines and suffice to say the search wasn’t very positive. [...]

Review: 2×1GB Corsair PC2-8888C4 Dominator

During my recent trip to California, Corsair hooked me up with some of the DDR2 and DDR3 Dominators. Prior to this I have more or less stuck with OCZ since my DDR1 days however I simply couldn’t pass up these sticks. For the following week I was jittery in anticipation, these sticks had the potential [...]