http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/all_links.cfm All blogs are stored in user's profile at my.afterdawn.com. hourly 2 http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/3078/ I'm not usually one to go out there and buy the top stuff. I've for a long while used a bottom-end Dual core processor due to how it works, and perhaps against better judgement went with ATI's cheap and correspondingly underpowered HD3870 graphics card(s)... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/3045/ Tested my HD4870 out, and it's every bit as good as I could have hoped for, better in some cases. Yes, the 3dmark score is poor, but that means nothing. I'm getting relatively playable frame rates in Crysis all High at 2560x1600, I'm maxing out FEAR:Pers... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2908/ I've been hearing a lot of reports that Age of Conan is a ridiculously demanding game in the vein of crysis, and a lot of people have been upgrading their systems to run it. Keen to see what all the fuss was about I watched my roommate play it on his syst... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2890/ Well, I've finally done it. After all this "soon I'll" and "eventually" my PC is pretty much dead silent. The Corsair Power supply was the biggest impact, compared to the Thermaltake it cut the noise level by a good 5dB... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2827/ "How do you all afford all that?" "Where do you get the money" Gets asked a lot, usually in response to my PC specs page from my earlier blog. The answer's pretty simple really. PC parts are really the only things I spe... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2720/ The man behind the text... Not exactly the most handsome fellow on afterdawn, I'll be the first to admit. I let my PCs make up for that with their looks instead... :P... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2464/ Well, after thoroughly enjoying the brief trial, Peggle Extreme included with the Orange Box, I decided to get the full version. I'm now hooked! I don't know what it is about casual games like this, but a lot of them seem to grab my attention for well... ... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2366/ After several odd errors, the motherboard in my main PC has failed (again, a faulty chipset) so I will be without it for a few days. It's being replaced with a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R, hopefully a more reliable board. Time will tell, I suppose.... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2358/ After much cursing and grumbling, Valve convinced me to purchase the Orange Box recently, despite how I (and I imagine pretty much everyone else who bought it) already own HL2. The main game I was interested in was Portal, having not yet finished the main... http://my.afterdawn.com/sammorris/blog_entry.cfm/2341/ I've recently downloaded the UT3 demo, and I must say, I'm more impressed than a lot of people have been. It runs relatively well for a demo, albeit with a few glaring bugs as always. The demo includes two Deathmatch maps, DM-Heatray and DM-Shangrila, and...