Archive for april, 2007
New blog design
april 27th, 2007. Published under Software. No Comments.
As you can see, my blog or homepage or whatever you call it, has a new design. I got sick of the old on,e and as a natural consequence it stopped working when i upgraded the engine its running on.
Anyways, i found this theme, and i like it, so I’m gonna use this for a while i think. The only thing i don’t like, is the Macintosh look-a-like button icons on the menu bars. Once i get time, i will change that i guess :)
Antec Performance P180B
april 25th, 2007. Published under Hardware. No Comments.
I just got a new case for my PC, which i am currently (re)building, basically the only thing i will keep from the old one, is the hard drives. Since everything else have been replaced recently. And i am just awaiting more price drops on Quad core processors from Intel. Anyways, i got this 1000 Watt NorthQ silent PSU, which i will need for when i buy a new graphics card.
I fittede it in my new case from Antec, a P180-B which i really really like since the second i saw the mechanical drawing to it :)
I took some pictures as i unwrapped the case, forgot to take some during and after i sat in the NorthQ PSU. They will come later :)
All i need now is for my new hardware to drop sufficient in price, so that i wont have to go to bed crying over buying it too expensive :)
That should happen shortly, since Intel plans on the price for the Q6600 Processor to drop to 266$ during 2007 Q3.
Update: i honestly belive they have mistakenly sent me a P182 instead of a P180B since my new kabinet has all the features of the P182 that are “fixes” from the P180 =/ The box for it does say P180B though Look for yourself here.
Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
april 17th, 2007. Published under Hardware, Software. No Comments.
I got my self one :)
No particular reason to why though, since i already had a nice and fully working Sound blaster Audigy 2 ZS. I think the main reason was the fact that the X-Fi had the 64 MB RAM on it, which among other things, allows it to free the CPU of some processing, plus i heard “rumors” about how inferior it was compared to the Audigy 2.
So, is it actually worth the money?
Well, if you asked me the day i got it, or even sometime the same evening, i would have said no, simply because of the hassle i had installing it. Its simply because the way Microsoft and creative choose things to be.
See, in the old days you had to manually assign a IRQ to a piece of hardware in your ISA/PCI ports but windows has taken over for this ow, which is a good thing, but Creative does not share Microsoft’s idea on how they can share IRQs.
Anyways what happened was that Windows Vista, which i use, wouldn’t “let go” of the Soundblaster Audigy 2 drivers, and when i finally manged to get it to forget them something was corrupted in the core somehow in vista so that it wouldn’t allow me to install the X-Fi drivers OR install the Audigy drivers!
This resulted in me having to reinstall Windows Vista. After which it worked like nothing ever happened. I installed the driver i got from creative.com and i got the full effect of the sound. I was like .. OMG is this possible ? i actually made a difference, i heard details in game i did not hear before ( Company Of Heroes in this case ) well, just everything was awesome. So now I’m thrilled about it :)
