Updates

Posted on September 9, 2001 by Loogie
First of all, I found out where Snake has been: he was @ an Order of the Arrow thing for scouts this weekend. He got back this afternoon, but a few hours later commenced w/ formatting his NEW HARD DRIVE. He should be back at the latest tomorrow night.

Secondly, I painted the front panel of my case black. Using all sorts of stencils and tools- from scissors to chewing gum- I got labels and green buttons on there too. ~gheTtO MOD column

Finally, my new GeForce2…. it looks pretty good, but it’s a little disappointing. Literally no editing software comes w/ it, and I still get 43 Xs in the SiSoft Video System Info benchmark, which is pretty bad. It claims my card has no curve drawing abilities.

But on the good side, Black & White looks amazing & runs smoothly, my old issues w/ smoke grens and outdoor areas in CS are solved, and it comes w/ a 16-24-bit z-buffer and (w/ the right software) adjustable antialiasing (FSAA). Q3 and UT also run great. Alt-tabbing works even better than w/ my Voodoo3, but there is some weird transfer problem when loading games. Another weird thing: this can only go up to 1280×1024 (which is the max res on my monitor, so it’s ok)… but even my Voodoo could go up to 2048, way higher than that. And in 1280×1024, I still get a very flickery, 60hz on the monitor. 120hz is only in 640×480.

MotherBoard Monitor has been reading my NorthBridge (where the AGP slot is) @ 86-91º, which is about 10º higher than usual… so I ordered a Blue Orb fan for it right away. I couldn’t afford memory heatsinks, but oh well. So, that’s it for now….. (I just realized I said way too much). ~GeForce2 column

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