i845 reviews, new hardware, XMas

Here’s something int… Snake sent me a URL to Toms Hardware’s article of new chipsets for the P4. They compared Intel’s new and newly-leased i845 & i845D to other chipsets by our boy Via and SiS. All of these chipsets are made for mobos using DDR RAM w/ Intel’s P4 CPU. Up until now, only Intel mobos had the i800 series. Tom’s doesn’t really like the i845D… its RAM speed is beat by SiS’, and it’s kinda slow in OpenGL.

Just now, I went to SharkyExtreme and found a similar article, reviewing just the i845… and they loved it; it scored an 8.5. That’s the int part… but anyway, I learned something from Sharky’s review: AGP2X cards and mobos aren’t supported by the i845 or i850. In fact, if you try to use an AGP vid card in 2X mode (as Snake and I’s are set to currently), the mobo might become very badly damaged. We probably won’t be getting this chipset when we upgrade our mobos/CPUs… Abit’s KR7A-Raid looks very nice (it uses the KT266A chipset included in Tom’s review).

Hmm, what else… I just got a nice Philips 12Xx8Xx36X burner… it’s a bit slow, compared to others like Snake‘s, but I love it… it looks sleek, and using Nero w/ it works like a charm. I also got a GE DVD/CDRW/MP3 player… quite nice, though a bit useless. Too bad S&L Computers couldn’t start up yet… I’m itchin to build somethin 😛 .

It’s Christmas!!!

µhhhhhhhh… oh, and my microwave blew up.

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This just in…

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz….uhhhh, this just in: The Return to Castle Wolfenstein demo is out. It’s 114MB…arrr. Pick it up from FilePlanet.

I also forgot to mention that I did an update to the VT6X4 Tweak Guide. More tweaking madness for ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……..

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Boom-tastic!

No, that is not (read not) a bomb threat for all you llamas that are watching our every move, so STFU. LOL, we love messing with you rets, because you’re so technologically impaired that you think everything on this site is a threat to the well-being of others. It’s a crying shame, but on with the boom!

I’m gonna attempt to do this in chronological order and hell, this may be the longest news post ever.

Monday, Loogie and I commenced in some fragalicious JDoom using our traditional modem peer-to-peer connection 8) (who needs TCP/IP when you live a mile from each other???). Anyways, this is now my favorite freakin port for Doom now. Not only is it absolutely beautiful but the multiplayer options are becoming better and better with each additional patch. The most recent eye candy that was added is the MD2 model support. This means that Doom while running in JDoom and with all the newest model packs is almost totally 3D. So, Loog and I played several of the later levels of Doom2 on Monday and then the following day, I had finally finish playing the entire Doom2 wad, proof below. If you just wanna gib some demons in single-player, JDoom is the way to go. Linkage Screenage:

If you can’t tell, I’m in a good mood. And hell, you would be too if you were Snake. As stated in my last post, I got a new burner and a TV card. Most of my time so far has been spent investigating the capabilities of this ATI TV Wonder card and it’s software. If you’ve got any sort of video that you’d like to input into your computer, get one of these cards now!!! They’re dirt cheap for everything you get. Of course, the quality isn’t as good as with a TV but it suits. I’ve been working with it and a VCR hooked to the composite for a couple days now and it’s really amazing. 😮 At 320×240, it can record real-time into Divx 4.11 compression. Well, there’s not a whole lot else to say about that. I was working with the camcorder the other day and made an exclusive Snake video but at 21MB even with Divx, it’s too large to upload :( Here’s some Screenage:

Next, I must pay homage to the Plextor 16/10/40 CD-RW. I burned a CD-RW on Thursday evening and was pretty impressed by the speed, and that was only at 10X (for the llamas, that’s the max rate for rewritable media). I burned 496MB of data in 6:10. I remember when burning an entire audio disc took like 45 minutes. Hell, now it’d only take 9. Once again, this particular drive is dirt cheap now that the 24X’s are out. Check out the TV card and burner at my boys’ site, Comp-u-Plus.

Now, here’s the funny shit. Last night (that would be Friday), both Loog and I’s rigs did some intense fucking up. I was trying to write this news post when it happened. My hard drive made a spin down sound and everything locked but the mouse cursor. I said the usual “what the fuck” and hit the restart button. I come back and holy hell, my screen is at 640x480x4 resolution. I tried the normal response to that kind of thing and reinstalled the Via 4.00 AGP GART and nVidia 21.81 drivers. It had no effect, so I just proceeded to back up everything important to the Slave Hard Drive (which IMHO, everyone needs) and formatted the Master at around 4 this afternoon. By 10, I had enough stuff installed to be officially operational. :) The last thing I installed was PowerStrip (great tool, pick it up).

Loog on the other hand, I dunno what exactly happened to his rig. He reinstalled Win98se (without a format 😡 ) and now about half of his programs don’t work still and the OS crashes every few hours. On top of that, he has about 600 files on his Hard Drive that are infected with the Chernobyl virus. All this because he didn’t just format. Loogie is a ret. Moving on.

Oh, hold up…that’s it. She-it, it’s 5:24….I’m ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………

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Amazing!!!!!!!

Both Snake and I’s PCs just died… that’s right. I’m barely able to type this. We both have to reinstall Windows (gay Microsoft and its XP tryin to overtake 98), and Snake might have to format. And this is just after Snake got his Plextor burner and TV card and was watchin extensive TV for the first time in years.

SHE-IT.

[Editors Note: Holy crap! I guess the happiness of the holidy season doesnt apply to us. Since im by default, like, in charge.. um.. erm.. get me some chicks! And where’s that sandwich boy??]

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The Wad’s B-Day!!! and other things

Ok, so I haven’t posted in like 3 weeks… oh well, I don’t have too terribly much to say anyway 😛 .

This Tuesday was The Wad’s 1st birthday! Exactly one year ago from Tuesday, I first successfully booted up my computer, known as The Wad. I know this date is right cause I found a boot disk I made w/ the date “12/4/00” on it… so, it’d be nice if my computer could get some b-day presents, but that won’t likely happen, lol…

“The Gloss”… it’s simply amazing. I love going to it, adding to it, and just looking through it (and correcting errors by certain Rets :) ). Check it out.

Darkhalo ownz joo!!! This music is like the perfect segway between MODs and MP3s. I have gotten 22/30 of his original songs, and only 2 have sucked…

µhhhh… NOLF is a great game, I just finished it… extremely fun, and the ending is just inspired. I have here a few screens, of course…

I got DirecTV satellite! This should be better than my previous cable, and it’s way cheaper than the Primestar I had 5 years ago. In fact, I know a few ppl who are getting it now. The receivers have a built-in modems, S-Video outs, stereo audio outputs and video outputs, and newer ones will be able to digitally record TV, w/out the use of a VCR or any tape of any kind.

I got the slightly more inclusive Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition program package that Snake got… it’s like 50 programs, but it won’t do me much good till I buy like an $100 book on how to program Visual Basic & C++. Snake has already made a program (still in alpha stage), using VB.

The Christmas season is finally here! There are so many things all of us need right now, especially starting up our company (codename BeattheTechCloud)… but most importantly, Snake and I need burners… both of ours died recently, and of course floppies don’t cut it. I may also be getting a better WebCam, DVD Player, printer and/or desk. Thankfully, we can get all the software we want on Morpheus 8) .

In case u haven’t noticed, I made a new S&L logo…

That’s it… oh whoops, that was a terrible lot.

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New stuff.

I added a new POTM that Que sent me and…yeh, the random thing in the top frame. It provides both useful information and humor every time you visit. 😛

S&L – WE don’t even know what the “L” stands for anymore. LOL, I crack myself up. 8)

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