I’ve been going back and forth overclocking my haswell 4670k. MSI has a built in overclocking button called overclock genie, which would take the CPU to 4GHz but I don’t trust auto overclocking and I did have some crashes happen with apps and games. So after reading some more guides and seeing what others are […]
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Battlefield 4 Mantle vs DirectX Real World Benchmark Results
The reason I bought my 7970 GHz was in anticipation of Mantle, and it was on sale. But Mantle is here and BF4 has Mantle and I believe I am the perfect case study because I have the average gamer PC stock without overclocking. Because I can’t afford to replace burnt out video cards and […]
Read More →How to play Batman Arkham Asylum with Windows 8
Batman AA is a game I’ve been meaning to play for a long time. So long that a new OS has been released from Microsoft and I’ve upgraded. So when I tried to run my install from Steam nothing happened. After I quick view of the event logs I found the warning below. The application […]
Read More →Video cards – we’ve come full circle
I wonder how many people remember the Voodoo series of video cards? For me, those were the first video cards for gaming. Well, I think we’ve finally come full circle in the amount of fans and the length. Video cards were pretty compact, even the high end ones. Not any more. In fact, my $200 […]
Read More →Classic Gaming with DOSbox and Simcity 2000 on Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X
My love for Simcity began in the early 90’s with Simcity Classic. My family had just moved to Colorado from Omaha and we were staying with my uncle while they finished work on the house. I was first introduced to it when my uncle let me use his super fast 486 PC. I would sit […]
Read More →Playing around with photoshop
Here is my attempt to make some 80’s retro space sci fi thing. Gaze upon its horribleness. Click the crap above for a full size
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