Gaming , General , Review , Tech

PC Upgrade 2011

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Christmas was simple this year, did not have a big family gathering. Simple is not bad though and my PC got some love. I built my current PC back in May (2011) with the base stats of Intel i5 3.2 GHz w/ 8GB DDR3 and my old 64GB SSD & GeForce GTS 250. The Holidays brought about some new additions: Bamboo Capture Pen Tablet Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930 OCZ Agility3 120GB SATA III 2.5″ SSD Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600 (2×4) Now my system is max’d at 16GB of RAM with two Solid-State Drives thus my operating system is once again booting at […]

Gaming , General , Review , World of Warcraft

Blizzard WoW Annual Pass, Check!

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What is a WoW Annual Pass? The WoW Annual Pass is a twelve month World of Warcraft subscription which can be paid for in monthly installments. When do I get Diablo III and the other exclusive benefits? You’ll be able to download and play Diablo III as soon as it’s available and once you complete the one-year term, it’s yours to keep, even if you cancel your subscription. Tyrael’s Charger will be available with Patch 4.3, and beta access will go live with the beta launch. http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/promotion/wap/en-us.html

General , Review , Tech

Monoprice, Always Winning

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Warning, this post is almost a real blog entry! *Gasp* Anyways, I wanted to share an awesome website for those who have been overpaying for various cables assemblies. Monoprice is the word of the day. For all your cable and adapter-like needs. I used to use Ebay primarily for such things but now I just head over to Monoprice for such things. This is why Monoprice is always winning: I can buy all that stuff below when it would cost me pretty much $20 per item in a store (like BestBuy and Staples, or even Walmart). Just the simple DVI […]

Gaming , General , Review

Upgrade: Logitech Performance Mouse MX

by: UriahPosted on:

So I just bought one of these tonight for $80 @ Newegg ||Logitech Performance Mouse MX I’ve used two MX Revolutions over the last 3 years & now this one’s middle mouse click is failing So upgrade time! Apparently this model is the new one that I just bought. Looks good on paper, we’ll see. I kinda don’t care about the “Darkfield Laser Tracking” although being able to use my mouse on glass (4mm+ thick) is pretty neat. Edit: Image added below

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New PC Build 2011

by: UriahPosted on:

Well my birthday has come & gone now, funds from this year attributed to info below. I can happily report that I’ve actually put WoW’s slider to ULTRA in the graphics settings and I still get at least 40FPS in Stormwind. rawr Case: ANTEC One Hundred ATX CPU: Intel i5 2400 (3.10 GHz Quad) Motherboard: Intel BOXDH67CLB3 1155 ATX RAM: Corsair 8GB (2×4) D3 1600 PSU: PCPower 650w Silencer Mk II HDD: 500GB WesternDigital Blue Sata 6.0 Optical: 22x DVDRW SATA w/LightScribe Not shown in picture (not new, these are from my last PC) SSD: PNY SSD 64GB GFX: Nvidia […]

Gaming , General , Review

Good Morning, Viet… Magicka!

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Yes, I do enjoy Robbin Williams movies but Magicka even more so! Today Magicka released it’s first real DLC: Magicka Vietnam for $5 on Steam. Needless to say, it was the first thing I went to upon firing up my browser this morning. I paid my $5 and then started playing around with the two new Challenge modes after changing my avatars appearance to the new DLC Vietnam solider look (which comes with Grenade-Throwing staff). Just like the game itself, I’d recommend the $5 DLC. A good thing for multiplayer (CO-OP) is that only the ‘host’ has to have the […]