Recent content by Erazor

Cookie Monster?

PSU might be a bit tight.

Oddly enough I'm starting a similar build based around the Q6600 and had until today thought the Antec 900 and 650W PSU would be ideal. On closer inspection, I came to the conclusion that the PSU might not be enough, and the 900 was a noisy dust magnet. So... The pairing of an Antec P182 with...

Paper manuals and posters are sometimes very important with some games, be it learning the tech tree and fundamentals in Civilization or trying to find your way around GTA:San Andreas etc. HTML and text files just doesn't do it and in-game help isn't always available. One of the first I...

So no more City 17 moderation? Then it has changed from what it like a few years ago, which is good to hear.

Who really wants a delivery system that pushes adverts, gathers usage information, is an extra resource to manage, adds complications when it doesn't work properly, requires updates almost as often as your AV, introduces patches that cause further problems, and is generally a PITA when all you...

Thanks Calebb, Kamxam, and Stuff2sell. :) The review at Anandtech was quite interesting, I didn't realise just how much of a difference there is between the stock HSF on the newer multicore CPUs and what is now on offer by way of air cooling. And also how little difference there is in...

I can't seem to find any reviews on air cooling the Q6600, is that because there isn't anything out there or that the stock cooler does the job just fine? I'm a bin fan of Zalman (no pun intended - wouldn't have been funny anyway) for their efficiency and quietness, but they don't seem to...

I'm just a tad older, but played and remember Pong quite well. Got filmed in 1983 by the BBC in Treasure Island arcade in Glasgow (Scotland) playing Hang On for a news report on opticians becoming concerned about young people's eyesight from playing computer games.:D Great early arcade games...

TOCA Race Driver 2 - I couldn't control certain cars no matter how many times I tried. Gave up in frustration. CS - Like others I simply found it boring. Although that was when aimbots and wallhacks were rife.

I'm an old gamer that came to the series in Underground 2. It was fun of just driving about without having to race all the time that was most enjoyable Most Wanted was even better. :)

Half Life 2 - Silly thin plot and half a game. Not a patch on the original. Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 - Took all the fun out of the series with the move to 3D. Need For Speed: Carbon - Didn't look or play as good as Most Wanted. Fine if you like drifting (I didn't), but otherwise poorest game of...

It all sounds like the same symptoms I had when I fried my 6800GT.

Why was Halo Xbox so good? From a PC gamers perspective it was a combination of decent graphics, game play, engine and multiplayer. The controls were easy, it had physics which was fun, the levels were a decent size, the AI was kind of novel for a console game with dodging & stuff, and the...

Whilst I didn't have any immediate intentions of buying Vista for my new rig later this year, Halo 2 PC was the only thing that might have persuaded me. That is until I saw those screen shots.:( It's bad enough waiting this length of time for the sequel to appear for the PC, but for it to be...