Winegard HD8200U installation and reviewWinegard makes wonderful large heavy-duty antennas. I go through the assembly/installation process and provide a few thoughts at the end. |
a not-so-pleasant Mushkin 996647 RAM review (8GB – 2x4GB)How Mushkin ended up on my do-not-buy-again list by trying to extract extra cash from me. |
Razer DeathAdder Mac mouse reviewA look at DeathAdder mouse – a good Windows mouse, and even a good Mac mouse! |
A look at the 15″ 2011 MacBook ProPicked up a 2011 MacBook Pro, did some testing, and did some modding. |
Dragon Age 2 Mac vs PCDoes the Mac version of Dragon Age 2 live up to the PC version? Well…. |
Dragon Age 2 review – a worthy successor to the original – things that could use improvementWhile trying to avoid spoilers, I go over a number of general things in DA2 that I found to be superb, and others that I thought could use some improvement. |
Overclocking the 5730m (and results)A quick guide going over the process of overclocking the AMD 5730m, and then a look at the performance results. |
Mac OS X slow for 10-15 minutes after boot – THE FIXIf you’ve got a BootCamp partition on your Mac and found that Mac OS X inexplicably runs slow after startup, this may be the solution. |
Civilization 5 – From Archaemennid to Safavid achievement bug workaroundCiv 5 came with it’s share of achievement-related issues and bugs. Here’s a way to work around the Archaemennid to Safavid bug during a play. |
D-Link DIR-825 router review – poor design for the low price of $150My D-Link DIR-825 came with a heatsink that looks like… well… not a heatsink. How it cost over $100 is beyond me. |
SimpleCDN down… for good?Simple CDN is down. And it looks like it’s not coming back any time soon. |
Review – a couple Honeywell Air PurifiersI exposed a couple locally-available air purifiers to a smoky room. Here’s how it turned out. |
Civilization 5 thoughts and reviewI take a fairly in-depth look at Civ 5. |
A few Maya observations…A few basic observations surrounding Maya, with a Mac vs PC focus. |
Overclocking the E2140 with the Gigabyte G41MT-ES2L with the BSEL modThe E2140 is notorious for being ridiculously overclockable. Here’s how far I was able to push it on the Gigabyte G41MT-ES2L. |
Noctua NH-U12P vs Cool It Domino A.L.C.I look at both an air and water cooler that happen to be in the same price ballpark, comparing performance and sound. |
Brother HL-3070CW Color Wireless LED Printer reviewHow I’d never considered a Brother printer before, I don’t know. I ended up quite impressed. |
Thoughts on the Antec 300Yet another Antec review – this time, the 300. |
OCZ 600SXS StealthXStream power supply review – (hint: it’s in the trash)It may as well have been a no-name PSU to be honest…. |
Maya 2011 and Mental Ray Satellite – always benchmark first! (part 2)Throwing more machines, at a render project can be counter-productive. See why you need to test before you start your renders. |