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And today, I bring ye... The HD4850, by Sapphire. Apart from the card running hot as a damn volcano, It's a beautiful thing that finally lets me play games stupidly fast.
Now all I need to do is Volt-mod them.
I did buy two, at the good ole Computer fair. $230 a pop too! Not a bad price at all.
The 2nd had a bad heatsink with a faulty fan - Took it off, put it to the hacksaw. (Stupid idea, huh?) Turns out the heatsinks aren't even copper. Tin, with copper plating. Horrible at transferring heat.
Nonetheless, it's a very good card for the money and I highly reccomend it. An extra $40 will get you some very decent aftermarket cooling that you can put on these pretties that will drop the temps from 80 to a cool 30.
Not to mention UT3 at 150 frames....
Nonetheless, I am indeed a very happy chappy. Anyhow, heres a picture of the beast in the nude :)
My current problem is the MOSFET's at the back - I really don't want to fork out for additional heatsinks :(
In further news, Diablo 3 has been announced! It looks VERY good. Male and female classes, a HOTBAR!? and more importantly, DESTROYABLE SURROUNDINGS?
Finally, this festival of pants-creaming was topped off by DECAPITATION EFFECTS. I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO PLAY A GAME MORE IN MY LIFE.
Anyway, maybe the caffiene is getting to me. I'd best let you all have a look here as well. Along with Starcraft 2, this should make my Christmas a very entertaining one indeed.
So, as life goes on, I may as well fill this blog. A job interview next week, Computer building for friends this weekend, life is good! But that aside, I bring you... Reinforce Zwei by Alter! It came a few weeks ago, thanks to the good people at HLJ. Something I would indeed really like to have is a few shelves. Pity there isn't a Ikea store or anything around me. So much to buy, so little time.
Before I start though, apologies for the quality, ye olde' camera is dying. I'm still happy with it though, so I'm not going to get anything newer for a fair while. And it still does the job.
Anyhow, to the fig! For those who watched the Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha series, she is Hayate's unison device that appears in the final arc of the trilogy - StrikerS I did enjoy the series alot, and do reccomend it to people. (And here I am, an 18 year old guy recommending magical girl anime... God knows what'd happen to me if my boss found out.) But anyway, the quality of her is amazing, my first of hopefully many figures by Alter.
If you were thinking of buying her - Good luck! From what I've seen, she sold out pretty much worldwide a week within her release. However, if you do find one from a reasonably trustworthy buyer, don't hesitate, most likely it'll be gone the next time you go back and check. She's an incredibly popular supporting character.
Overall, I was very impressed by the level of detail, especially in a figurine. I can definitely say Alter are staying on my buying list for anything I find in the future. The hair though sometimes scares me, it does feel a little fragile
I have heard that Alter are releasing a figurine of her master which comes with a mini-reinforce thats due in december, however. I'll keep you posted.
Hurrah, new blog! Along with a new motherboard....
The computer fair this weekend should be interesting indeed.
Just in time to see the 4870's arrive en masse on multiple sites - These cards are really amazing. The give the average joe Crossfire at an affordable point, they perform very well solo, and they finally have resolved ATi's long battle with Anti-aliasing and Antrioscopic Filtering. PC Case gear have a very nice deal I may just go with. Judging from the TweakTown review, there still are a few driver problems, but they'll be resolved rather quickly. Stick a ThermalTake DuoOrb on them and you'll be sweet. Now the only problem is a lack of damn PCI slots on my motherboard....
Nonetheless, my rig is going quite happily. Vistax64 has been relatively qualm-free, and the copious amounts of RAM I have (compared with before) is making me a very happy chap indeed.
Cable management is going to be my forever bugging problem though.... :(
My current problem is the MOSFET's at the back - I really don't want to fork out for additional heatsinks :( 
