You Still Own 3DFX?

Yeah, I do. I got myself a 3DFX Voodoo Banshee with me until now and it’s still a working baby. I brought two of them by mistake actually because of my immature decision back in my school. Ok, money spender train by my dad. ^^;;; The first one I got is Creative Voodoo Banshee 16MB SD-RAM PCI version, and the second one is Powercolor Evil Queen Voodoo Banshee 16MB SG-RAM AGP version for my Pentium II 400MHz PC. I have to say this card rock quite a lot of 3D games back then and the performance is not really disappointed. The last game I played with this card is Alien vs Predator 2 using 3rd party drivers to load. After looking at this card, I still wish my Pentium II would alive these days if it wasn’t because of the BIOS update.

The Inquirer news also mention about the 3DFX graphic card collector last week. You probably don’t want to miss out if you are former 3DFX fan. You should check out the The Dodge Garage 3dfx Collection website. It got tons of 3DFX graphic cards and goodies. Worth to take a visit the old 3DFX online museum. If you are looking for latest 3DFX drivers for your Vooodoo 3, 4 & 5. You guys better stop by at 3dfxzone.it.

My Cosmos Contest

If you had read my previous Coolermaster 15th anniversary about the upcoming new CM contest this month, than you shouldn't missed out the new one currently already started at My COSMOS blog this week. The prizes are attractive and easier than the previous contest, so I don't think you really want to leave this one out? ^^ There are many ways to win cool prizes, write or create a video reviews about COSMOS or post as much comments in COSMOS blog to win weekly prizes which is much easier. However, I do recommend writing reviews and even better creating a video for COSMOS in your own idea and creative ways. You guys can check out the rules and requirements over COSMOS Event page for more information.

Oh! Didn't I forget you can used your own blog to win something too? ^^ Read this post for the rules!

Choosing a New AGP card

Currently using GeforceFX 5200 as a backup for my PC. I decided to get a new mid range AGP card so that I won't feel like shit watching movies all day. I need a quite powerful card to support more latest games. Not yet decide which brand I should be getting. ATI or NVIDIA? I have been using NV products for quite long and I am thinking about switching to ATI because it best known for its movie quality. But the price is a problem right now, that's why I decided to visit Best Gaming Graphics Cards for the Money: September 2007 at Tomshardware.com. It seems like Geforce 7600 GS/GT and Radeon X1650 PRO is my likely choice on the list. Well, I need to check out the Galaxy & Gecube current price today from my friends. Considering better to put some debts over there and settle it next month! HA!!! ^^;;; Another debt going into my list!

I'm not thinking about getting high-end card for my PC because my power supply unit is not enough to boost these cards using Coolermaster 350W PSU. Best to go for a mid range video card nowadays! Let see how its turn out!

SOTs Magazine September is Out!

The latest SOTs online magazine has release for September. Head over to the official website for free download!

Upgrade GeforceFX 5900XT Cooling.....Ermm But....

I have been using my Chaintech GeforceFX 5900XT for nearly four years for gaming. Well, things get old easily and especially the graphic card fan are making a lot of annoying noise inside my case once power turn on. I decided to get the old and cheap Coolermaster Cool VIVA product from the store to get rid my noisy fan. My PC is 24 hours operations using torrent and I really need a proper sleep. Here's the picture cover of the plastic seal!


I got it for B$15.00 (US$9.00 +/-) in my country, which is totally consider cheaper than before. I didn't even know we can get that price if it wasn't my customer who first brought it from the store. He told me to help him to assemble the Coolviva for his Radeon 9800 Pro card and happy to say its very successful for a first time. Ok, not quite a very nice looking and proper installed which I think as long I don't destroy the whole card. ^^;;;; Anyway, picture below for my old card before I do something stupid!

Taaadaaa! Here's the final one!


HA!!! See! Really bad assemble after looking at this picture. You can clearly see the heatsink were totally upper and facing downward. Forget about that. Bad news was that, my card totally screw up after a few small metals fell off from the board. It still work, however, it can't display after it reaches higher resolution in the desktop and crush into blue screen. Arggg...can't believe it just died like that because of these few small metal stuff. I guess maybe its time to get a new AGP card for my PC until building a new one next year. I wonder which mid-range card I should get these days?

Sim 2 Video - Avril Lavigne 'Girlfriend'

Sorry for any late posting. Too busy lately with my work and extra over time required to attend at night. Arrgg. Really hate without getting paid! Check this out, someone actually used Sim 2 game create a very good music video.

PC Space Upgrading and Reformatting

Finally my Maxtor 250GB IDE hard disk drive arrived on Friday. It took me two days (starting on Saturday) to finished up PC inspections on hardware and Window stability's. The only pushed me behind are the large data (movies ^^;;;) stored inside my hard disk and takes time moving most of them out from the previous HDD that I decided to used for external backup. I think I need to spend another two more days to finish up arranging the data and some software I haven’t yet fully installed into my Window XP. In case, you might asked what pirated software I might using. ^^ Well, I decided to go for all freeware (probably at least 80%) software’s I found very useful and uses less memory resources. I will only need shareware products if I am doing some design or editing photography.

Here are the lists of free software I decided to load into my fresh installed Window XP:

All-in-One:

• AusLogics Disk Defrag
• Daemon Tool
  
• 7-Zip
• Recuva
• Revo Uninstaller
• TeraCopy
• Unlocker

Internet:

• Firefox 2.0.0.6
• Free Download Manager
• Youtube Downloader
• Quicktime
• Real (Alternative)
  

Multimedia:

• iTune
  
• K-Lite Codec Pack
• VideoLAN VLC player
  
• Winamp 5

Photography

• Adobe Photo Album Starter Editions
  
• Paint.NET

Office

• Adobe Reader 8
  
• DoPDF

Security

• AOL Active Virus Shield (Kaspersky)
• Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal
• Spywareblaster
  
• Spybot: Search & Destroy 1.4
• TrendProtect (for Internet Explorer)

Others:

• CyberLink DVD Suite (Free from LG)
  
• Nero 7 Essentials (Free from LG)