Author Archive for Chris

Funny

It’s been quite a while since I posted on here so I thought I would post two funny vid’s.

Assassination - Snake

Halo 3 Mock

The ID Job

Friday I went to go see “The Bank Job” with a couple of buddies and first off; it was a amazing movie. We get to the movies and there was one open register with no one in line (I wonder why…), I head over to that line and some of my friends go to the register next to me. I tell her that I want to see the movie, she tells me how much, and I give her my Credit Card. She kinda looks at my Credit Card and looks at me like “Your 17 and have one?” then asks me for my ID and says that she wouldn’t let her 18 year old see it (wow?) I’m just amazed. So I hand her my ID after kinda bs’ing around and she asks the register where my friends are to to make sure they show ID. They kinda joke around with the whole ID process because they are students =P.

We finally get to the movies and the 2nd group arrives. I mention “Hey did you guys get carded too?” and he tells me that he did and she couldn’t even figure out his age. This is the killer, she pulls out a calculator, tries to figure out how old he is and guess what…

EPIC FAIL!

She got the wrong age for him…again. Needless to say after all this, she just lets him go =P

The Rig & BSG

Two words can describe the rig that was posted before this. Epic and Fast… There were many issues getting this together but that’s what you get with hardware that came out less than 15 days ago. My 3D Mark 06 score is in the low 20,000’s and ingame the framerate is just amazing with over 250+ FPS in most games. But we can’t forget the game crysis with it’s absurd system requirements. It averages around 60-65 on Very High 4xAA Settings.

I had many problems with drivers, bluescreens, and heating issues. Drivers ended up turning off the fans on the Dual 9800GX2’s causing them to overheat and the bluescreens were caused by a Vista x64 kernel issue not properly reading over 4GB of available memory. So far it’s been at a stable 100-110~F on all 4 Cores of the GPU and the max I’ve gotten is about a 130F. The GPU’s start to throttle down when it reaches a temp of 220~F so we can see that NVIDIA left quite a bit of room for overclocking.

I did have this at Sparty Lan Party, where it was down most of the time towards the end… just my luck. If you’d like to see this rig in action; I’d recommend driving to Big Shot Gaming at Central Michigan University. They did a great job planning this and with over $3,500 dollars in prizes it’s something you cannot miss!

Anyways there are some pictures of the rig from start to finish, you can view them here.

Updates

Today I decided it was time to upgrade! Thanks to Jeff from Mythlogic! These guys are seriously awesome, If anyone needs parts or computers, I HIGHLY recommend them. Anyways, here’s the good stuff:

  • (1) XFX MBN790IUL9 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI DDR3 ATX Intel Motherboard
  • (2) XFX GeForce 9800 GX2, PVT-98U-ZHF9
  • (1) SILVERSTONE TJ09-BW Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
  • (1) SILVERSTONE ZM1200M ATX 12V 2.3 & EPS 12V 1200W Power Supply
  • (1) Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Yorkfield 3.0GHz LGA 775 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569QX9650
  • (1) Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series Sound
  • (1) ASUS Triton 79 Amazing CPU Cooler
  • (1) SILVERSTONE Commando 1 ESA Module

I will also be upgrading my site a lot more starting with the newer version of Wordpress, v2.5 :)

I’ll post pictures when my rig is finished =)

-Christopher “tankbusta”

MPCon XX & Halo 3 2v2 Tournament

Halo 3 2v2

Date: Feb 29th at 2:00 PM (EST) and ends March 2nd at 10:00 AM (EST)
Where: EMU Student Center

Halo 3 2v2 Tournament begins Saturday March 1st at 11:00 AM (EST).

This is going to be a lot of fun, especially the Halo 3 2v2 tournament! We are trying to raise over $7,500 dollars for a local branch of the Autism Society of America. Walshy, Lil Poison, and PMS Clan will be making an appearance there as well!

Downtime

We were offline for a bit - about 20 hours. The server this is on was DoS’d, then after it was fixed I ended up being banned from my own server :O

Opps?

Update: Yet another DoS happened last night, and I was banned again… It also seems that the E-Mail server was down for about 30 mins.

2nd Update: Lunarpages moved us to a faster server! The old one was still giving me tons of errors after the DoS.

Facebook and Zune

Microsoft did a really nice with the new Zune update. The software is MUCH improved over the old, less buggier.. Except for the memory leak I had discovered the other day.

Zune Leak

The new feature they implemented, the Social is better than I thought it would be. It didn’t seem like there was much hype leading up to it from what I heard..

On the other hand, today at a LAN Party, I checked on Facebook to see if there was a Facebook Application to add the Zune Social Card to your profile. I was quite surprised when I noticed that there wasn’t any! I started to create one (After many failing attempts and broken keyboards all due to their FBML language…) It is still quite buggy  and I’m sure there will be one better than mine but It is a Great learning experiment in Facebook Integration.

Zune Facebook

(As you notice - There is a huge gap at the top!…)