   | Posted 15 months ago ( edited 15 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » OverClocking Guide Contest Rules (3) |
In this contest, we're asking you, our readers, to produce an overclocking guide for any AMD product. Use images and video as appropriate to support the guide you're creating.
Note - Only AMD produ... (read more)
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   | Posted 16 months ago in category DEFAULT » Machinima Contest Rules (0) |
This group is dedicated to creating 30 second Machinima commercials for AMD. Use your creativity and gaming skillz to help AMD promote one of their products, or connect with gaming enthusiasts.
Any... (read more)
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   | Posted 16 months ago ( edited 16 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Fragging Contest Rules (0) |
Fragging Contest Rules:
Members of the AMD Matrix group will be asked to submit a 30-second video taken from playing an FPS game title (see list below). Object is to show the most frags in the 30 s... (read more)
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   | Posted 16 months ago ( edited 16 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Do you Machinima? (0) |
If you're like most readers of this site, you've seen examples of Machinima already, like Red vs Blue, Never Stay Tuned, and Medieval Weapon. Like movies in general, these are polished examples of ser... (read more)
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   | Posted 19 months ago ( edited 19 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Judgement Day: Core 2 Extreme X6800, Zalman, Gigabyte and OCZ. (25) |
Introduction
Over the course of the past two weeks, the system supplied by FiringSquad for the Editor’s Challenge Final Round has been assembled and disassembled numerous times, has had... (read more)
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   | Posted 19 months ago ( edited 19 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » The Odd Couple: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 and GeForce 7600GT (19) |
In the first article of this three part series, the test-bed system had been built up to the point of reaching the operating system desktop. Now it was time to begin putting the Core 2 Extreme X6800-b... (read more)
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   | Posted 19 months ago ( edited 19 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Building a Beast with the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Processor (47) |
Introduction
When a shipment arrives at your house that includes not only the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor, but also a Zalman Fatal1ty case, Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard, Gigab... (read more)
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   | Posted 20 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Value Processor a Diamond in the Rough. (47) |
Introduction
If you don’t currently have a dual core processor, there’s a major corporation that would like to know why.
In the middle of 2005, Intel announced its new Pentium D seri... (read more)
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   | Posted 20 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Situational Report. (3) |
Editor's note - last domestic-type entry, promise. :)
Recruiting posters extoll the virtues of whatever cause they are supporting. Whether through intentional or accidental omission, certain ... (read more)
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   | Posted 20 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Fights, Geeks, and Warfare. (5) |
Most people in the world don't really get hockey. Given the story below, I'm not sure if I do either.
Yesterday, I was at my parents' house for a get-together. We were all sitting around, cat... (read more)
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   | Posted 20 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » The Best Kind of Boring. (20) |
Last night, I had a wonderful night with my wife.
(Yes, that too - but you won't get to hear about that part of it).
Every other week, our kids go to my parents house for the night, and my... (read more)
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   | Posted 20 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Rage against the Matrix (5) |
I was all set to abuse the hell out of a bunch of HTML links that I'd picked up in my morning news trolling, and I come to find out that the Matrix strips all references to HTML links. It doesn't poli... (read more)
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   | Posted 20 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » My ride... is better than yours. (10) |
A couple of years back, I needed a new car to replace my Pontiac Sunfire that had begun to collapse after about 200,000 miles of abuse.
Having lived with the lackluster performance of that vehicle ... (read more)
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   | Posted 20 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Wholesome Entertainment... and the 'reflection rule'. (11) |
Throughout the 1990s, I was convinced that I would earn my keep as a drummer for a heavy metal band. I was about 5'7" tall, weighed 130lbs soaking wet and had scraggly long hair down to my shoulder bl... (read more)
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   | Posted 21 months ago ( edited 20 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Your Hard Drive's Kung-fu is Weak! (37) |
Introduction
The marketing people have lied to you.
As shocking as that statement is, there is clear evidence that one of the most often-hyped features included on higher-end motherb... (read more)
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   | Posted 21 months ago ( edited 21 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » Make me a gamer again! (30) |
Note - this is a rework of an article I'd submitted in Round 1 incorporating some of the advice I received.
My name is Dave, and I’d like to once again become addicted to video games.
I ca... (read more)
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   | Posted 22 months ago ( edited 21 months ago ) in category DEFAULT » The Trouble With Technology (1) |
My name is Dave.
At heart, I'm a gamer. I love games. I grew up with games (starting with a Colecovision console). I've spent what must have accumulated to a full year of conscious time playing ga... (read more)
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