This last week, something of a surprise emerged and had what was perhaps the quickest hate-to-love news cycle ever. Valve unveiled the Steam Deck, a portable custom… Read more “Sidenote: The Steam Deck Unveiled”
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Sidenote: The OLED Nintendo Switch And What It Could Mean In The Future
The Switch Pro miasma grows ever more complicated, as Nintendo has thrown a spanner in the works this week – by announcing a new model Nintendo Switch… Read more “Sidenote: The OLED Nintendo Switch And What It Could Mean In The Future”
Sidenote: The Disappointment of the Current Era of Graphics Cards
Availability is starting to open up, and more people are getting their hands on Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series cards and AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series cards. As… Read more “Sidenote: The Disappointment of the Current Era of Graphics Cards”
Sidenote: I Finally Got My Ryzen 9 5900x And I Almost Killed It Before Using It
This one is just a short, fun (in retrospect) post! A couple of weeks ago, I managed to snipe an order with Amazon for the AMD Ryzen… Read more “Sidenote: I Finally Got My Ryzen 9 5900x And I Almost Killed It Before Using It”
Sidenote: I Got A New Smartphone, So I Have Thoughts on SOC Reviews and Hardware Platforms (Ramble Incoming)
I love nerdy shit. Let’s be real, as my blog here has grown, I’ve expanded topics a lot from WoW guides and theorycrafting to WoW analysis, to… Read more “Sidenote: I Got A New Smartphone, So I Have Thoughts on SOC Reviews and Hardware Platforms (Ramble Incoming)”
Sidenote, Sorta: The Technical Enhancements of Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5
Instead of a spoiler-laden post about the content of patch 5.5 (it’s pretty good!), I wanted to start with the nerdy stuff I was unironically more excited… Read more “Sidenote, Sorta: The Technical Enhancements of Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5”
Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 2: The Software and Settings
In my last Sidenote post, I discussed the hardware I use for livestreaming to Twitch, and made some alternative recommendations to cut cost from the silliness I… Read more “Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 2: The Software and Settings”
Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 1: The Hardware
As I’ve been mentioning a bit in posts, I’ve been doing a lot more livestreaming lately over at twitch.tv/kaylriene, and I wanted to discuss the process by… Read more “Sidenote: My Twitch Livestreaming Setup Part 1: The Hardware”
Sidenote: The Early Retail-Sample Review of the Intel Core i7-11700k and Interesting Low Results
Yesterday, I saw something really quite fascinating. Anandtech, one of my formative technology review outlets, had secured Intel’s newest 8-core via an early retail sale and benchmarked… Read more “Sidenote: The Early Retail-Sample Review of the Intel Core i7-11700k and Interesting Low Results”
Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap
When I got into PC gaming, there was something really great, almost magical about the hobby. Sure, the high-end was up with $1,000 CPUs from Intel, exponentially… Read more “Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap”
