A couple of weeks ago now, I made the switch from a two year old AKRacing Masters Series Max chair for my daily driver work/play setup to… Read more “Sidenote: A Gaming…Chair Review? My Two Week Impressions of the Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 XL”
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Sidenote: The Low-End Graphics Add-In Card Market Finally Got Current Gen Cards, And They Suck
(Radeon RX 6500 XT teardown image is courtesy of TechPowerUp.) In the last few weeks, two major launches have defined the GPU space on the desktop PC… Read more “Sidenote: The Low-End Graphics Add-In Card Market Finally Got Current Gen Cards, And They Suck”
Sidenote, Sorta: Learning To Properly 3D Render and Model Using Blender: The Beginning
I’ve written a couple times in the past about two divergent but related topics – wanting to make a game myself and 3D modelling and rendering as… Read more “Sidenote, Sorta: Learning To Properly 3D Render and Model Using Blender: The Beginning”
Sidenote: Intel’s 12th Generation Core CPUs and The Forward March of Tech
This week, Intel launches their 12th generation Core CPUs for desktop, marking an interesting point in their technological movement. For the first time since the 6th generation… Read more “Sidenote: Intel’s 12th Generation Core CPUs and The Forward March of Tech”
Sidenote: The Nerve-Wracking Tedium of Finally Flushing My Watercooling Loop for Maintenance
On Monday this week, it was time. New coolant had arrived in the mail, I had a fresh roll of shop towels, my excess tubing and fittings,… Read more “Sidenote: The Nerve-Wracking Tedium of Finally Flushing My Watercooling Loop for Maintenance”
Sidenote: Thoughts on Two Years of Audiophile Hardware for Gaming
Two years ago now, I finally made a move away from gamer-focused sound cards, headsets, and the like, and made a fairly large move to audiophile/pro-grade audio… Read more “Sidenote: Thoughts on Two Years of Audiophile Hardware for Gaming”
Sidenote: The AMD Radeon RX 6600XT And The Insanity of the GPU Market
Last week, AMD made a big announcement at the Chinajoy festival – a new GPU. RDNA 2 continues its march down the product stack, moving from the… Read more “Sidenote: The AMD Radeon RX 6600XT And The Insanity of the GPU Market”
Sidenote: Six Months With A Custom Loop Watercooled PC – Some Thoughts And Observations
To kick off Blaugust 2021, I thought I’d write not directly about gaming…but about something gaming-adjacent. Six months ago, I wrote about finally having completed my first-ever… Read more “Sidenote: Six Months With A Custom Loop Watercooled PC – Some Thoughts And Observations”
Sidenote: The Steam Deck Unveiled
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”
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”
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