I didn’t blog on the weekend, probably because I finally fixed my gaming PC. I’d like to point out that my watercooling rig didn’t actually cause any damage. Sure, the radiator leaked, but the graphic card was the only thing that got dripped on, and it survived. The damage was caused by me swapping bits around PCs, and prioritising the home theatre PC over the gaming PC (who’d have guessed – TV over games?) The motherboard was dying (not my fault) and I burnt out a CPU because the huge copper heatsink I placed on it wasn’t actually completely flush. I checked it twice, but didn’t find out until I smelled roasting silicon. It must have been microns out on one edge, the heatsink held up by some large capacitors.
Radiator replaced, new motherboard, new CPU (all cheap replacement parts), and I completed F.E.A.R. over the weekend, patched and scored a few points on Battlefield 2, and downloaded Half-Life 2 Episode 1. Battlefield 2 is getting harder to score in, as Jack now insists we drive around jeeps all the time. A very minor upgrade seems to have improved some of the gaming frame rates anyway.
Photos from the weekend:
A windy Swansea Bay.
How cool are those shorts?
