Gigabyte X58A-UD7, Sata3

So i just purchased myself a new hyper-V host. Gigabyte-X58A-UD7, 24GB DDR3 RAM, 2 x SATA3.0 (6bps) 600GB WD raptors Short story - the mavel SATA 3 controller on this motherboard is completely fucking useless. Add the drives to a RAID-1 set, one constantly just drops out. Try to use the two drives independantly, one…

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Bethedsa pack on Steam

I dont think advertising for anything has ever worked on me, until now.... Opened up steam..... Fallout:New Vegas pre-order for $49 (US)... but then Oblivioun, Fallout 3 and Morrowind have all been reduced aswell... absolute no brainer of a purchase there! Couple of the best games ever made.

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Mortal Kombat : Rebirth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MqZn7E-mk video without many details at the moment.... common speculation seems to be a new Mortal Kombat movie... which, based on the trailer/short/promo/whatever the video is... already looks better than the original 3 absolutely terrible mortal kombat movies! * Update * http://www.collider.com/2010/06/09/kevin-tancharoen-interview-mortal-kombat-rebirth-feature-film/

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Thecus N7700 NAS

I recently purchased a Thecus N7700 NAS box with 7 x 2TB drives.... and incase anyone else is doing the same - here are my initial thoughts on the product... I created one RAID6 volume using XFS, giving me just under 10TB of storage First up - the interface after upgrading to latest firmware in…

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Fallout: New Vegas release date

I saw over on anadtech that Fallout: New Vegas now has a release date.... November 16th 2010 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18631 i get married on November 19th... and probably wont have a gaming rig with me during the honeymoon.... looks like the wedding might need to be put off :-)

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Alien Breed : Impact – how not to do a remake

So i grabbed the demo for this from steam last night and played it quickly this morning - and quickly was all that was required. I was a huge fan of Team 17 games back in the Amiga days... Assassin, project X, superfrog, Alien Breed.... classics Unfortunately they seem to have lost it a bit…

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