December 2013 archive

The Temptation of the EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified Kingpin Edition

Not too long ago I wrote about my intended procurement of a new EVGA GTX 780 Ti Superclocked video card with ACX cooling. It’s one of the better video cards around at the moment particularly after some competition from AMD in the form of its 290X video card. However, doing some browsing around the web …

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Convert an IPv4 to a 6to4 Address

Well, I’m still trying to work out how to get a 6to4 tunnel going on my home internet connection but I think I am slowly piecing things together. It seems you need to use the anycast address of 192.88.99.1 which is where IPv6 traffic will be forwarded over IPv4 but you need to covert your …

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Recording Gameplay Automatically on nVidia Cards

Lately, I’ve been thinking about recording some of my gameplay to upload to YouTube either for strategy hints or just to share some of the hilarious or insanely lucky stuff that can happen during online multiplayer matches. There are some solutions such as FRAPS that will do it but I have found it a little …

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Keeping Track of Unfinished Business in The Legend of Zelda – A Link to the past

Here’s a quick tip that I’ve picked up whilst playing the latest Zelda game on 3DS. A major gripe that I’ve had in prior games is the inability to mark the map when you come across stuff that seems important but you have insufficient means to interact with it. You may need an essential item, …

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Check Warranty Availability on Overseas Purchases

Depending upon the sort of things you may buy it can seem that in Australian that we are slugged with higher prices over and beyond what we’d consider reasonable. Particularly in the case of downloadable software and content where the same product can but multiple times the cost found in the USA or UK it …

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What to do with Unwanted Steam Gifts

Sometimes it can be hard for people to work out what games you like on Steam if they don’t know you that well or just don’t know how to use it properly. Steam does have a neat wish list feature in it which can be viewed by others but I guess we can’t always rely …

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Incoming Gadget – A New Video Card!

This should be fairly self-explanatory but the time has come to replace the aging GTX 295 video cards in my desktop computer. Gaming at 2560 x 1600 resolution on those older cards is becoming more difficult given the relatively small amount of video RAM. Given that my birthday is roughly a week before Christmas I …

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The Legend of Zelda – A Link Between Worlds

I have been on a bit of a game purchasing fest recently and I had the opportunity to buy a digital copy (as opposed to a physical copy) of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for AU$45 which seemed to be a good deal given that the RRP for physical copies is around …

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