Monthly Archive for January, 2009

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Wildly Excited About Catalyst 9.1

Published on January 23, 2009 in Computers and Hardware Tips. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Like much of the world I am awaiting the Catalyst 9.1 drivers release. Not so much for the Crossfire support and the bug-fixes that come with that but the anticipated optimizations for quad core computers.

I myself have a Q6600 clocked at 3.01ghz, 4gigs of Mushkin 1066mhz ram, and an ATI HD4870 512mb card. So from those specs you can see why I am interested to see some optimizations in the new drivers that could help push an already powerful card to it’s absolute limits. With a modest overclock on the video card at 810/915 it pushes things pretty well now, but with the addictional performance gained from the optimizations it will really become a catalyst for things to come.

So I, like the rest of the ATI fanboy world, wait on bated breath for the imminent release of some new drivers that can add to the performance of an already good computer and push it into the even better category.

Hopefully ATI can provide and we will see some good things to come from ATI.

The drivers are finally released as of 1/29/2009 and they seem to be most of everything that was promised. The multi-core support really speeds things up even if the driver release was a little longer than we all would have liked. You can download the new driver over at the AMD/ATI driver page, Driver Downloads. With all the enhancements it is still hard to think that nVidia with the physX technology might be able to stomp on them in newer cards, nut for now ATI and the HD4870 aer cooking along nicely with fast, well priced video cards.


Good bye, Amigo Bush

Published on January 20, 2009 in Federal and Politics. 0 Comments Tags: .
On them internets?

On them internets?

Thank heavens we made it through the last 8 years of this messy presidency and we call all still talk about it. Well we can talk about it for now I suppose. So it’s out with the old and in with the new but the new president Barack Obama has a long hard road ahead of him to make all that was wrong a little less wrong.

Barack is left with quite a mess for the country to face. Our economy is in the crapper, jobs that

Smoke another one Chief

Smoke another one Chief

where once here have now been long gone to developing nations to help reduce costs. Hell I can’t remember the last time I have seen something that was made with pride in the good old USA.

Mr. Obama still has many more challenges ahead of him, like failing health care system, poor educational standards, and this RECESSION we are not in according to some. Although this two party system has failed us all me thinks I really for the entire country hope that he is up to the job. We can no longer have marginally qualified people running our country. We need action and we need it now more than ever.



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