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Archive for February 2009

Project Gotham 4 Audio Problems

In Entertainment on 13 February 2009 tagged audio, errors, Games, glitches, harddrive, noise, problems, Xbox360 with 7 comments

This year I upgraded my Xbox360′s hard-drive. I decided to get one of the big ones so I could transfer games to it and cut down on load times and hopefully, spare the DVD drive from an early death due to all the thrashing. I loaded up a bunch of games and everything was good. [...]

Mac Pro Video Card Noise

In Computing on 12 February 2009 tagged Apple, ati, computers, dust, mac, noise, Video with 2 comments

I’ve noticed that my Mac Pro has gotten progressively noisier over the past year or so. I thought it was due to firmware updates bundled along with OS X 10.5 version bumps. I’ve been through a similar experience with my PowerMac Dual G5 which had wildly-different fan characteristics with odd versions of Tiger. Finally, I [...]