Evening Reading

by Garnett Lee, Feb 02, 2011 5:00pm PST

Good Wednesday to you. Mine started out great with some hands-on time with the Witcher 2 over at Atari's offices. Wish I could share that with you sooner but the embargo on coverage is the 24th. It's worth the wait, though. Along with Reach, I finally started the Witcher over the weekend (it was a glorious weekend of gaming for me). It's impressive what they were able to do with Bioware's aurora engine--technology created for 2002's Neverwinter Nights. Granted, the Witcher packs its own rendering engine, but what really stands out to me--from a mere six hours of play--is how well they're able to use relatively dated tools to make interesting characters in a pretty detailed world and then tell good stories. For as quick as we are to get excited about tech, there's a helluva lot more that makes a great game.

LOL, after that stunning revelation, here's the top video game news of the day on the Shack:

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So apparently Newegg doesn't carry any more Socket 775 P35/P45 motherboards. WTF. Any early adopter Sandy Bridges want to sell me their old Socket 775 motherboard? Wife's computer died today during the Texas rolling blackouts and needs a new mobo.

Feb 02, 2011 7:34pm PST

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So apparently Newegg doesn't carry any more Socket 775 P35/P45 motherboards. WTF. Any early adopter Sandy : EricZBA
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  This made me read about sandy bridge, Sand bridge isn't backwards compatible with 1156 either? Sad : kaddar0
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    And Ivy Bridge isn't backwards compatible with Sandy Bridge as it will need the Panther Point PCH to work... : ZenzenTen
    - Well, if I have to wait until late April to get a Sandy Bridge CPU/board now, is it better just wait for ... : CrustaR
- I missed the word "computer" in your last sentence and it was a double take. : Sailor of Fortune
- :( when I went core 2 duo (moving up from athlon t-bird) I thoughht I had a little forward compatibility... : MamiyaOtaru
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  Bedtime bump. Surely someone has a cool p45 motherboard they can sell me for $$ : EricZBA
  - I will once I upgrade to the fixed sandy platform in a month+ :( : jimmy_legs
  - I have an Asus P5Q Deluxe that I was gonna toss on eBay, but I'm in Canada and motherboards are kinda big... : veras
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  I got a P5B you can have. : Dr_Cube
  - Oh wait. That's a P965 chipset and not a P35/45 but it's still a 775 motherboard. BIOS may need to be upd... : Dr_Cube
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  This bit me in the ass pretty hard around Thanksgiving. My dad's mobo died and he had a 775 Pentium D. Scoured the town's shitty computer stores and found the one 775 board in town and it didn't even support Pentium D. I was lucky to find one on the internet, pay way too much for it and ship it to a guy who could install it for my dad. Still cheaper than a brand new mobo, proc, and ram, but still a huge pain in the ass.
  
  Contrast this to Christmas. The inlaws had me build an HTPC years ago and it had a Socket AM3 into which I dropped a brand new Phenom. Also threw in some more DDR2 and it was just fine.
  
  Since I don't buy the top-tier anyway, I'm pretty much never building Intel again.
  
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  This bit me in the ass pretty hard around Thanksgiving. My dad's mobo died and he had a 775 Pentium D. ... : mrblarg

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