Friday, July 13, 2012

Midaged Gamer Report for 7-13-2012


Analytics are fascinating. Google analytics that is...
For instance, did you know that the most popular blog post on my gaming blog (midagedgamer.blogspot.com) is my story on Eyefinity?  I did that back in February 2011 and it still gets the most traffic.  I guess I should let you guys know that today that same friend has moved on to a pair of GTX 680's in SLI so he can play BF3 at 2560x1600 on that same 30" Dell monitor that replaced all those 21 inchers' .  I'm all alone in my AMD  based gaming now but I'm not jealous, just poor...

Moving on to more relevant topics, Microsoft says overclocking can hurt you, maybe..

as PCPER said in their article....DUHH!


The article also goes on to point out that Underclocking your CPU can increase reliability and reduce power consumption.  That and it gets warmer when the sun comes up.
In case you care and apparently Microsoft is worried you don't, Win 8 Pro can be had  for as little as 40 bucks!  The catch is, it's an upgrade for those currently running win XP, vista, 7 and win 8 release preview.  You heard that right, breaking with Microsoft tradition you can get the cheaper upgrade and save yourself at least $100 bucks if you  upgrade over the current Win 8 consumer preview.  Looks to me like Microsoft is a little worried about the metro backlash.  At least I know it works with Steam and Origin.  Check out the link for more info.


PCPER found a story out of Asia about a passively cooled GTX 680 by a company called "Colorful"  Take it with a grain of salt as it's likely this is a more proof of concept than product.  For one thing, you'd need at least 5 bays for all the heatsinks!.   Here's a pic.  Check out the article for more info, Note you'll have to use a translator to read it as it's in Chinese.


PCPER's story

The long awaited Steam Summer sale is here with the festivities going on till July 22nd.  There are daily and hourly specials popping up on their entire catalog.  Conspicuously absent are EA titles, however.  Speaking of EA, doesn't seem they have anything to counter the summer sale at this point.

The most interesting offering from Origin/EA right now is a pre-order deal for  Medal of Honor Warfighter digital deluxe edition.  It's available for Pre-Order for 69.99.  Medal of Honor is more faithful to actual military campaigns and doesn't have quite the following of Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty but to the faithful it's a must have that can apparently command $70 for the privilege.

Taking advantage of the pre-order now will unlock the British SAS Spec Ops. Plus,  the Russian Spetsnaz Alfa Group Heavy Gunner and U.S. Navy SEAL Sniper and rifle as part of the Origin-exclusive Digital Deluxe Edition.  Release is set for October 23, 2012 

If you're a fan of the cult favorite Killing floor, the Summer Sideshow event is going on till July 23rd.  You get special NPC's to mow down plus a new map called Hellride.  I did a short walkthrough of the new map and special characters find it on my YouTube channel here...

I have no doubt that it'll be on sale during the Steam summer sale.

That's it for now

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