Posts Tagged ‘amp’

Drop a Fire Nova Totem – nuke a Spambot

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

“Hello welcome to our website: www.wespam4gold.com, our prices are the absolute cheapest” - Blah blah blah, shut up, stop spamming me, and get the (&%# out of the way of the mailbox.

Yeah, we all know them, we all (or at least 99.44%) of us hate them. The gold spammer. That annoying player that create character names with one fell swoop of the keyboard ‘fghjkbvcqwert’ – lvl 1 spammer that has nothing to do than set a canned message, and piss the rest of us off.
Well it seems like some pissed off Warcraft players have found a way to deal with wqyuire; by means of a napalm death to via Fire Nova Totem. Of course this method is not acceptable to Blizz (aka ‘The Man’), and removed the thread from it’s forums, but yay for Google. Thanks to their caching feature, it can be viewed here.

Basically, it breaks down like so: A shammy can drop a Fire Nova totem near a level 1 bot, and log off just before the totem detonates. By logging off, this makes the totem unaligned, and can therefore damage either faction.

Even a level 70 totem doesn’t do that much damage to the average player, but it WILL however scorch a level one gold spammer that’s just standing around the bank and/or auction house. And since this is a bot just programmed to stand there and make announcements, no one is monitoring it, therefore, no one there to resurrect it.

If you need more gold in game, go farming, or talk to one of our friendly players just like you that have items or gold to sell. Let’s leave the spam on the frypan, and players in game.

 

AMD amping up gaming arm

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

AMD is rolling out a new branding scheme to highlight hardware that is optimized for gaming software. The new AMD Game! Brand is meant to bring ‘console-like’ simplicity to desktop/laptop users.

The New logo with be plastered on all PCs that include an Athlon X2 5600+ processor, 2GB of memory, a Radeon HD 3650, and an AMD 770 or Nvidia nForce 500 series chipset or higher.

The super swanky “AMD Game Ultra” logo is reserved for top shelf systems only. These Johnny Walker Blue Label systems need to have a minimum of a Phenom X4 9650, 2GB of memory, a Radeon HD 3870, and an AMD 770 chipset.

According to AMD’s site, “We’ve tested the games, hardware, and components to make sure you get an amazing playing experience, right out of the box. And best of all, you don’t have to know every detail about your PC to get started.”

In other words, AMD will be reviewing, selecting, and matching peripherals such as mice, keyboards and controllers for max compatibility (um, where do I apply for this gig?). Again, stressing the console like, plug and play right outta the box simplicity.

Whether you prefer to build your frag machine from the ground up, or simply leave the choices up to AMD, my guess is that we’ve going to be seeing a bit more of AMD in the gamers galley.

 

My gaming Rig is better than yours!

Monday, May 5th, 2008

One of the beauties and attractions to MMO gaming is the incredibly detailed artwork and sound that goes into their creation. Many of us even support the graphics card industry by continually upgrading cards and even overclocking them (you never heard that nvidia) ;)

Well, ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your hats, as record label owner Jeremy Kipnis has created what we believe to quite possibly be “The Greatest Show on Earth”.

OMG! This is what $6 million will buy you. Kipnis’ theatre is installed in his home in a vaulted ceiling room that measures 8 feet high at the rear of the room and 16 feet high at the screen end of the room, with dimensions of 26.5 feet wide and 33 feet long. In other words: large, but not a tremendously big room.

Within this room, he’s packed one of the largest screens installed in a home in the world, measuring 18 feet wide! Just give that a think for a sec. Even if you’re gaming on a 30″ Cinema HD cinema display on your desktop, this guy plays on something 7x as large!

The main video comes from a Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector and is supplied by a variety of inputs:

Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player
Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console
Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player
JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS Recorder
SATA Drive (72 HDTV Hours Total)
Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player
Pioneer HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player

If the video isn’t enough to blow you away, let’s talk about the sound. Kipnis is running 13 Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors (link this) for audio processing, and then amplifying it via:

2 Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers
30 McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers
3 Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers

Being projected through:

16 Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference Subwoofers
8 Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference Towers
10 MuRata ES103A Super Tweeters
3 Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference LCR-2800 Center-Channel Speakers

Umm… yeah. Kinda makes my rig look mighty sad at the moment.