Tuned Mazda RX7

Tuned Mazda RX7, originally uploaded by p4th3t1c.

This used to be a Mazda RX7 which was tuned by some scooter company that begins with V that I can’t remember.
The car was featured in 2 Fast 2 Furious: Tokyo Drift.

New VW Passat

New VW Passat, originally uploaded by p4th3t1c.

Brand new VW Passat. This is the 3.0 V6 R36 which costs £36,000.

Far Cry 2

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of a semi-private viewing of Far Cry 2 in action.  Unfortunately no camera’s were allowed but there wasn’t really much more to see than what it already on the Internet.  The demo that was shown was a November 2007 build.

Source of image: Far Cry 2 [...]

Be There – I’ll be there in 5 minutes when the page loads

UK ISP Be have been well known over recent years for a very good ISP. Owned by O2, Be offer up to 24MB Internet. Of course this varies depending on how far you are away from the exchange and the quality of the cable from the exchange to the household.
As of late, problems [...]

Google doesn’t know best

It appears Google isn’t flawless. On their Google Analytics page they seemed to have mixed up their languages.
When settings the language to English (UK) on the Google Analytics website, it seems to think that the British speak Russian.

A simple mistake but it is a mistake and Google should be ashamed of themselves….dear o [...]

Creative continue to release poor drivers – No shock there then

Creative continue to release absolutely shitty drivers for the X-Fi range and I am sure their other ranges as well. After finding certain parts of the audio configuration weren’t available I decided to reinstall the drivers. While reinstalling I checked the Creative website and found there was a new beta driver out [...]

Crysis – 32bit vs 64bit on Windows Vista x64

After finding out the performance of Crysis on a Windows Vista x64 machine running in x64 mode in DX10, I wondered about how much different it made over 32-bit.

Crysis Benchmark – DX10 Vista x64

Here are some benchmark results for a medium-high spec PC running Crysis on Microsoft Windows Vista x64.
The PC in question is the following specification:

Intel Core2Duo E6750 overclocked to 3.2GHz
4GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM
250GB SATA 7200RPM HDD
Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB overclocked to 560MHz core, 850MHz memory

This including case and PSU etc, excluding monitor and [...]