Friday, August 28, 2009

Best PC Games - Open World RPG Games With Morality System

These are the best PC games of all times, but these games must also fulfill another requirement; to make this "best of" category the PC RPG games must be open ended stories, where the player is given the option of being an evil murderous bastard. I am a big role playing game fan in general; but that certain genre of RPG game, which has good and evil paths, tons of moral choices, and multiple endings make for the most repayable, entertaining, and simply the best PC games available.


Edit note: This full review is now at Hubpages here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Best-PC-Games-Open-World-RPG-Games-With-Morality-System
I am moving this and other PC Gaming related guides all to one location on hubpages. This blog will only feature Desktop,Laptop, and PC hardware information, and as a quick check source for various electronic specifications; which was the blogs original role. The full version of all future software reviews and guides will be on hubpages.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Hearts of Iron 3 Production Explained

Hearts of Iron 3 has taken a much different, and in my opinion far superior approach to the makeup of land units, and how those units are built. In Hearts of Iron 2, you researched a generic infantry unit every 2 years, which was the same unit every other nation in the world would use if they researched that same level technology. The only thing that separated your infantry from that of other nations, was your land doctrines, and any *single* brigade attachment you added to the unit after its creation. Examples of a brigade attachments in HOI2 were artillery, anti-tank, anti-air, engineers, and various tank brigades. While this allowed for some customization, it didn't offer much variation between nations, or allow for a lot of user customization.

Edit note: This full guide is now at Hubpages
here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Hearts-of-Iron-3-Production-Explained
I am moving this and other PC Gaming related guides all to one location on hubpages. This blog will only feature Desktop,Laptop, and PC hardware information, and as a quick check source for various electronic specifications; which was the blogs original role. The full version of all future software reviews and guides will be on hubpages.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Cheap Gaming Computers - MSI X600 Notebook Review

MSI X-Slim X340, X600

Processor & Cache

Intel Centrino 2 Processor - 1.6 GHz dual-core with 3MB cache

Operating System

Windows Vista Home Premium

Chipsets

Intel GS45 + ICH9M-SFF

System Memory

DDR2 667/800, Max: 4GB

LCD Display

15.6" LCD Display

Graphics & Video Module

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330

Audio

4 speakers

HDD

2.5" 250GB/320GB/500GB SATA

Webcam

1.3M

Communication Port

Built-in Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Built-in 802.11b/g/n WLAN Card, Bluetooth is optional

I/O Port

D-Sub X 1
USB 2.0 Port X 2
Mic-in Port X 1
Headphone Output X 1
HDMI Port X 1
LAN Port X 1
E-SATA / USB Combo X 1


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MSI's X600 ultra-thin notebook is attractive to the eye, and with a starting price of under $1000 USD (official website lists locations to buy notebook computers by MSI) is able to go head to head in a laptop comparison with any other entry level or cheap gaming computers. Despite being around since the mid 80's the MSI company (with its HQ in Taiwan) has only recently tapped into the US market, and its quality desktop PC's and affordable gaming laptops have quietly gained support since that time. The laptop's factory build is fairly well optimized and this makes the MSI x600 one of the few inexpensive laptop computers that is an effective entry level gaming computer out of the box; with no customization or additional hardware needed. By desktop PC's standards (and compared to the best gaming laptop systems available) the hardware specs seem outdated, but this top end last generation gaming hardware actually preforms surprisingly well.

The video card needed to play more modern PC games is the cause of most gaming systems high price, and if you are looking to buy notebook computers at this price level you need to pay special attention to this piece of hardware. Most will come with an "on board video" or "integrated video card" which despite a high looking video memory, is not a proper 3d card capable of handling newer physics and graphic engines. The MSI X600's ATI HD 4330 Video card is truly a capable gaming graphics card.

If you are looking at cheap gaming computers the MSI X600 deserves to be somewhere on your laptop comparison list. The options for affordable gaming laptops are much more limited than gaming desktop pcs, and MSI might not have gotten on your radar yet. If you can find a retailer in your area that has MSI laptops for sale, you may find the quality and cost to be exactly what you were looking for. You can search through MSI products, as well as select from laptop computer sale locations in your region all at their official website