I’ve had a few questions as to my whereabouts, not just from my lack of updates on my blog, but my lack of response through e-mails and lack of prescence on Overclockers forums.

The answer is actually an easy one, my XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra finally went to graphics card heaven. Anyone who knows me personally or what it is that I do, knows that my graphics card has actually been on its way out for some 18 months, it originally started artifacting in games just before I moved house (January 31st 2007), leaving me unable to play games anymore. After that, video files and DVD’s were next to stop working DVD’s stopped completely, video files would have red dots all over them for extended periods.

Despite this I was happy to continue with it as oddly, 3D Studio Max continued to work fine, however, around 10 days ago it gave up the ghost and wouldn’t render anymore in either Direct 3D or OpenGL, so it needed replacing, STAT!

I’d already enquired about a week or two earlier on IRC in the ocuk-consoles channel (which is sadly dwindling in numbers, so join it!) and Streeteh had recently upgraded his 7800GTX for an 8800GT so I told him to name a price, he did and it was too good not to accept, but I had to wait until he was home from University to post it, thankfully I finally got the graphics card on Monday, and installed it and it works perfectly, so I’m back around on here, OcUK and anywhere else I may be needed :p.
So that’s where I’ve been Twinblade! .