Epinions Recent Reviews for isvikthere

A gem of a video card in an old boot of a PC

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:51:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - OK, so like me you are a sucker still stuck with an older PC, and old here means a system that doesn't have one or more PCI-express video cardslots yet. Yes, we for our graphic solution are still stuck with the brown AGP slot placed somewhere in the...

Is it really FarCry 2 ?

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:56:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction When it came out, in the beginning of the year 2004 (if I am not mistaken) the original FarCry baffled the gameworld, with elements that were hardly ever witnessed before : luscious landscapes in a tropical setting where one could...

Cheap Luxury

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:02:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction Two and a half years ago (original review date : Oct 17 '03)I was forced to enter a review on this card in the wrong subcategory. The Advisors did punish me for this in their rating. Since a correct entry now exists and at the...

Hidden Powers

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:58:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - INTRODUCTION Is he really reviewing yet another videocard, I hear you ask yourselves? Well, erm, yes since my previous videocard received such great accolades (ahum) here on Epinions I felt compelled to write yet another one. For a while I...

ASUS IPANEL/DELUXE 5.25 PANEL 2 USB AND LCD-PANEL: Low tek from Asus

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:21:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction When I started with really getting into hardware back in 1996 the first PC I bought secondhand had in its front cover a snazzy LCD panel indicating processor speed. Because in the 1990s Cyrix (a now defunct CPU manufacturer)...

Grab 'm while you still can.

Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:35:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - INTRODUCTION I cannot review this videocard without situating it first. As you probably know there are only two main competitors left in the 3D accelerated videocard ratrace, namely Ati and Nvidia. The Ati Radeon 9800Pro is the direct...

THE networked alternative to laser and inkjet

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:41:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - What is it The Phaser 8400N Thermal printer is a network color printer that uses blocks of solid wax for toner. That is why this type of machine is referred to as a Solid Ink Printer. Some people (even fellow reviewers) confuse them with...

Was it Hero Gordon Freeman or Janitor Roger Wilco ?

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:35:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction 2004 was the year where the world not only saw Alien vs. Predator but for me personally it was also the year of Halflife2 vs. FarCry, and thus the year where Halflife's hero Gordon Freeman found himself walking the beaten trail of...

Stood the test of time

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:39:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction It's hard to believe that we are already two and a half years further down the line since I bought this graphics card secondhand in September 2002. Xtasy is what the seller claimed its brand was but I wasn't able to find any...

An almost perfect lid(l)e helper

Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:22:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction One evening starting up the machines I almost immediately noticed something was amiss. I couldn't quite lay my finger on it until it dawned : the familiar green light blinking on the scanner wasn't there. I checked the current...

Still not all there but not bad just the same

Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:21:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction Well there is no way I can review this motherboard for Intel Pentium4-type socket 478 processors without referring to my earlier review of the Asus P4S-533 found here :...

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne: Some more Paynekillers to cure the Fall

Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:10:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction I've hesitated a bit to write this review as I noticed there were already two other reviews that, when combined, cover the game quite well, however I do think I had something to add so here goes: The Original Game...

Wipe Them All Out - but with tact(ics)

Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:34:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction TacticalOps or 'Tactical Operations - Assault on Terror' for full, is a spin-off of the famous and very successful 1999 game called UnrealTournament or UT for short. UT drew its success from the brilliant on-line gaming exper...

Guillemot Force Feedback Joystick (2960388) Joystick: My force feedback on a hefty piece of kit

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:11:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Introduction Although game controllers have never been high on my hardware computer priority list I've stumbled upon this joystick in a supermarket clearance sale. But since I already wrecked one keyboard playing my favourite game at the time, Unr...

The future will decide.

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:34:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Why the Seagate ST3120022A Barracuda ? For no particular reason really, only that over the last three years I had some serious problems with two IBM (now Hitachi) harddrives of the GXP series. And after those I bought a 40GB Western Digital driv...

Taormina 2002

Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:39:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - Accessibility

Taormina, one of Sicily's best known tourist towns is situated very near the Eastcoast but high above sea level. Accessibility is a bit compromised as from the shore, and unless you're in for a hefty 30 minute climb, your only...

LCD panels : Patience is a virtue

Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:33:33 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - This Hitachi CML 151 was on offer some two to three years ago, but at that time it was a very expensive piece of computer hardware which unfortunately was plagued by technical specifications that compared to today's similar screens look very poorly...

ASUS P4S533 Intel Socket 478: Good but maybe no longer good enough

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:27:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - At the time I'm writing this review on the ASUS P4S533 motherboard, the very last examples must be residing on the shopshelves. Because the main component of this motherboard which is its SiS 645DX chipset has now been replaced by a newer model,the...

Space 1999 - The TV series

Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:44:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - The title

Granted, with the knowledge of today the choice of Space 1999 as a title for a sci-fi TV series about a fullblown moonbase was perhaps not the best. But in the years before the conception of this nineteen seventies TV-series...

Burn Baby Burn

Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:17:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - As seems to have become a habit in my reviews first a small intro on how I came to own the device:

I didn't buy it because a few days ago I made a swap with a friend who, with the purchase of a new PC which already had another Philips PCRW2010...

Is it a keeper ?

Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:18:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - My title refers to the first sentence of the review of my esteemed colleague bsauerbr for this very same monitor where he claims that for him it will be a keeper. I hope it will be for me too, especially in view of how I came by it.

For...

Crete in the low season

Mon, 28 May 2001 22:29:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - I visited this Mediterranean Isle end of April beginning of May this year, which to me seemed like an ideal period. This is considered to be the low season because there are no long school breaks in this period. So for families with children in school...

Sobelair, Sabena's Charter Subsidiary

Wed, 23 May 2001 22:11:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - I've recently flown with Sobelair which is Sabena's charter subsidiary or daughter company if you prefer this term. On both the parting and the return trip which was inside Europe (flight time +/- 3 hours) we were seated in a Boeing 737-400 which was...

Hewlett Packard DeskJet 2000c InkJet Printer: What is wrong ?

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:47:52 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - First let me point out that I don't own this device, I just use it in the office, it doesn't say 'Professional Series' on the top for nothing! Fortunately I found out how much they paid for it otherwise I wouldn't have been able to write this at all...

Faster than lightning!

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:07:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author isvikthere - At the time I am writing this review the 310S or maybe better known under its full name 'Vuego Scan Prisa (or is it Brisa ?)310S', no longer figures in the Acer catalogue. Certain sites have led me to believe that the Acer 310S is exactly the same...