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A year and 3 months ago I bought an RX-700 power supply from Newegg. Newegg has never done me wrong with my plethora of PSU purchases along with other hardware, and I’ve never had a problem. I’ve tried all kinds of power supplies, ranging from starting from Antec ranging to the most generic. I must say, out of all the PSU’s I have ever had, the RX-700 has definitely been the most disappointing.
For the first 8 months I had it, the power supply worked perfectly fine for my medium spec computer; however about 9-10 months in, I started getting random shut offs and blue screens. I attributed this to what I believed to be my faulty ram, but then when month 13 rolled around, just as the warranty expired, my cpu started becoming undervoltaged and no matter how I cranked up the bios voltage settings, I’ve seemed to be locked in at v1.1, same with my RAM. Things started getting unstable fast, but I knew I couldn’t return it so I just had to deal with it.
It is now 3 days short of exactly 1 year and 3 months since I have had this PSU, and when I was copying over some critical school work files (for my Material and Lighting class), the PSU decided to just randomly die for what seemed to be no reason at all. I’ve tried multiple hardware setups and standard troubleshooting to confirm that the PSU is dead. It does not function enough to even output enough standby power to a motherboard.
I strongly encourage all of my readers to stay away from RaidMax products, especially PSUs, as I do not want to see anyone suffer from post-warranty-trauma.
…is friggen all over the internet, and even sometimes on this site.
I strongly discourage you to not click her, because that just lets the advertising beast continue to spam the interweb with their ridiculous ad.
Also, her complexion seems pretty manly imo.
Abandon your journey now, my lord.
Over the past month or so I haven’t really had time to update my blog due to lots of stuff that went down that I had to deal with and that I haven’t had time to develop anything regarding Forecourse… but now I’m back. Once again, I will try to remain constant with my updates.
Right now I am focusing on the Forecourse Content Creation Tool, named ForeCreation. It is (will be) a XNA-In-WinForms IDE, allowing the creation of assets that will follow Forecourse standardizations so that they can be used with any Forecourse driven application with ease.
I know its not much of a milestone, but this is my first time really dealing with WinForms, first time dealing with XNA outside of the XNA Game class, and the first time I had to deal with handling the reading/writing of custom data formats for use with an editor, and well, a lot of firsts. It is quite the learning experience and is going quite slow but I am getting there. My little ‘yay I did it’ milestone at the moment (which is pretty inferior code that could be done by a real programmer with utmost ease…) is the ability to programatically create tab pages that contain XNA renderers within. My first implementation of this is a ‘texture preview’ of textures inside the GameDataTextures folder of your project. It is more detailed in this video:
Video of Current Status as of July 25
I now have a “Project Forecourse” page at the top right of my blog that will detail Project Forecourse along with provide accompanying resources as soon as they become available.
I decided to post some video tutorials I made at the request of others for 3DS Max, check out my 3DS Max Tutorials page at the very top of the site.
Welcome to Allar’s XNA Blog! The home of my documented experiments and failures in regards to my programming work with XNA and other languages.
The main focus of this site is to document, inform, and advertise my XNA mini-framework/engine dubbed Forecourse. A project designed to make the building of XNA games easier for those who just want to jump right in to making an XNA game without wanting to doing all the grunt work that is associated with building the backbones of a project.
This project, along with other works I may post here, are also representative of my portfolio I am starting to build as a student at The Art Institute of Orange County, majoring in Visual Game Programming.
I will try to post tutorials and rantings in regards to XNA for those to read/study/criticize every once in awhile, so subscribe to my RSS feed to stay updated!
