LAN Party, GeForce3 Woes and Pool
Posted On Monday, January 14th, 2002 By David Veatch
This last weekend, we threw a LAN party at a friends house. There were 20 or so computers there, an X-Box, a GameCube, a Playstation2 and an 8′ pool table. A few hours into the gaming, a friend pointed out that the fan on my GF3 heatsink wasn’t spinning, and that the heatsink was blisteringly hot. Shutting my rig down, I took out the fan, jiggled the power connector a bit, reinserted, booted up and was pleased to note that the fan was spinning again. Several hours later, somewhere between 7 and 9pm, *fzzzt!* my screen went black. I’m now temporarily running a GeForce 256 DDR board while I wait for Leadtek replace my defunct board. They’ve sent the RMA form, so I just have to ship it to them for the replacement. When my GF3 broke, something else snapped… my resolve to see through the various technical problems that accompany computer gaming. I decided to just go play some pool, and did so… for the next 7.5 hours. Myself and primarily two others played 8-ball nonstop from 10:30pm-ish Saturday night until 6:30am Sunday morning. I haven’t played in months and months, and haven’t played steadily in 2 years when more ยป