Accidental new Computer
So I was planning on upgrading my 2 year old PC later this year. With Vista coming out and bohemeth games like Crysis I knew my Athlon 3200 and GeForce 6800 weren’t going to cut it. The way I figured it, I’d wait until round 2 of the DirectX 10 video cards and make my move. Then something miraculous happened, the gods delivered a brand new GeForce 8800GTX to me. Well this simply won’t do, I had AGP, this is PCI-X. Time to upgrade. So a motherboard and power supply later I’m up and running this beauty on a copy of Windows Vista.
I’m really surprised on how different Vista is. While most of the tools are still available, there’s a few things that take a couple of extra clicks now. Most notably the run menu and the file path menu. Luckily the keyboard shortcuts still work and I’ll just have to adapt to using those.
Anyway, back to the video card. The thing runs like a dream, and every game I throw at it pretty much handles maximum EVERYTHING without a problem. But even with that, this poor electronics whore is not happy. I’m definitley CPU limited, and it was time to upgrade that too. So on the way we have a nice AMD FX-60 chip. Well freaking hell. I go from never owning a top of the line CPU/Video card to owning BOTH a top of the line CPU and Video card.
Happy early birthday to me.
AniAko said
am February 5 2007 @ 2:05 pm
You sir, ARE a consumer whore ;) Welcome to the club ^o^
Sayshu said
am February 12 2007 @ 9:00 pm
Bap, if you type in the White box above the Pearl, you could just type in CMD, or Device Manager, and usually, it will open them or a search result, in my case, with nice enough hard drive speeds, the indexing works faster than perusing through your file system, for files, or for programs. Hopefully you’ll find it faster as well :D I quite enjoyed it at the time.