Friday, June 30, 2006
"More Posting"
So my plan was to go back the post right before this one and continue it. I was going to do that some time later on the 22nd or the 23rd. Well it's now the 30th and I never went back to finish it. So I'll write more in this post instead.
So where was I? Ah, the new PC. Yes it's pretty sweet. It's a 7600 NVidia video card. Any higher and I'd be paying way to much (think $500+). For the CPU I think I should have saved some money and got an AMD 3700+; a mere single core. But also much less expensive then what I got: a dual core 3800+. Again any higher and it'd be in the preposterous mad-money range. I want a decent PC sure but lets not go over-board! I also bought a new case/chasis/whatever you call it which didn't come with a PSU. That I bought separately. About $100 500 watt edition. That's so I can eventually add a second video card to do some mad SLI gaming. Every time I build a PC I have the eventual goal of, you know, just upgrading the components instead of the entire PC (like I did this time).
Oh and in case you didn't know this AMD 3800+ is a 64-bit chip. So when the Vista Beta was released to the public that's the one I got. Vista I'm not so impressed with. Vista I don't really feel like going into.
I also tried the "Windows XP x64". I didn't like it so much. There are no drivers the wifi card I was using and both my favorite software firewall and my favorite anti-virus (AVGFree) don't work on it. Are there really any advantages to it? I doubt it.
One thing I've noticed these last couple months is how I've started to lean back towards buying more and more PC games. I thought once I bought oblivion there'd be no need to buy any more PC games for quite a while. But instead I've purchased Civilization 4, Dragonshard, Titan Quest, Space Rangers 2 and probably more. And I've hardly made any progress in Oblivion. Civilization I played for a couple weeks but couldn't figure out how to get the high scores. I'd to be a better leader then Nero! Dragonshard I also played but didn't get too far. Space Rangers I should really go back and give a fair chance. And after all that I just bought "Titan Quest", an action RPG I had never heard of, yesterday. I've played it about 15 minutes so far. Why did I buy it? Why don't I just Play the other 20 or 30 games I could play? I don't know. Just can't help myself I guess.
I've also been buying a lot of HDDs lately. Mostly because Fry's is selling so many 300 gig HDDs for only $80 or $90. I mean, how can you beat that?? One I added to my new PC for all my programs, apps, etc. Then I bought another one along with a USB enclosure for further storage. And just yesterday I bought yet another HDD mostly because it was only $80. This one was slightly different: my first SATA drive. This I did because the cables are so much thinner then even the rounded IDE cables. So I swapped the IDE 300 gig with the SATA 300 gig. The IDE 300 gig I moved to my old desktop I'm planning to make into another PVR box for TV recording etc.
The OS for that box I put onto a 40 gig HDD, leaving the entire 300 gig to store recordings. Eventually I would actually like to put the motherboard and other components into a different casing (like an old stereo). ¶ 6:32 PM
So my plan was to go back the post right before this one and continue it. I was going to do that some time later on the 22nd or the 23rd. Well it's now the 30th and I never went back to finish it. So I'll write more in this post instead.
So where was I? Ah, the new PC. Yes it's pretty sweet. It's a 7600 NVidia video card. Any higher and I'd be paying way to much (think $500+). For the CPU I think I should have saved some money and got an AMD 3700+; a mere single core. But also much less expensive then what I got: a dual core 3800+. Again any higher and it'd be in the preposterous mad-money range. I want a decent PC sure but lets not go over-board! I also bought a new case/chasis/whatever you call it which didn't come with a PSU. That I bought separately. About $100 500 watt edition. That's so I can eventually add a second video card to do some mad SLI gaming. Every time I build a PC I have the eventual goal of, you know, just upgrading the components instead of the entire PC (like I did this time).
Oh and in case you didn't know this AMD 3800+ is a 64-bit chip. So when the Vista Beta was released to the public that's the one I got. Vista I'm not so impressed with. Vista I don't really feel like going into.
I also tried the "Windows XP x64". I didn't like it so much. There are no drivers the wifi card I was using and both my favorite software firewall and my favorite anti-virus (AVGFree) don't work on it. Are there really any advantages to it? I doubt it.
One thing I've noticed these last couple months is how I've started to lean back towards buying more and more PC games. I thought once I bought oblivion there'd be no need to buy any more PC games for quite a while. But instead I've purchased Civilization 4, Dragonshard, Titan Quest, Space Rangers 2 and probably more. And I've hardly made any progress in Oblivion. Civilization I played for a couple weeks but couldn't figure out how to get the high scores. I'd to be a better leader then Nero! Dragonshard I also played but didn't get too far. Space Rangers I should really go back and give a fair chance. And after all that I just bought "Titan Quest", an action RPG I had never heard of, yesterday. I've played it about 15 minutes so far. Why did I buy it? Why don't I just Play the other 20 or 30 games I could play? I don't know. Just can't help myself I guess.
I've also been buying a lot of HDDs lately. Mostly because Fry's is selling so many 300 gig HDDs for only $80 or $90. I mean, how can you beat that?? One I added to my new PC for all my programs, apps, etc. Then I bought another one along with a USB enclosure for further storage. And just yesterday I bought yet another HDD mostly because it was only $80. This one was slightly different: my first SATA drive. This I did because the cables are so much thinner then even the rounded IDE cables. So I swapped the IDE 300 gig with the SATA 300 gig. The IDE 300 gig I moved to my old desktop I'm planning to make into another PVR box for TV recording etc.
The OS for that box I put onto a 40 gig HDD, leaving the entire 300 gig to store recordings. Eventually I would actually like to put the motherboard and other components into a different casing (like an old stereo). ¶ 6:32 PM
