Oh man, as much as I liked having a 32″ TV for a monitor there are plenty of downsides to it, the most notable one being the resolution is a meager 1360×768. Lucky me, then, that my 32″ TV asploded today. As backwards as that sounds it was the best thing that could’ve happened. See, my video card’s been halfway dying too, randomly blacking out during 3d stuff. And I haven’t written about it because frankly it was frustrating the hell out of me and writing about it would only exacerbate my pissed-off-edness.<\/p>\n
To make a long story short I returned the TV, bought a new 22″ monitor, and had enough left over to upgrade my power supply and video card. So I’m now running the vaunted ATI Radeon HD 4850 on a Samsung 2253BW monitor, with a ThermalTake power supply. Still running my Q6600 quad-core processor too.<\/p>\n
I suddenly have a respectable gaming rig. It’d been so long since I’d seen good graphics on a computer that I forgot what they look like. Suffice it to say “holy #(*&ing #$&!”. I lost track of about 7 hours playing Spore and UT2004. And I have a new game in Dungeon Runners to play (an MMO spoof of WoW\/Diablo), but what I think I’ll be doing is revisiting one of my favorite games that I never quite completed in Half-Life 2. On highest quality. :D<\/p>\n
The sad thing is I have so much to do, lol. But taking a day or two to revel in awesome new tech isn’t so wrong is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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