New PC

Was in Best Buy earlier, and looked over some new PCs.

Amazing what a grand will buy you these days. Quad-core Intel with eight gigs of DDR3, a 1tb hard drive, and an ATI something or other superwhammyHD 1gb video card.

Seriously, I know three things about ATI cards:

1) It is not Nvidia.

2) Jack.

3) Shit.

The number of the card may as well have been made up of the atomic weights of the materials used to make the chipset for all the good it did me.

Would've been tempted... severely tempted, but I am not hearing good things about the quad cores getting along with certain programs. FO3 especially.

A similar system - dual core Intel with eight gigs of RAM - went for slightly over half the money. Considering I already own a good-ish video card, I'd have to say that one was way more tempting.

Also installing BF2 again. Had the urge to see how it played on my new GPU, since the last time I played it was on the 256mb 6200.

Fuck me I had forgotten how stupidly big EA patches are. the 1.50 patch is two fucking gigabytes. And I may have to get 1.41 on top of that to install first. Not sure, yet.

Oh, well; at least BF2 has integrated bot support.

Wonder if they ever got PRMM done? Have to check...