June 24, 2005

• It’s Friday, I’m at work, pretty quiet here so I like to share 2 funny links with everyone.

  
  

  
  
  • This is related to the newly released game Battlefield 2
    
  • Double whammy from Gamespy, its a fun one about Doom 3

  
  

  Feel free to laugh out loud even if you’re at work right now just like me.  Do the same if you’re reading this at home.

  
  

  
  

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  It’s about that time again….no I’m not having a period (besides I’m a guy).  I’m talking about the time for technological upgrades to my computer.  If you don’t know it by now, I like to play video games.  The recent hardware talk about SLI everywhere just did the number on me.  Yes folks I am going to upgrade my computer for SLI support.

  
  

  What is SLI you say?  It stands for Scalable Link Interface.  What’s so special about it?  Because you take advantage of using 2 powerful video cards to drive your games.  You will only see a performance gain only if the game supports SLI.  Now would be a good time to upgrade because it will be supported.

  
  

  Alright, I’ll skip the mumble jumble and get to the good part.  Below is a list of hardwares I have picked out.

  
  

  
  
  • DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D (Good price, not overloaded with features I’ll never touch, positive reviews)
    
  • AMD Athlon 64 3500 (Higher speed is still pricy, upgrade in the future)
    
  • 2x512MB PC3200 DDR (Haven’t picked out what brand)
    
  • XFX GeForce 6800 GT (Dual DVIs)
    
  • Antec SP-500 500w power supply (The video cards will be hungry for POWER!)

  
  

  This upgrade will be a little  ~$900 which is pretty good.  As of now I’ll just have 1 video card, I’ve seen some price drops with the 7800 debut and hopefully it’ll continue to do so.  When that happens I’ll get another one.

  
  

  Oh yes, I’m excited.  I hope you folks are as excited as me, if not then that’s ok.  It just means we don’t share the same passion about computers.  But anyways I have to go, I just remembered that I’m still at work. 

  
  

  P.S. I POOPED IN YOUR TANK!

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