The doctor told me to relax - totally. "None of this working round the house stuff, no odd jobs here and there, just find yourself something you really like doing and do that for a couple of weeks".
So, on the strength of that, I decided to upgrade my PC and spend some time playing games my 3800X2 can't handle very well. First stop was Ebay, my Abit motherboard has been playing up recently so I thought it might be a good tiime to upgrade from the old AGP standard to the 'new' PCIe. While I was at it, why not get a better CPU - 30 mins of scouting about and I'd selected a 3.4 P4 processor and a rather nice looking MSI motherboard - fire up the old AuctionSniper and bingo - £24 for the P4 and £12.50 for the MSI - well chuffed me as I'd reckoned on about £100 for the pair. So now I thoughd I'd try and get a half decent graphics card as my ancient Geforce 6200 just can't handle the graphics intensive games of the moment. After a lot of humming and ha-ing I opted to try the ATI cards and found myself bidding on a Radeon 1900XT - and then winning for £50 inc postage - woohoo.
I've now got all I need to do the business, so I call on one of my sons mates who is a bit of a whizz at the PC fixing game, grab a few cans of Fosters to help the brainpower (him not me, I prefer wine) and start ripping the old PC apart. By sheer luck the super cooling fan I had for the old skt 939 Abit also fitted my new skt 775 m/board, and within an hour my 'new' PC was up and running and oh boy, is it fast!!!!. We had a hiccup with the old IDE harddrives as for some obscure reason we could not get the BIOS to recognise them, so I whizzed out to my local PC shop and bought a 160Gb SATA drive. For less that £150 I'd got myself a system that costs about £450 complete on Ebay and a damn sight more elsewhere.
Now I'm going to spend time playing some big ol games - Oblivion, F.E.A.R, Farcry and of course Supreme Commander which now runs perfectly. My son is going to get me a copy of Medieval War II which killed my old system everytime and I'm looking forward to that bigtime.
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About Me
- St. Valery
- United Kingdom
- Hi all, I'm a youngish (at heart anyway) girlie that likes working outside, so in a fit of madness I applied to be a Traffic Warden. I've been doing the job for a couple of years now, really enjoy it, hav'nt had any real trouble and generally get on well with Joe Public. A laugh and a smile goes a long way and certainly calms a situation down.
Events and things I'll be attending in the not too distant future
- Aug 11/12 - Chilli Fiesta
- Aug 26/27 - Chilli Festival (ok, I like Chillis)
- Sep 23/30 - Hisaronu, Turkey
- Oct 6 - Kids b/day party - son 21 daughter 18 - its gonna be expensive
I'm a strategy nut - these are my fave games of the moment
- Age of Empires III
- C & C : Tiberium Wars
- Homeworld - a classic and still the best
- Oblivion - both on 360 & PC - what a game !!!
- Rise of Legends
- Settlers : Heritage of Kings
- Silent Hunter III - ok not strat exactly but still fun
- Supreme Commander
Wines of the Moment
- Stormhoek Couture - an incredible rose drank over ice
- Ravenswood Lodi - an old vine Zinfandel and my fave Red by far
- Kannonkop Kadette - South African blend - my no2 Red
- Calliterra Shiraz Rose - WOW - it rocks
- Radcliffe's Sancere - Threshers 'own' - but bloody good
- Gallo White Grenache - damn tasty for a cheaper end wine
- Radcliffe's Pinot Grigio Blush - Threshers again but a cut above the rest
The Obligatory Disclaimer
Right, you know how it goes, everything that I publish here are MY VIEWS only. I write things as I see them and I'm bound to upset someone, so all I ask is for you to take this with a pinch of salt. Any events decribed here DID happen, but I've changed all the relevant details to protect myself and the 'innocent'
If you have any whinges or ideas etc, drop me an E san.valery@yahoo.co.uk or just post a comment - either way it will get read and acted on if necessary.
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