New Computer

AH, the joys of having a new computer! My old system died recently, leaving me in quite an unpleasant position of having to replace it. This is not something I enjoy doing in the least.

My old system was severely under-powered by today's standards. It ran Windows 7 and only had 2 gigs of RAM. This will run Windows 7, as well, but has 4 gigs of RAM. Furthermore, the old system was a dual core processor while the new one is a Quad core chip.

Now, I know it sounds like it's all shits and giggles. But I had tweaked my old system to run like a modern computer. It was blazing fast for what it was. The trouble is that I now feel compelled to do the same to this one. That means that I will be working on it for the next two weeks, tweaking and adjusting it so it runs like a modern gaming computer. Albeit with a severely under-powered video card.

In another hour or so I will be installing a video card, a sound card, 6 hard drives, an optical drive and all the drivers needed to get this thing running slow. Then comes the tweaking.

Fun stuff for a guy who does this sort of thing for a living. I just hate working on my own computer. It really sucks.