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quietprofanity) wrote2008-06-22 12:41 pm
quietprofanity) wrote2008-06-22 12:41 pm
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Updates to the System ...
So I bought some RAM from Circuit City yesterday. I've owned my compy for SIX YEARS and I've never tried installing anything new on it (although I did to my family computer). I got all ready to take off the cover with a screwdriver when I saw no screws keeping the cover on.
"Curious ..." I thought. Then I kept looking around and investigating. I found a sort of a spring mechanism on both the top and the bottom of the computer. I pushed them at the same time and viola! Computer opened like a book.
SHEESH! If I knew it was that easy, I would have just started opening my computer for fun.
Anyway, after lightly dusting off the two pounds of bunnies with a piece of tissue, (Why do I live so far away from a place where I could just run out and get canned air?) and fiddling around I installed the new 512 MB of RAM. Good-bye horrible start-up times, yay! I can use the proper RiffTrax player, yay! I can play PsychoNau ... oh, wait, video card isn't l33t enough. Woe.
I'm wondering if I want to get a new video card and go for the Franken-computer route. I'm really not ready to buy a new computer yet. (Fuck "ending is better than mending." Mending can be tons of fun.) Hmm ... I'll give myself a month to make this huge decision. If I want to play video games I can always crack open the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City I managed to get for free and the Katamari Damacy and Tomb Raider: Legend I got for budget price. Or I could download a Yahtzee Croshaw game. Or I could scrounge up my old American McGee's Alice that I never finished. The possibilities are endless!
"Curious ..." I thought. Then I kept looking around and investigating. I found a sort of a spring mechanism on both the top and the bottom of the computer. I pushed them at the same time and viola! Computer opened like a book.
SHEESH! If I knew it was that easy, I would have just started opening my computer for fun.
Anyway, after lightly dusting off the two pounds of bunnies with a piece of tissue, (Why do I live so far away from a place where I could just run out and get canned air?) and fiddling around I installed the new 512 MB of RAM. Good-bye horrible start-up times, yay! I can use the proper RiffTrax player, yay! I can play PsychoNau ... oh, wait, video card isn't l33t enough. Woe.
I'm wondering if I want to get a new video card and go for the Franken-computer route. I'm really not ready to buy a new computer yet. (Fuck "ending is better than mending." Mending can be tons of fun.) Hmm ... I'll give myself a month to make this huge decision. If I want to play video games I can always crack open the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City I managed to get for free and the Katamari Damacy and Tomb Raider: Legend I got for budget price. Or I could download a Yahtzee Croshaw game. Or I could scrounge up my old American McGee's Alice that I never finished. The possibilities are endless!
::sure he's mentioned this already...::
It says to get 8500 GeForce 3 video card... all I can say is it has a built-in fan that makes itself heard (for a good reason) o.~