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:3 Don't be afraid - PC's are your friend

After test driving it for the day, I'm happy. Busy installing sacred as we speak, so will look forward to testing it in a bit (just have to install ice and blood).

Steve, what do you think of the board. Worth upgrading at a later stage? or should I just look for a better board in a gigabyte or something?

methinks the lad doth protest too much

My new one is built into the case I got for phoenix originally, so its in a larger case with about 4 fans creating a pretty decent cooling system in the case. Just need to sort one for the graphics card though. I want to play sacred later today after work, but I'm worried that the GPU might overheat (might not happen with all the fans, but I am overly cautious after what happened to phoenix). Dang thing has nothing but a heat sink to take the hot air away.

It seems strange to me somehow, looking inside the case and not seeing a single IDE cable. Everything runs off SATA2. meh, like I said, its not a high end machine, but it has board is an ASRock, so with the intel chipset, I can add anything from a Core i5 to a core i7, and add that to the DDR3, and I will have a monster. Just wont be able to SLI though, it only has one PCIE.

I had friends that had quad cores (mainly the AMD Phenom), and the reckon the best way to keep the system anywhere near 36 degrees is water cooling. For laptops though, you get cooling stands that the laptop rests on and helps it stay cool. haven't seen them here though.

I love putting PC's together. Before I got my certification, I had a few IT guys stumped. They said that I would never get XP running on a P1, let alone get it to play videos, and I did. I'm still trying to find a P3 chip though. Out of all the pentiums, the P3 was the best. Would love to have one up and running in my lab.

Here's my board - with everything it came with in the line of utilities. ASRock H61M-HVS

My company generally uses skype. Unless we're all working on documents online, then we use the tools inside google drive.

It would be a lot harder for them to kill you in a car. I had a look at the car list, and I am ecstatic. Maserati, Porsche, Lamborghini, and of course, the Bugatti Veyron SS.

I'm not one for war games though, I'd probably spend more time scrounging for health packs than actually fighting. Unless I can find a good sniper position. With Crysis, Tomb Raider and Quake 3 Arena, I've become quite a crack shot with a rocket launcher

it's wickedly fast. Made a mistake though, the CPU is a single core (cries). but with the DDR3, and the 64 bit architecture, its still faster than what my dual core was when I still had the phoenix. Feels good to have a desktop again.

There is a new need for speed most wanted (fangirl scream). I have Got to get it.
NFS is the best racing game out there, it beats any Colin Mcrae hands down. Except maybe shift. I could never wrap my head around that one. It was focused too much on racing, and no real storyline. Which is what made most wanted so awesome.

Cop chases - with a pick up? Bring it on - Seriously lol.

Need for speed most wanted 2012

lol. I forgot to add that its 64 bit architecture as well. basically its just really fast, with a lot of space to work with. Bigger than what I've had before this one.

low point? Windows 7. (sigh) looks like I'm forcefully moving away from XP against my will. Will miss it for sure.

If you were asked to appear before a committee for something, would you go?

There seems to be a little debate as to why the BBC refused to appear before a committee where they were asked to defend statements made in response to an inquiry that had union representatives complaining about job cuts and the general morale of the staff.