The New Monster
I've been jonesing for a new PC for a while now. My Alienware is 3 years old finally, and though it runs most things really well, games can and should run at their highest settings. Dell had a grea deal on a desktop with 3gb of RAM, an nVidia 8800 GT w/ 512 mb of memory, an Intel Quadcore processor and more memory than I plan to use in this lifetime. So I took the plunge.
I really like it so far, aside from learning to use Vista. I especially enjoy my new 22 inch widescreen monitor. It's pretty ridiculous actually.
I spent the majority of the weekend installing iTunes, Steam, transferring files over (pics, music, writing), and patching all my games back to full. I only have one or two left and neither of them are on my current play list.
World in Conflict looks absolutely gorgeous with the final tweaks on it and Company of Heroes looks smoother and more vivid than ever. they are really masterfully crafted games. I'm patching Supreme Commander now, because I'm interested to see how it looks at the resolution it's meant to be played at. And, there's always Crysis. Computers are fun.
(posted by grant at 1/27/2008)
