Braggin rights! As top-end a "pc action game" rig as I can manage!
- From: "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:10:55 GMT
I'm not a rich/wealthy guy. I imagine the vast majority of you folks work
hard for your living, just as I do. So to build or buy a rig that's Top
End for most of us isn't an easy or quick thing to do at all. I realize
I've actually spent more cash on having to spread out my purchases over a
period from August 17, 2005 to January 31, 2006. And I also realize that I
spent more getting my CPU first rather than video card. In any event, I've
*finally* got all the goodies here, with me, right now, ready to shut this
baby down and get to it.
A personal note. I, like many others, have kinda dreamed of owning a super
duper gaming rig that would just fly through my fave games and give me all
the beautiful graphics you can get at the same time. I also realize there
are physical limitations to everything, as well as financial constraints.
However, I still dreamed, yet dare not want.
On August 8, 2004 my mother passed away. I had more difficulty with that
loss than I ever thought I would. I came to terms with that, and came away
with an important realization. My family had always come first, even
though I've not lived with any of them for many years. Financially, my
childrens needs and as many 'wants' as possible were always met before I
would allow myself any 'treats'. I define that as just normal parents
ways, nothing special there. My children are now all grown, live on their
own and have their own families (hence, McGrandpa, ok?). I concluded that
it was time that I started giving myself some things I've always wanted.
SO, I now have 2 nice guitars, my Jeep GC Laredo, a much more relaxed
outlook and pace of living that suits me to a T. Now, dare I dream of
building a 'bleeeeeding cutting edge' game box? Me? ME? Heh! Hell Yeah!
It's *MY* turn! Do I feel guilty about this choice? Nope, I still help
the kids out all the time, I'm just focused on having my toy now :)
MY 'dreambox in reality' as of today is:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
Gigabyte GA-K8N SLI (nForce4 SLI, PCI-e, 2 16x, 2 1x and 2 PCI)
2 x 1g PC3200
eVGA eGeForce 7800GTX 256 meg ACS3 (dual DVI and VIVO)
2 Samsung 930B LCD flatpanel displays (have 2 DVI cables)
hand picked no-name black full tower case with Thermaltake 420 PurePower PS.
a nice variety of sata and pata hd's, LiteOn and NEC DVD dual layer 16x
rewriters, all formats.
Win XP Pro (32bit) full retail box.
Win XP Pro x64 OEM packet.
3 distros of Linux.
All the games currently out that I wanted, I've bought and have ready to go.
I think it's the makings of a pretty darn good rig :) On this note, I'll
bid you all a good day and shut this puppy down and get started!
McG.
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