Bet you didn’t even notice

My old computer died in its sleep.

I gave it a break having worked it relentlessly for almost a month with nary a shut down. Without even saying goodbye, it simply refused to wake up the next day. A silent, final UP YOURS, YOU SLAVE DRIVING, BLOGGING, GAMING, EMAILING, SPREADSHEETING MANIAC!

For that, I’ve been compensated, rather generously, by an ever-eager-to-upgrade husband, with a new rig. Instead of just changing my dead mobo, he’s managed to somehow convince himself (I didn’t need any convincing) to switch my old Intel-ATI-Gigabyte setup to a 3500+ Athlon 64-bit chip, NVIDIA mobo, GeForce 7600GT piece of heaven.

What a betrayal.

That’s right. Give up on us, and we give up on you, beeyaawtch!

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  1. loquterz

    Goodddd… finally get nVidia….

    TRAITORRRRRRR AMD MEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH …. fast so wat… not stable… no power consumption regulator… keep it on too long n u’ll smell freshly fried chips 4 breakfast. Intel 4ever! DUAL CORE QUADRO LOVIN’ Coming soon.

    Sep 19, 2006 @ 7:32 pm


  2. m.o.t.t.

    phhooowarrrrr..lucky u, i jealous.

    Sep 19, 2006 @ 9:26 pm


  3. jennemede

    It’s 64F here lah wont fry hehe dont worry. My old Intel 3.02GHz one six fans also tableh tahan summer heat man.

    Sep 19, 2006 @ 10:22 pm


  4. Vien

    Just 1P? You should go with 2P Opteron. New Socket F stuff can go to Quad Core in the future and don’t even need to change mobo!

    Sep 19, 2006 @ 10:44 pm


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  6. jennemede

    I think Opterons go into servers/workstations, no? I can’t even afford 2c AMD64s much less 2p Opterons hehe. Needed something to use my old RAMs also.

    Sep 20, 2006 @ 6:19 am


  7. Vien

    I’m seeing more gamers opting for dual as the ultimate gaming machine. But then again, they are at the extreme end.

    Sep 20, 2006 @ 4:38 pm

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