Decision: Averted!
Jun. 4th, 2004 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuI drove up to CompUSA this evening, intent on possibly, maybe buying some memory and a new graphics card for my computer. Alas, I left the specs on my motherboard at home, so I wasn't entirely confident of what I needed in the way of memory cards. The guy at CompUSA was sure, based on what I remembered, but...I decided to hold off. Also, my motherboard can handle 2GB of RAM (currently it's limping along on 256MB (which seemed like a hell of a lot when I bought it), but the biggest memory cards they had would have given me only a total of 1GB if I used all the slots. I can probably do better at Fry's.
I looked at graphics cards, too. I'm somewhat limited in my choices by my use of Win98SE as an OS, but dammit--I don't like ME, 2000 or XP.* Eventually--like, on my next new system--I'm gonna have to bite the bullet. But not yet. I'd like a new graphics card, but from what I've heard a big boost in RAM will produce a far bigger improvement in my gaming experience than a new graphics card, so if it comes to a choice of one or the other instead of both, I'm going to buy the memory expansions.
Still not sure about COH, though. It could be fun, but...I dunno. Will I really enjoy it? And even if I do, will I play it all that much?
*Yeah, yeah. I could go with Apple (yeah, right). Or Linux. I tried Linux. Tain't nearly as user friendly as I expected, and frankly, I didn't feel like spending the time to figure out how to do things that I had long ago mastered in Windows.
I looked at graphics cards, too. I'm somewhat limited in my choices by my use of Win98SE as an OS, but dammit--I don't like ME, 2000 or XP.* Eventually--like, on my next new system--I'm gonna have to bite the bullet. But not yet. I'd like a new graphics card, but from what I've heard a big boost in RAM will produce a far bigger improvement in my gaming experience than a new graphics card, so if it comes to a choice of one or the other instead of both, I'm going to buy the memory expansions.
Still not sure about COH, though. It could be fun, but...I dunno. Will I really enjoy it? And even if I do, will I play it all that much?
*Yeah, yeah. I could go with Apple (yeah, right). Or Linux. I tried Linux. Tain't nearly as user friendly as I expected, and frankly, I didn't feel like spending the time to figure out how to do things that I had long ago mastered in Windows.
