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.
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Date: 2004-06-05 12:07 pm (UTC)I have very little personal experience with ME, so my info about bugs is second hand. What I'm given to understand is that new features put into ME that 98SE doesn't have are bug ridden. This would lead me to believe that if you've never used those features (I think System Restore is one) you won't have encountered problems. And to be fair, if you're using any OS and it's working well for you, that's good by me. :)