Today is our 4th Wedding Anniversary.
I went to the local shopping centre near work today and popped into EB
Games (Electronics Boutique Games). They had Quake 4 for $89.95 and a
big sticker saying “We will match any price”. I got them to ring up
GameDude (www.gamedude.com.au) and confirm a lower price and got $5 off
the game 
I gave it to Bec this afternoon and she’s already loving it! She’s right
into FPS Shootem ups.
I’m going to have to spend about $650 to upgrade my PC. Turns out you
can’t easily get Athlon 32bit chips any more and so I’m going to go
AMD64 which will bring me a lot up to date anyway. I’m going to get an
nVidia 6600 video card too.. possibly GT depending on the price I can
get it for. I might go to the Sunday Computer Markets this weekend and
grab a case, motherboard, cpu, graphics card and some RAM.
I think I’ll get an Asus motherboard ( ASUS A8N5X NVIDIA nForce4 Chipset
PCI express Audio 8 Channel LAN USB 2.0 ).
Maybe an MSI video card ( 6600 256mb or 6600gt 128mb). Apparently it’s
better to get a GT than an extra 128Mb RAM.
And an AMD64 3000+ CPU to throw in the mix. I’ll need another half Gb of
RAM as well.
That should be enough for a few years to get me out of trouble.
I’m going to try some 3d gaming which I’ve not done much of for years.
I’ve been trying out Eve Online. I played it for a couple of hours the
other night and only got a short way through the tutorial!! It’s very
complex. It’s like Elite but in MMORPG format. Space Trading and stuff.
I might try Bec’s Quake 4 as well. I wonder if we can use the same CD to
play against each other.. probably not.
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