Why is it that after four years having a bike but not the opportunity to ride it, I finally get the chance and motivation to ride daily and my chain breaks?? Aargh!
I bought my pc upgrades yesterday. I saved about $200 by buying cheaper stuff. Funnily enough, it was $219 to buy just an Amd XP 3000+ cpu or $204 to buy a new motherboard and Amd 64bit cpu!!
I figured it was about time to go 64bit. It also meant I could get a PCI Express graphics card which is great since they are ceasing production on AGP cards. I got my nVidia 6600GT! It’s a cheaper brand but it works and is a shitload better than my old Ti4200 which is only AGP 4x.
I only got a 128mb card and it cost $225. Same price as the AGP one next to it 
The motherboard is a Foxconn one and the power socket on it is a 24 pin socket. The plug on my power supply is 20 pin, but it turns out you can still plug it in. Cheering! I wiped off C: drive after backing up my profile and reinstalled. I have got it going nicely now and damn it’s fast!! Interestingly, when you first install XP it’s slow as hell before you put the motherboard drivers on. You could see it redrawing windows.
I downloaded the latest beta nVidia drivers but it could not see the card at all.. scary! I had to install them from the supplied cd. Even when that worked it still could not see the card. Even Windows didn’t know what brand/model it was although I did briefly boot the Pc before formatting and it autodetected the card, so some hope there.
I haven’t had time to try any games yet tho. Was busy installing anti-spyware and anti-virus software and some other important applications first.
Rain.. I was supposed to be mowing the lawn this weekend but it rained both days so I will try again next week.
