7:42 AM
Up early on this Monday and still trying to get my brain together so I can go into work a little before having to leave to take Gump to the vet.
Having some problems with my computer lately. I upgraded to 383 megs of ram from 128 earlier in the year but there seems to be a problem either with the DELL ram that came with the computer or the crucial ram that I upgraded it with. Every so often I freeze at start up and lately it’s been a PITA when I try to do things that I should be able to do with all this RAM.
When I bought my 256 chip of RAM 3 or 4 months ago it was $105 with tax and shipping. Now it was $62 with tax and shipping. The plan is to put it in and if the other one is defective, send the other one back to crucial for a replacement. If the other one isn’t defective and it’s the DELL chip that’s bad, I’m just going to ignore the DELL chip and I’ll have the max 512 megs of RAM that this system can use. Either way, I’m going to have 512 megs of RAM in this system when it’s done with it.
I also decided that since a lot of the problems have been due to lock ups when I’m video editing that I’m going to get a new ATI Radeon all in wonder card. I’m going to pull out the old PCI ATI card I use for video capture and my old AGP Geforce 256 and replace both with one card. Hopefully having one dedicated card for graphics and video will free up some ram space and there won’t be conflicts with the drivers. Plus from what I hear, the Radeon powered card is a kick ass little gaming chip. I didn’t opt for the Radeon with 64 megs of RAM simply for the fact that I wanted all the dedicated ports that come with the all in wonder for video editing. I’m sure it’s a way better gamer, but I’m not exactly a game machine these days.
Seriously, the only real game I’ve been playing is Everquest and I don’t play that a lot. I play it when my best friend needs me to find things to help her character do crafts (I’m really good and low level tasks — need bone chips? I’m your man. LOL). But I never got into Everquest the way others have. I’ve been in there for 2 years and my primary character is level 26. While I’d like to get him power leveled up to 30 so I can go more places, I’m pretty comfortable playing at the level I play as a casual gamer.
I’ve never been one who makes a game his life. I’m just not dedicated enough to live and breathe one game or commit to Everquest as a lifestyle — which you HAVE to do if you’re going to get much higher than 30. Grouping becomes a way of life, the calendar becomes filled with quests and hunts and mandatory guild meetings, and just to get the neat-o swords or weapons or anything you have to be part of an uber guild. People bicker and fight and yell and scream over a lot of things in that game, which I’ll admit, they do in any game, but they seem to lose touch with the fact that it is just a game. The +20 mana 40dmg 1hs +10ac +5str item means nothing out here in the real world. Sure your character had to slay the great dingo of nort in order to get it, but can you actually pick up non-Everquest playing women that way?
I’m enough of a geek already on my own, thank you very much.
I don’t need any more help in proving that!
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