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The upgrade is being forced on me ... hardware failure.
Looking at the CPUs, it's mad to get anything above 4 cores, and so that makes a new CPU very affordable. Games basically max out at 4 cores, so more is just a waste of money.
8 GB RAM ... 4 is doing me well, but it is so inexpensive, may as well get it ... never know, I might want to open 20 maps at one time!
For some weird reason my puter refuses to work in the case. So it is on a wooden board at the moment until I get the new case tomorrow.
Monitor is a humble 24" from a few years ago and the GPU HD5850 is fine.
I'll check Diablo 3 out for sure, but I find games oh so boring now a days.
I recently had a test drive of Linux Mint, Lisa, with the Cinnamon shell and I am very impressed!
The upgrade is being forced on me ... hardware failure.
Looking at the CPUs, it's mad to get anything above 4 cores, and so that makes a new CPU very affordable. Games basically max out at 4 cores, so more is just a waste of money.
8 GB RAM ... 4 is doing me well, but it is so inexpensive, may as well get it ... never know, I might want to open 20 maps at one time!
For some weird reason my puter refuses to work in the case. So it is on a wooden board at the moment until I get the new case tomorrow.
Monitor is a humble 24" from a few years ago and the GPU HD5850 is fine.
I'll check Diablo 3 out for sure, but I find games oh so boring now a days.
I recently had a test drive of Linux Mint, Lisa, with the Cinnamon shell and I am very impressed!
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
Having just the one computer is a challenge to keep it going. It is a real work horse.
I must say, I am happy to have the net back. Doesn't feel nice to lose the net.