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About Me

Alright, basic intro:

I was born in 1984, which means I grew up just a tad late to be an Atari front runner (still got one and played the shit outta it) but I did get to grow up with Nintendo. I've bought every Nintendo console on release day (Wii included, 32 hours outside of Wal-mart).

I'm a "hardcore gamer" but I detest the term and I won't fit into any damn mold! I LOVE retro games, and I think 90% of the shit on the game market right now isn't worth the time or money I'd have to spend to burn those shitty studios that make these games to the ground.

I hate the fact that the FPS genre has become so flooded it's hard to find anything good and not WWII, and I think the last good FPS was Half-life 2 (HL2+Source+Bioshock WTF PWN ALL).

I've been PC gaming since I was 3

Shit I've bought:

Nintendo - NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, N64, Game Boy Color, GB Advance (+SP), Virtual Boy (fun ass system imo), Gamecube, GB Micro (was a gift, I prolly wouldn't have bought one), DS, DS Lite, Wii.

Sony - Playstation, Playstation 2 (3 of em so far), PSone. Gonna buy a PS3 only if it's under $300, and a PSP when it's cheaper.

M$ - Winblows 3.1 up to Vista Ultimate (I bit the bullet and got Vista when I built my latest PC), Xbox. Gonna buy a 360 when the revamped 65nm version is down under $300.

The first computer I gamed on:
Name: IBM Personal Computer 5150
Processor: Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz (A beast!)
Memory: 64 KiB
Hard Drive: Ehhh... Nope.
Network card: Hehe... nope.
Keyboard: "Compared to the keyboards of other small computers, the IBM PC keyboard is the Rolls-Royce." Real quote from a review back in the day!
Monitor: 8" CGA graphic mode; 320 x 200 resolution.

My Current PC:
MB: ASUS P5N32-E NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
Proc: Intel Quad Core Q6600
RAM: 4Gbs of Patriot Extreme Performance DDR2 800
VidCard: 2x (SLI'ed) EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB

My Backup Computer:
MB: MSI K8T Neo,
Proc: AMD64 2100+ w/ 1mb L2 Cache
RAM: 2Gb DDR 400
VidCard: Nvidia Geforce 7800 GS, 512 Mb

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IT'S ALIVE!!!! MWA-HA-HA-HA!!!! Nyteshade | 3:36 PM on 09.19.2007 14 comments

So here's my collage of pictures brought about by my recent purchase. It took me around 4 hours... here's some of the shots... All the parts, wow, that's a lot of shit, here we go... Case... checked all the parts to make sure they fit... put in the motherboard supports... Motherboard, prepping it for the Core 2 Duo... Socket 775, no more pins! Yay for true ZIF (zero-insertion-force) sockets! Processor and heatsink/fan combo attached... Side by side with the OEM fan/heatsink... PWNED! Some perspective... yes it really is that big... About to drop in the mobo, switching out the plates... Motherboard and CPU is in, make SURE you put a screw in every motherboard hole!!! Starting to connect the case switches and front USB/sound... All connected up... Putting in the 4 SATA HDDs... Running the SATA2 cables... Dropping in the first 8800... What a beast! A clean case starts with well taped cables... Electrical tape is your friend... All together! Looks pretty good if I do say so myself! (I put the RAM in right after... easiest part!) Ahhhh.... wind down time before the big button press... BLAM! First press, all 4 drives light and so does the DVD Burner... A perfect score! Mmmm... delicious Raid 5 storage... even if one drive dies, I can still boot that 1.39Tb... All closed up and looking nice! The side in the darkness... The front HDD fans in the dark... Mmmm... Me like Vista's installer! RAID support is a major win, I hated attaching a floppy just for one boot! I posted all this on the new machine, it's running fantastic and everything is staying very cool (specifically the processor!). I'm re-downloading Bioshock and Team Fortress 2 right now, and I just took a break from playing Metal of Honor Airborne all the way up... Perdy and holding an easy 120fps even in the massive shootouts... SLI is nasty! Now I can't wait for Crysis... Did you like? Drop a post!