'Sup /D/?

Well, long story short...My computer has always sucked a fat one. I've always had to watch PC games fly by me and all I could do is whimper in pain. But with Spore coming out soon and a lot of good games dropping monthly...I figured it was time to suck it up and upgrade.

Finally, I sucked it up and shelled out $300 of my $400 paycheck for the week for a 8800GT and a 500W power supply to replace my 350W junker that most certainly would have 'sploded if I tried to run a 8800GT on it. (See my "Not my turning point gaming rig" post for pics and details!...not that you'd want to.)

Newegg was running a sale on EVGA 8800GT's ($199+$30 rebate ftw!) so I figured I would just go ahead and buy one. The power supply was $80...A friend recommended it as "totally GOOD, yo!" because I do not know much about this new fangled computer st00fz.

So it gets here today (as it damn well should have, since I paid UPS to get it here today!) and I unpack it gleefully, knowing full-well my computer will probably be toast by the time I am done, since I know not what I do when it comes to computers.

Actually, it went pretty damn well. The 8800GT was (of course) an easy install...Even a computer illiterate individual like myself can do that one. I had to switch a hard drive connector that was in the way of the video card, which is looooooooooooooong, but thankfully quite thin. I have large hands so messing about in a mid-tower case isn't easy. At all.

The PSU was what worried me...And it was pretty easy, but I forgot to put in the, uhh...SATA connector, is it called? Yea, and the computer would boot, but windows wouldn't boot up, obviously...

I plugged that in after I realized and it made this aweful SCREAMING noise and I thought the world was going to end or something. It was pretty damn terrible. So I switched off the PSU, plugged it in...Problem solves, everything booted up fine.

Installed drivers, and tested it out on CoH...The game runs very fast with everything on high settings and looks pretty good.

Now I just need some more games to really push the card to see what it can do. :)

Recommend? CoD4 sounds promising. As does The Orange Box.

<3 Schmo0zle

Oh, and the next upgrade is likely THIS (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824254026) bad boy. My 27" TV's screen messed up...So I figured, hell...Why not get a 28" MONITOR that I can use for my PC *AND* my Xbox 360 gaming!

Plus, the damn thing is only $500. Can't beat that.