The Beast

Monday, September 11, 2006 @ 11:31 am by DarK SouL

I fixed my computer and made a BEAST. 

This is the new hardware I have

Video Card - Diamond Radeon X1600 Pro 512MB
Motherboard - ECS C19-A SLI
Processor - Pentium D 3.4Ghz

I also had to buy a new CPU fan because I broke the one I had while I was installing it, so I had to shell $70 in Compusa for this huge fan, it was somewhat hard to install but it is rewarding, you can barely hear it at all plus the cooling capacity is has is awesome.  After installing all that the turn came to install the RAM and surprise surprise, my old memory was not compatible with the motherboard.  At that moment I was so angry that I almost threw the computer against the wall in frustration because I did not had the money to get new memory but the helping hand, or more like, the helping wallet of my boyfriend came to the aid.  Now I owe him $270 because of this - 2GB DDR2 RAM. 

Now my computer is ready for the heavy work I am about to give her because in a few weeks for now I will be running Oracle, plus Windows Media Center at the same time, and Oracle alone eats a whole 1GB RAM sometimes so now it has plenty of room to run.

Finances…

My finances are not good, I mean they are good but not the way I want.  From now on I need to SAVE as much as I can, and that includes not going out as much (funny since I don’t go out at all), stop eating on fancy restaurants, or go once a month, limit the groceries budget (frankly, this eats a whole lot of my budget so here is where I need to cut first).  This also means that I wont buy any new games (Except for Guild Wars: Nightfall) at least until next year.  And the same goes to my boyfriend, I wont let him spend!

Hmmmm, I think I am going to play LOTO from now on…. suuuuuure….