I’m slowly, part-by-part building myself a new gaming rig. Currently I’ve got a strange mesh of nice parts in a crappy old computer, but hopefully I will have something nice built by the end of the year. In my old Dell Dimension 4700 (3.2 GHZ Pentium 4) I currently have a brand-spankin’-new Radeon 4890 graphics card and an Antec Earthwatts 650W PSU.

It’s hilarious playing games on this computer- I can play a lot of games (Source engine and more) at maxed out settings with silky-smooth frame rates, but as soon as I have to load a level or save or ANYTHING that depends on CPU/HDD/any other component, I better prepare for a 10 minute wait. I’m looking to take advantage of Intel’s RetailEdge deal this winter to eventually build a sweet Core i7 rig, but we’ll see how that works out.

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