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My Future Conroe Build post a comment

Posted at 10:31 pm in Computers, Personal

This is the computer that I plan on completing by the end of the year. Hopefully sooner. I have concentrated on quality parts and future-proofing. My previous computer, a Dell, has seriously limited my upgrade choices and I don’t want to have this happen in the future. Let me know what you think of these parts:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz 2MB
Case: Antec Solo Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
PSU: Seasonic S12 Series S12-430W 430W Power Supply Retail
GPU: eVGA 256-P2-N624-AR e-GeForce 7900GS KO 256MB EVGA Fan
MoBo: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 P965
RAM: Crucial Technology TY2KIT12864AA663 2GB kit (1GBx2) DDR2 PC2-5300 / DDR2-667 Tenth Anniversary
HDD: Western Digital WD5000KS 500GB 7200RPM SATA2 16MB Hard Drive

Sound will be integrated for now, and my DVDÂ±RW will be moved from my Dell to the new rig. Total cost is around $1,000.

Published on November 11th, 2006

New Monitor post a comment

Posted at 11:14 am in Personal, Photography

I just bought a new Dell UltraSharp 2007WFP. My 4+ year old computer feels brand new now…probably because I never actually look at the computer and only look at the monitor. Widescreen movies and HDTV television shows are huge!

Published on October 28th, 2006

Blingo Movie Tickets Arrive 1 comment

Posted at 5:50 pm in Movies, Personal, Photography

My three movie tickets have finally arrived. Time to see Pirates of the Caribbean and other high budget action summer flicks.

Published on July 31st, 2006

Titan Quest Prize Update post a comment

Posted at 10:06 pm in Games, Personal, Photography

My Titan Quest prize has arrived in NJ (July 25, actually). My brother was nice enough to take a picture of it for me.

Published on July 28th, 2006

Xfire Winner! 4 comments

Posted at 7:37 pm in Games, Personal

So tonight was the Xfire Titan Quest Developer Chat. Titan Quest is an action role-playing game in the mythology genre. Think Diablo 2 or Dungeon Siege 2. Now let’s talk about the actual chat. Personally, I find the Xfire chats to be somewhat unorganized. It’s a combination of the immature/young chatters and the Xfire interface itself. The people tend to easily flood the chat windows and it makes it seem like a shouting contest. In any event, the devs were pretty insightful and I’m glad they took their time to chat with us gamers.

Now let’s get to the good part…

[20:03] [Xfire] matteox: Prizes will be as follows…
[20:03] [Xfire] matteox: 1-3 place wall scroll and game
[20:03] [Xfire] matteox: 4-5 prize game only
[20:03] [Xfire] matteox: 6-7 prize wall scroll only
[20:04] [Xfire] matteox: lol to the UC room
[20:04] [Xfire] matteox: 7th place (and winners please PM me…
[20:04] [Xfire] matteox: …..Lucifer!!
[20:04] [Xfire] matteox: 6th Place: Sallad
[20:04] [Xfire] matteox: 5th Place: Wootstachris
[20:05] [Xfire] matteox: 4th Place: Ynos
[20:05] [Xfire] matteox: 3rd Place: Ghostey Wohstey
[20:06] [Xfire] matteox: 2nd Place: Lord Rick
[20:06] [Xfire] matteox: 1st Place: Iron Chef Italian
[20:06] [Xfire] Artaxs: Congratulations, guys!

Iron Chef Italian…that’s me! I won a Titan Quest game as well as a Titan Quest mini wallscroll. Photos will go up as soon as the prizes arrive. This just so happens to be the third prize I’ve won through Xfire. The other two were a Belkin Nostromo SpeedPad n52 and a The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II Collector’s Edition game.

<3 Xfire

Update: The chat transcript is now available.

Published on July 13th, 2006