A Follow-Up on Wanting to Switch
I left a pretty open ended blog post about wanting to switch to one of the hot new Intel x86 Mac Pros, whenever they came out. Well they’ve came out, and are just about as glorious as I thought they could be. (Although they did go a little stingy in the video card department, which I think kind of stinks.)
However, despite my lust for a new Mac Pro, I have decided not to switch. Instead, I spent about $300 upgrading my computer to bring it up to the latest generation of games and I’m just going to call it good. I ended up grabbing a new motherboard, a new PCIe GeForce 7600GT, and a new hard drive to bring my PC back into the swing of things.
Now WoW should play great, and I should be able to handle Quake Wars whenever it hits the shelves. Of course you’ll notice “should” play great, rather that “plays great”. I’ve had the hardware for a while, but ran into an unexpected problem. I have a gig of CAS2 RAM of which I’m very happy with. Unfortunately Vista isn’t particularly happy with it, and even with a gig of RAM it runs out pretty frequently and starts thrashing, killing my sweet frame rate.
I haven’t yet decided what my solution will be. Sadly, I only have two memory slots and they are both full with 512meg sticks. So if I am to increase my total amount of RAM, I’ll have to replace everything I have. Bummer.
But, anyway, the point of this post is to say: I’m not switching. At least not for a couple years. After I graduate, we’ll see. 