Yeah I ordered a eVGA. I even specifically stated it was to NOT be an overclocked model. So she says okay and orders me the card. I go in today to pick it up and it's not eVGA and it's overclocked. But I figured I don't want to wait anymore and it is still a 9800 GTX so I took it. Turns out I can get a lifetime warranty through BFG so this might be not too bad after all. Except that I was hoping for the eVGA step up cause there is a possiblity that Nvidia will have some new cards out later this year.

Anyways. I got a nice BFG 9800 GTX

755 Core

1869 or something like that shaders

2300 Memory.

That beats the 8800 GTX's 575,1280, 1800 clocks... Now if it will just work better

Okay so that is a minor upgrade from an 8800 GTX (and it annoys me that it only has 512 MB of ram).

No I am not getting a superclocked or any other such edition. I am just buying a 9800 GTX (which is really an overclocked 8800 GTS for double the money). So in that sense I am getting a superclocked 8800 GTS 2.0 edition.

OH well. The reason for this update is that this past saturday my 8800 GTX decided it would not function for more then 20 minutes before overheating. So I am currently using my old 7900 GT from my backup system. I would have suspected that flashing the bios caused this as well as the X-Fi's destruction. But I ruled that out as I have had some heat issues with this card a while back. And yes the sound has been much better since I got a PCI-E sound card and tossed the old one.

One thing I am looking forward to is that the 9800 GTX has the "physics" processor thing built in so I won't need my PPU anymore... Needed that for like 3 weeks for 1 game . Oh well since Nvidia owns Agiea now thy included that tech in the card.

Finally I don't have to put up with 1 GB of Ram anymore. I got two sticks of DDR2-1066 G.Skill 2GB. I mean it was the same price as another set of 1 GB Mushkin DDR2-1066 sticks like what I was replacing and so far seem much more stable... Too bad vista decided to go the way of the dodo and stop playing DVD's or showing me the control panel... Thanks Paul...

Okay maybe this wasn't the best ram. They will give me an RMA if I send them a recipt. But since it failed once I am going to just switch brands. Time for some corsair Dominator stuff.

Oh what happened is I left my PC on only to come back and find it making some clever clicking sounds.... And no boot. So after disassembling it and reassembling it with a different assortment of parts I finally got it working again by poping in my old mushkin ram 1 GB of DDR2-667.... Let me tell you Vista really likes 2GB and if you only have one GB? Well let's just say I am back to using XP for now...

While my holidays were great I was kinda dissapointed to find out that I am going into camp immediatly on returning home. So I guess it's time for my winter hiatus... See you guys in the spring. Or sooner if I can manage it...

I have been home at my parents for the last few days. Well since the 21st to be exact. And it has been really nice to be able to spend Christmas with them Fortunately for me I will also be here for New Years before I have to go back home. Yay for me.