I just created this blog courtesy of wordpress.com, I have used their blogs in the past and they always seem to work great. I felt a need to start documenting and posting some of the games I play in the PC World. Most of my games are distributed by Steam, such as Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source, which are two of my favorites. Once I get out of high school (about 2.5 months left of my senior year) I will quit my part time job at KFC and take up my summer job doing structural repair before college. I am going to Ferris State University with my friend TJ (Gilo).
Anyway, once summer starts and I am working full time again I will be able to afford a new PC, currently I am still using my old Dell from 2003! It has lasted a long time and has been through several graphics card updates as well as power supply replacements. For my new computer I am looking for something with a good price, I rather like this one, which I can get at my local best buy. It is a Gateway 9600, yes I know Gateway doesn’t have the greatest rep and are mostly remembered as those huge white monsters we all owned back in the mid 90’s. However, I’ve been looking around for a PC for quite awhile now, at places such as iBuyPower, Dell XPS, Velocity Micro, Vigor, Alienware, and others. Many of these offer overpriced computers with fancy cases, so I have decided I am just going to buy mine locally at a Best Buy or Circuit City to avoid all the annoyances of purchasing a PC online.
So hopefully soon I can get rid of this old rig and move onto something a bit faster, actually a lot faster. The specs on the Gateway 9600 are as follows: AMD Phenom quad-core processor 9600, 3GB RAM, 500GB Serial ATA II hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, the only bad part is it comes with Vista, and I can always update the graphics card. This Gateway 9600 comes to $1,099.99, which is a great price for what you are getting, to make a machine even close to as good as this on Alienware the prices were up in the 4K range!
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