24th March 2006, 3:51 PM
As I said, I AM playing games on my machine in high quality, and I can help you do that for a decent price.
As far as video cards, yeah the price of those has jumped more than anything else. I was hoping for a bit of a dive, like the Great RAM Price Drop of ages gone by, back when RAM got so cheap they were giving it away in cereal, but that hasn't borne out. Still, as I said, I can get you a good price on a complete computer upgrade in spite of that.
Here's the one thing you should keep in mind. eBay exists. I'm selling my old computer (as soon as I buy another shell for it) on that little marketplace. I'm sure I can get a good price for the thing. It's great except for the 15 gig hard drive I'm sticking on there (also, I'll be scrounging up some old CD drive around here to stick in the thing). That will likely make up for the chunk of change I expended on my upgrade. I may even be able to make a profit. I intend on sticking a version of Linux on the drive so it can be a "complete out of the box system" without breaking any copyright laws.
As far as video cards, yeah the price of those has jumped more than anything else. I was hoping for a bit of a dive, like the Great RAM Price Drop of ages gone by, back when RAM got so cheap they were giving it away in cereal, but that hasn't borne out. Still, as I said, I can get you a good price on a complete computer upgrade in spite of that.
Here's the one thing you should keep in mind. eBay exists. I'm selling my old computer (as soon as I buy another shell for it) on that little marketplace. I'm sure I can get a good price for the thing. It's great except for the 15 gig hard drive I'm sticking on there (also, I'll be scrounging up some old CD drive around here to stick in the thing). That will likely make up for the chunk of change I expended on my upgrade. I may even be able to make a profit. I intend on sticking a version of Linux on the drive so it can be a "complete out of the box system" without breaking any copyright laws.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)