Kool Aid Served Daily

I finally installed Empire At War and called The Monster in to watch. The units ran, the details were crisp, and he got jealous about the tracks my vehicles left in the ground. After the game, a comment was made to the effect that we could switch computers.

But then he mentioned that speed-wise we were a match, it was just the graphics that his was lacking. Now I could order another XFX card. But I'd probably install the current one in his machine first to make sure it worked. The PCI Express card I tried last year wasn't seen by the motherboard. I'm not sure if it was the motherboard being fully compliant or the graphics card.

His machine did have problems with one of the missions in Knights of the Old Republic. We finally lucked out with a driver update.

Heatwise, the CPU cooler is still cool to the touch, and both the graphic's cooler and the drives are warmer. I'd consider a quiet graphics cooler considering how much heat the CPU cooler fan takes care of.

I'm ready to finish the box up and put it next to my desk. I'm also ready to test a dual-headed DVI combo for a desktop. One of the reasons I want to get the Shuttle off of my desk (it could have gone already) is to have a clean surface and a bank of LCD displays. I don't mind the Sun Ray 1G on my desk, it has a small footprint and looks crisp.

My final tasks are to get the networking going under Solaris and to also process the rebates out of NewEgg.com.