hkellick: Pittsburgh, City of Bridges (Default)
I want to post about what we did on Monday, but I'll say it was a long, good day and we visited quite a bit of the strip (though I want to go back and see more of it at a later date), that I had my first trip to a Hard Rock Cafe, and enjoyed it, and that we saw Circque Du Soleil's "Love", which we both agree was somewhat random at times and not quite as good as "La Nouba".

Yesterday, we stayed home. We were both EXHAUSTED. We hadn't slept so well over the last couple of nights and were just.. beat. It also gave us a chance to get some things done.

Among the things I did was.. well, I've been thinking for a little bit it might be time to reinstall Windows. In a perfect world, you wouldn't need to do this periodically. In truth, however... you do. :/ The computer had been acting odd. If I had iTunes on, it wouldn't go to sleep. Sometimes, I couldn't get sound at all and iTunes refused to work. I had no idea why. So.. I reinstalled Windows.

Just in time for Sims 3 in 5 Days.

I'm at the stage of my Sims infatuation where I don't want to be spoiled. I've learned alot, but I know almost all of it's out there now, and I want SOMETHING to remain a surprise, so I'm keeping away from screenshot threads and spoiler threads.
If you're a 'friend' and you spoil the game for me, I will be rather disgruntled at you.

Still catching up with update, I'm sure, but all in all, I hope to have a cleaner, faster computer again, without the issues. I hope so!

Not much else to say. Got plenty of work to catch up on, so I'm going to end this.
hkellick: Pittsburgh, City of Bridges (Default)
OK, folks. I need help of the kind that I think some of y'all can offer.

Three years ago, I bought my computer from CompUSA. At the time, the computer was pretty well loaded... with a whopping 64 MB Video Card (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX420 graphics card) and 512 MB DDR SDRAM.
That was three years ago... nowadays... nowadays, my computer tends to meet minimum specifications for the games I want to play and some of my games tend to get slow (both slow to load and slow to play, depending).

So.. what I want to do is begin refurbishing my computer. My computer doesn't run too slow and I don't have problems, for example, hopping in and out of Word or Excel, so I suspect it's not actually a RAM problem.. I think it's that with the new 3D games I'm playing (Sims 2, Zoo Tycoon 2, etc.), the 64 MB Video Card just isn't up to snuff anymore.

So.. I want to replace it.

The problem is.. I don't know a damned thing about Video Cards. I don't know HOW to compare and contrast and decide which is going to get me the most bang for my buck.
So... could someone with more knowledge of the intricacies of computer parts please instruct me as to the difference between video cards and how to tell which one is right for me?
Please?

Thanks!

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