I now have the ATI Radeon X1900XT and everything works just fine. I also replaced the power supply with a Master Power, 500 watt. Here are some photos:
power supply replaced:
the dirty one
ready to go, new video card and new power supply + cleaned
close-up
So I bought this video card, GeForce 7900GS after a long time of brainstorming and problems didn't delay to occur. The system freezes sometimes after 5 minutes and sometimes after an half an hour. I returned the video card for refund and I ordered an Radeon X1900XT from newegg.com but there couldn't be a worse time to order it because they ship only during business days and I ordered it Friday afternoon. That wouldn't be a problem if, as I found lately, the system would provide enough power. So I need to buy a new power supplier for my PC. I found some yesterday on CompUSA at a good price + rebate. Now the $40 one + $40 rebate is $160 and it doesn't have any rebate. I'm not sure what I'm going to do but I think I'll try if it works with the one I have now and at least nothing bad will happen, hopefully.
Developing story. Stay tunned.
HAHA! Just three romanians! Bhuu! Be scared! Romanians are eating your money!! :))They were expected to arrive in hordes, eager to reach Britain's borders on the promise of prosperity.
But when the floodgates opened as Europe embraced its poorer neighbours, Romania and Bulgaria, just three immigrants showed up.
These are the first Romanian migrants to arrive in Britain just hours after becoming full EU members.
thisislondon.co.ukCosmin is one of the thousands of workers expected to pour into Britain over the next few weeks after one of the poorest corners of Europe, Romania and Bulgaria became the 27th members of the European Union.
thisislondon.co.uk
Don't worry losers, now that Romania is part of EU things will get better in Romania.
For me it was a good and a bad year at the same time. I accomplished most of my goals but I'm not very happy about the near future. That is mostly because the school is starting, tomorrow I have school and only thinking about school gives me a headache. What am I going to do this year? I don't know, probably, and hopefully it will be a better year. Right now I'm pretty pissed off because I can't figure out a way to call a phone through Yahoo Messenger. It just doesn't work, and it's supposed to be free. It says right here.
are holes which teleport you to certain places and this is where many enemies come from. The spirit walk is kind of a dumb because being a spirit you should be able to go anywhere and you could not possibly DIE. Yes, that's right, in this game your spirit dies and goes to a place where some deviltry things fly to you and then you're back to life and continue to shoot the aliens from where you died. At least I'm glad you can't die again at that spirit land (stupid face).Gaining the spirit walk power has one other benefit: When you die, you'll be sent directly to the spirit realm instead of to a game-over screen. This is essentially a basic minigame where you must fire the spirit bow at red and blue wraiths to recharge your health and spirit energy, respectively. After doing that for 15 to 20 seconds, you're sent back into the world of the living, right where you left off. This makes death trivial and removes any remaining difficulty you might encounter. In some ways, this method seems designed to remove the desire to constantly use quick saves and quick loads to inch through the game's 8- to 12-hour single-player campaign.
from gamespot.com
As I said, the spirit can't go anywhere, it can go only on special transparent white things or through transparent walls, it can't go through walls which I think is stupid. The atmosphere is given by the details in the bar before the alien abduction (you can even play some games, it's like a game inside a game, and watch TV) and by all the details and the radio news on the alien planet or whatever is that about many people being abducted from Earth . Trying to save Jen, Tommy's girlfriend, you have to fight against the aliens which captured humans from Earth for experiments, or as they say at the end of the game their 'harvest'. You play as Tommy and on the way saving Jen you'll find some insane and almost naked people, abducted from Earth, to which you can't talk and I think through all the game only one person talked to me. Maybe they were terrorized by aliens for too long.
There are many things to say about Prey but I think I talked about the most important things and I add the story of the game from the review on gamespot because mine is messed up.Prey opens with the main character yelling at himself in a bathroom mirror. Tommy, a Cherokee Indian, doesn't really care about his heritage and wants to take his girlfriend, Jen, and leave the reservation. But before he can muster up the courage to convince her to leave (and just after he bashes in the skulls of a couple of morons causing trouble in her bar), an alien invasion sucks Tommy, his grandfather, and Jen up into some sort of spacecraft. With the help of some unknown benefactors, Tommy manages to get free and you set out on your quest to rescue your girlfriend and, of course, save Earth in the process. There are a few plot twists here and there, but some of those twists feel like they've been lifted directly from other games.
from gamespot.com
Overall it's a good game with moderate difficulty and if you've never played a fps before or you don't usually play fps games, Prey it's a good starting point because it has it all. Below are some screen shots but I'm not spoiling the end. (which is pretty sad btw)
So... what happened in my life lately? There was a storm a week ago or so and we didn't have power for a day and a night. It was horrible without power, I cannot describe it. It was like I was disabled. Friday was supposed to be the last day of school before the Christmas brake. I tried thursday night to check on nsd.org if we have school but the website was down. I woke at 5:30 in the morning (I usually wake up at 6) more sleepy than awake to check on the internet and when I pushed the power button of my PC nothing happened. I looked out on the window and I couldn't see a thing but dark. Although I didn't go to school it was such a boring day, dammit. I wrote this those days:
They say we don't have school through Sunday but I'm not going to school on Monday no matter what their decision will be. I just don't care... we have a break.
There was no school on Monday anyway. Here is a link to a not so lucky people that experienced the storm.
This is the flash drive that I bought for only $15 from CompUSA (after mail-in rebate). It's awesome to have two gigs at the keys. There are some things I don't like about it though: unlike the SanDisk flash drives this one has a small lid which I will probably lose it, it doesn't have any kind of software (which some say it's a good thing) and the light which indicates whether it's properly connected to the computer or not and which indicates when it's accessed by the computer is pretty weak.
I found this interesting thing on the net: mobile iPod charger that works with AA batteries. Hmm... maybe I'll get one in case we have another power outage. And one last thing: Girl, 13, charged as sex offender and victim.
I felt really bad when wrote this so don't take it personally.
I'm so sick of everything. I hate people. Most of the people and most of the time. I rarely enjoy being in company of other people. All they care is their person and their interests. Every action they do is because they need something. They don't do anything without a precise target. They don't just do things, their parsimony doesn't let them do even unimportant things like talking to somebody. It doesn't matter how boring is their life but they keep quiet like a stone. Ignorance. That's it. That's what I'm going to become. I care only about myself. If people try to talk to me I'm gonna be a rock. They can talk to me as long as they wish and I'll just listen and say nothing. If they try to hurt me they'll hurt themselves because am I rock. Life can be so boring. People act so weird. I'm gonna make their life even more boring while I enjoy their boringness. I can be happy without many things others would die. I think too much silence is stupid. Some retarded people think silence is the key of wisdom. Silence makes you look smart in a stupid manner. I'm not trying to be smart by being silent like a stone. I'm just sick of people. Everything that comes out of my mouth will be in my interest, I'm just doing like everybody else does. Silent idiots.
Valuable lesson: Don't try to be cool while trying to be funny. It won't work. 99.9% you can't have both at the same time.
Click on the image to view it. It took me a half a day to create it. Enjoy! :D
