Well I got myself a new video card, an HIS IceQ4 HD 4850 Turbo from Microcenter, and while I was there, I also picked up a 1TB Seagate HD as well. I’m now rocking the 1TB HD with 32mb cache/3gbs and life is much quiter than my old Western Digital 74GB raptor 10,000 rpm HD.   I threw in the video card and was blown away by the graphics on Crysis; I know ‘blown away’ isnt much of a benchmark but I figured it was something, maybe I’ll post up 3dmark scores later.

I also downloaded Windows 7 tonight as well to see what that’s like.  Tommrow I will install it and see how she goes.  And after that I will OF COURSE be putting Ubuntu 64bit on and see whats up with that with my 8gb or RAM.

’till then!

-Nick