geek girl on a mission....
after several weeks of deliberation, i've finally decided what i need to do to bring the pretty hate machine up to snuff...

job one: replace monitor. i love my phillips 107T, but its time to move up from 17" if i'm going to stay out of the lcd market for now. i've decided on the Viewsonic P95f+b. it's pretty.

job two: my current motherboard is an abit KR7A-133. it's lasted me a long time, but with a 266 mHz fsb, its definitely time to upgrade. i could stick with socket A and just change my mobo, but with AMD pulling all of its socket A processors off of the market, i'll be damned if i dump cash into dead hardware. thusly, i shall move to socket 939. while i may be diehard on ATI, when it comes to chipsets on AMD motherboards, i firmly believe nVidia is the way to go...which leaves me with scare options when sticking with AGP. the nforce4 chipset looks sexy as hell, but i'm not prepared to spend the cash on pci express when my radeon 9600 xt still kicks just fine, and by the time i do want to invest in pci express, hopefully ATI will have their 939 chipset all figured out. out of the 3 boards available, i choose the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum...sexy.

job three: Processor...my athlon XP 1800 (barf) won't work anymore with new mobo...c'est la vie...64 bit, here i come...

job four: Audio...oh my. i have audio problems and have for a few months. quite a big problem to be honest. the right hand channel on my soundblaster live just decided to crap out completely back in september. so when i use headphones, i get left channel only. with speaker, i get left channel only. its bad. i need new soundcard. the front panel on the audigy 2 zs platinum pro...overkill i know, but hey, it'll sound good...


that ought to do it for another 6 months or so....with various memory adds and tweaking....the hate machine cries in the night for upgrades....hear it? i knew you could.

- posted by tart @ 1:27 p.m.