A new computer?

It’s been more than three years since I upgraded my PC. Yeah, I know, hey?

I’m still running an AGP video card, DDR memory, and a Socket 754 Athlon 64 CPU. I bought this system way back when in preparation for the launch of Half-Life 2; and since that time, that game (and its derivatives) are pretty much the only games I’ve ever played. I mean, recently I’ve started playing WoW, but it was released back in 2004, which was before Half-Life 2.

Over the years I have played other games every now and then, but they never really held my interest for very long. I don’t spend a lot of money on games much these days. Consequently, my old system suits me just fine for what I use it for.

Recently though I’ve been getting an itch. An urge. An unmistakable desire. To spend money on a new computer. Why? I don’t know. I still don’t play any new games. While there are a few good ones coming out (Left 4 Dead, and the new co-op shooter whose name I forget at this time), there’s always been “a few good games” coming out, and that’s never piqued my interest.

So in effect, I’ve just neutered my desire to buy anything. I was going to talk about the cool system I had priced for myself which was going to exponentially increase my computing power, but I don’t think I will now. I’ll wait it out a few more months before I do anything rash.