Today is my birthday

Posted by Glen on Nov. 14, 2012, 12:15 a.m.

I'm 21 now. Yay, legal to drink in America. Expect me to be on drunken Teamspeak more often. haha. Apparently I have a long night ahead of me. Going out to celebrate with my father and our employees. They have a lot of connections with the bars and clubs around the area, being that we do work for them all.

So this year, I decided I wanted to do some computer upgrades. My girlfriend and step mother decided to buy me three 24" Ben-Q monitors for a triple monitor setup along with another GTX 550 Ti for SLI (Being that I already had one). Can't wait to use the setup on the online games I play. I already ran everything with 0 lag at max settings with 1 GTX 550 Ti and a 50" screen tv, but now I'll have that surround feel with 3 smaller screens. It should be fun. My system now has 4gb vram and 16gb ram. Runs very smooth.

………only problem is, I think my SSD just took a shit and won't start up windows, nor is it deciding to cooperate with a system restore. The BSOD is haunting me on my birthday. How cruel. Now I might have to install windows to my 1 TB Western Digital hard drive that I was planning on using for just storage while I try to fix my SSD. Bleh. Nothing ever works out.

I'm considering upgrading to Windows 8 while I'm in the middle of the hardware upgrade. I have yet to test games on the new operating system. I'm quite happy with the way Windows 7 is working with all of the games I play. If Windows 8 will match or go beyond the performance of Windows 7 both speed and compatibility wise, then I don't see why not.

TL;DR read what's in bold.

Comments

Ferret 12 years ago

OMFG HAPPY BIRFDAY! :D

Wow you got lucky with the whole girlfriend and step parent thing..

SSDs scare me, they seem to die a lot.

I'd say stick with 7 but that's just what floats my boat.

Rob 12 years ago

lolamerica

Glen 12 years ago

I'm going to install 8 and give it a try for about a week. Just to see how it is for myself. I keep reading bad things, but everyone hates every release for the first year and thank you for the birthday wishes.

Alert Games 12 years ago

People didn't really hate 7..

KaBob799 12 years ago

Only because vista never recovered from its first year hatred

RC 12 years ago

Happy birthday.

LAR Games 12 years ago

HEY, YOU!

Happy birthday.

Astryl 12 years ago

This is a deferred birthday message.

Happy birthday.

Cesque 12 years ago

*legally drinks Glen in America*

Glen 12 years ago

I see what you did there…