Fast Cards . . .

A new baby has been born! No, not the bad kind that constantly asks for a dog and pukes on your sofa, no--the video card kind! That's right, my new baby is born and I've named it AssKicker. It's an Evga Geforce GTX 295, and wow it sure is cute! Too bad I've got to wait for this baby to be delivered in the mail some time next week, but it sure is exciting!

This bad boy is supposedly something between two Geforce 280's and 260's sandwiched together for massive SLI performance in single box.

I had previously looked at the ATI Radeon 4870 X2 cards that were available because they were really fast and a bit cheaper.

But then I remembered just how much ATI fucking blows.

The 3 ATI video cards I have owned, 2 Radeon 9700 Pros and 1 9800 Pro, would all run super HOT, and despite my best efforts, overheat the machine and reset at the best possible moments during gameplay. At one point, I had a window A/C unit blowing refrigerated air into my computer case to try and cool it down during my Battlefield 1942 days in hopes that I could play without the computer resetting. OH, the Radeon would have none of it and loved to flip that invisible power switch, if only because it felt like it.

One day, I got tired of dealing with the bullshit and bought an Nvidia 6800 Ultra. Oh, the devil wasn't happy with this at all! But he couldn't do SHIT because the 6800 Ultra was the baddest card in the land and had NO problems running! . . . and then it kicked him in the balls!

Ever since then I've been running with Nvidia, not with the devil (bad joke?)... This new baby will replace the last flawless asskicker I bought from Nvidia, the venerable 8800 GTX. I look forward to the arrival of my new baby, and have broken out the "Nvidia green" receiving blankets. :)