Planet Smasher
07-03-2005, 08:53 AM
Yesterday, I went to Fry's Electronics in Burbank, CA. I went to look at the possibilty of getting a P4 3.4GHzE (Prescott core) with 1MB L2 cache 478 Pin Grid Array. I have one, installed, already on one of my machines, but it has ESD damage from when I treated it poorly thinking that it was a dead CPU, but what it really was, was that I needed to update the BIOS. :sad: It works O.K., but it hangs and freezes and crashes unexpectedly from time to time. :neutral:
In anycase, Fry's didn't have any boxed CPU's of that type, only the barebones of that type, I don't trust Fry's to give me a never-been-used-before barebones CPU. <_< So, I didn't get one.
However, since I was there, I decided to look at MMORPG games. :grin: I've been following your Guild Wars thread, I've also been looking at Dark Ages of Camelot, and World of WarCraft. I didn't pick any of them up, because I suddenly realized how addicted I would become and that I would spend too many hours playing. Well maybe I might become addicted and maybe spend too many hours playing, or maybe not. I don't know. :huh:
In anycase, that's the reason, I told myself, that I didn't get one. The real reason was that I got confused. :huh: I looked at Guild Wars, and Dark Ages of Comelot, and saw "expansion packs." I'm going to ask a question about that in another thread.
The real reason I'm writing is that while I was at Fry's, I picked up the Complete DVD box set of Trigun. I saw a few episodes of it in WinAmp somewhere a few months back, and I liked it - a lot. I could have bought it a DVD at a time (about 4 episodes per DVD - 8 DVDs total), but I picked up the whole Boxed Set instead, $149.99, $162.36 with tax. (I saw Last Exile too, on WinAmp, I'll end up buying that too, and there's a Collectors box set of Steve McQueen films, I'll get that next time too, but all of that's off topic. :offtopic: )
So, I wanted you all to know. Hey, I bought Trigun! :grin: :spamcan: I'll start watching it tonight.
What did you start off to buy, but ended up getting instead? :smile:
In anycase, Fry's didn't have any boxed CPU's of that type, only the barebones of that type, I don't trust Fry's to give me a never-been-used-before barebones CPU. <_< So, I didn't get one.
However, since I was there, I decided to look at MMORPG games. :grin: I've been following your Guild Wars thread, I've also been looking at Dark Ages of Camelot, and World of WarCraft. I didn't pick any of them up, because I suddenly realized how addicted I would become and that I would spend too many hours playing. Well maybe I might become addicted and maybe spend too many hours playing, or maybe not. I don't know. :huh:
In anycase, that's the reason, I told myself, that I didn't get one. The real reason was that I got confused. :huh: I looked at Guild Wars, and Dark Ages of Comelot, and saw "expansion packs." I'm going to ask a question about that in another thread.
The real reason I'm writing is that while I was at Fry's, I picked up the Complete DVD box set of Trigun. I saw a few episodes of it in WinAmp somewhere a few months back, and I liked it - a lot. I could have bought it a DVD at a time (about 4 episodes per DVD - 8 DVDs total), but I picked up the whole Boxed Set instead, $149.99, $162.36 with tax. (I saw Last Exile too, on WinAmp, I'll end up buying that too, and there's a Collectors box set of Steve McQueen films, I'll get that next time too, but all of that's off topic. :offtopic: )
So, I wanted you all to know. Hey, I bought Trigun! :grin: :spamcan: I'll start watching it tonight.
What did you start off to buy, but ended up getting instead? :smile: