Random – There’s a puddle under my desk…

My eyes are literally bleeding from gaming right now.

My e-penis enhancing 9750 GX2 video card died a few days ago and since I bought it through Nintek, had no intention of getting it replaced under warrenty. This was a truely offensive video card: two 9750′s strapped together in permanent SLI, 1 Gb of onvoard RAM, and a built in flamethrower for people who made fun of it for being a DX9 card. It’s been crackling for the past few weeks like a toddler in a plastic bag, and after numerous re-seatings, fan cleans, and even a trip to PLE – the constant unexplained crashes finally got to me, and I threw it in a fire.

My Austrian girlfriend (henceforth referred to as Grettel the rabbid squirrel) offered to head to PLE and pick up a new card for me while I was at work (I blow things up for a living). Low and behold, a shiney new XFX 512mg 8800 GTS card is resting on my desk when I get home.

Graphics this good should be illegal.

I thought the GX2 was awesome (and it still is, flamethrower and all), but Crysis was meant to be played on a Cray II supercomputer with a 8800 GTS in it. There’s just something about crushing the life out of a Korean soldier with your bare hands that’s so much more satisfying in DirectX 10 and 8x AA. Anyone looking for a new card would be foolish to go past the new GTS’s – my literally computer had an orgasm playing the final cut scene of Crysis.

God knows how good Bioshock is going to look when I get around to playing it. Hoorah for Grettel the rabbid squirrel – this almost makes up for the time you farted on me and blamed it on the pet hamster we don’t have.