As can be seen my RAM is my weakest link, for the motherboard only supports maximum 2GB of RAM running at a mere 533MHz. Besides no dual channel feature is present.
Pentium D is essentially two Pentium 4s dumped together, so performance is not that great.
Sadly technology waits for no man, and more importantly, no poor man. While two years seem like a short time for a desktop mine is already showing signs of aging. One great example is games. While games from Electronic Arts, as mentioned in the previous entry, aren't that great, at least their demands for raw processing power aren't ridiculously high. Recent games like Tiberium Wars and Red Alert 3 still run fine on my desktop [although there is the occasional crash here and there]
Company of Heroes, a two-year-old:
Some games, however, are not that forgiving:
As can be seen my lovely desktop is barely passing the minimum requirements, and I saw for the first time today, a game that has minimum requirements higher than what my desktop offers: GTA4! It requires, among others, a Core 2 Duo minimally.
I still remembered back in the good old days of secondary school where Challenger still existed in the town centre beside the MRT station, the game section used to be a hangout for me; the standard of those days was a Pentium 4 [and the AMD equivalent], and sitting in my house was the earliest Pentium 3 product. So everytime I went there it would be a case of 'can see, cannot buy'.
Soon history will be repeating itself. Haha.
But I still love my desktop!
On a sidenote,
As if having minimum and recommended requirements for a game like Minesweeper was not strange enough, ESRB actually went to rate the game! Too much time in their hands? Haha.
Last but not least,
A little cleanup of the desktop, the background programs that run at startup, and the wallpaper to welcome the new year.
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