Hard disk drive

My HIS Radeon 7850 came in a day after I had ordered it from Newegg, and the reviews on the site were right. I tried Metro2033 on 1920×1080 and on on max settings, as well as Star Wars: The Old Republic, again on all max settings, and it ran without a a hitch. As of now, I am totally pleased with how this build has come together, and how it’s running. I might upgrade my sound card soon, and maybe go water cooling, just because the fan on the Cooler Master heatsink/fan is noisy. Will pick up another 2 TB of HDD storage (to replace an aging 750 GB and a 1 TB drive) as well as a BD burner optical drive to round off and complete the build as is. But as of now, the core components are in, and running smoothly. Time to install Photoshop and Lightroom to see how they do.

My new HIS Radeon HD 9850 next to my old XFX ONE Radeon HD 5xxx

Well, I finally sorted out my Windows 8 mess, and I am finally up and running, and slowly start re-installing programs and what not. That should take another week or so. So far, I am loving it. The system is nice and quick, and as we speak, I am downloading and installing Metro2033 from my Steam, as well as Star Wars: The Old Republic to see what this system can do. Sure it’s not exactly the latest games out there, but at least I’ll know what’s what, and see what I need to fix, tweak, or what not. I do know my current video card, an AMD Radeon HD 5xxxx series card (XFX ONE +Edition) is quite old. I still need to get a new case, and sort out my other HDD‘s. I most probably will get a 2 TB HDD for storage and programs.

As far as Windows 8 goes, it’s nice and shiny, and so far I like the new things they have added (Metro UI). I still need to dive deeper into it, and see what other goodies they have. I will keep you guys updated for sure.

And I do have some ideas to implement in terms of this site. This will be an exciting year for sure.

Update: Metro 2033 played pretty crappy, and it’s a clear indication I need a new video card. It was very choppy at best, not slide show bad, but unplayable bad. Company of Heroes played very well. SWTOR, well, I still can’t install it.