So I went out and bought myself a new graphics card. I used to have a 3 year-old ATI RADEON 7000VE with a bare 64Mb of video RAM and upgraded to a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 with 256Mb of video RAM! And the best part is that it was only HK$340, which is about US$40. That’s damn cheap. Oh how great I feel.

But of course after installing it, I had to test it. For the past few months I’ve been playing FIFA 06 in a disgraceful 640 x 480 resolution which looked so 90’s and didn’t show the full power of the game. So I install the card, turn on the PC, wait for it to load, run FIFA 06, go to the game settings and for the first time ever I’m actually allowed to change the resolution from 640 x 480 to 1280 x 1024 (my real display resolution). Usually when I try to do that, the game just doesn’t let me. For a while I thought it was a game bug and I was stumped but today I was very relieved. Anyway back to the actual game. I change the resolution, click OK… and wow! It’s already better, the game fills the whole screen and everything is sharper. By this time I can’t wait to play a match. Alright, just the default Barcelona FC against Real Madrid, load up game… pure amazing. It’s as good as my friend’s PS2 now, maybe better. The graphics are what they’re supposed to be, as good as the game was supposed to look, the stadium, the field, the ball, the players; everything looked sharp and clear. You could even make out Ronaldinho’s face.

I can’t wait to test out my other games that have had problems running because of my sucky graphics card. Why am I wasting time in Firefox anyway, on to the games.

Oh Yeah: Windows Vista Beta 2 is now able for everyone to download and now that my computer can support the Aero visual enchancement, why not give it a try. Too bad it’ll take me half a day to download it (3.5 Gigs man!)