Currently I’m sorta “forced” into going on vacation. I have too many vacation days leftover from the previous year and the company says I need to go on one, RIGHT NOW!

So here I am.

So I was just talking to a gaming buddy yesterday about… yeah games, what else. During the discussion we were just talking about system specs and such, and suddenly I thought – why not? It’s been almost 3 years since I had my “budget” PC. At the time when I got it, I was under some financial restrictions and had to “make do”. Again, I went to Bell Systems on the 5th floor of Sim Lim Square. Again, the guy there was helpful and suggested a few cost-saving items. All in all, eventually I got a pretty dang good system – AMD Phenom 2 1055T (6 cores), 8 GB DDR 1333 RAM, ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB, and the usual chassis, DVD drives etc. The only thing I didn’t get was the hard disk. I was going to bring the old one over from the previous PC, and let Windows auto-detect everything on the new one. After all, I just just done a reformat recently back in June. I don’t want to go through all that again!

True enough, once I got home and moved the harddisk over and booted the new PC up, Win7 autodetected the changes, needed me to re-activate it, and I just had to re-install my Catalyst drivers and everything was back! Continue reading Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) Pitfalls →