Roots in TechnologyI was on NewEgg and kinda browsing around and looking at stuff.

Well actually first I was on GameSpot, and read an article about the new ATI graphics card, the Radeon HD 3870 X2. It was comparing them to some of NVidia's cards and other ATI cards. Basically this card is two video cards in one. Hence the X2 at the end of it. to 512 MB cards I might add for 1 GB of memory on the card.

Anyways, I go to Newegg to check out some specific specs on it and what not. I find it spanks my Nvidia GeForce GTX, and is actually 50 dollars cheaper. Who woulda thunk? I would have. ATI has always been cheaper, and I love ATI, and a part of my soul died when I bought the GTX... but Gaming was so much cooler... for a time at least. ATI has been a little behind in the game when it game to GPU's. I like supporting the little man though, so I usually do get an ATI card. I will next time. Especially with what I'm going to talk about next.

While on Newegg I also stumbled upon the Phenom 9000 series by AMD. As you know I like AMD. Every time I play a game that's endorsed by Intel and I start up the game and here the "Ding Ding Ding Ding" sound, hate rolls through my mind. I read about the Phenom series earlier, but kinda waited to get more engulfed by them.

After looking at the 9600 and the reviews for it, I want one. For a price of 225 bucks, it's not bad. Now let me go further into the Phenom series. The Phenom series is True Quad-core technology. Intel's Quadcores are just 2 Dual cores slapped together. The Phenoms actually do have 4 seperate cores. It's nice really. They are also suppose to run games smoother if you have ATI's HD series of cards. Hence why I want a new ATI card. Not to mention a new processor.

I'm waiting for the 3.0 Phenom's to be realeased though. My computer is still fairly new (I built it last May with the best video card on the market at the time and best AMD processor at the time) and don't want to replace parts yet. If I were to buy new parts now, all I need is the Phenom 9600 and the Radeon HD 3870 X2. The motherboard, that I have, is compatibly with both.

Well I'm going to go now so later.