hello computer!

[Alias]

woot! my new desktop finally finally arrived last night. Im still just getting the basic stuff set up on it but hopefully this week or next I'll be picking up TBC and getting back into some serious WoW time. Im also looking forward to it not being slowed by my mediocre hardware (oh lappie you served me well...kind of...)

looks like I'll have some catching up to do, so I'll see y'all back in game!

 

[Allanon]

Ok man, spill the beans, I want details, in particular that video card you can never remember

 

[Alias]

I'll do my best, since I don't know much about comparing these numbers.
Here's a copy and paste from the DELL order. The key components (I think):

DIM 9200,CDCR, E6400 (2.13GHZ),DCT,2MB
2GB DDR2 SDRAM AT 533MHZ-2X1GB,DIM,P
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7300 LE,DIM,P
320GB SERIAL ATA 2,7200 RPM,DIM,P
20IN (20.0 IN) 2007WFP,DIM,P

 

[wowAbdi]

The bad thing about the LE cards, is it's shared memory. Other then that its still really sweet specs.

 

[Alias]

it's shared memory.

I have no idea what that means...

However I do know that I feel like I'm playing a whole new game...

 

[Elwood]

Shared memory is where the video card uses the RAM on your main board instead of having it's own RAM on the video card. So you may have 1 GB of RAM, but a 128 MB shared video card would take away from the available system memory, leaving you with less for you to use for operating system and programs.