Once in a while – you can find some pretty good stuff on sale on online yardsale or Kijiji – if you look out for it. We have many a times – come across a whole bunch of games and consoles on sale on an online yardsale run by some Nazis in our town – hahahah! Depending on how bad the person wanna get rid of stuff – you can pretty much get a good price for them. So if you are buying Christmas gift or looking for a console – and don’t mind that they are previously used – check out your local yardsale or Kijiji – you never know what kind of gems you can find online.
The spouse bought this card from a customer – who wanted to trade in something – so he upgraded his own card instead. But if you remember – he already took a trade in not too long ago. So when he brought it back yesterday and had it tested. He mentioned that this card was really good – better than his old one – so he said. But he did get it for a steal – I’m guessing that when new – this model must cost quite a bit.
I read a little online about the Nvidia GeForce 8800 – which said a year ago – this graphic card is for hard core gamers and is easily over clocked too. System requirements are fairly basic: it is compatible with Windows XP and higher but is especially streamlined for Windows Vista.
What makes this graphics card so attractive is its ability to be over-clocked at will. It features an integrated single-slot water-cooling block so you can add the compatible water-cooling system of your choice. The GPU’s core memory clock times out at 580MHz, which is wonderful for those graphics-intensive games. There is also 640MB GDDR3 video memory onboard for the best buffer performance. While this particular model is incredibly expensive when compared to competing VGA graphics cards, the gaming performance it provides makes it well worth the price.
It’s getting really cold these days for exercising outside – I still have my running shorts out though – but it will come soon -whereby we have to exercise in the basement – and for me – a 30 mins exercise is a must. One cannot sit in front of the computer and not exercise the entire day – else I would be obese as the doctor put it very directly to me one day.
I do my step aerobics in the basement during the late fall and winter – with my running shorts and t-shirt and at first it is cool but after the first 10 mins – it warms up. What about you ? what kind of exercises do you do during the fall and winter? the spouse still goes for his biking – but i won’t let him take the kids along this time of the year. In the summer it’s fine – but now – it gets too chilly.
Includes 8 boosters and it’s out for sale for about a week now I think? well more than a week actually – so i was corrected. It had been selling well for us here at the store – in fact the day it was released, we saw the die hard gamers – who came and bought several fat packs from us. At about $35 a pack – not cheap at all – but they do sell and they do buy. So far our customers had been really lucky and getting lots of good cards – useful ones? that’s another story altogether.
Like all geeks – we all want to stay fit – while spending a lot of time – in front of the computer – so we go in search of things to help us burn fats – lose weight and stay tone. One way – is to do what the picture above suggested. Kinda funny – but I guess – one has to do what one has to do eh. Another was a hgh releasers which I heard some geeks who plays online games are using. But whatever it is – if you are sitting down a lot the entire day – it is time to do something about it – else – you are going to be obese and come into a lot of other problems.
So how to I try to stay fit these days? I do step aerobics every night for 30 minutes a day – and i stretch every hour and walk around the store for 5 mins every hour. I also try and run around with my kid every day. And drink lots of water – take lots of vitamins – what about you?
My cousin’s wife just called me about my cousin and wanted me to read up on phentermine reviews because the cousin of mine had been gaming so much and refuses to exercise. How very familiar – because it is the same here – the men just have too much toys ! from the xbox 360 to the PS3 and now Magic the Gathering too! no wonder they are getting huge – and having pot bellies. So since they won’t exercise – the wives look for diet alternative and she wants me to read more on the safest diet pill and give her my recommendation. Some I know may not be the safest – but some I heard work – so if you are like our spouses – and make sure you do your research before taking any pills! But more exercise and less gaming is definitely the best advice.
I have been playing online mahjong on weekend – because it is so addictive. I think I must have spent like 6 – 8 hrs trying to win a few games – but I had not been so lucky. I guess – it does take skill and lots of luck? But skill is important for mahjong – because if you can remember what the other 3 players is holding or throwing – you will be on the upper hand. The spouse had made fun of me – about spending so much time on this online game that I had better look for some safe fat burners if i continued sitting and not exercising – since I am trying so hard to lose some weight. And I think I might just need that – since I’m stealing time even while working to play a game or two of mahjong – haha! told you addictive.
No – we didn’t go spend money on a new Graphic card – even though this one wasn’t too expensive to begin with – but this belongs to a customer – and I just had to see how it performs of course.
The GT240 uses a GT215 core and a graphic clock of 550MHz – a processor clock of 1340 MHz. I read some review on this card before the customer bought this and it is low power consumption while delivering a decent level of performance – considered to gamers a mid range video card.
Nice looking graphic card of course.
Powered by NVIDIA GPU, 96 Stream Processors, 600MHz (std 550) Core Clock, 1462MHz Shader Clock, 850MHz (3.4Gbps) Effective Memory Clock, supports PCI Express 2.0, Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.1 support, Integrated with industry’s best 1 GB GDDR5 memory and 128-bit memory interface, supports NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology, features Dual link DVI-I / D-sub / HDMI with HDCP protection.
Gaming are no longer a man thing anymore – more and more woman play online games. WOW or World of Worldcraft is the longest game I’ve seen people playing in this town – how do I know? they come in for game cards – every 3 months. And it is not just the young ones who are playing them – I have mothers who with a few kids still on WOW for years now. One who is also a friend told me that her prenatal vitamins that last her 3 months is the same time she comes down to buy her WOW cards. So every time she finishes her prenatal vitamins – she knows it is time to come downtown to get her WOW cards.Haha!! she told me her mental health is just as important as her physical health.
So how much time do these women gamers game every day? I hear as much as 3 hours a day – and all weekend! well, well! how much time do they spend with their kids and housework? As much as I would love to game – i only spend an hour or play a few games in between my work – on mahjong – i even gave up on cafeworld on Facebook – because it was too taxing trying to help the friends and neighbors. But having said that – they must be doing something right – coz’ a survey taken recently said that 40% of video gamers are female and an average of 7.4hrs a week in playing. Do you game? how much time do you spend on gaming? and what type of games? Are games like WOW more a Western woman game?
So how much time does your kid spend on gaming? whether it is on video games on the tv or the little DS they have for Christmas. Are they spending too much time on gaming and games? what is the appropriate time frame for kids to spend on video games? Or are parents so busy with their own life and working like us that we indulge and let our kids go on their games so that we can finish ours?
When we were kids – we never did have any of these gadgets – we played with outdoor games like rounders or marbles or biking on our brother’s bike – but neither did our parents watch over us like we do our kids now to keep them safe. I think a balance is good – and I think some games are also good – and between the spouse and us – we try to play with our kid – as much as we can. Therefore, I am indeed lucky that I have the spouse to help in this way. But we do try not to keep letting our kid play with games so much – just because we want to work – because they are not young forever. We limit her to an hour or so gaming and movies – and during school days – i think she hardly play with games – and we still try to bring her to the park every other day. But gaming is not a bad thing – it’s gaming too many hours – that we shouldn’t allow. What do you think?
