So long no blogging

Hey there!

So long no talk, how ya doin'?

I've been very lazy lately to post something, but at last I decided to make a blog entry and tell what I've been doing these few weeks!

Well, the most remarkable stuff I did was the update we made in our computers (my brother and I) and the new monitor my brother got himself. Apart of that, I have to say that I've been very obsessed with chess this time (and still I am). I'm taking classes since October or so, and I kinda like it pretty much. I won a trophy in a tournament!! I was the third in my category (people below 18).

The update consisted on new motherboard, new processor, a new graphic card and memory ram for the new motherboard (which is DDR2 instead of DDR as the old one). The Motherboard as you can see in the pic below is an Asus AM2...., the processor an AMD64 AM2 3500+, the graphic card an ATi X1300PRO PCI-Express and the RAM memory a 1GB module at 533Mhz.

And here I leave some pics of all that :-)

The Wide 20,1' screen.

Playing Gears of War.

The components we bought.

The new components almost plugged in.

The Trophy.

Ah! And almost forget, I also got a digital camera (I didn't have one yet!) and since the old video camera got broken, we bought a new one.
For the 360, we got two new games: Fifa 07 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Both great games.

I hope I can be more active on the blog now, there's a lot to tell! This year is going to be full of great stuff when it comes to computers ;-)

DirectX 10 Preview

At this time everything is around the new graphics card that are about to come out, compatible with DirectX 10, and everybody is wondering what the new DirectX version (only for Windows Vista, remember) will be able to do.

I found this great and complete article about it. Have a look at it, it's really worth it.

Link to article.

New keyboard + Mouse

Today is a happy day, I just got to myself a brand new wireless keyboard + mouse from Microsoft.
Only 30€ for a cool and great pack. I'm very happy with it, it's the first one I got without wires, and my previous mouse was a ball one!

Now I can even connect it to the 360, and type the names of the songs I'm saving into the hard disk with the keyboard and not with they 360 controller.

This is the keyboard:

LOL, just kidding, this is the keyboard and the mouse: