A new direction...

   I've decided that getting my GamingPC up to more gaming standards is a priority over buying a new Mac. Right now it is bebopping around with only half a gig of memory and a 'ole Radeon 9100. The Radeon can handle the games as long as you lower the quality a little. What hurts, though, is when the games are forced to start paging the virtual memory on the hard drive. That hurts a whole lot.
   For starters, I'm going to upgrade the video card to a Radeon X1650 Pro. Its a good mid-range card that should be easily able to handle anything I throw its way. They usually run around in the 80 dollar range.
   Next, I'm going to plop a 1GB DIMM in there to really help out on the memory front. Since I have absolutely no plans to upgrade to Windows Vista Resource Hog Edition, 1.5GB of memory should be more than enough.
   Lastly, I'm going to upgrade the hard drive that my Windows installation sits on. It is an older 10GB hard drive that I had laying around at the time. Hard drives are cheap as the hells and shouldn't pose any financial problems for me.
   That's my plans for now. I do hope to eventually upgrade my Mac to something a little younger. The B&W G3 is more than willing to chug along for now, though.