Putting things off...

I've mentioned this before -- My PC is 4 years old and I've been meaning to replace it for a while. Everytime I sit down at the NewEgg website I'm confronted with a myriad of options and I can't decide, so I put it off. At first I was going to go with a nice high numbered socket 939 Athlon processor and a pair of 6000 series nVidia cards in SLI. Then it became and Athlon X2 in an AM2 socket with 7000 series cards in SLI. Then intel came out with the Core2Duo chips -- but what motherboard and graphics? There are few, stable nVidia SLI boards available, so I might have to go with ATI cards. Then came the big to do about DirectX 10 capable video cards, and now ATI has a dual card setup that doesn't require an external kludge setup to work. The latest hurry up and wait item is the upcoming quad core processors.

I make every effort to maximize my performance dollars, which explains why the machine I spent only $800 to build 4 years ago is still a passable performer for a lot of stuff. I am a realistic man though, and I know that Bioshock (one of the coming titles I'm keenly interested in) and UT2k7 (love the tournament, what can I say) are not going to run worth a darn on my old rig.

And if Monolith comes out with a new NOLF game based on the Fear engine, I'm out of luck...