Earlier last month, as some of you might know, I bought a new computer :). I bought Age of Empires III (AoE3), the long-awaited sequal to Age of Empires II, and I used it as some kind of excuse to warrant upgrading my computer to something that could run AoE3 at highest settings. My old computer was about 4 years old, with a bunch of upgrades through the years, and it really wasn’t bad or something, but I had been wanting to upgrade for about a year, so…

I also wanted a webcam and a dvd-writer, so a new computer was a nice moment to buy those as well. I sold my old computer for 250 euro on a Dutch equivalent to eBay, so that reduced the total cost a bit. For those interested… Here are the specifications of my new computer ;)… I’ll try to get a picture from the hardware at some point…

• AMD Athlon 64 3800+ processor
• Zalman 120 mm CPU cooler
• Corsair 1024 MB RAM
• GeForce 7800GT 256 MB graphics card
• Creative Audigy 2 sound card
• Antec Black Quiet Edition case (incl. 120 mm back side case fan)
• Zalman 92 mm front side case fan
• Asus mainboard
• Maxtor 250 GB SATA hard drive + my old harddrive of 80 GB
• Asus 16x Dual Layer DVD Writer
• Asus 16×48x DVD player
• Sony diskdrive

I’m overclocking the system with 10 %, so the CPU is running at 2.64 GHz right now instead of the normal 2.4 GHz. And concerning AoE3… It looks fabulous ;). I also installed WindowBlinds recently as well as some other StarDock software, so right now my Windows skin looks like the picture on the right. Pretty neat, don’t you think? I really like the task bar, as well as the Mac-like object-dock on the right.

So, yep, I’m happy with the new pc! :)