I have been on a search for an MMORPG. I have played many games after I stopped playing EQ (EverQuest). I even tried out WoW (World of Warcraft) for a while. I can not bring my self to pay $180/year to play a video game.

Perfect World has a lot to offer many people. There is the game play and quest style that is like WoW. There is also the ability, which I have not gotten into, that will allow you to capture land, and make money from that land.

The interface is a lot like WoW’s as well. It appears that this type of interface is used all over the place. I do not yet know if you can customize it or not. If you can, I’m sure I will at some point in time.

So for right now, I’m going to stick with Perfect World, and maybe one of the other games that I have installed. The other game is just to off set Perfect World when I get tired of it. It will help prevent me from getting burned out on one game. Then there is the Xbox 360 I can always play and I do.

The memory that I bought for my computer would not clock up to 1066 as advertised. I am not sure why, but it very well could be that it was advertised as DDR2 and I saw it say some where that it was DDR3. Who knows.

To make the long story short. I traded in the 2GB of ram that was clocking at 800MHz for 4GB that clocks at 800MHz. I also switched for Corsair to OCZ memory. I’m not sure if that will make much of a difference or not though. Well the amount of memory will but the brand may or may not.

I might get in some overclocking a little later on. I”m still messing around with Windows and different MMORPGs. I will get more on the games that I have played around with. I’m just trying to search for a game that I can enjoy again. I played EverQuest for 7 years. I just want to find another one like it.

Two weeks before my brother gets redeployed and he gets married.

For those of you that don’t know Kris, he is in the Army. He has already had one tour in Iraq, and is going for a tour in Afghanistan. I am very proud of him. He is fighting for my right to write this blog posting and many other things that we do each day.

Heather, she is my new sister in law. Her and Kris got married this past Saturday on the military base. It was a funny wedding. I can’t remember all of the stuff that went on. I do know that the efficient wore combat boots, which I thought was quite funny.

I’m happy to have another member added to the family.

So light a candle, pray, or what ever else it is that you do, just send positive energy to my brother while he is a way, so that he returns safely to is new bride. I wish him the best of luck.

I will tell you why.

Last week I bought some core components for my computer. You see, I have not had a major computer upgrade in about 5 to 7 years. I had my AMD Athalon XP 1.4 GHz and Soyo Dragon Plus die on me a few years back. So I just grabbed a motherboard and processor that I had laying around the house. It was an Intel 2.2 GHz and an Intel motherboard.

Other than that I have just been changing out the video cards to make sure that I can continue playing the games that I wanted. During this time I bought an Xbox, and my brother and friends got together and bought me a Xbox 360 when Halo3 came out.

This means that I have not been a PC gamer in a long time. Partly because I have just not found any interest in PC gaming now that I no longer play EverQuest. Partly because my hardware just couldn’t keep up all of the time. Partly because I switch to Linux about 2.5 years ago.

Now I love Linux, but there is little support for gaming. Wine, Cedega, and Codeweavers do a great job at making Microsoft based programs, games is what I mainly use them for. Now I’m not going to go into all of the ways, and what it takes for Wine and the rest to do what they do, but they do a wonderful job.

So about the PC. I looked around and thought about this for a long time. Visited several websites and stores to try and get the best deal. Below is what I bought and yes, it is an AMD build. Really one video card away from having a Spider platform, but I guess it is a Spider platform anyway, just without Crossfire.

The Spider:
K9A2 Platinum 790FX AM2+ ATX Motherboard
Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCIe Graphics Card
AMD® Boxed Phenom X4 Quad-Core Black Edition Processor 9850
XMS2 2GB PC-8500 DDR2 Memory Kit

So there you have my Spider build. AMD’s new platform PC.

I think that I will dual boot Windows XP and Linux. I will just set it up for gaming on the XP side. The main reason for this the that there is just not enough ATI Radeon 3D support in the Linux drivers yet. I guess you could say that the Linux community is lucky to have what we have. I’m thankful that there is some 3D support. I’m sure that AMD will get on the ball and get more and more native support for Linux soon enough.

As for the speed. Lighting fast. A true Quad core CPU. I know all the Intel lovers will spout at me about my processor can beat your processor. The latest AMD CPU, 790FX Northbridge chipset, and Video GPU, all from AMD working together the way that were meant to be, might pull more weight that a setup of Intel CPU, VIA Northbridge, and nVidia GPU, or any other way you want to spin it.

For right now I feel that the Spider platform was the way to go. I’m sure that it will serve me well into the future.

If you live in the South. That is South as in the US. Then you know all about country music. Even if you really do not like country music. Well I happen to like country music. I also like the old style country, like Conway Twitty, and Merl Haggard.

I seem to listen to country when I have more than 3 hours of drive time. The Tucker Brothers is one type of band that I could enjoy listening to on long trips. They have the old country and folk music style that I enjoy.

Red Dirt Hill is one of my favorites. It talks about the things that surround me in Atlanta. The Chattahoochee River, Stone Mountain, and Red Georgia Clay. It also reminds me of when I was young, growing up in the back woods of GA, and not really knowing the “Big City”.

I’m really looking forward to hearing more from The Trucker Brother. Yall keep up the good work and roll on.