G'day all..
As I'm sure many of you probably know, I have a really, really crap computer. I played GP3 for a year and a half on it, with SW mode and a processor occupancy of consistently over 100%. Then, the GP4 thing happened. I decided I didn't care what it'd take me, I wanted to play it. So, I brought myself a 256 meg chunk of RAM, and a video card. The video card unfortunately had to be a PCI card, cos I had no AGP slot. (Go back to my first sentence to see why.) So, I got a GeForce II MX 64 Meg card, and went to put it in my computer. Alas, no PCI slot was available - We recently got a new soundcard put in, because of a corruption to do with something or other, and it wasn't previously a PCI card, so that slipped my mind.
So, at the end of the day, I was left with a Geforce 2 PCI card that I couldn't put in my computer. And, being a PCI card, obviously nobody really wanted to have anything to do with it. But, a blessing in disguise came a day later.... The computer failed to load up, (a reccuring problem that was not related to me putting more RAM in, it usually loads up again a few tries later - it happens once every 6 months or so. Go back to the first sentence to see why.) so my Dad took it to the guy that I did work experience for, last year.
He concluded that it was the Motherboard, so although we're not getting a new computer, which I was hoping for, we're getting a new motherboard, which will mean AGP slot. So, I might invest in another video card, this time a decent one, with my hard earned woolworths cash. On that note, I'm still young, and working way too much, thus the optimistic way I'm throwing money around in the matter. Heck, I brought GP4 about 2 months ago, and I still haven't played it. (on my computer, anyway.)
So yeah, I just thought I'd randomly tell you all that pleasant story.