The Need

If you have seen any of the movies in the "Fast and the Furious" series, then you aware of how street racers go to extreme and exotic techniques to trick-out their car to run faster and faster. Well it's no different for building a performance PC. Everything is about performance parts that take you to the next level. Just like the fast street racing cars, there's a whole industry that caters to gamers or multimedia techs wanting to build the next fastest system on the block. While I did not need or want the fastest system around, I wanted to ensure this system would be a capable for as long as possible.

My son gave me  a new game for the PC this Christmas titled Rainbow Six Vegas 2 from UBI. He knows I like first-person shooters, a genre of games where you basically run around and shoot bad guys. It's the closest I will ever get to being Jack Bauer and saving the world from evil. These types of games allow you to play for short periods of time and stop anytime reality sets in. I also enjoy playing online where you play either cooperatively with other live players or adversarial where live players go after each other. Regardless, it really is amazing that 5 to 10 people all in various locations around the world can play together in real-time in a very detailed and realistic 3-D world.   More...