My view of the world

I just finished building a computer for a friend.
It cost him $3k in parts, I spent at least 6 hours researching the parts I put in this box. It has an AMD fx60 cpu, 2 gig of top end corsair memory, an ATI x1900xtx, a pair of 10,000 rpm SATA 150 gig raptors, as a single 300gig drive in raid 0, it has a 500 watt power supply and the case has more lights than a casino (the case is not my fault).
This was the only case he could find, on the shelf, with a large enough power supply.
The fans all have lights, the see-through power supply has lights and the front of the case has lights on the corners in addition to the power and hard drive lights and the cables all glow in the dark, in a lovely lime green.

This machine was built specifically to run one game, Oblivian. He found one of the only copies in town, at Fry’s, nobody else had a copy.
I thought this machine was overkill, but as it turns out, when you max out all the settings on the game, the machine bogs down.
They took 4 1/2 years to develop the game engine and graphics, I’m told that the AI is the most advanced in the industry and the NPCs interact within wider parameters and fewer repeating dialog sets than in any game in history.
I run Doom 3 and Half-life 2, they are processer intensive and pretty well max the ATI x850 video card, but they are not on a par with this new one.
Oblivion looks to be the cutting edge for at least the next year.