Today, I finally went and bought an ATI Radeon 9600 SE video card. I went home at no delay, nearly running over seven people and tearing through about three houses in the process. I fired up the Device Manager like the manual said.
It only listed PCI stuff, not AGP stuff. After searching through the manual in vain, I took the card back, thinking that I only had PCI ports. I then picked up the only PCI card available: the much-hated GeForce FX 5200.
That card’s manual, however, was much clearer than the Radeon’s, and I was able to get the card ready rather quickly. Then, to my horror, I found out that my top slot was an AGP slot all along! I banged my head against the wall for an hour, then just installed the GeForce and left it at that. I’m not returning it to Best Buy; I’ll just see what it can do first. It can’t be the cancer-causing evil that everyone else makes it out to be; not even Windows is THAT terrible.
Also, I fought against a giant army of aliens. They were flying a large spaceship that was made of cheese.
(Can you pick out what’s real and what’s not?)
