Hello, as stated in the title I finally got a new computer, this is the first one I've actually put together myself and I'm quite proud of it . I had recently came in possession of $1200 so I thought what the hell and I put together a PC that is gamer worthy,

EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard A1 version (lots of Overclocking features)
Intel Core 2 quad processor @ 2.4 GHz each
4 GB of 800 MHz memory
80 GB hard disk (Upgrading to 500 GB in a bit)
Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT Graphics card
600 Watt PSU
Windows XP Pro 32 bit (Getting Windows Vista 64 bit)

and I must say that this thing almost made me cry when I first booted it, get this I was playing World of Warcraft on max detail, installing Halo 1 (I know I'm a bit behind...), had Winamp running and Firefox open with NO NOTICEABLE LAG, this thing is a monster... I cant seem to get the processor load over 40% at any given time... The only problem I have at the moment is that I bought a 32 bit OS for it instead of a 64 bit one so i cant use more then 2.5 of memory. I was happy to find that my graphics card came with a free copy of Company of Heroes, its a pretty fun game, its a RTS based war game with great graphics, I can't wait to try Bioshock and such on Direct X 10...

Anyways I finally found a job to start on getting a tablet for my new PC, rather easy I'm the new lab assistant for the Cisco labs at my college, every Saturday i go in for 5 Hours and just monitor the lab for proper use and such, the last few Saturdays I've been alone doing my homework for the weekend, man life's good getting paid to sit around and watch youtube lol...

anyways onto the topic of art and art projects... well... I haven't really started anything new I've been preoccupied (ok I've been playing on my new PC a little too much.) Sigh o well I will start on something soon, probably anatomy and CG'ing practice... I need it.