My PC set up

I enjoy downloading stuff from the net and from the time I stopped downloading from my laptop, I bought an old desktop PC. Bought this PC December of 2008 and the main purpose of this PC is to download stuff.

Since my PC was previously owned, there will be problems. Started quite fine but as time goes on, certain parts will just have problems. Ranging from Video card, sound card, to hard disk drives. It came to a point that it was so slow that prompted me to switch operating system from Windows to Ubuntu. Luckily, I enjoyed using Ubuntu.

Recently, I was fascinated to plan games again. Not that I will be addicted but as a past time. Unfortunately, most Windows based games are not compatible with Ubuntu or might have a lot of tweaking to do. Also, my PC did have problems loading games for reasons I do not know.

Just when I was about to give up on my quest on how I can play old games (yes I love old games more than new games because newer games requires newer PC specs which I do not have. Another reason is that I simply love old games) my friend mentioned that he is not using his old PC anymore. I quickly went to his place and got the PC.

It wasn't easy since he didn't used the PC for more than a year so there might have problems and yes it did have a lot of problems which I was able to solve. I changed the processor, power supply and even a hard disk (good thing I have an old processor and power supply. A friend gave me a new hard disk on Christmas so I have a spare which I used for this PC.).

My next challenge would be how can I used both when I only have space for one monitor, keyboard and mouse. Then, I discovered through a friend that there exist a product called KVM (Keyboard, Video monitor and Mouse) switch. I spent my Christmas holiday fixing my PCs.

I was in euphoria when I was done. Now, I have 2 CPUs one in Ubuntu and the other in Windows. My Ubuntu is my main PC, thus having a bigger hard disk, my important files and Internet access. While the Windows is used for games. I still need to add something to finalize my set up for my Windows PC. Here are some list that hopefully, I can finish soon for my kinda "ultimate tight budget set up".

1. Wireless LAN - to give me Internet access for both PC and making file sharing easier
2. Sound card - the on-board sound card is not working.
3. Video card - the on-board video card is only 32MB.
4. Speakers and microphone - for multimedia purposes
5. VGA cable for my Ubuntu CPU - for some reason, when I used my friends VGA cable I got a great resolution size. When I switched back to mine, it was not that good.
6. Pen tablet - maybe this for multimedia

Hopefully I can get them soon. Cheers to my 2 CPU set up!